"was frustrated with this book! i get that miller wants the audience to experience the same shock and disgust she does after discovering that jordan was a hardcore eugenicist, but i truly don't understand why i was asked to empathize and care so much about him for the first 65% of the book. like come on, he was the founding president of stanford. we kind of know who he is already!
the fact that fish aren't a meaningful scientific/evolutionary category wasn't interesting to me and i think it's a stretch that it would have been any kind of "fuck you" to jordan lol. the category of "fish" has social meaning and that is more than enough for me"

kathleen wants to read Hard to Be a God

"loved this book. even after an event like an alien visit, life just goes on and on, things get worse and worse, the drudgery of it all, and we just have to keep going anyways. "