Adrian Albu
Caution: it does contains a spoiler. Nice word caution.
... and this is the spoiler: I saw it coming since the travel woman buddy (Sylvia) was saying that made her sad seeing the sadness on the faces of travelers, people going to work.
But I immediately thought that you are sad with what you do if you have no passion for that, no appetence for it. And that sucks. :)
Besides that the book brought back memories, I did finished philosophy myself and of course I used to read stuff and was also mesmerized by the flow of Kant's critique.
I liked logic, I become a programmer, but I was always also attracted towards what in the book is called the romantic way :) Still relatively recently I discovered that life worth's living if you have passion for it, for the activities and people in it. Well not quite true, recently in terms of a long life I adopted it. So anyway this book came right on time for me and besides the message it is mostly enjoyable to read. I don't know that if you are not familiar at all with some of the thinking systems presented how easy is to follow though... And then maybe is also a bit to much explained, could have been shorter, to the point, but that is my own opinion.
Regarding the Quality metaphysics I donno like with all of them it is a bit weird for me to connect the reality with it, meaning concepts that make possible existence...
Only validity that I can see and agree is that quality is in the act of doing something if the person is passionate about it and then also the result of a quality work can or can not have quality.
He is saying: “The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event. “
Maybe I do not understand it but the thought of quality existing before anything I cannot perceive.
Also I think that even if we do perceive something as possessing quality even if we do not quite can explain it and quantify it I can say that in different cultures the perception would not ...happened.
I donno, as I said the good thing about the book for me was that I enjoyed the cycles trip and the mood of the book and also the idea that people should actually open their eyes and do what they are passionate about it in life but also activities that maybe not fit well with their style (romantic or classic :D) should not be perceived as such because done with distaste will only lead to sloppy stuff and moods ;)
I really enjoyed the Feed trilogy so I pre-ordered Parasite.
Feed had the brothers with their chemistry, it had of course very cool action and good humor.
None here.
And although the zombie thing is of curse not something to close to reality, I don't have issues with
that :), the main idea we have here is to far from reality.
I mean I knew the author she studies hard the context so I thought different.
I don't know, for me was a disappointment, I think she writes cool, Feed was really really fun to read
but I think she should drop the next books to follow parasite and do something else!
