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2.0
This was.. a weird read. As such my thoughts on it are very conflicted.
The whole first third of the book or so I was very invested in the ideas the author was building. The philosophical line of thought really is very interesting, just because sometimes it's fantastic to be able to understand things through new points of view and that's precisely why the idea of a natural contract as a philosophical concept sounded intriguing. The second third of the book became extremely technical, excessively so. It seemed like the author wanted to discuss everything under the sun and link it all together but the links were so far-fetched that everything became a confusing jumble and it just really pulled away from the original point. Here I understood the intention but reading that felt needlessly exhausting. The third third is where the book truly lost me.. Don't get me wrong, I love me a philosopher who can tell a good story. I adore the skill it takes to place underlying philosophical thought into a well-written tale but this? this really wasn't it. The short stories not only felt confusing and irrelevant to the natural contract but they were also often very disturbing, particularly reading it as a woman. A virgin daughter holding her mother at her death compared to birth? Comparing the Earth to his mother, daughter and lover all at once? Perhaps the intention really was to make the readers feel uncomfortable, but for me it completely ruined any idea of a contract whatsoever.
End of rant.
The whole first third of the book or so I was very invested in the ideas the author was building. The philosophical line of thought really is very interesting, just because sometimes it's fantastic to be able to understand things through new points of view and that's precisely why the idea of a natural contract as a philosophical concept sounded intriguing. The second third of the book became extremely technical, excessively so. It seemed like the author wanted to discuss everything under the sun and link it all together but the links were so far-fetched that everything became a confusing jumble and it just really pulled away from the original point. Here I understood the intention but reading that felt needlessly exhausting. The third third is where the book truly lost me.. Don't get me wrong, I love me a philosopher who can tell a good story. I adore the skill it takes to place underlying philosophical thought into a well-written tale but this? this really wasn't it. The short stories not only felt confusing and irrelevant to the natural contract but they were also often very disturbing, particularly reading it as a woman. A virgin daughter holding her mother at her death compared to birth? Comparing the Earth to his mother, daughter and lover all at once? Perhaps the intention really was to make the readers feel uncomfortable, but for me it completely ruined any idea of a contract whatsoever.
End of rant.
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