#katabasis — Public Fediverse posts
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I understand the dramatic necessity of combining all sins into a single character, in the sense that having more characters would lead to dilution of the story, but it has the effect of making Professor Grimes into a caricature of the "supervisor from hell", rather than an actual one.
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I'm reading "Katabasis" by Rebecca F. Kuang and I guess it's a book that will be particularly appreciated by anyone in academia. It's fiction and mostly set in hell but still deals with a lot of what's wrong with academia and its denizens.
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Currently halfway through Katabasis. What I love about R.F. Kuang, whether it's Poppy War, Yellowface, Katabasis, is how deeply flawed her protagonists are. Sometimes actively unlikeable. But there's always a logic to the flaws. She explains without excusing. #bookstodon #rfkuang #katabasis
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“This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”
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“Meteorologically, Hell didn’t seem much worse than an English spring.”
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Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "Katabasis" von R.F Kuang. Wie ihr "Babel" grossartig 💚 Wieder Akademia, diesmal: Was nutzen Logik, Philosophie und Magietheorie in der Hölle? Nach Dante's Inferno: Lesen! #Katabasis #RFKuang #Fantasyromane #bookstodon #buchstodon #amreadingfantasy