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after this rec, i have to give it a read. tweesecake.social/@zkrisher/114530044080025780

thanks to Uriel Emil for getting the permission to make a free audiobook! likely wouldn't have started otherwise.

devoured this as an audiobook over less than a week. it's a good book of a comfortable length! yes, it's got its clunky parts (especially that last chapter that feels obligated to provide explanations to stuff that really didn't need too much of an explanation or that could have better been explained throughout), but i feel like that is mostly an issue of different stylistic expectations over a 150 year gap. still though, i enjoyed the book, as evident by the speed i read it, and it's nice to catch up on what is a vital piece of both vampire, gothic and lesbian literature.

bought the audiobook!

i promise i'll get to it at some point, i even bought the audiobook

a brutally honest piece about the harsh reality that is living in this bleeding land. I would have read it even had a friend of mine not been one of the writers, but knowing his story just made it that more impactful. absolutely recommended to absolutely anyone.

very early on this book felt iffy to me. it felt like an almost Randian view on anarchism, like an attempt to capture the Thatcher individualists. I gave up on listening to the next chapters when those came up on Audible Anarchist. however, when the chapter on sexuality was released, I decided to give that one a shot. I regret trying. that chapter was immediately disappointing, being extremely heterosexual from the very first sentence. having been written in the 70's is no excuse to me. anarchists of the time should have (and many did) known better. I'll just have to wait for them to finish with this one and move to some actually interesting theory.

I was a bit skeptical at first. a long diary about the Bolshevik ideology that I already don't believe in from a writers whose magnum opus I liked but didn't feel was the best thing ever. But dang, I was wrong. I learned more about that period from a single book than I learned in decades. I even learned about stuff that I as a Jew should have already known of and was surprised to find out how shallow was my knowledge. The best way to know what the Russian revolution was like was to live through it. The second best way might genuinely be this book.

I mean it's almost obligatory for me to add Sonja Lang books to my list by this point

after the incredible recommendation from @GwenfarsGarden@weirder.earth I had to add it to the list.