book talk

[illuvium]

hate to not have updated in Quite the while, but anyway, i've been reading some books, including but not limited to: mother mary comes to me (arundhati roy), hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (AT LAST), do androids dream of electric sheep? (i finished this one, surprisingly), and some ambiguous others that i'm forgetting at the moment. i thought the memoir by roy had excellent writing (from what i've read so far, which is... not much at all!!) and was unfortunately very relatable minus the whole inspiring and engaging conversations with your muse-mother part, and i'm really enjoying hitchhiker's guide as a palate cleanser of sorts. i like a good comedy, especially when romance doesn't happen to be involved. you'd probably not guess it from the extensive trope talk centering around romance, but i'm not a very romantic person and i dislike it in most novels. finally, i thought that do androids dream of electric sheep? was pretty good. i didn't think it so relevant with the ai discussion, because it centered more around empathy as a marker of (or really, on the contrary; i found it to be something of a critique on religion), but i think it was still a neat novel! i loved the concept used, and i thought the first chapter was super stellar. i'd probably recommend it, but i do think there are better books out in the wild, and that that book was mildly polemic for its depiction and descriptions of women. then again, this sounds pretty bad, but i find that most books from the time period are at least a little misogynistic. that's just how things tend to roll, right?