Interesting way for me to find out that being sick and a little loopy is the best way for me to read Barthes. Apparently this borders the state of a casual French reader from 1954. 

Read it before for uni once and enjoyed it now as well. Barthes really is the originator of analytic commentary on popculture it feels like. Did skip the theory at the back of the book this time around, felt that was a bit much for my snotclogged head haha.