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Hitler was not a vegetarian!

This book is entertaining and presents itself in unique and non boring ways. It starts with the author's background as a flimsy, sorta vegetarian who wanted to research everything about eating animals because he now has a son when the world is like this and global warming is on the rise. Poor decisions aside they research animal agriculture the best they can and come to the reasonable conclusion that eating animals is horrible. They are now not a flimsy vegetarian and don’t want to consume meat, yay.

This body of work is not the best and dated though. I am not well versed in all the statistics and facts, but for example if you get the basic fact that Hitler wasn’t a vegetarian wrong I start to worry. It spends a huge portion showing welfarists struggles and showcases a vegan rancher which perhaps is not the best use of time but I did enjoy hearing those nonconventional perspectives about which I would have never read otherwise. Despite being a vegan and going through quite a lot of information, some of it in the book was written in cool ways that surprised me and kept me intrigued.

The writing has a very emotional and empathetic touch which I miss when reading most non fiction, you don’t necessarily write a better book if you opt out from emotions for intellectualization.

The author is not vegan which is a shame and weird, but the information in the book would make a ton of people vegan and already has. Perhaps I am rating it too high, oh well. Let’s end this with a vegan message, haha. Be vegan! Watchdominion.org xoxo (Recently I have been going around the town writing this in chalk everywhere. You are welcome. You wish you were me.)

My library only had this young adult version, not sure if they are that different, this one is shorter I think because I saw a slightly bigger one at the bookstore.

I would like to begin by stating that the author makes it clear that they aren't willing to be vegan for the planet despite wanting this to be inspiring and hopeful. They could have just not mentioned this, not put this in my brain and not let me think about their hypocrisy. The book is full of lists, cities that were affected by climate change. It is a bit annoying as I don't live in the US so the amounts mentioned went over my head. I don't orient myself well with US cities yet.

I think this is relevant and overall good although it doesn't offer any solutions and lists the problems. This does need to be seen as a problem and people need to be active for it. If you want to hear about examples of climate change damage this is it. There are some culture opinion rants at the end too about the apocalyptic themes in our fiction. Not sure what to make of it.

I feel like for an ecologist they don't understand the urgency behind veganism and animal agriculture though they do mention the horrible treatment of pigs and terrible animal farming a few times. I really dislike the way there were like “Oh haha plants are alive too you know so just stopping to eat animals is not the solulu” which was just a terrible take, I mean by not eating animals you eat way less plants and consume way less water. Oh yea, this book also glances over horse riding and beekeeper practices, I don't remember even a mention to at least lessen the damage with better saddles or anything haha.

But besides this I did enjoy reading about the effed up world of the animal kingdom and their horrific habits, them killing each other. I definitely got quite a lot of facts that I haven't heard about before, but that probably also means that I should read more books like this because I severely doubt this is one of the better ones on the subject. I like that this sort of book made it to the popular science label and that it educated people that animals are sentient and feel all sorts of things although the author doesn't make the best cases or arguments for it, they are way more focused on biology and just basically how animals live their lives. Which is still a decent approach just that it's missing a lot of stuff animal rights activists know how to present way better.

This book really made me want to include more biology in my writing or perhaps create some fictional animals on my own. There's so much beauty in how horrible the animals are, they are almost just like us, ew. All these little facts I learned will haunt me now in a good way.

I read this book, but in english. There's no English version that's been added on goodreads.

Reading this has been deeply concerning for so many of these ecovillages did not have veganism as their main focus. In fact none of these villages made veganism a requirement and I feel if anyone or anything should understand animal welfare it is people concerned with this eco stuff and with all this money to build themselves these dreamy places. There was quite a huge number of these villages that made vegetarianism a requirement though. There was one village which provided the villages with organic meat, that one was yikes. Some like organic beekeeping and a lot of them use animals on some level and I suppose I would like them to go into specifics for that, I believe there is another book that goes on eco concepts so maybe I will find out by reading that. That also is a bit concerning. The worst part is these live love laugh prolonged mini stories at the start of each chapter, why, get me away, deeply distressing.

Concerning stuff out of the way these villages do seem like havens in a lot of ways. All of them function differently, but some have alternative education systems for children, some have their own economy and businesses, some have rules on silence, there is one that does something akin to what performance artists would do to prepare themselves. It is so cool that Lithuania has around 3 of them at the very least because I am pretty sure 3 were mentioned. One of them gave opportunities to the jobless and all sorts of outcasts, people with disabilities, that one sounds epic. Some of these just collect artists and they just do all sorts of crafts stuff. Most of these have self-sustainable models where the villages provide the food for themselves like they grow fruits and vegetables.

Most of these were based around Vladimir Megre's vision, I never heard of this guy's existence so I'm curious why so many of these villages decided to follow this guy's plans.
Are these some subset of more spiritual ecovillages? Am I missing the full pictures by just reading this? I do hope so because there is more chance then for me to discover cooler ones.

As cool as this concept is, it does seem like you have to buy the land for it, find a community and build the houses, establish trees and bushes, build a literal village which won't be on my radar anytime soon, but I might write about it. It is cool how they try to be radical about everything (not about veganism though!), like having holigarchy? (don't remember but I assume it's to do with the word holistic)

I am a bit sad that my library doesn't have the most relevant books on these topics, in my humble opinion. It does have some vegan cookbooks so maybe I am missing something, let's hope so.

A simple, little book about the US healthcare system, it is part of the death-positive movement which encourages conversations around death and views it as a natural part of life without its avoidance. This book argues for honest conversations when people are expected to die so that they could plan their exit better and not delay palliative therapy or hospice. They should be mentioned earlier so that the patients could arrive at them sooner and not die at the hands of strangers. It discusses how death became a more of a public spectacle rather than an individual endeavour, the way it became more of a business rather than something experienced in the privacy of one's home. Doctors trained with cadavers and fed pure information without many courses on empathy and care if any at all usually provide little help comforting their patients. A lot of money goes into healthcare, but it's distributed badly and a trillion of it went to total waste.

Disappointingly despite it mentioning corruptive and profit driven incentives from the pharma industries, it doesn't mention nutrition at all despite veganism being able to treat a lot of the diseases mentioned without the need for the people to die prematurely.

I expected this to have different subject matter and lean more into death itself rather than the medicine side of things, this is the only MIT book that the library had, I did not know what to expect. I feel like I am lately collecting information about all sorts of death, other, outcast movements. It feels good to accept the void this way by collecting this pure information and combining it. A lot of these movements could use the other movements help because a lot of them are related and build on each other. This reminded me of antinatalism since death aid was mentioned and how it should be offered to patients because even if they don't use it it makes them feel that they are more in control of themselves and their destiny, it reduces needless helplessness.

I feel like there are way worse problems out there, but it is definitely not nice how we treat people about to die and this should be one of the things that society should care more about. The author provides a personal experience with death and explains how you can treat a patient with information and yet view them compassionately and care for them as a fellow human being at the same time.

This is a work of philosophical thought in line with mad pride and patient liberation movements. These social movements are obscure and not much has come out of them compared to let's say feminism. They try to destigmatize madness and get rid of harmful hospitalizations, confinements and forcefully injected drugs. These movements seek to show that unlike how psychiatry paints other people that they are still in control of themselves and know more about what is happening to them than is commonly thought, what they try to express does have a certain logic, it is humane to hear them out and let them speak. People who define themselves as mad in this movement don't see themselves as diagnosable nor suffering with ailments, but simply as people who have a different mode of existence, they reside in the emotional and reflective extremes. The book goes into those states in detail, capturing them from every angle and showing every method how to get to them whether through philosophy, religion, drugs or mysticism, perceiving or thinking.

The book goes over how people express the same ideas and yet because of the way they present themselves some get locked up in wards and others get to be philosopher kings, queens. Our society unfairly judges and stigmatizes certain behaviors, depending on the environment they can get demonized or worshiped as sacred. The work goes through literature, history and references a ton of philosophers, pop culture.

Insanity is an eternity, a singular point encompassing everything, the more dimensions it holds the more real it feels, sight, hearing, touch, taste, quantity, duality- expansion and contraction at the same time all work towards creating a more concrete image that escapes and repeats itself at any given moment beyond time and all limits. It catches you at a special moment and then your world is altered forever, it makes you see your own death at all times, besides the fear it brings is also ecstatic, curious, fascinating, and can be blissful or horrific depending on the person. In other words it is the mind trying to capture the impossible that can lead to lapses in judgment as is empathized in our culture, but this book argues that it can also lead to brilliant insights like any other tool. Besides we all try to capture something impossible as we all are mortal and our lifespans are limited, the concepts and beliefs we hold don't make as much sense as we would like to believe, our language has flaws and limits just like all of our communication methods. The impossible of insanity is different as it seeks experiences containing the totality of everything, to live in a world where communication does make sense, where just by thinking actions happen, everything is abundant in meaning and happens for a reason, for the mad person to see. It is not a better, more efficient method, it is simply different and it makes these people experience life differently. Insanity blends thoughts and physical objects together, mad people can recognize whether what they see is real or not for the objects created by the mind are different in nature, they have more control over these objects than is recognized.

I don't think I am capturing all the elements and everything that goes into it, but we have this 800 page book for that which does just that as much as it is able to. If you want to truly understand it you cannot condense it into a definition, it is something that has to be conceptualized. It went through so much and made so many things about creativity, mysticism and life click for me, it connects so much and now I see how certain creators I love wrote their fictional universes because they used so many similar concepts and just highlighted them in different ways.

While reading this book I randomly met a person who knew all about shamanism, they weren't from here and they after the talk were about to get to another city. That experience was so surreal and I think induced some level of mania to me because I don't really get to talk to fellow writers that have a similar style of writing that is very emotionally charged. I don't know their name or how to meet them again at all, and it seems that they are constantly trying to get away from society in all sorts of ways so it is very unlikely that I will meet them again. But since I am weird I suppose I fell in love on some level and yet separated this connection at the first sign when I felt that they wanted to leave, I probably misinterpreted it. I feel quite ridiculous. I am not sure how our lives would have been compatible at all on a ton of levels if we did have a method of meeting, but I had someone to talk to about art in person which never happened to me yet. They had quite ridiculous plans, I loved them all.

Another thing that happened is that while I just food poisoned myself so now this is day 2 of writing it since I just slept it off. I am not quite sure what mad people mean when they say they died which must mean I haven't died. I had a lot of dreams where I died throughout my life, but I am pretty sure it is not the same. I wonder how you cope seeing your death all the time, I suppose it's the same, just a bit of a different experience, if you take away something that something gets added elsewhere. Two days ago I walked barefoot through a large part of the town so they hurt now and I am now not sure if I will go to read about the philosophies of eastern religions now. There are so many books and so many perspectives that tackle the nature of reality, our journeys are all the same and lead to the same place even though they look so different. We might try to uphold our morals and have a sense of justice, but when you start thinking from such a wide and all encompassing perspective we all just are chest pieces on a board and without the opposition- evil traits there wouldn't be any good traits.

Everything is just how it is and I am not sure what to make of it or if there's anything that you are supposed to make of it. Nothing exists yet you are supposed to act like it exists. Anyways, let's hope my review sounds like it was made by an intelligent and well off writer and that I attract energies which make me sound like a person who gets supported by their environment and communities. In the end the best places on earth might just be the same as the worst places if you shift your perspective and thinking a bit, but let's pretend like it matters to me and like I will achieve things I want for no reason at all. I hope reading works like this attracts the beauty of uncertainty whether it is worth experiencing it or not, I will have to keep experiencing something so it might as well be this... for now anyways.

I am not sure how to finish this review or how to structure it at all, it is very uncertain just how this whole book is. It is constantly getting at some point just how life itself gets at some point, but not really and it all just repeats and I suppose you can read this review again just to feel the high and the low points of it. At some point you will have to stop or existence itself will make you stop, but maybe it already is part of the eternities that some people are able to witness. Yes this review is part of eternity and it comprehends and captures it in its own way, it is just another cycle, you see this review everywhere and all the time, it is just that universal and yet personal because this time it is me who wrote it. The book makes me feel like I can actually put a lot more stuff to words now and write whatever I had in mind out without feeling as much pressure anymore, and whether that is true or not I suppose doesn't matter. I will pretend that making sentences like this is totally socially acceptable if you review a book like this, this review has intrigued you and now you are reading the book because you have no choice anymore. There are no other options but to read this book because it is everywhere and you can see it everywhere, there is no escaping it. It is the maps, the streets, the cities, everyday objects and paintings, it is made of every substance, it is the black light and the white dark.

Ben shrugged. “I don't know why they're helping me. I don't
know why any of this is happening, except that Carrie got involved
with a woman who I'm starting to think is actually evil.”
“Good and evil are not as straight forward as most people
like to believe,” Mrs. Dennings muttered distractedly.

This book unlike the others in the series starts with a backstory, this one resembled the feminist books that I was reading just now and also reminded me of Octavia Butler because she totally writes stories like that in my head. The very start was the most exciting and had so much happening, it was a great beginning. The magic of this world got expanded a bit yet again with all sorts of people with other powers and rituals being introduced. I really like it getting more complex and convoluted. As the book progressed it resembled the first book a bit in all the drugs and I feel like I am starting to hyperfixate on how often the protagonist smokes because it feels like a lot. I wish these characters did some other activities.

He showered and shaved, mostly just for the sake of having
something to do. Then he returned to Isaac's room and sat down
on the bed. The thought of Isaac and Isabelle downstairs leading
what, to them, were their normal lives made Ben acutely aware of
how subjective the idea of normal truly is, and how quickly that idea
can change.

The second entry in the series Myths & Music continues to be more brutal and at the same time introduces animal rights to the core of its story. At the start of the book the magical elements culminate and some of the powers get explained more in detail. The music might refer to a flute, but also there are moments when it is used to drown out protagonist's thoughts.

““I just know things about people. I just feel this energy radiating off them, and I know what they're feeling. If I focus, it's almost like being able to read their minds. But even when I'm not paying attention I can still feel it, especially when the emotion is very strong.””

The characters from the last book become relevant again and there are revelations about them. There's new and exciting characters and they look cool from their descriptions. It felt really nice to see so many characters support animal rights and to see them face their unique difficulties in choosing this path. It is interesting how symbolism and metaphors interweave with the saving of animals because I have never read a story that does that, it feels special. The brutality of the events really match the seriousness of animal exploitation. The story becomes very thrilling and that's when I usually start coming up with a ton of inside jokes, haha.

““What exactly are you trying to drive out?” “Rage, despair, shame at the human race,””

The nature of addiction plays a big role in unexpected ways and how people deal with it. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone carries a hidden addiction, some of them seem right in front of your eyes, but get brushed off or not focused on. The characters don't seem to take care of themselves (eating toast, drinking whiskey) and that carries over the kind of actions they commit onto others. Carrie is a book by Stephen King which I haven't read, but I wonder if the name choice is intentional. The character's full name in that book is Carrie White which would be an interesting coincidence if not on purpose. It is a bit hard to imagine a scenario where everything goes well or better for the characters at this point, but I hope that the story gets surprising on that front. There is a whole Fairy Land now which could serve the characters to their surprise, especially if the world randomly decided to stop farming animals for food, haha.

“The crow finally stopped crying out when the Man hoisted himself far enough out of the water to lessen the pull of the tide and, as he slid his body up onto the tree, her sense of relief was stronger than anything she had ever felt before.”

I really love crows as a pet concept even though in reality it is not possible, so I am glad that there is Luna and that she follows the protagonist on this journey. She was such a light and comfort, the start of this book is way lighter than its later parts. Ramirez, Camille even if not good characters sound cool so I hope they get put to good use, the set up was just really cool in general.

“Cleanse me
Of all that's untrue
Heal me
Make me brand new
Free me
From the self I once knew
Make me
A vessel for you
Soot from all the factories
And shadows from my mind
Make me clean and pure again
Erase the stains of time
Wash away the surface
Reveal the truth below
Beneath this worldly skin there shines
The Mother's green/gold glow
Shield me
With your loving wings
Drape me In the light that you bring
Make me
Brave, make me strong
That I may
Right what is wrong”

It feels that a lot of characters are wronged by the world and you can sense how, it is hard to see them beyond this, but it might be something worthwhile. These lyrics are describing the act of writing to me and how it brings you to new places. The fact that the next entry is called lies is a bit concerning, but where there are lies there must be truth as well!

Since I am developing a basic understanding of feminist theory, its language, I had so many personal revelations about language just from the prefaces of this book (There were 3 prefaces!). This book is about veganism even though the word vegetarianism is used, it is also about feminism and their symbolic usage of meat. It as well contains lots of literary and historical facts about veganism which I never heard before which makes this an utmost delightful read.

The sexual politics of meat is interested in the links of social movements and the injustices they seek to oppose, to dismantle thinking that only partly lets us get to a more ideal world. It is interested in connecting, uniting and strengthening us against the patriarchy and violent concepts that already have all the support and strength in the unawakened people. Being awake is being aware of the social justices so strongly that you cannot support our current systems anymore. You cannot think or read the same and your priorities shift onto different goals because you are so aware of the closed off world the ones who participate in the injustices live in.

The links between feminism and veganism are everywhere, they are highly apparent, examples used are countless and the book couldn't collect them all. If you are not familiar with the way feminists construct their arguments and aren't vegan I would think this would be a challenging read for you because you might just not be able to accept some of these links. You have to recognize the concepts discussed in the book as harmful in the first place for your brain to make the dots.

The most important fact about recognizing and hearing all those facts and analyses of old vegetarian literature is that we predominantly live inside corrupted imaginations of old, cowardly men, their horrible developed language and invisible constraints. We need to develop ways and take action to destroy their imaginations, challenge them so that they don't get to do horrendous actions and then get away unscraped. We need to live in our own imaginations and give meaning in our lives to actions that actually matter regardless of how devalued they are in our current broken, polluted and settled society. We need to be conscious of our language to create a world that serves us all as fellow human animals and nonhuman animal beings.

Examples of the terrible culture we created (These concepts build off each other like piles of corpses we leave behind!):

Meat gets sexualized in advertisements and minds of men subconsciously through the normalisation of violence and the acceptance of war, men even inflict violence in their imaginations via meat through feminising it and using the labels of animals as abusive, violent slang. As long as there is meat there will be wars. Animal lives and importance are hidden behind the label meat, it lets people to forget the process the animal goes through to become meat. Meat has been long associated with virile symbols while women have been left with gardening and the vegetables. Instead of recognizing that meat comes from the animal's flesh our society has created it as a symbol of power. Even though women were left off with better food, less meat they were historically told that they were weaker for it.

Lots of feminists don't recognize that using meat as a metaphor for their suffering invalides the suffering of the animals, but there is also a large number of eco-feminists who have eventually recognized this link. Lots of vegan activists could benefit from a familiarisation with feminist theory, it fills the gaps as to how to battle injustices and to not commit them further.

I love this book so much! It introduced me to so many new voices and I have so many more books to read now. Instead of people deflecting on us about how we should care about other specific issues, how about we recognize that social injustices are more connected than it at first appears? How about we build concepts instead of demolishing them, and heal collectively instead of going backwards?

Quotes:

“By the time Rush Limbaugh began talking about The Sexual Politics of Meat on his radio and television shows, I was inured to my work being an object of speculation. And when people buttonhole me demanding “What about the homeless, what about battered women?” and insist that we have to help suffering humans first, I am not thrown off by such assertive narrowing of the field of compassionate activism. I know that vegetarianism and animal activism in general can accompany social activism on behalf of disenfranchised people. I also know that this question is actually a defensive response, an attempt to deflect from an issue with which the interrogator feels uncomfortable. It is an attempt to have a moral upper hand. Only meat eaters raise this issue. No homeless advocate who is a vegetarian, no battered-women's advocate who is a vegetarian, would ever doubt that these issues can be approached in tandem. In addition, the point of The Sexual Politics of Meat is that we have to stop fragmenting activism; we cannot polarize human and animal suffering since they are interrelated.”

“Behind every meal of meat is an absence: the death of the animal whose place the meat takes. The “absent referent” is that which separates the meat eater from the animal and the animal from the end product. The function of the absent referent is to keep our “meat” separated from any idea that she or he was once an animal, to keep the “moo” or “cluck” or “baa” away from the meat, to keep something from being seen as having been someone.”

“After being butchered, fragmented body parts are often renamed to obscure the fact that these were once animals. After death, cows become roast beef, steak, hamburger; pigs become pork, bacon, sausage. Since objects are possessions they cannot have possessions; thus, we say “leg of lamb” not a “lamb's leg,” “chicken wings” not a “chicken's wings.” We opt for less disquieting referent points not only by changing names from animals to meat, but also by cooking, seasoning, and covering the animals with sauces, disguising their original nature.”

“Correspondingly, vegetables and other nonmeat foods are viewed as women's food. This makes them undesirable to men. The Nuer men think that eating eggs is effeminate. In other groups men require sauces to disguise the fact that they are eating women's foods. “Men expect to have meat sauces to go with their porridge and will sometimes refuse to eat sauces made of greens or other vegetables, which are said to be women's food.””

“As Jo Stepaniak explains the coining of the word in The Vegan Sourcebook, the impetus was finding a word to replace
total vegetarian to describe vegetarians who do not use dairy products. The term prevailed over other suggestions at the time including dairybans, vitans, neovegetarians, benevores, bellevores, all-vegas, sanivores, and beaumangeurs. It was derived from the word vegetarian by taking the first three letters (veg) and the last two letters (an) because “veganism starts with vegetarianism and carries it through to its logical conclusions.””

“The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary recognized the word vegan in 1962. At some point, toward the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Microsoft Word's spelling program stopped underlining the word “vegan” as though it were a misspelling of something. For any vegan writer, this was a moment of lexicographical liberation. The word veganism, however, took longer.”

“For instance John Frank Newton's The Return to Nature; or, Defence of Vegetable Regimen posits that the two trees in the Garden of Eden represent “the two kinds of foods which Adam and Eve had before them in Paradise, viz. the vegetables and the animals.” The penalty for eating from the wrong tree was the death that Adam and Eve had been warned would befall them. But it was not immediate death; rather it was premature, diseased death caused by eating the wrong foods, i.e., meat.”

“Lappé argues that the land required to feed livestock would be better devoted to feeding humans.
This was a longstanding vegetarian issue and its first traces appear in Plato's Republic when Socrates tells Glaucon that meat production necessitates large amounts of pasture. Resultingly, it will require cutting “off a slice of our neighbours' territory; and if they too are not content with necessaries, but give themselves up to getting unlimited wealth, they will want a slice of ours.” Thus Socrates pronounces, “So the next thing will be, Glaucon, that we shall be at war.””

Sigils and Secrets combines the supernatural, thriller like atmosphere and intensively focuses on the inner lives of its characters. Not only that, but it is deeply conscious of the environment and at the core it connects with nature and animal rights.

It starts off with a character deeply smoking which signifies their intense distress over events that happened. It creates an atmosphere similar to that of TV series, comics and it also has a survival element to it, focusing on all the supply gathering which reminds me of the zombie apocalypse genre although the scale of the problems is not on that level, at least not yet. It is gritty and violent, but also contrasts this with other moments that are joyful and picturescue.

It's a kind of story that's right up my alley, although the only thing missing is that it's not set in a fantasy world, it does have its own other world and I hope that it gets explored later. Magical elements inside grounded and mature stories are the best, I devour them. I hope to see more magic users as this series progresses.

The main relationship in this first book got to me, it was so wholesome to read their dynamic that it hurt. The flashbacks were placed at the right times providing stark contrasts to bring out a ton of emotion. An interest in psychology shows in this book and some of the characters' backgrounds and the way their mental health problems are dealt with has these little details that could hit close home to a lot of people. Some of the characters are close minded in contrast to the main ones and they reflect the kinds of people you could meet in real life. I am curious what other social issues the series will touch on later on.

I don't think there were moments that shocked me, but there were moving ones. The main lead Carrie usually says or does something relatable or says touching words. This book provides backstories and I hope they get relevance later on because they seemed purposeful.

The vegan parts are the best parts. It is so wild for them to happen in such a story and it really makes me conscious of how many times I read stories and nothing related to animal rights happened. It is also so nice for the animals to be so recognized in a book, there may be even a stronger focus later, but one animal had quite a strong presence.

This song in the novel captures the highlights well, it is a feeling that drives the whole plot and you can feel it linger everywhere:

“There's got to be more than this
There's got to be something else
There's got to be more
There's got to be more.
I want to see strange sights.
I want to see bright lights.
I want to see more.
I've got to see more.
There's something hidden deep beneath the darkness.
There's something there that I can't seem to find.
It calls to me from somewhere in the distance.
It tells me that the choice is only mine.
I want to do brave things.
I want to do great things.
I want to do more.
You know I've got to do more.
I want to be wiser.
I want to be stronger.
I want to be more.
Oh I need to be more.
There are other worlds behind the one we live in.
There are other worlds that we may never know.
We cower lost and scared within our cages.
Afraid to let the truth of ourselves show.”

I am very excited to find out where the story is heading and what turns it will take. I hope more people give it a chance.

So I was hit by a relative, flung on the table, got a flu from this, chased after an illusion of a person who felt more like a drug than anything substantial and was just getting disillusioned with people and crowds.

So thus this book was relatable and I read it at a great time. It shows me how important it is to surround yourself with the right ideas and people, with the right environment. This shows me that you can have a drive way beyond what I saw. The world functions differently than I imagined or in other words I can imagine that it functions in a different way which in turn will change my world. We really make up our own rules and worlds and it's people who strive to achieve their own that are the most magnetic.

I must read philosophy because thinking is something I do for entertainment all the time. I would walk in circles debating myself on world issues instead of having any friends and the fact that I did not discover philosophy sooner is a shame. All kinds of learning pile up into higher achievement and there is no need to stop or to lower oneself for anyone. Goals in between people don't coalign, you can't prove much to other people except yourself. If they don't believe in yours and you have good ones then that person must be significantly different from you even if you are both attached to each other.

There are some sections where hunting and non-vegan food gets mentioned. I love all Simone's books, but I must lower this by a star because I need to raise awareness about veganism and I want all books to be vegan. There are also cowboy movies mentioned, probably not vegan. Lots of intellectuals now I would imagine would go vegan, but back then it was a very niche idea.

I must make the dedication to surround myself with great thinkers, great works and not social media or people who want to be firstmost influencers, that is not for me. I discovered people who would rather not know the truth and who would get thrown off by trying to discuss it. The uncomfort damages them and repels them as if they were evil spirits. This book throws me into a direction in which I can attempt to integrate myself into a new mode of priority seeking. I would be able to make too many compromises when wanting a relationship with someone, but Simone has been through that too and if she stayed with the person who was boring/inconsistent/immoral/suspicious then she wouldn't have gotten anywhere.

As I see my wounds I will try to look at them as a sign of my resistance and as a part of the journey that is life. This was humbling, terrifying, motivating and educational. The descriptions, the psychology and everything the author is able to apply to her own life is astounding. It is a wealth of knowledge for the sake of it. This is the stuff that can change lives.

This is the most comprehensive, straightforward and eloquent account on veganism and should totally be recommended as a starting point for many readers. Ed gives his own personal account, shows off all the cruelty and gives lots of interesting trivia, entertains concerns which you don't hear so often. He approaches a lot of rhetoric a vegan might hear in unique and creative ways.

This book touches on ethics, the environment and health, it's a general look on benefits of going vegan. It touches on the psychology of people who dismiss veganism and can't be bothered to consider it, the power of the meat industry and how it gets threatened by vegans. The cognitive dissonance, how the pandemics spread because of meat and most importantly how there is no humane slaughter even in the UK which is considered the most humane country regarding that.

One of the chapters is particularly brutal and like the documentary Dominion goes over all the suffering, it is rightfully placed at the start of the book. Ed's perspective and experience is very interesting for me because for example I never really was into meat and the way he came to the conclusion to go vegan was way different than mine. I think what he describes might be a way more common experience and something that people would be able to relate to while for example I stumbled on veganism by curiosity and this inkling that something was off. It is so odd to me how he feels well read and common at the same time because I guess I just have a different personality.

I really like the way he points out the inconsistencies in our thinking, like how we wouldn't want to see a Peppa pig in a gas chamber. He defines words into such striking images at times. I like how he strives to be better and find more information regarding everything veganism. I love especially how he discussed how he was interviewed by people who wanted to paint a certain narrative and I wonder how I would handle being pressured to word stuff a certain way.

This book tries to say that people who eat meat are not necessarily bad people, but I suppose it depends on your definition of bad. In my case I would consider faulty thoughts and lack of knowledge as something that can hurt a lot of victims, human and nonhuman. I am not really concerned whether my audience is bad or not, but whether I am bringing a message that is worth saying and whether I am evolving as a person.

I love how it points out how much space we are using for the animals and how we could use it for other purposes, we could use it to not only end exploitation but to revitalise earth. The benefits are just endless, especially if they were enacted on a wide scale, the veggies and fruits then could not even get contaminated from the meat industry.

I am starting to love all the nonfiction vegan material even though it is brutal. A lot of authors bring so many different perspectives and some of them I don't even agree with or like, it is nice to get to know some fellow vegans through my favourite format - books. It is such a nice medium to hear lots of thoughts from someone and then not really get an answer back. I really love how Ed was an avid reader and got to write his own book, a dream come true :) I am excited to read Ed's next book and books from other vegan authors, fiction or nonfiction.

The author believes in animal liberation, but considers the right methods to achieve it at this point in time when vegans still don't have mainstream recognition. He suggests that we need to be more strategic (manipulative) in order to spread the right message because most people don't succumb to correct messages, but marketing strategies (manipulation). Most people aren't moral and don't want the truth is what he observed from slavery as slavery laws had to be reenacted gradually.

The author raises some interesting points, like he believes that if people change their behaviour, they can later change their whole ethics or be more susceptible to change it more. That means that there might be moments when people making small changes might mean that animal liberation happens sooner. He considers letting people become vegan for other reasons in order to spread veganism further and for it to be more in the public spheres.

This book being targeted towards vegans sure doesn't seek to empower them, to understand them or to validate their efforts, but more so to criticise them and validate the ones who would insult vegans on a regular basis. On a large part I get it and we do need some dose of criticism, but this is leaning more towards apologising to meat eaters and it doesn't validate the perspective of the existing ethical vegans enough. Also it's quite literally advocating to play into capitalism and dishonesty, looking down on people and not having faith in them.

He states that young people, intellectuals and students are more likely to be pursued by ethical messages and I agree on that. They are less likely to be indoctrinated and can be more open minded, kind and smart.

It is a bit difficult to form an opinion on such a work for me because it goes like “I love vegans and all the methods, but also look at this method I have which most vegans do not consider and also maybe those other vegans are a bit too vain to think of all the reasons people eat meat.” It leaves me with confusion.

Why is it not about empowerment if you like all vegans? Why can't all the strategies listed in the book be separated from what you don't like about ethical vegans? Are your goals really the same if you hold your methods as most appropriate now and dismiss the methods of others as methods that can only be used late game in the vegan movement?
Also if the vegan movement is incomparable with other social injustices then why should these methods be used? Maybe the vegan movement needs more focus on the morals then? It's not like we have a vegan world so who knows? (I believe author wrote something like this at one point, but against the ethical vegans)

The author frames veganism methods in an idealism vs pragmatism spectrum and wants a balance between them depending on the situation. It's similar to welfarism vs abolitionism. There's some validity to it and technically he argues for balance and appropriate situations, but again it seems that he dismisses the urgency from the ethical vegans perspective and how their activism works. He just assumed that it doesn't and that it is wrong to shock and to surprise other people in order to get them to think.

Actually the more I write this review the more I seem to dislike this message, first I thought four stars then three and now I am willing to give two. I won't give one because at least it's about the vegan message and I doubt the intentions are bad. Like this raises discussion and references some great thinkers, but there are way better books than this and this could have been worded and written better. Do we want to focus on all this and how to appease the non vegan world, call our safe spaces islands and dismiss our own efforts? Thanks, no.

When a person advocates for half-truths and strategic persuasion (manipulation), I suppose his work and books and writing style starts to contain it and it becomes hard to determine the real arguments being made.

I appreciate the term and it's cool, but not so much the book even though it's intent is good.

This book is very simple and basic, not much is said and it's mostly nothing interesting, especially not to people who are already vegan. There's nothing wrong in that, but there's also some not credible information in it. It reads like a blogpost with a lot of information I would see flying online, the author doesn't try to add much to the vegan movement. I guess I can still see this as a helpful source for someone starting and for someone who is not managing their mental health that well. But at the same time the author seems to hint that she likes conspiracies and quotes a UFO book author. If this book is this basic please don't do this, it makes it way harder to recommend to other people as a starting resource which this could be.

I was especially excited about the fact that this is from a psychology perspective, but it doesn't really seem to get into anything clinical which I expected going in. I really want a psychology book with in depth psychology elements, it just sounds like something I would really like.

It's not that good and it's not that bad. I am struggling to write that much about it as it is quite short. I suppose you can use the book to validate the concept that it can be a struggle to live in the world as a vegan. I like that she hypes the reader up in the end. I am excited to read more vegan books as always and perhaps will use that list of movies at the end because I need to review some vegan movies as well.

This book contains gore, relatable activist backstories, the lowest sins of humanity described from a compassionate side. It has interesting views of God and existence and analyses works of an interesting author which now I want to read, haunting word images about which I will be thinking about.

There's no hope for us. We vilify and insult the weakest and it's been continuing since forever, we insult the weaker by comparing them to the weakest and since committing terrible atrocities we are determined to commit more. If we end one war then we humanely continue another, we sleep on the victims forever.

It's so wild how people do not see connections between all cruelty and somehow compartmentalise it so that it's all separate. Violence against minorities is wrong and the animals are the biggest minority, people can't get convinced that they are even the same as us.

If we live in a society which treats its weakest people this badly then how is it strong at all? It's a ruin, if most people can live with a logic error this big it's hopeless to think that they are not committing all sorts of other cruelties all the time. They are not even doing the bare minimum.

I am not sure how many meat eaters would dare to read this one, but this feels very supporting to read as a vegan. There's a bunch of vegan/vegetarian history I knew nothing about in it and I suppose I should go on a journey to find out a lot more. I feel that animal activists books really speak to me in a voice like no other and that I should seek out more from it.

I want to read books by vegans for vegans, it is sickening how many of the books don't contain the basic moral of not eating the animals. I love that this book exists, I love that at least there are people speaking up about all the pain that animals go through and that they record it. The X-ray vision is real.

Thank you so much for writing it and being a voice for the animals.

Disclaimer: If you are a vegan brand I would totally love to wear, use your stuff, promote it, write poems about it and make content around it, haha. Hit me up.

This book lists lots of vegan fashion, make-up brands and also restaurants. It took me forever to read it because I wanted to track them all down on instagram and at least support them by following them. Instagram did not like that. Most of these are probably not places I will visit, see or even would like. Most of them do not contain that “wow” factor for me. Some of them are already closed down and out of business. This made me seek out so many restaurants I will definitely never visit (T^T) But wow some of them are really something, I am on a whole grain plant based diet now, but I would still like to try so much (T^T)

I prefer alternative and very distinct fashion, but these brands are more for more common styles. So it mostly doesn't appeal to me, but I still feel immense value from this and it feels like something I should at least know of or be able to inform other people of, people who would care more for this. I talked with some vegans about vegan fashion afterwards and I could at least say something about it.

I found out a lot about different faux furs and materials, I guess I just haven't been looking into this despite being vegan for 8 years. I would like to read something similar in the future. The cork material and just in general vegan materials look so unique and pretty, I love how distinct and non-samey they look.

It's so wild how even our clothes are so contaminated with toxicity. I mean everything is in the modern world, even the stuff we eat, but clothes are on us... Corpses inside, corpses outside?

There are so many names here I never heard of and it's exciting to open a door to this new world. I hope I continue discovering vegan brands. I wanna continue reading vegan books and support vegan authors, they just hit different. Love, love.

P.S. Now I have more cravings and wishes under capitalism, help. Maybe I should read that vegan minimalism stuff for balance? We will see.

I picked this book from my intuition yet again. I thought self-destruction through a lense of self-improvement was an interesting concept and I wrote a poem about it.

This book contains voices of experienced and now old women writers. It is a piece to encourage girls to write, share and have compassion for their mental health and wellbeing.

It was a bit of a mixed bag for me because I loved some of the writers and how they were introspective and viewed their experiences through a psychological lense. It made me understand their pain and it was the kind of thing I was looking for and resonated with me. Some were more artistic and more poetic and were more interested in just telling what happened. There is no wrong way to tell these and there was diversity and you could hear how they all came from different places, but some of these really did not resonate with me and that's okay.

I will probably look into some of the authors' other books though not sure when. I really like this book as a concept and wonder if there are any like these in my country.

I finished this masterpiece. It's kinda like a textbook with little comedy sprinkled at the start and the end, some enthusiasm around philosophy, history and science injected. The plot and the dialog kinda sucks and the book itself points out that it's one huge monologue.

Sophie for the most part just replies in snarky ways or just generic replies “Yes.” “Tell me more.” “Let's look into it.”. I don't remember the exact words but it's basically that and then a guy tells her a bunch of simplified philosophy which is not even a good way to learn it if we are being honest. The way we learn is with details and brushing off large time periods without much care won't help the memory. I was somewhat familiar with these philosophers because I read a similar book before, but without the fiction, literally “the philosophy book”. There are definitely parts I kinda looked over just because there was so much surface information coming in.

But I dunno, I appreciate it and probably need to read a couple more books like this, not this same one tho. It would probably be even better if I just read the philosopher's themselves. I liked hearing Sattre's influence, I really disliked his first work, but since he made such an impact his later work must definitely be better, I hope.

But really why you would appreciate this is the philosophical urge to invent terms, the love of complaining to mom, the white crow books of alternative universes. Mom has learned that people cannot fly, but she doesn't understand anything really. I am in possession of some philosophical allegations.

I like the feminist tone despite the book containing mostly men, it's like hey look at those men now you can do better, you go girl. I love the mention of the one and only Simone De Beavoir even though the book technically could have mentioned lots of other women philosophers and more eco philosophers. This is not that focused on current times tho and I suppose the author wanted to cover the essentials which they did.

I am not sure why I want to rate this textbook 5 stars, but I really have no reason not to. Maybe that party at the end was too lavish and opulent... hmmm... consumerism much?? K, but like it's a good book, there's information that I need to encounter, some thoughts and history explained in a way I should have probably encountered by this point which only speaks to my ignorance about these topics. But you know twitter or now X exists and I am learning so you see who is winning. Did I do good dad? Thanks.

After reading this I feel such a mission and debt to environmentalists because I really see that their books and all if you look up aren't really taking that off when the information they provide is so invaluable. I wanna know about philosophy and science, but all the eco stuff... I should look into it.

I struggled to continue this book a bit because I lost a friend while reading it and that put me into a self-reflective spiral and what my life means which this sorta is about. I don't appreciate Darwin and his gene spreading philosophy, but the other thoughts by the greats I love. I think they were a bit envious of me branching out into science and not into occult stuff which I love because there's a chapter here on not believing new age philosophies and what they try to sell with all the religions.

Quotes:

““You haven't gotten yourself mixed up with drugs, have you, dear?”
Sophie was just about to laugh, but she understood why the question was being brought up now.
“Are you nuts?” she said. “That only makes you duller'.””

“Only priests and monks read the Bible because it only existed in Latin. But during the Renaissance, the Bible was translated from Hebrew and Greek into national languages.”

“She ended with a paragraph on the fact that everything people do can be used for good or evil. Good and evil are like a white and a black thread that make up a single strand.
Sometimes they are so closely intertwined that it is impossible to untangle them.”

I really like this last one. Counterpoints. Twilight. Ying, yang. It haunts my thoughts lately.

So I was feeling the emotions and decided to go for a walk late at night and this book descends on me! Called “self-respect”! What a symbol to randomly encounter! It's like it fell from the sky into my life! Ridiculous!

I was feeling a ton of emotional turmoil because I have made certain bad decisions for myself, specifically staying in a very unsatisfying friendship. The moment they devalued me I just cut the cord tho which I feel very proud of because I did it way sooner than I would in the past and now I can see all the ways I was too lenient in so many other cases.

This book was published in Lithuania in 1991 which is wild because its contents are basically radical self acceptance which I feel is very big on youtube right now. I wonder how many books like this there are because I am not that knowledgeable about them. I thought this was very nuanced though and I like how the author says to accept all the emotions and to not leave out any of them. Following this advice I feel way better for now, because I was really representing certain feelings and I don't know why but I have to really try to feel things (probably because of all sorts of bad experiences hahahaha), but for the first time in forever since I consciously tried to awaken the feelings in me I can feel stuff like fear more vividly and I very much enjoy that. It feels like I matter because I do!

The relationship I left, the person specifically came after the fact that I wanted to feel more feelings and explore myself even if I fail and this book described such a person so well. I already knew a lot of stuff in here, but it's nice to hear it again (because I needed it) and there were definitely times where I thought “Huh! Yea, maybe I can accept myself even more when doing this sorta thing.”. I love how this appreciates everyone's autonomy and rights to appreciate the things that they like which don't hurt others.

This did not feel like empty platitudes to me or
something like that and this book argues that you can in fact hate your parents if they did you wrong, you can hate someone or something without it being destructive or causing harm.

This book made me self-assured in certain decisions I made because it defined self-hatred in a specific way which I encountered in others through my life. It clicked like oh! Yea, that was self-hatred, I was right. I think I will find it way easier from now on to detect that sort of thing. For example it never clicked that someone would post on social media celebrities because of a vain reason rather than that they actually liked them. I like certain celebrities though I guess they are not very widely liked and quite eccentric, mostly bullied by the public. They bring wisdom in my life and it's weird that someone would not legit believe in people yet still worship them or something. I like to mention people who inspire me, but I guess there are people who mention others so they get a boost! Wacky!

Anyways, I think my life has changed forever, not because of this book, but because of what happened lately. I am excited and I think this is a good book. Actually not sure if this goodreads page about it is accurate, the lithuanian version has 142 pages, but I am pretty sure this is the right title so idk. Have a nice day!

This author on the verge of death decided to leave the most impactful legacy she could. She went against the chemical industry when only it got the funding and ecology was barely a thing. With her efforts a lot of concepts could flourish and gain more support. She is now my role model and I can't wait to read her literary works. Why haven't I heard of her in school?

This book is about how we as a species can't sit back and observe before acting. The methods with which we controlled insect populations were worse than now, very dangerous chemicals were just sprayed over everything in large doses with aeroplanes. We have not observed what removing certain insects meant and how it affected the ecology. We ended up with removing insects that helped to control certain pests or used chemicals which remove anything but the target insect. These chemicals got into the water which means they go into everything, the soil, the rain, the plants, the animals. The further the animal food chain you go the more these animals get contaminated chemicals. These caused seizures, cancers, killed pets and put human babies in comas. They were considered harmless insecticides despite being literal poison to everything. A lot of this has come from the world wars and because we have developed poisons during them.

We have gone so far wanting to poison everything that we developed solutions which made the blood of pets toxic to insects. Sounds safe and reasonable! These poisons were comparable to radiation and reduced fertility (this is a hidden benefit because we do not need more environment wreckers in the world).

The author goes into specific examples of which animals were infected like salmon, robins, countless birds, all sorts of animals which weren't the target to begin with, the specific damages, the possible alternatives which used science and facts. I have no doubt we have developed way more sophisticated technologies since this book was released, but we still have a lot of trouble relocating the funding towards the environment for some reason. Oh, it must be money, but only for a specific part of the population because what horrors would happen if they lost the power.

Reading this book reminded me of how odd people are and maybe that it's better to stay away from most of them. I want to be like Rachel and go against whatever I am supposed to do because I know it's not working. She clearly was not liked, hated, or despised for her hard work, but the alternative seems to go along humanity's “I give up” plan. Life's about choosing for who you want to suffer, but suffer we all do.

Now that I think about it, pessimism, absurdism, and existentialism seem threatening, but in the writing of people whatever label they have, you can see so much heart. Yet those people will have this cold appearance to them regardless because the world is so far behind to recognize actual warmth. This sort of feeling that Simone must have felt about her friend is so alien and yet familiar. I would say I would get in such a fantasy over people who were not at all special and yet this person was special and real and would correspond. I can feel so many feelings hidden behind the text and unspoken and how much this relationship must have hurt.

I believe there are still people who are forced roles upon them and who meet their ends similarly like in this book. I see reviews mentioning how this is in the past and not relevant today, but I do not understand that sentiment. As long as there is beauty there will be people who try to take it away and oftentimes it is our own parents who do so. Suicidal people are still everywhere and they do exists, do not be mistaken that it's a silly statistic and that people feeling those feelings are vapid and with no reason. People who feel most intense sadness are oftentimes the ones who feel brilliance and can strive for it, but a lot of the times it's killed and sometimes not just by the others, but by themselves as well. When you live constantly being told that you are in the wrong you can start to internalise it and children especially are not equipped with weapons of their own to resist the opinions of others. Opinions aplenty all around, so many damaging ones are still here and still plague so many people and so many people are still stifled and feel like they shouldn't achieve more and settle for God, church, school, a lover, a parent, anyone but themselves. Sometimes it's okay to want to fight against the world, because it sucks! You have to be there for yourself too!

I for some reason thought to myself to finish this even though I obviously did not like it! I shouldn't have! But this is an existentialist work and I loved everything Simone De Beauvoir wrote so I thought oh it will get better!

Dull, repetitive, mundane reflections of a vain character who in turn sees everything to be vain. An attractive face which I no doubt he possesses is a stone in his imagination rolls eyes There are some weird descriptions of women. Like—

“nestling in lace; and the woman picturing her bosom under her blouse, thinking: “My titties, my lovely fruits,” smiling mysteriously, attentive to the swelling of her breasts which tickled . . . then I shouted and found myself with my eyes wide open.
Had I dreamed of this enormous presence? It was there, in the garden, toppled down into the trees, all soft, sticky, soiling everything, all thick, a jelly.”

And it doesn't get better at the end! I mean it gets different I suppose, but barely better. This feels like a barebones philosophy lesson disguised as a barebones fiction book.

This is one of those books from which I come feeling worse after having read them. I need my fix of good work and I need it now! Hopefully the next one will cleanse me.

Now I wonder if Simone was held hostage or is this one of his earlier works or something, maybe his philosophy is better? I bet he made a great case study for her.

I had this false impression this would be a deep study of disgust and the various ways it can be depicted and be interesting, and it was none of those things. The disgust was how bland the protagonist is and very limited in language and ideas.

This packs a good punch, not in the sense that honour was discussed and all, but it's just well written! This talks about fame and wealth in a way which seems reasonable to me from what I have seen performing poetry. A lot of encounters I had with people reappeared in my mind's eye while reading. It is so weird how most people seek false reflections of true values and whatever false reflections I myself have chased in the past I feel deeply ashamed of. I believed a certain amount of lies from others myself, but I would attribute it to ignorance and lack of understanding that others don't mean well. 

This one was weirdly not that pessimistic which I sorta wanted lol. The preface was terrible, using the word “manly” to make Schopenhauer seem more valid. Some of his views and discussions are not very topical and Schopenhauer does possess some casual racism, well it was one line. 

I really want to take some things written to heart even though they are hard pills to swallow. Society would look very different though if it was based on anything proper so maybe it would be even harder to ignore tbh. This is a book where the author just basically insults the people and their ways and he is not wrong really...

I love how philosophy books are like self-help books, but better and with more integrity. In a way I feel like I have been hearing thoughts like in this book all over the place lately, but this tied them to the emergence of the church and its damage. 

This is the most chaotic and sane children's book I read and presents a perfect role model to follow. I read it in the middle of the night because certain adults like to wake up too early and fill their houses with TV, not letting anyone sleep.

I am vegan and I always dislike food depictions especially in children's books because food is usually such a big focal point in them, there are usually always storylines around it. I am not the biggest fan of how many sweets are eaten in this book, but its done in such a rebellious spirit, this whole book is that you have to love it.

This is a book which just doesn't abide by the world and when you are a child it is quite scary and doesn't accept you, everyone around you constantly wants to shape you into a mould and you have to have rights for yourself. I find it disgusting that when this was written the concern for the people was that Pippi was a girl and she shouldn't be so strong for being a girl. Pippi in the end doesn't do anything which harms other people and she navigates her world the best she can, to her best abilities. She is way more capable than any adult.

I have been way too docile and way too obedient as a child and Pippi is someone who would show all her emotions and be true to herself no matter what anyone thinks. I need this spirit, I need to channel this, I don't care what this boring, broken world thinks full of bullies who insult you over nothing while they themselves hold no morals whatsoever.

I wonder how much influence this book had over the way the education system developed in Sweden. I love how she learns and lives! And is not dead and empty like is expected in most parts of the world a child to be like!

Oh in the name of— sadness, suffering and truth! Where have you been? Where have I not read you? My Cathy whom I actually love and adore, an extinguished fire that I trapped and gave no warmth!

So yea I really loved this book! This is my jam I think, it feels a bit amateurish or naive in the best way. It asked for things and I did not need to beg for them, it did more than I hoped. The ending was okay, but I don't care. The vibes! The vibes!!! This is like a depressed teen idolising some shadow of a dream!!  I love the themes, the discussion of death in various ways, I love how they are the highlights and not something else. The colours and the scenaries the protagonist paints! All this journey he despises, it is art and gosh is his understanding of art so odd. 

I grabbed a bunch of chilli pepper flakes and then shoved them on my meal to compliment this spice. I went on a walk and dreamt of impossible imagery and went beyond pain in my mind. I am so sad over this depressed twink doctor, why is life like this to him?? :(( If he was gay I would time travel and become fictional.Okay maybe I should stop writing these questionable things, but omg what a book :(( I will cry a river. You get me, you understand me. Maybe I should read some more morbid books like Anna Karerina, Nausea, something from Schopenhauer or something like that. Mood.

Edit on April 8th: I would like to mention that this discusses abortion and is considered antinatalist in parts. This is a book which highlighted those concepts and caused controversy in 1905.