lev0001's reviews
127 reviews

god I love america 

repetition is not the only literary device that exists 

Knocked a star and a half off for the genuinely touching reflections of her

19 year old friend’s suster with cancer

intermingled with a her angsting over losing her youth

(okay girl but literally you’re alive and she’s not??)).

Not that it’s morally incorrect, just could have used a little more insight. I think this is overall my issue with the novel - a) incredibly white suburban woman (which is fine, it's just kind of oversaturated) and b) it's from this perspective of someone who kind of has everything work out for them. She has an incredibly good life career wise and friend wise and yet there was just a lot of complaining.  Otherwise an interesting look into a life I imagined my mum to have at my age. 

I struggled with this.. Like many before me have pointed out, the thesis of Nagle's book falls flat at the emergence of chapter 5. Nagle does not write impartially - the tone carries a snarkiness which I'm not particularly fond of, but I can tolerate. However, the pivot to examining the 'Alt-left' in chapter 5, namely studying 'spoonies' 'safe spaces' gender identity and campus politics, was accompanied with a venom towards the left that undermined much of the novel's presence. Maybe it's the fact that it emerges sandwiched between discussions of the Alt-right's atrocities (including but not limited to doxxing, sharing photos of mutilated women, rape threats, etc), that the complaints of leftist internet culture fall flaccid. Yes, there is a lot to say criticism about the efficacy of the left,  but the book participates in these sentiments as well as criticizing them (overly sensitive and critical of leftist subgroups, inability to propose solutions..) The book was messily edited and written in parts as well, and lacked some important discussions of internet culture around the 2010's. However, it describe some important cultural figures, and Im greatful to the assassination of Milo. Overall though, kind of disappointing. 

Best book I’ve read in a while, but no surprises there. Adding myself to the list of annoying people who tore this one apart! Perfect antithesis to the wide interpretation of the witch hunts. Excellent insight to the disassembly that witch hunting brought to how women organised and controlled their reproduction. 

Yeah… colonialism is a bitch. I think the book suffers from believing the audience is stupid - the overuse of footnotes was reallly annoying and the characters were flat and essentially spokespeople for ideology (insert slavoj here) . Eh, any introspection into the blood that goes into academia makes me happy, even if it’s poor. which it is. but there you go

Started off interestingly. But argh the end slogged a little. I think my biggest gripe is the prosaic style was just so flat. And I know there’s an effect that comes with that, but for a novel that’s about being an isolated human… idk it needed a little more madness more self consumption. Also gender,,, ??? Was not fun. Not inspired. Ending line? Boooo. 

Og feminist intersectional feminist theory. A lot of good stuff in here. I think the one thing that Davis does not mention is the function of the prison system as an extension of slavery - especially in the chapter about the myth of the black rapist. All in all a good read and some excellent suffragette history in there

Weird collection... always happy to see those two sickos Berryman and Sexton. But there were just some missing... where was Sylvia? Where was Ginsburg??? Just felt like not a perfect reflection of 20th century American Legends. thats okay of course, the landscape is one I didn't exist in. Still...

If at times repetitive, beautiful and melancholy in its approach to nature and indigenous interaction within it. It's really the ultimate touch grass book. Try not to get too angry reading it. my favorite chapter was about the pond, and the unrelenting upkeep it needed.