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The 2nd and 3rd forever war books I thought were pretty good and worth reading.
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The Destroyermen series is on audible and it's a pretty good pulpy adventure novel about some ww2 destroyers being transported to a world were the dinosaurs never died. It's really good.
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crossposting from book barn thread: neuromancer was okay, liked it overall, still on a cyberpunk kick so i checked out the sequel count zero and it loving rocks. really great thriller and it goes into the eldritch horror aspects of cyberpunk internet. (also i couldn't help laughing a little whenever i heard anyone mention a fax or cassette tape)
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ty 2 the people that recommended The Expanse series, I listened to Leviathan Wakes for my 12 hour drive and it was excellent, at least to the point I got to. Which is about halfway? Who killed the water hauler? How did the techno-aids get on the pirate ship? Who were the pirates? How did the scopuli get on the asteroid? Who attacked the big martian battleship? Will Miller ever gently caress again? Why is Holden so loving dumb at all times? Tune in to find out!!! Scionix has issued a correction as of 21:30 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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i finally finished the lathe of heaven, it was pretty good
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finished man in the high castle. pretty good, too bad dick never wrote a sequel. is the tv show worth checking out?
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Scionix posted:ty 2 the people that recommended The Expanse series, I listened to Leviathan Wakes for my 12 hour drive and it was excellent, at least to the point I got to. Which is about halfway? Keep going, it owns Poniard posted:i finally finished the lathe of heaven, it was pretty good Le Guin is an absolute master, if you're interested in more I recommend The Dispossessed
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StashAugustine posted:finished man in the high castle. pretty good, too bad dick never wrote a sequel. is the tv show worth checking out? Just the first 2 seasons, but it veers into a different direction than from the story.
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The Man in the High Castle was, to be honest, a kind of boring and unremarkable book by PKD, can't say anything for the TV series If you're talking books tho I can strongly recommend Ubik instead or in addition to it
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the althist stuff and the stuff examining the effects of conquest and colonialism from defeated america were cool, and then it has a kinda neat thing hinting at alternate reality, and then it ends and he never worked up the effort to write a sequel Idia posted:Just the first 2 seasons, but it veers into a different direction than from the story. so it gets bad later? pity
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Dec 22, 2018 22:12
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Epic High Five posted:Keep going, it owns I just finished it I have a feeling I am not going to be friends with Fred
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Scionix posted:I just finished it he's a many sides figure not all can be as pure as Amos and Avasarala
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Epic High Five posted:The Man in the High Castle was, to be honest, a kind of boring and unremarkable book by PKD, can't say anything for the TV series Can't agree more strongly
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Dec 23, 2018 12:02
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PM Press has all ebooks half off with code GIFT until the end of the year
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For Christmas my dad gave me Dreamers, a book about the short-lived Bavarian Republic led by socialist writers in Munich in 1918-19. Can’t wait to sit down and read it!
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Dec 25, 2018 02:20
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big verso sale on until new year's https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4130-80-off-all-ebooks-and-50-off-all-print-books
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exmarx posted:big verso sale on until new year's They've sweetened the half off deal on ebooks to 80% off, which made my $15 cart that I left only $6. Good things come to those who wait?
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im on the net me boys posted:They've sweetened the half off deal on ebooks to 80% off, which made my $15 cart that I left only $6. Good things come to those who wait? Oh, and pro tip for my fellow procrastinators out there: The Verso website rejects cards that expire this month! I had to activate my new card to get my order to go through.
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Dec 26, 2018 21:08
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Typical socialist incompetence! Clearly they need to hire an mba consultant.
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Dec 26, 2018 22:22
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Halfway through The Half Has Never Been Told and drat it's good, very in depth while being accessible and of course infuriating. Basically 400+ pages dedicated entirely to tearing down Lost Cause bullshit and the notion that slavery was incidental or irrelevant to the US becoming the nation it is
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Dec 26, 2018 22:25
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If anyone has read Radical Technologies and enjoyed it New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future is right up your alley. Radical Technologies went more in depth about tech than New Dark Age, but I did like emphasis on the vast data accumulation with the latter. I'm open to any suggestions on similar topics like these two books have covered. I'll probably get one more book from Verso, Liberalism: A Counter-History. I think I have enough books for the rest of the year to get through.
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Here's my actually about what I'm reading update: I finished Little Fires Everywhere and it was an unexpectedly really good book. Now I'm reading one of my new Verso books, Fictitious Capital, and it's also a very pleasant book. I'm really putting those two required econ courses to work!
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Just ordered some insanely good books from Verso. Among them New Dark Age, Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital. Cheers for the heads up on the sale.
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Dec 29, 2018 04:03
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Liking this fantasy series so far. It talks a lot about colonialism, religion, cultural erasure, and power dynamics in a sort of industrial revolution age with old dead gods. There is a bit of a cringe-worthy Queequeg character, but the action scenes are enjoyable.
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too bad all those "thrown into a fantasy world" books don't end with communism
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only 1/4 of the way through The New Jim Crow and hooooooo boy am I hopping loving mad within minutes every time I pick it up
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im reading a shitload of urban planning texts to prep for a cert. right now i'm just reviewing a canonical current trends book but i'm planning to move on to Jane Jacobs after i also got Utopia or Bust Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Post War Philosophy Economics for the Many A World to Win: the life and works of karl marx From the verso book sale
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Epic High Five posted:only 1/4 of the way through The New Jim Crow and hooooooo boy am I hopping loving mad within minutes every time I pick it up placing a hold on this one at the local
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Epic High Five posted:only 1/4 of the way through The New Jim Crow and hooooooo boy am I hopping loving mad within minutes every time I pick it up literally, same
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i probably won't be reading that then, because i've conditioned myself to not get too mired in things that make me angry
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New Jim Crow is extremely important and probably the best book about race and policy to come out in probably a decade. And it’s extremely well written, especially for something by an attorney.
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get that OUT of my face posted:i probably won't be reading that then, because i've conditioned myself to not get too mired in things that make me angry I'd argue that both of those books, but especially The New Jim Crow, are required reading for every single citizen of these united states you should probably read it even if it's gonna make you mad, sometimes being mad is the right thing to be John Brown did nothing wrong
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Epic High Five posted:I'd argue that both of those books, but especially The New Jim Crow, are required reading for every single citizen of these united states What’s the other book?
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:What’s the other book? The Half Has Never Been Told....basically an actual primary source history of slavery as it relates to how it was the primary driver of both Capitalism and expansionism in the US
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I've been reading "The Storm Before The Storm" by Mike Duncan and while I'm enjoying the content the actual writing itself is bugging me because it's essentially a transcript of how Duncan talks during his podcasts and it doesn't look like he had an editor go through it because I keep catching missing words or stuff that a good editor would never have let pass muster like overuse of "literally"
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Jan 6, 2019 02:20
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Epic High Five posted:The Half Has Never Been Told....basically an actual primary source history of slavery as it relates to how it was the primary driver of both Capitalism and expansionism in the US I went to Wade Hampton High School and always knew he was a piece of poo poo but had never heard of Charles Ball or his memoirs before I read this book
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Epic High Five posted:The Half Has Never Been Told....basically an actual primary source history of slavery as it relates to how it was the primary driver of both Capitalism and expansionism in the US If there is a us bible, that should be the text
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