lucas’s Reviews > The Melancholy of Resistance > Status Update

im not used to reading this slowly, but in a way i am glad i took my time with this and read it in quiet moments where i was in the right headspace to take it all in, because this book would have been ruined by rushing through it i think. definitely one i will have to reread at some point + write my notes and quotes (keep forgetting i have a notebook for that). maybe i should read more antifascist hungarian lit

was out after work yesterday with the guy im. not exactly dating but also not /not/ dating. and he mentioned how he accidentally made intense, prolonged eye contact with a member of radiohead at a concert on tuesday. and my immediate response was 'oh, that happened in american psycho [book not film] when patrick bateman went to a u2 concert'. it's a good job he's kind of enamoured with me

'could this, he wondered, be a form of the last judgement? no trumpets, no riders of the apocalypse but mankind swallowed without fuss or ceremony by its own rubbish?' well. not a whole lot seems to have changed in the thirty-six years since this book was published. let's leave it at that.

intrigued by the character in this book who believes the moon landing didnt actually happen because he cannot imagine that anybody would leave the earth and then choose to return. mr eszter you would have loved ursula k. le guin's 'the dispossessed'.
also. bought a copy of children of time for my dad as a birthday gift (he is fond of the expanse and also socialism) and having to fight the urge to read it myself

this book is good, but it is so incredibly dense. classic-esque writing style and no paragraph breaks. that sort of thing. which really does not lend itself well to the schedule im currently dealing with. got back from work at almost 11pm last night and half 7 tonight. no time or energy to read more than a page or two. may have to make use of some low energy ebooks on libby

reading time nonexistent. get to go to parliament for work next week though. you win some, you lose some