I did, in fact, end up reading Mind Play
Jan. 24th, 2019 11:40 am(followup to this (mildly NSFW) post)
I had a bit of Amazon-US credit lying around in my personal account from the time I tried to accept a gifted copy of Too Like the Lightning and it wouldn't come through properly, and since it turned out I wasn't going to need that money for its intended purpose I figured I might as well indulge my curiosity.
The book was fairly good, I think? I definitely recommend getting a broad variety of perspectives, but one has to start somewhere and this looks like a good place to do that. (And it comes with an other-resources section, with plenty of links to places you can start branching out into that broad variety of perspectives! Some of them I hadn't heard of, so those will be interesting to investigate.)
Some scattered livebloggy thoughts:
[cw: nsfw text, arguably some tmi, (mild) amnesia]
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I had a bit of Amazon-US credit lying around in my personal account from the time I tried to accept a gifted copy of Too Like the Lightning and it wouldn't come through properly, and since it turned out I wasn't going to need that money for its intended purpose I figured I might as well indulge my curiosity.
The book was fairly good, I think? I definitely recommend getting a broad variety of perspectives, but one has to start somewhere and this looks like a good place to do that. (And it comes with an other-resources section, with plenty of links to places you can start branching out into that broad variety of perspectives! Some of them I hadn't heard of, so those will be interesting to investigate.)
Some scattered livebloggy thoughts:
[cw: nsfw text, arguably some tmi, (mild) amnesia]
( Read more... )