notes on notes on camp

One of the first intellectual books I bought was A Susan Sontag Reader. To this day I remember reading 'notes on camp' for the first time and how interesting it was. It's so enjoyable even though she's writing about something so ethereal. I usually don't like that...when a book is about some purely intellectual concept and it becomes so convoluted. It's annoying. It's not about anything real. Ultimately you're just reading something that's about itself. But that's what makes 'notes on camp' so good. It's consistently tethered to reality.