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just finished Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson and it was very enjoyable and rigorous overall, but what the gently caress was up with that ending and how long it lingered on it
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I finished reading Bad Blood which is about the whole Thoranos thing and honestly it's the CSPAMmiest book I've read this year
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im on the net me boys posted:I finished reading Bad Blood which is about the whole Thoranos thing and honestly it's the CSPAMmiest book I've read this year Ive been wanting to read this but my library doesnt have a copy and even the used copies are still like 17$
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TheDon01 posted:Ive been wanting to read this but my library doesnt have a copy and even the used copies are still like 17$ Does your library not have it on Overdrive either? Mine did.
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Nov 24, 2018 09:25
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im on the net me boys posted:Does your library not have it on Overdrive either? Mine did. Is that some sort of e-reader thing? I cant read anything longer than a twitter post on a screen. Ill pour over hundreds of pages of dead tree books tho
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TheDon01 posted:Is that some sort of e-reader thing? I cant read anything longer than a twitter post on a screen. Yeah it's a service that libraries use for ebooks  . See if your library does interlibrary loan!
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Nov 24, 2018 10:25
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The Lathe of Heaven is 3 bucks today on Audible, for thems what like audiobooks
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I've finally started my promise to myself to alternate between books in English and Spanish and I'm having fun with some fiction from Spain right now. Can anyone recommend some interesting Spanish-language nonfiction? Preferably available as an ebook.
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I'm catching up on leftist theory after a decade of miserable liberalism, and also I have a horrible addiction to publisher ebook sales and used book stores. Which of these works that I already own should I read next once I'm done with Capital Vol I? The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover A People's History of the World by Chris Harman Rebel Cities by David Harvey The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein What is to be Done? by V.I. Lenin Liberalism: a Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxembourg Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
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Goon Danton posted:I'm catching up on leftist theory after a decade of miserable liberalism, and also I have a horrible addiction to publisher ebook sales and used book stores. Which of these works that I already own should I read next once I'm done with Capital Vol I? the bolded items would be my suggestions for what to read first. just bear in mind, obviously, that with these works there’s going to be advocacy, you may not be getting all of the facts, reasonable minds may be able to differ on the conclusions etc. Red Dad Redemption has issued a correction as of 06:47 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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Nov 26, 2018 06:39
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Epic High Five posted:The Lathe of Heaven is 3 bucks today on Audible, for thems what like audiobooks it's taking me forever to get through that book because i have really vivid dreams all the time and the story freaks me out more than it should
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Nov 26, 2018 06:41
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Poniard posted:it's taking me forever to get through that book because i have really vivid dreams all the time and the story freaks me out more than it should lol yeah I probably should've warned about that, it's a real mindfuck if you are a vivid dreamer and ESPECIALLY if you are prone to deja vu reminds me of the time I was halfway through Ubik, like literally reading the part where they're realizing what's going on, and my buddy called me, screaming about WHAT DAY IS IT? WHAT DAY IS TODAY? and I had like a mini mental breakdown he was calling because it was space bat day
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Nude Hoxha Cameo posted:the bolded items would be my suggestions for what to read first. just bear in mind, obviously, that with these works there’s going to be advocacy, you may not be getting all of the facts, reasonable minds may be able to differ on the conclusions etc. Thanks. I'm going into it fully aware that each book is an argument from a specific point of view, and I'm just trying to get a broad knowledge base of the various tendencies to be aware of each ones arguments and criticisms of the others.
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Nov 26, 2018 18:49
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Halfway through suttree and it's been a whole lot of "old man wanders around noticing things" with the barest sprinkling of hijinks What am I missing? Like everybody recommended this to me but so far it's been a slog with some parts that are really well written
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Nov 28, 2018 02:20
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Could anyone recommend a book on attitudes towards homosexuality throughout history? I’m interested in why it was so vociferously condemned in the Bible and post-Rome, but would also like a look at cultural perspectives worldwide.
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Dec 3, 2018 01:17
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I’m trying to have some sort of control over buying Verso books this month (they’re all half off)—any must-reads from there I should definitely take advantage of?
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Dec 5, 2018 14:05
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Anyone read Neuromancer? Does it hold up?
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StashAugustine posted:Anyone read Neuromancer? Does it hold up? I tried like a year or two ago to try it and I couldn't get into it despite being really into cyberpunk but a lot of people still swear by it so I say just give it a shot
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Dec 16, 2018 08:12
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We should really have a smiley that's like just post but it's just read
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im on the net me boys posted:We should really have a smiley that's like just post but it's just read
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StashAugustine posted:Anyone read Neuromancer? Does it hold up? i reread it recently and liked it
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sapphomoric posted:I’m trying to have some sort of control over buying Verso books this month (they’re all half off)—any must-reads from there I should definitely take advantage of? I have absolutely no control and brought several books already. Just buy books on topics you're interested in I guess. I just finished Extreme Cities and it's left me hopeless about what's being done about climate change in major cities.
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Dec 16, 2018 16:48
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If you're after cyberpunk but don't want Gibson I'd suggest Paulo Bacagalupi's The Water Knife, in which the western states of the USA are in a shadow war over access to the Colorado River, the last water in the West
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Dec 16, 2018 17:10
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I started reading le guin a few weeks ago and I'm halfway through the dispossessed which is an extremely good book about a moon anarchist who goes down planetside and calls everyone a propertarian. good as hell
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the bitcoin of weed posted:I started reading le guin a few weeks ago and I'm halfway through the dispossessed which is an extremely good book about a moon anarchist who goes down planetside and calls everyone a propertarian. good as hell it's an insanely good book and author
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Speaking of the Verso sale, I saw this book (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2435-the-autonomous-city) in an anarchist book store and really wanted to get it but didn't have much money at the time, and I was looking through the covers on the site just now and thought it had a kind of similar design. Lo and behold, the book! E: After posting this saw Zizek and said "oh god they have Zizek" and my partner said "I thought you liked Zizek" and I said "No I like joking about Zizek"
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Verso for some reason can't verify my debit card so I guess I'm buying these books later. Oh well?
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finished neuromancer. a lot of the setting details are obviously old hat by now and its got a bit of the ol cyberpunk exploitation poo poo (although i read richard morgan who's way worse so can't throw stones) but its still pretty good overall. trying to decide what to get out of the library next, might actually give dune a shot E also I now get @turing_police's username StashAugustine has issued a correction as of 21:05 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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Epic High Five posted:it's an insanely good book and author there's a bit where the main character goes to a high society party, gets shitfaced, astonishes the people with his doctrine, cums on a woman then throws up and passes out. it loving rules
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the bitcoin of weed posted:there's a bit where the main character goes to a high society party, gets shitfaced, astonishes the people with his doctrine, cums on a woman then throws up and passes out. it loving rules they were astonished as hell
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ya the dispossessed rules. tangentially the bit at the end always make me lol a little at the line in the guilliotine "we got hella people, they got helicopters."
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Dec 18, 2018 02:20
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StashAugustine posted:the dang bible Unironically reading the Bible
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Yo I'm about to do my yearly 12 hour drive home for Christmas, need a good audio book. I like sci-fi, I listened to halderman's Forever War last time and it was really good
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Scionix posted:Yo I'm about to do my yearly 12 hour drive home for Christmas, need a good audio book. Solaris but it's not long enough, Dune maybe, or you could start in with The Expanse or The Three Body Problem
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Dec 18, 2018 21:54
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get some PKD, I've heard good things about Ubik and Palmer Eldridge and will probably pick up one of those when i finish the book I'm on
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ooh yeah ive been meaning to read man in the high castle. should i get that, dune, or another gibson?
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how about man in the guy castle and it's just for guys (idk all I've seen is part of the amazon series, the book is probably much better)
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Dec 18, 2018 22:21
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I didn't like The Man in the High Castle but loved Ubik
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