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As you know the book club is back. I already read the Metamorphosis a few months ago so I'll just check my notes for the single discussion thread.
I started reading "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" by Rodric Braithwaite (former Bong ambassador to Russia) which is about the Soviet-Afghan war 
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Just finished two arms and a head. Thought the author was a peepee and a pretentious butthole.
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Apparently he was a pretty normal dudebro before the accident, not the biologically perfect philosopher king poet warrior he claimed. But hey, he was crippled almost as severely as possible, I figure he's allowed to cope in weird ways.
I liked the book for so brutally calling out the weird lies and fetishization of disabilities in activist circles. Disabilities aren't so fun when they aren't the made up ones like chronic fatigue.
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Yeah he acts like he was gods gift to the earth before the accident. I understand that he's upset and he even calls out how bad this book is probably making him look several times but it was still a difficult read for me.
I did find the stuff about activists a bit interesting but his lack of ability to see things from other people's perspectives wasn't a good trait. In his mind it seems anyone who disagreed with him was obviously completely wrong and he was just different than other disabled people. He completely dismissed anyone who said yeah it sucks but if you try it is possible to find happiness as being just too different from him and not possibly understanding what he was going through as opposed to people who may have struggled with his same thoughts and feelings.
I thought the part where he was building up courage to actually kill himself was very interesting though. It's interesting how scared he was of it and how he found even the idea of some methods so appalling even though he spent the whole book talking about how gung ho he was to do it.
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