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  1. 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.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  2. 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.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  3. 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.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  4. 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.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  5. 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.
    Especially with PhD supervisors -- and I have been one for a very long time.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  6. 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.
    Especially with PhD supervisors -- and I have been one for a very long time.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  7. 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.
    Especially with PhD supervisors -- and I have been one for a very long time.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  8. 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.
    Especially with PhD supervisors -- and I have been one for a very long time.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #Katabasis #RFKuang

  9. 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.
    Especially with PhD supervisors -- and I have been one for a very long time.

    #AmReading
    #novel #literature #RFKuang

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. @craftykraken I mostly love #RFKuang. #Katabasis was a slog, though. Yeah, it was absolutely supposed to be one for the characters, by the premise, but I didn't need to relate that hard.

    #AmReading #bookstodon

  16. @craftykraken I mostly love #RFKuang. #Katabasis was a slog, though. Yeah, it was absolutely supposed to be one for the characters, by the premise, but I didn't need to relate that hard.

    #AmReading #bookstodon

  17. “This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”

    - #Katabasis #RFKuang

    #bookstodon #currentlyreading #delusional

  18. “This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”

    - #Katabasis #RFKuang

    #bookstodon #currentlyreading #delusional

  19. “This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”

    - #Katabasis #RFKuang

    #bookstodon #currentlyreading #delusional

  20. “This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”

    - #Katabasis #RFKuang

    #bookstodon #currentlyreading #delusional

  21. “This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”

    - #Katabasis #RFKuang

    #bookstodon #currentlyreading #delusional

  22. Dieses Jahr wollte ich wieder mehr #lesen und habe es geschafft :blobcattoot:
    9 #Bücher mit insgesamt 3220 #Seiten

    Das scheint jetzt für manch einen hier nicht viel, aber da ich tagsüber viele #paper und #dokumentation am Bildschirm zu lesen habe, und abends oft einfach nur noch die Augen zu haben möchte, ist das schon ne Leistung :blobcatboo:

    Das beste #Buch dieses Jahr war für mich #Babel von #RFKuang, der größte Reinfall Das #Einhörnchen das rückwärts leben wollte von #WalterMoers

    #2025reads #bookstodon #Bücherliebe

  23. Dieses Jahr wollte ich wieder mehr #lesen und habe es geschafft :blobcattoot:
    9 #Bücher mit insgesamt 3220 #Seiten

    Das scheint jetzt für manch einen hier nicht viel, aber da ich tagsüber viele #paper und #dokumentation am Bildschirm zu lesen habe, und abends oft einfach nur noch die Augen zu haben möchte, ist das schon ne Leistung :blobcatboo:

    Das beste #Buch dieses Jahr war für mich #Babel von #RFKuang, der größte Reinfall Das #Einhörnchen das rückwärts leben wollte von #WalterMoers

    #2025reads #bookstodon #Bücherliebe

  24. Dieses Jahr wollte ich wieder mehr #lesen und habe es geschafft :blobcattoot:
    9 #Bücher mit insgesamt 3220 #Seiten

    Das scheint jetzt für manch einen hier nicht viel, aber da ich tagsüber viele #paper und #dokumentation am Bildschirm zu lesen habe, und abends oft einfach nur noch die Augen zu haben möchte, ist das schon ne Leistung :blobcatboo:

    Das beste #Buch dieses Jahr war für mich #Babel von #RFKuang, der größte Reinfall Das #Einhörnchen das rückwärts leben wollte von #WalterMoers

    #2025reads #bookstodon #Bücherliebe

  25. Book 33: “Katabasis” by #RFKuang.

    Kuang is clearly smart and has good ideas. Not a very good writer though. Nothing a good editor can’t help, but hers continues to let her down. Seriously, a book where the chapters just follow the story (almost entirely) in a straight line? Great premise—PhD student descends into Hell to retrieve her advisor—but the linearity gets old REALLY fast. 541 pages. Like “Babel,” the writing doesn’t merit this count.

    @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Books

  26. Book 33: “Katabasis” by #RFKuang.

    Kuang is clearly smart and has good ideas. Not a very good writer though. Nothing a good editor can’t help, but hers continues to let her down. Seriously, a book where the chapters just follow the story (almost entirely) in a straight line? Great premise—PhD student descends into Hell to retrieve her advisor—but the linearity gets old REALLY fast. 541 pages. Like “Babel,” the writing doesn’t merit this count.

    @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Books

  27. Book 33: “Katabasis” by #RFKuang.

    Kuang is clearly smart and has good ideas. Not a very good writer though. Nothing a good editor can’t help, but hers continues to let her down. Seriously, a book where the chapters just follow the story (almost entirely) in a straight line? Great premise—PhD student descends into Hell to retrieve her advisor—but the linearity gets old REALLY fast. 541 pages. Like “Babel,” the writing doesn’t merit this count.

    @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Books

  28. Book 33: “Katabasis” by #RFKuang.

    Kuang is clearly smart and has good ideas. Not a very good writer though. Nothing a good editor can’t help, but hers continues to let her down. Seriously, a book where the chapters just follow the story (almost entirely) in a straight line? Great premise—PhD student descends into Hell to retrieve her advisor—but the linearity gets old REALLY fast. 541 pages. Like “Babel,” the writing doesn’t merit this count.

    @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Books

  29. Book 33: “Katabasis” by #RFKuang.

    Kuang is clearly smart and has good ideas. Not a very good writer though. Nothing a good editor can’t help, but hers continues to let her down. Seriously, a book where the chapters just follow the story (almost entirely) in a straight line? Great premise—PhD student descends into Hell to retrieve her advisor—but the linearity gets old REALLY fast. 541 pages. Like “Babel,” the writing doesn’t merit this count.

    @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Books

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. @Mellando ja, habe auch vorher #TravisBaldree gelesen und #RebeccaThorne fühlt sich nicht ganz so rund an, aber auch kein schlichtes Rip-Off. Habe mir den zweiten Band via Libby/Overdrive reserviert - 14 Wochen Wartezeit bei HCPL, "mehrere Monate" bei der Queer Liberation Library QLL. Aber ich habe ja auch noch etwas #RFKuang und seit gestern den neuesten von #SamanthaShannon, auf Papier vor mir - und Edward Underhill "In Between Bookstore" und #DevaFagan "House of Dusk" wollen gehört werden.

  33. @Mellando ja, habe auch vorher #TravisBaldree gelesen und #RebeccaThorne fühlt sich nicht ganz so rund an, aber auch kein schlichtes Rip-Off. Habe mir den zweiten Band via Libby/Overdrive reserviert - 14 Wochen Wartezeit bei HCPL, "mehrere Monate" bei der Queer Liberation Library QLL. Aber ich habe ja auch noch etwas #RFKuang und seit gestern den neuesten von #SamanthaShannon, auf Papier vor mir - und Edward Underhill "In Between Bookstore" und #DevaFagan "House of Dusk" wollen gehört werden.

  34. Tengo un dilema grave:
    Tras leer una novela y media de R.F. Kuang quiero darle todos mis dineros siempre. PERO no quiero darles ni un céntimo a hidra, que es que son lo peor... Qué asco de editorial.

    Eso no quita que declare públicamente que R.F. Kuang es la Reina del Martes Santo y de ahí para arriba.

    Ingresando directamente al panteón de mis escitoras favoritas.

    #leoautoras #RFKuang

  35. Tengo un dilema grave:
    Tras leer una novela y media de R.F. Kuang quiero darle todos mis dineros siempre. PERO no quiero darles ni un céntimo a hidra, que es que son lo peor... Qué asco de editorial.

    Eso no quita que declare públicamente que R.F. Kuang es la Reina del Martes Santo y de ahí para arriba.

    Ingresando directamente al panteón de mis escitoras favoritas.

    #leoautoras #RFKuang

  36. Tengo un dilema grave:
    Tras leer una novela y media de R.F. Kuang quiero darle todos mis dineros siempre. PERO no quiero darles ni un céntimo a hidra, que es que son lo peor... Qué asco de editorial.

    Eso no quita que declare públicamente que R.F. Kuang es la Reina del Martes Santo y de ahí para arriba.

    Ingresando directamente al panteón de mis escitoras favoritas.

    #leoautoras #RFKuang