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nathan robinson had basically the same take https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/notionally-true
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if people believed david cameron hosed a dead pigs mouth without a shred of evidence they will believe this book
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 07:31 |
Mycroft Holmes posted:if people believed david cameron hosed a dead pigs mouth without a shred of evidence they will believe this book Can I like ironically believe something because that's how I approach the Cameron pig loving
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 09:58 |
https://twitter.com/belledejour_uk/status/956187596215926785
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 00:34 |
is this real and if so, where (pickles needed)
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 02:58 |
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Mycroft Holmes posted:if people believed david cameron hosed a dead pigs mouth without a shred of evidence they will believe this book It's easy to believe when you understand the weird poo poo public school boys do in their little clubs.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 04:24 |
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For something written by a very reactionary person, The War of the End of the World is extremely good so far.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 09:30 |
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The Lathe of Heaven, one of my absolute favorites by Ursula K Le Guin, is only $1 today on Amazon for the ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Lathe-Heaven-Ursula-K-Guin-ebook/dp/B00JTZ95I0quote:In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only George has the clear memory of how it was before. He seeks counseling from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately understands how powerful a weapon George wields. Soon, George is a pawn in Haber’s dangerous game, where the fate of humanity grows more imperiled with every waking hour. It owns and if any lurkers in this thread want to get in on why so many are in mourning over Le Guin's death, this is a good starting point that's also a quick and engaging read
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 17:03 |
Epic High Five posted:The Lathe of Heaven, one of my absolute favorites by Ursula K Le Guin, is only $1 today on Amazon for the ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Lathe-Heaven-Ursula-K-Guin-ebook/dp/B00JTZ95I0 Just grabbed this one
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whomupclicklike posted:Just grabbed this one Is the ebook file, you know, good? I own a paperwhite and I've found that some of their ebooks suck ed balls vis-à-vis formatting and whatnot
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 22:50 |
finishing up Roman Blood before I start on the Le Guin stuff. I'm finding it interesting how much more I'm liking Saylor's writing in this book, compared to A Murder on the Appian Way which felt dry and matter-of-fact at many times. I floated the idea before that Saylor was churning out books (he wrote about a dozen books total in this series), but I'm also wondering if part of this isn't that Saylor was much younger when he wrote Roman Blood, and as well he also had additional time to write over the book compared to having to write it on a deadline. Anyway, here's a passage I quite liked from the chapter introducing us to a 26-year-old Cicero, who's as of yet unfamiliar with life as a pleb...Steven Saylor, Roman Blood posted:'You were about to tell me something of how one goes about arranging a murder in the streets of Rome. Forgive me if the question is presumptuous. I don't mean to imply that you yourself have ever offended the gods by taking part in such crimes. But they say — Hortensius says — that you happen to know more than a little about these matters. Who, how, and how much…'
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only le guin I've read is left hand of darkness, but i liked it way more than most sci-fi(ish) stuff. what should I read next? I got a kindle recently, so if you wanna flood me with recs don't hold back!!
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Finicums Wake posted:only le guin I've read is left hand of darkness, but i liked it way more than most sci-fi(ish) stuff. what should I read next? I got a kindle recently, so if you wanna flood me with recs don't hold back!! The link I posted is a good place to start, it's where I did. After that I recommend The Birthday of the World - it's especially a solid read after Left Hand Yossarian-22 posted:Is the ebook file, you know, good? I own a paperwhite and I've found that some of their ebooks suck ed balls vis-à-vis formatting and whatnot Tough to say, I've got an ebook version of it but I don't know if it's the amazon one. Generally if the formatting or text is bad it'll say in the reviews
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# ? Jan 27, 2018 00:31 |
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What are some some good nonfiction books about the Cuban revolution and post-revolution Cuba?
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# ? Jan 27, 2018 02:38 |
Yossarian-22 posted:Is the ebook file, you know, good? I own a paperwhite and I've found that some of their ebooks suck ed balls vis-à-vis formatting and whatnot I haven't opened it yet but Amazon will let you refund an ebook if the formatting sucks
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# ? Jan 27, 2018 05:21 |
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just mentioned it in another thread, but wanted to plug walter johnson's river of dark dreams: slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom there's a paperback now, so i might buy it (i borrowed the hardback from the lib). it's really illuminating as to how the government worked to prepare the land for partition, sale, and ultimately slavery , and how the South functioned as a critical component of global capitalism and industrialization. 10/10
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 22:04 |
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Today I finished Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Ann Thompson. Really in-depth and rigorously cited account of the uprising, retaking, and legal fallout, with a strong introduction adumbrating the broader social & political conditions leading up to it, and a concise epilogue detailing the racist legislative backlash in the aftermath. Definitely recommended - my only hangup about it is that the detailed write ups on all of the subsequent court cases begins to get repetitive as a lot of evidence & testimony was used in multiple grand jury hearings, criminal trials, and civil suits. Still, it’s a serious and crisply written account of a critical historical moment.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 04:13 |
Could anyone please recommend a book about the credit/financial system to me? I already read Creditocracy and I want more.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 06:37 |
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Perry Anderson writes like a loving G and knows everything so yeah read his stuff.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 06:51 |
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KaptainKrunk posted:Perry Anderson writes like a loving G and knows everything so yeah read his stuff. Seconding this. In fact the two books I have out from the library right now I found out about through Anderson's America's Foreign Policy and its Thinkers. Highly recommend that for a clarifying survey of ideology in American foreign policy circles.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 14:49 |
i'd like a good general economics book that isnt abhorrent to read
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 16:35 |
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I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and Le Guin to be revealed as a secretly terrible person like so many other sci-fi writers, but it doesn't happen
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 23:53 |
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hackbunny posted:I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and Le Guin to be revealed as a secretly terrible person like so many other sci-fi writers, but it doesn't happen Fret not because she loving ruled
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whomupclicklike posted:Could anyone please recommend a book about the credit/financial system to me? I already read Creditocracy and I want more. I just finished Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink by Louis Hyman. It's pretty good but also obviously a dissertation turned into a book (lots of typos, some arguments are difficult to follow). It also has some arguments that will make CSPAM regulars roll their eyes real hard (capitalism is not inherently bad but must be sufficiently regulated). However that argument mostly comes in the foreword and the epilogue, and the middle parts are interesting history about the growth of consumer credit in the US up to the 90s. He also wrote Borrow: The American Way of Debt which from its description sounds like it's basically the same book. I imagine since it's an actual book and not his dissertation it might be better, but who knows.
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 00:24 |
Badger of Basra posted:I just finished Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink by Louis Hyman. It's pretty good but also obviously a dissertation turned into a book (lots of typos, some arguments are difficult to follow). It also has some arguments that will make CSPAM regulars roll their eyes real hard (capitalism is not inherently bad but must be sufficiently regulated). However that argument mostly comes in the foreword and the epilogue, and the middle parts are interesting history about the growth of consumer credit in the US up to the 90s. Thank you comrade
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 00:46 |
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Just picked up Year of Meteors, about the election of 1860 and the political crisis that led to the US civil war.quote:One furious Republican ... wondered how the Chicago Republican convention could have denied the selection to "the most experienced & most competent Statesman."
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 00:47 |
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David Harvey - Marx, Capital, and the madness of Economic Reason
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 01:31 |
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for an entertaining and readable insight into the salience of modern markets, I highly recommend Drinking Cheap Vodka from a Paper Bag Under a Bridge by Epic High Five
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 01:32 |
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hey I'm startin a book club through a Discord, a more normal sort of setup, who's in? thinkin 250-400 page book with a 4 week timeline, everything else is flexible based on how many sign up
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 03:51 |
Epic High Five posted:hey I'm startin a book club through a Discord, a more normal sort of setup, who's in? What sort of books?
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 20:11 |
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SKULL.GIF posted:What sort of books? Everybody is welcome to pitch an idea and we'll vote on it, probably around 9pm tonight. https://discord.gg/sZs7Jrv
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 20:33 |
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didn't realize there was a thread specifical y for this so, good
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# ? Mar 12, 2018 02:04 |
I always forget to reply to the thread when I'm done with something, but I read Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rucker recently. I agree with a lot of the points made in the book, but I can't help but wonder how one might address the needs of those who do not or cannot work, like the disabled and chronically ill. My main takeaway, however, is that unions are probably the best way of immediately changing the world for the better. I never really fancied myself an anarchist before, because I didn't figure anything could get done without organization under a party, but apparently anarchy doesn't mean a lack of organization!
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# ? Mar 19, 2018 01:12 |
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Recently read Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Kruschev by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. Amazing study of the constraints international political economy and trade flows placed on Soviet foreign policy, and the degree to which the Western liberal order maintained a genuinely hegemonic power in international relations. Also finished Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman. It's a useful and thoughtful adumbration of the ideological fissures between the CPSU and CPC & how those were expressed in differing approaches towards the West (Peaceful Coexistence vs. no-holds-barred Anti-Imperialism) and towards the new states emerging from the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century. Recommended. Currently have a stack of fiction out from the library -- The Vagrants by Yiyun Li, a novel set during the Cultural Revolution; A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, recommended by a coworker; The First Wife: A Novel of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane (the first novel by a Mozambican woman ever translated into English according to Sheila Heti's glowing review in the LRB. Also just read The Leavers by Lisa Ko on a friend's recommendation. It's mediocre. Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish covers some of the same ground (the post-9/11 anti-immigrant turn) more profoundly and in a more bitingly political tone, with more realistic dialogue.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 16:25 |
GalacticAcid posted:Recently read [url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/red-globalization/DAE3ADBABBEF84748E9E14D4BE9C82A2]Red Globalization: The Political Economy of I also read this and I felt that it could have been better, but it was still alright for a debut novel.
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 03:43 |
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Yeah it wasn’t terrible or anything, and the long sections from the mother’s perspective were excellent. I just thought some of the dialogue and undeveloped secondary characters gave it an out-of-place YA feel, idk.
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 03:52 |
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I read Animal farm a few years back. It has animals that talked, which was obviously wild, but don't worry it's not really a spoiler cause it starts happening right at the beginning
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 04:03 |
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uphold old major thought
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 05:37 |
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Has anyone seen the HBO series, K Street, from executive producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh?
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Book club report: Everyone agrees that "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky loving blows
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