I just loved Ninth House for the way it talked about magic as interacting with that whole elite educational institution thing of reinforcing privilege, which really... rings true to me.
The thing I thought was so weird and didn't ring true -- which lines up with what you thought was so weird -- was that it read to me like there were about a hundred people at Yale. Like, Yale is thousands of people! You do not have to be tied to the hundred-person legacy rich white people social circle! That exists, sure! But there are literally hundreds of other things you can do, hundreds of other social circles you can move in! It sort of vaguely makes sense as a plot MacGuffin that Alex has to hang around the legacy white people social circle, but her totally-different roommates seem to be stuck in that too, which is really WTF.
It seems to be shallowing upon consideration, not deepening?
Yeah -- I haven't picked up the second book yet, even though I thought I loved the first book a lot when I first finished it, and this is why.
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Date: 2023-02-26 12:42 am (UTC)The thing I thought was so weird and didn't ring true -- which lines up with what you thought was so weird -- was that it read to me like there were about a hundred people at Yale. Like, Yale is thousands of people! You do not have to be tied to the hundred-person legacy rich white people social circle! That exists, sure! But there are literally hundreds of other things you can do, hundreds of other social circles you can move in! It sort of vaguely makes sense as a plot MacGuffin that Alex has to hang around the legacy white people social circle, but her totally-different roommates seem to be stuck in that too, which is really WTF.
It seems to be shallowing upon consideration, not deepening?
Yeah -- I haven't picked up the second book yet, even though I thought I loved the first book a lot when I first finished it, and this is why.