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3.5. Read this in one sitting this evening, Ruari picked it up for me at a second hand bookshop in London. The beginning is a super helpful introduction, and in a way really reassured me that I am not just making things up when I identify the intellectual tradition I most operate in as one of British cultural studies specifically. Towards the end of the book, by attempting to cover too much, it somewhat descended into chaos, but overall I like this funky format and it was a lovely evening read (my one has Mona Lisa with a bindi on the cover, for some reason)

4.5 really! read for the new sociology book club! It was very very good, gripping, incredibly harrowing at times. The bits on Hollywood and representation really hit, and I hope to think through them some more. I thought it was funny that the sympathizer had to remind us that he had a big penis at least two or three times, including when he was about to get horribly tortured.