No need to be intimidated! This is not an insult at all, but people wayyyy overestimate how intellectual her books are. If you have an ok vocabulary and did your middle and high school reading you’re all set
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Anonymous27w
Okay y’all I bought it 😘 its so pretty and I’m really excited
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Anonymous27w
Why intimidated?
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Anonymous27w
i love her so much
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Anonymous#127w
The academics of it
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AnonymousOP27w
I think you should be good if you are in or ever went to college. Or if you’re a fan of classics
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Anonymous#127w
I’m in my senior year right now but literally reading so many academic articles 😭
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AnonymousOP27w
You should be good then. I’m gonna read it in October but I’m so excited, I love her writing
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Anonymous#327w
no that’s so true idk about katabasis but babel was def more intellectual than the poppy war trilogy and they yellowface is like not intellectual in that sense at all
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Anonymousorangepopcornn27w
Yeah I’d put Katabasis and Babel about the same in terms of complexity! And they’re really good books but they’re not difficult to understand and if they were academic works they’d be very entry level.
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AnonymousOP27w
As someone who’s never studied classics or philosophy, it wasn’t that academic