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I’ve never read R. F. Kuang but I’m so interested in Katabasis. Also intimidated
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Anonymous 2w

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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Anonymous 2w

Okay y’all I bought it 😘 its so pretty and I’m really excited

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Anonymous 2w

Why intimidated?

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Anonymous 2w

i love her so much

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

The academics of it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

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 replying to -> #1 2w

I’m in my senior year right now but literally reading so many academic articles 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

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 replying to -> #3 2w

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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Anonymous replying to -> orangepopcornn 2w

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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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

As someone who’s never studied classics or philosophy, it wasn’t that academic

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Yayy have so much fun!

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