>>3874839I've finished reading the chapters on the main series and honestly, I feel like I've lost most of my interest in the book. The author really likes to linger on the topics of Buddhism and philosophy, and as weird as this might be for someone who otherwise likes the series, those two topics just aren't interesting to me, especially when they are the focus of the writing to such an overwhelming degree that hardly any other aspect is tackled anymore. I can't even adopt a "oh, there's another cool aspect to the series that I wasn't aware of" approach to it because that train of thought is completely drowned out by the feeling that, if the author is right, then the writing holds less value to me because I was wrong about the things that I thought Urobuchi wanted to focus on.
So yeah, I'm a bit disappointed and will probably be dropping it. I don't exactly regret buying it because it was cheap and the author definitely put a lot of thought and effort into it, but because I'm not the biggest fan of Buddhist teachings and especially because philosophy as a whole is so deeply uninteresting to me compared to psychology, I just cannot get myself to put a similar amount of thought and effort into finishing the book and understanding the author's PoV.
