Books

Just finished The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and am mildly frustrated. It has an interesting philosophy, that has some parallels to dialectical materialism, but if you look at it in more detail it falls apart into empty platitudes and made up mysticism. It was good enough to pass the time, but i will not recommend it.

Today i started A Court Of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J. Maas. I wanted something easy to read and engaging, so i chose a popular romantasy book. Two chapters in it is definetly interesting, but the worldbuilding – especially the economics – is infuriating! It is a weird mix up of capitalist culture, medieval customs and the assumption that peoples behaviours won't change through economic change (ignoring base & superstructure!!!). I'm hoping this gets better throughout the book or better yet resolves into a critque of some kind. Also the filler words are sort of annoying, adding nothing and sounding weird. Also i am trying to not judge the book for something irrelevant to why i'm reading it.