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Nosemonkey
is 10% done
Listening to this on Audible as it's dropping out of the free inclusions at the end of the month, and I'm kinda intrigued. So far have just got through the conceptual scene-setting, and it does feel pretty dated - much talk of "savages" and the like - and fairly simplistic, though not as bad as I'd feared. Would probably work better in physical form, given the frequent quotations. Hard to keep track of what's what.
— Dec 16, 2024 09:13AM
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Nosemonkey
is 76% done
So I carried on. The India section was *very* dated, admiring in a patronisingly paternalistic, really kinda racist way - that would nonetheless have been remarkably progressive for the 1930s... Now on to China, out of a grim fascination to see what a 1930s American author made of the revolution - and because a pre-Pearl Harbor Japan section follows...
— Dec 22, 2024 12:38PM
Nosemonkey
is 45% done
This is a big, long, wide-ranging book that sometimes feels extremely dated, other times surprisingly progressive for something originally published in the 1930s. Is it telling me much I didn't know? Not really. Will I persevere with it? Hard to tell.
— Dec 20, 2024 11:35AM
