baphometadata's Reviews (206)


This said, I read this and Norwegian Wood within the same month a decade ago and maybe I'm due for a reread of this because I regularly get the plots mixed up and I remember Kafka being slightly less prone to certain quirky tropes.

I finally finished this fcking thing.

3.5 rounded up. Several of the essays feel extremely dated even by 2006 standards or even unnecessary, but this is still a really good primer to pass out to people just beginning to familiarize themselves with queer+gender studies.

Me, reading it in 2012: Meh.

Me, in 2017 after ditching most of my "nerdz rule!" friends and talking about chosen white boy syndrome and how it intersects with tokenism and casual transmisogyny with peers: Ew. Gross. Oh, its going to be a movie? Gross.