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cassbarker's Reviews (71)

Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf

medium-paced

reading this book for leisure would be like throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping it would stick

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.0

reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag

4.0

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

So damn interesting to see this very... pure modernist? perspective on cultural discourse and alienation - especially the comparison she makes of Cancer and tuberculosis, it's obviously so far removed from the realities we conceive of both of these illness today, 50 years after Sontag penned this essay. I'm just so obsessed with the way her brain works, and the way she is able to EFFORTLESSLY find historical and cultural parallels, she is so succinct in the manner in which she compares them yet it feels so dense. ugh love sontag love these two essays.