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Have you, a friend or family member been living with undiagnosed autism?
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Homo Faber (German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, …
Really don't quite understand why teenage me was so enamoured with this book
Really don't quite understand why teenage me was so enamoured with this book
Homo Faber (German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, …
I remember enjoying this book much more when I was a teenager. Now it kinda grates on me 👀
Homo Faber (German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in …
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she …
Weirdly associative for a history book 👀
@GLaDTheresCake@todon.nl you're the second person today to make this joke to me
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@GLaDTheresCake@todon.nl you're the second person today to make this joke to me
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It's a fast read, it's somewhat witty and self aware, but the characters are largely dipshits unaware of the harm they are doing. It's definitely a book only a white man could have written, but at the same time I don't hate it.
It's a fast read, it's somewhat witty and self aware, but the characters are largely dipshits unaware of the harm they are doing. It's definitely a book only a white man could have written, but at the same time I don't hate it.
Eeh, it's an odd book
Eeh, it's an odd book
@stuebinm@preprint.books.exposed it's not just smelling the 60s but it's definitely also me smelling some other weirdnesses. Like it's also very much a white woman writing a black character, whose blackness somehow does not manage to influence his views and perspective at all? Idk it just feels suspect to have a character who says he grew up in basically the global south on earth and is black have no other experience of gender and culture as a white man from a 60s suburb in the US.
And idk the pronouns just feels like a missed opportunity to have at least the sections ostensibly narrated by Estraven not contradict Genly's pronoun choices. Right Estraven would have not called other Genthians "he" unless in kemmer. and idk thats honestly the thing that bothers me the least.
The weird and completely unchallenged assertions about progress of civilisation, the weird space EU and …
@stuebinm@preprint.books.exposed it's not just smelling the 60s but it's definitely also me smelling some other weirdnesses. Like it's also very much a white woman writing a black character, whose blackness somehow does not manage to influence his views and perspective at all? Idk it just feels suspect to have a character who says he grew up in basically the global south on earth and is black have no other experience of gender and culture as a white man from a 60s suburb in the US.
And idk the pronouns just feels like a missed opportunity to have at least the sections ostensibly narrated by Estraven not contradict Genly's pronoun choices. Right Estraven would have not called other Genthians "he" unless in kemmer. and idk thats honestly the thing that bothers me the least.
The weird and completely unchallenged assertions about progress of civilisation, the weird space EU and its cultural imperialism, and the bioessentialism bother me more, and all goes completely unchallenged by the author to the point where I think at least some of these views must be hers
