nvrrrdie's reviews
39 reviews

I can't really review this. It was more graphic than I could really handle and I still forced myself to read it, I don't think it was worth it to me. I really wanted to finish it because it was spoken of so highly as literature, and I think I can understand why, Butler's world is a strong and interesting one but I can't really judge this book objectively.

This book is an opinion piece which aims to respond to propaganda and rhetoric about white poverty in Appalachia. It is supported by broad historical information about labour uprising and resource exploitation in the region. It connects the struggles of Appalachians to struggles across the USA throughout history and also highlights the dubious bases of classist rhetoric of poverty. In my opinion, it does all of that pretty well.

Useful and a great resource, but I don't have the time right now for this kind of dedicated study.

I have no doubt that Virginia Woolf is an intelligent and contemplative writer. I think this book is of historical interest about theory related to opportunity, poverty, and success and the changing position of Englishwomen in society, and that this text was a very early contribution to a field that has since grown extremely more wide and deep. However I dreaded reading this and found the style very hard to parse. Overall it did not leave much of an impression on me and I will likely find more benefit from later generations of writing.

Very thorough and informative. This is something I will need to come back to because I have to admit it is above my current reading level. 

I'm just really not interested in the writing or in the world presented by the book. Also the preachiness of the utopian image

Very literary. I'll have to read it more times over to fully analyze it.

I found this book very insightful. It was interesting and I thought the method of writing was quite effective. I personally had a hard time concentrating on some sections further into the book but I thought it was very interesting to learn how our current concept of "paradigms" were developed and the implications that it has for truth and objectivity in science and knowledge. This is something I might read again after further study and is definitely an influential text in modern philosophy.