zachari's reviews
364 reviews

Though at times this classic gestures at useful or interesting theoretical frameworks, is failure to ground it's subject matter or engage in self critique hardly allow it to transcend the fascist subtext of both it's own content and it's authors life, in contrast to an author like Schmitt.

An interesting if at times frustrating minority report on questions of the historical Jesus, which manages not to sacrifice too much of it's critical stance in it's supernaturalist claims to remain a thoughtful inquiry.

Deeply moving, existential fraught poetry, which maintains a thoughtful pang even through its (for this reader) over-romantic frills.

Overrated and under-remarked upon for it's colonial themes, after The Horse and His Boy this might be the second-most cringe inducing Narnia book. My 11-year old self found it too tediously episodic, though his 13-year old successor enjoyed it at times. Occasionally interesting for it's depiction of the evolution of Eustace.

Sweet, but at times fetishizes/romanticises neroatypicality.

As good a depiction of OCD in fiction as I've yet encountered, frustrating in a highly productive way.

A gripping, successfully painful distillation of the recursive feelings of inadequacy, loathing, and too-much-oneself-ness which often charcterize both the expirence of depression and the disordered crumbling of old modes of production and power.