A review by caedocyon
Socialist Realism by Trisha Low
2.0
I picked this up at the library in my frenzied pre-lockdown rush in March because I liked the cover and the title, without even glancing at the back. 2/3 of the way through Socialist Realism I still have no fucking idea what it's about or what the point is.
All the little paragraph-to-several-pages bits that Low stitches this book out of are 3 to 4 out of 5 stars, but in order to figure out what the relationship is between them you'd have to do a much more intensive close reading than I am willing to do. If I had a sense that it was all going to come together in a fascinating way that's more than the sum of its parts, well, maybe, but I'm not convinced of that at all.
I repeatedly had the thought that Resource Generation has answers to basically all the class issues that Low spends scattered paragraphs weakly bemoaning.
The exact same genre as [b:Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through|42372517|Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through|T Fleischmann|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1603210944l/42372517._SY75_.jpg|66029276] except longer and much less focused (and I wasn't that impressed by Time to start with), so if you're into that kind of thing, definitely go to town.
All the little paragraph-to-several-pages bits that Low stitches this book out of are 3 to 4 out of 5 stars, but in order to figure out what the relationship is between them you'd have to do a much more intensive close reading than I am willing to do. If I had a sense that it was all going to come together in a fascinating way that's more than the sum of its parts, well, maybe, but I'm not convinced of that at all.
I repeatedly had the thought that Resource Generation has answers to basically all the class issues that Low spends scattered paragraphs weakly bemoaning.
The exact same genre as [b:Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through|42372517|Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through|T Fleischmann|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1603210944l/42372517._SY75_.jpg|66029276] except longer and much less focused (and I wasn't that impressed by Time to start with), so if you're into that kind of thing, definitely go to town.