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Algund Eenboom posted:Has anyone read hyperobjects we did it folks, we tricked someone into coming into the thread and admitting they read books like a NERD let us all laugh at this poster hahaha HAHAHAHA
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lordy lordy this book sucks a lot, maybe autobiographies just aren't for me but I am pretty deeply suspicious as to how no information on this guy exists outside of the right wing book review sphere
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I hadn't even heard of this book -- what made you pick it up, out of curiosity? also I'd ask the LF thread if they have any info, they usually have the party line critique ready with rigorous citations of anyone who doubts the eternal juche idea
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GalacticAcid posted:I hadn't even heard of this book -- what made you pick it up, out of curiosity? A River in Darkness? It's pretty frequently on my bookgorilla lists and is nonstop at the top of my Kindle Unlimited thing, sells pretty well too apparently was gonna cancel unlimited this month and this was one of the books available as a free audible book rental as well so I went with it and it's like Japanese Bill O'Reilly builds a narrative that just so happens to chronologically hit on all the things that the right screams about re: socialism. From "the girls welcoming us were wearing obviously fake smiles because they'd been brainwashed" to "my dad bought us some animals to raise to eat and a policeman beat him up, for providing for his family!" to how he sneered at planting rice too close together because it was obviously not going to work what the gently caress is a LF book thread
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LF thread a book about Actually Existing Socialist bastion, the DPRK, would def be on topic
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GalacticAcid posted:LF thread okay cool, I asked them hopefully they don't make fun of me, we all know how socialism makes you a mean bully who beats up dads (not like are cops)
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stay safe sky-watching ghost
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So this Bob Woodward book... is it going to be worth buying? Also, bold to release it on 9/11, I think.
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im on the net me boys posted:So this Bob Woodward book... is it going to be worth buying? Also, bold to release it on 9/11, I think. Generally with these kinds of books, all the good bits get leaked to twitter pretty quickly, and you get the added fun of spotting the obvious fakes to keep your skepticism glands working.
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Goon Danton posted:Generally with these kinds of books, all the good bits get leaked to twitter pretty quickly, and you get the added fun of spotting the obvious fakes to keep your skepticism glands working. I still really enjoyed the Wolff one despite this, but I really don't want to spend >$30 USD on tell-alls this year
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I strongly recommend The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing
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My library got several copies of Fear, so I placed a hold
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library finally got Pedagogy back in and I'm always grateful for a political book that keeps it short and sweet
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I think I keep beating this particular drum, but Ben Teitelbaum’s Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism is a good book that goes through the evolution of nationalist poo poo we’re seeing today through the Swedish far right, down to eerie parallels like calling out the Sweden Democrats uniform of polo shirts and distancing themselves from earlier skinhead culture. He’s an ethnomusicologist and folklorist, so his work is bigger on “presenting a picture” and leaves out commentary because he trusts the reader to make their own judgements, but it’s a good read. Full disclosure: the author is a friend. However, he’s also impressively good at his job: he has an obviously Jewish name and heritage and still manages getting ridiculous access to inner-circle right-Nationalist stuff in Sweden, because he’s looking at it in a fundamentally different fashion than the usual catalogue folk.
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Posted this in the e-book thread as well, but PM Press is having a sale on ebooks for two bucks. A lot of the subjects they cover are going to be of interest to the readers of this thread. http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102455632475&ca=03d78f7e-30fb-47cd-8933-ac0c0851b4bb
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So another PM Press post: they're doing a new subscription service where you get all their new books each month https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1
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im on the net me boys posted:So another PM Press post: they're doing a new subscription service where you get all their new books each month https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1 oh, neat! however curse you forever for piling on yet another left bookstore that bleeds money from me ala Verso
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just finished reading the general in his labyrinth about the death of simon bolivar, it requires a passing knowledge of bolivar's career but it was pretty good. starting the three body problem, decent although i have an irrational hate of videogames as plot device
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StashAugustine posted:just finished reading the general in his labyrinth about the death of simon bolivar, it requires a passing knowledge of bolivar's career but it was pretty good. starting the three body problem, decent although i have an irrational hate of videogames as plot device what's this, an excuse to post teh greatest anime of all time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocAlYh_-AGM also don't worry aobut the vidyagames thing, it is tertiary at best
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You are gonna trick me into watching an anime. And yeah its generally pretty good, paradoxically it kinda makes me wanna check out player of games next
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StashAugustine posted:You are gonna trick me into watching an anime. And yeah its generally pretty good, paradoxically it kinda makes me wanna check out player of games next Check out the Dark Forest instead and if you really love that, Death's End but you can end at dark forest and be fine, it's a fine book series' vidya games are basically a plot device for maybe 1/3 of one book and after that it gets totally fuckin bananas
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I'm almost ready to swear that Player of Games is a song by The Alan Parsons Project…
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can anyone recommend me a good book on Irish separatism or the history of Irish nationalism and its evolution
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Not only can I recommend one - I can loan you one, friend. Armed Struggle by Richard English
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GalacticAcid posted:Not only can I recommend one - I can loan you one, friend. could this at last be the origin of the storied midtown beer summit (pm me and we'll do this)
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StashAugustine posted:I finished three body problem, the writing and pacing were weird (Idk if its translation). Was gonna read the sequels on the plane for fall break but I forgot the second one lol. Did read seeing like a state which was prerty interesting I thought about reading this one but I'll probably never get to it. RN I'm reading the absolutely wild book that is LIVEBLOG by Megan Boyle. There isn't an ebook version even though it was literally a Tumblr blog she deleted a year after starting it
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Three Body Problem will probably feel like an odd read because the rarest of all spawns in sci-fi is the hard science book that is heavily focused on character development I liked it a lot, ended up reading all three you can read the 2nd one and stop with that and that's probably ideal. third book isn't bad but it's an elaboration that is interesting but not strictly as good or really necessary, and it's when the science part gets especially more magical
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digging anathem. after that, the dark forest. also plowing through dogen’s extensive record and the study quran.
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Can anyone recommend a good book on the history of Liberia? I figured I'd ask here before digging on my own.
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all ebooks are 90% off at Haymarket this month!! Lots of good oneS!!!!!! https://www.haymarketbooks.org/
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Epic High Five posted:all ebooks are 90% off at Haymarket this month!! Lots of good oneS!!!!!! also 50% off hard copies of selected titles on fascism and how to confront it
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Epic High Five posted:all ebooks are 90% off at Haymarket this month!! Lots of good oneS!!!!!! Def scoping this out! If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them.
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im on the net me boys posted:Def scoping this out! If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them. Things That Make White People Uncomfortable is good if you follow football at all, and also if you don't
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Epic High Five posted:Things That Make White People Uncomfortable is good if you follow football at all, and also if you don't I might, but I really, really dislike sports. I got Shadow Government by Tom Engelhardt and Poor Workers' Unions by Vanessa Tait for now. There were some titles that I was interested in but there just aren't ebook versions. 
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im on the net me boys posted:I might, but I really, really dislike sports. probably can't go wrong with most anything on there it's a good story even despite the football because it's about how he went from a normie to being radicalized by the horseshit that is the NCAA and the beginnings of Kaep's protest
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"On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War" by Kim Moody is an interesting examination of the current state of the labour movement from a socialist perspective that Haymarket published recently.
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