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nut posted:I have abandoned all the fiction I was reading in favour of balancing multiple nonfiction and I like it but at what cost i read mostly nonfiction as it turns out, and i really don't miss reading fiction much at all. except sometimes i have to read business and leadership books for work, which are lame. although there are one or two that are really good and i would actually recommend:
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I started reading more nonfiction over the last few weeks, so here's what I've got on tap: - Empires of the Sky by Alexander Rose - The House of Beaufort by Nathen Amin - The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Fiction-wise I've got: - Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali - The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu |
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Sep 18, 2020 04:46
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Rags to Liches posted:I started reading more nonfiction over the last few weeks, so here's what I've got on tap: whoahh, I was eying up the anarchy yesterday, lemme know how it is! I was mostly curious as to whether or not it traces the forces of the East India company to modern society, particularly in the USA, home of the multinational
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Sep 18, 2020 12:39
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I guess I never mentioned what I had actually been reading. I recently finished the Trudeau Formula by Martin Lukacs, which is a very critical look at Justin Trudeau's government in Canada. Building on that, I started the Sport and Prey of Capitalists by Linda McQuaig, which looks at how private entities have been increasingly taking over the public resources in Canada that were central to our development as an independent country. Always on the go, I've got the Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot, which is about Allen Dulles' role as head of the CIA, but also before that (as a corporate lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell and the pre-CIA OSS during WW2) and most disturbingly after (JFK assassination). And every now and then I chip away at that Think Tank Aesthetics book but holy hell I always feel too dumb to be reading it.
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Sep 18, 2020 12:44
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but maybe...gravity's rainbow?
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Sep 19, 2020 21:03
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nut posted:but maybe...gravity's rainbow? 
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Sep 19, 2020 21:08
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gravitys rainbow is thenext book im gonna read as soon as i finish the 9 books ive got on my shelf or coming in the mail
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Sep 19, 2020 22:48
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I do have...Foucaults pendulum right here...
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Sep 19, 2020 23:21
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hes another one ive been curious about
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Sep 20, 2020 02:00
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nut posted:I do have...Foucaults pendulum right here... i think this is my favorite fiction book ever. and it's sadly more relevant now than ever. 
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Sep 20, 2020 17:36
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gravitys rainbow was fun but a bit of a slog 4 me. bleeding edge kind of tried really hard. i liked the internet ghost tho
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Sep 20, 2020 22:29
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nut posted:I do have...Foucaults pendulum right here... i read one of his essays while my room was being bug-bombed. it was about the og point of asylums which was like to make people religious or surround them with freaks until they realized they were also freaks ---------------- |
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Sep 20, 2020 22:31
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take the moon posted:gravitys rainbow was fun but a bit of a slog 4 me. bleeding edge kind of tried really hard. i liked the internet ghost tho agree and agree. i think mason & dixon was a better pynchon novel tbqh, although if you believe the conspiracy theory they may have been written by different people. |
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Sep 20, 2020 22:38
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i've just been reading a ton of ww2-adjacent nonfic so i think gravity's rainbow speaks 2 me deep, but i also hated lot 49 so
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Sep 20, 2020 22:48
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bump im reading borges
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Sep 28, 2020 20:16
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I finished Empire of Gold recently, which finishes up the Daevabad trilogy by SA Chakraborty. Very good page turner and full of exciting adventure and intrigue as expected. I really liked the setting as a near-east fantasy world adjacent to our own, that was cool. I liked how they incorporated Sobek from ancient Egyptian mythology, having passing familiarity of it from, of all places, assassins creed origins. The characters do have an amount of redemption in the final book, which was a good way to resolve things, even though they're all still a bit detestable, they're made a lot more likeable in comparison to the truly horrific big badness. The modernizing entrenched monarchies angle was a bit transparent, but didn't detract from the story. Anyway, they were all thoroughly enjoyable books with great character arcs and story arcs, and I recommend them to someone who's looking for some long read exotic fantasy. |
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Oct 1, 2020 16:04
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beer pal posted:bump im reading borges i'm re-reading eco now and i didn't get the jorge of burgos connection when i read it as a teen-ager
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Oct 1, 2020 16:07
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i dropped everything i was reading p much & am going thru house of leaves which i am finding a pleasant experience. prolly cuz it was discussed itt also obsessively rereading a pocket book of kerouac haikus ---------------- |
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Oct 1, 2020 16:23
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http://spera-comic.com/index.html The third book will arrive next week! My stack of "bedside" books grows ever larger. |
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Oct 4, 2020 05:14
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Finally finished Dune for the first time and it wasn't as good as the fans have lead me to believe, so i won't be continuing the series read Perdido Street Station and then found it it's a series and said no to that working my way through the works of Haruki Murakami (as opposted to Ryu Murakami, who is a different kind of vibe). "Killing Commendatore" is the one i'm on now and it's a slim 700+ pages of an artist either slowly going mad or really having multiple encounters of supernatural stuff and just kinda going "well, i'm still sad about my wife leaving me" about it and hanging out with his rich friend. picked up a book I had long forgot until a random spark of something reminded me. I had this book when i was a pre-teen and it was WAY more gorey violence, hardcore drug use and sex stuff than I was ready for at the time. I read it three times one summer. But the thing is I could not remember the name some 20+ years later. With the help of some other book buff friends via a group chat they pointed me to it and it's The Lost Traveller by Steve Wilson. It's a post-apocalyptic biker novel from the 70s and the main character's name is Long Range. There's some weird Navajo stuff in it too, from what little i remember. and someone recommended this series The Watchers that starts with The Bar at the End of the World. Which is a post-apocalyptic Mad Max type scenario, you know, real good stuff. that's kind of a weird coincidence those two. wonder what's on my mind?
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Oct 4, 2020 13:16
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Byob recommendations from books I've read this year: Waterland by Graham Swift (the fens are basically a character in the book, a great memoir/coming of age/history of the fens) Good Behaviour by Molly Keane A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (also published as 'The Legacy') not usually a romance novel guy, but I really enjoyed this. Makes australia seem like a mars colony. The Card by Arnold Bennet
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Oct 4, 2020 14:01
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Oct 4, 2020 17:33
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i have a hard time reading fiction so i'm reading a book about the history of aerial bombings. next i might try to read the full chronicles of narnia series. never did it. heard it has some interesting ~themes~ that could be really fun to try to find or whatever. i like hemingway and that's about it so i don't know.
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Oct 4, 2020 18:05
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I hate to break it to you but Narnia is fiction 
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Oct 5, 2020 11:36
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I just finished re-reading (the Finnish translation of) Il nome della rosa and it's a good book and the translation is probably fine but, as I found out after looking at the Italian Wikipedia page for the book, they changed Adso's name to Adson  As far as I can figure, there's absolutely no reason for it and now it's bugging the heck out of me.Anyway I guess I'll start on La Sombra del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón now. I bought it at the Red Cross shop for 3€ because it says on the back it's got a cemetery of Forgotten books in the story, which sounds cool. Some of my favourite books so far have been books about books.
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Oct 5, 2020 16:29
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:working my way through the works of Haruki Murakami I hope you're ready for lots of Jazz, whiskey, and 40 year old marathon running authors with writer's block who chase women who are symbolic abstractions of memories of the only time they ever found love. I do like some Murakami but reading his stuff back-to-back you get the sense he only really knows how to tell one story.
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Oct 5, 2020 18:06
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borges book good (labyrinths) i thought from the first story it might be a bit difficult but i got used to it. my dude loves to think about time then i read 2001 a space odyssey which i liked pretty well. in sci fi theres 3 main things i like; sociopolitical allegory (like le guin does), big space wonderment, and space loneliness, the book does b & c pretty well. its been quite a while since ive seen the movie so maybe i was less 'media litterate' when i saw it but i remember it being much less clear than the book is wrt wtf is going on now im reading the horror novel the twenty days of turin & liking it so far 50 pages in https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Oct 6, 2020 19:04
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ive finished HoLs main bit & am in the middle of j truants moms letters. i honestly found truant more interesting than the main story tbh. diff strokes. idk if ill get around to any of the books ive abandoned itt. they are not... in the same place i am apparently im finishing a long-ago started read of gene wolfes shadow & claw next ---------------- |
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Oct 6, 2020 19:25
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lol the discourse continues 
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Oct 6, 2020 20:36
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beer pal posted:lol the discourse continues someone i know just finished it & life p much tried to kill him w/ terrible disease but hes as much the opposite of this stereotype as u an get. truly life is an infinite jest, signifying nothing ---------------- |
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Oct 6, 2020 20:51
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i still keep conflating gravity's rainbow and infinite jest 
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Oct 6, 2020 20:58
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my guilty pleasure is social media book discourse... i love to read posts arguing about wether or not its lame to organize your books by colour... or whether adults should read ya or not... or what books are for bros... or whether youre allowed to write in your books or dog ear the pages or break the spines... whether or not its bougie to buy new books instead of used ones or going to the library... whether or not books in the classics canon are good...
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Oct 6, 2020 21:39
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beer pal posted:my guilty pleasure is social media book discourse... i love to read posts arguing about wether or not its lame to organize your books by colour... or whether adults should read ya or not... or what books are for bros... or whether youre allowed to write in your books or dog ear the pages or break the spines... whether or not its bougie to buy new books instead of used ones or going to the library... whether or not books in the classics canon are good... a former school-mate once asked me at a pub if all the books i have are somehow useful to me so i told him to poo poo the gently caress off. now that's discourse!
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beer pal posted:my guilty pleasure is social media book discourse... i love to read posts arguing about wether or not its lame to organize your books by colour... or whether adults should read ya or not... or what books are for bros... or whether youre allowed to write in your books or dog ear the pages or break the spines... whether or not its bougie to buy new books instead of used ones or going to the library... whether or not books in the classics canon are good... are they 
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Oct 6, 2020 22:02
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I'm reading a collection of MR James ghost stories because it's spooky season they're very good and spooky |
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Oct 10, 2020 01:36
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Rags to Liches posted:I'm reading a collection of MR James ghost stories because it's spooky season Love MR James! |
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Oct 10, 2020 01:53
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xcheopis posted:Love MR James! is there a MRS James?
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Oct 11, 2020 08:50
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The DPRK posted:i'm going to read infinite jest i am nearly finished reading infinite jest - looks like it's going to have taken me 2 months, which i don't think is too bad for someone who doesn't ordinarily read books |
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Oct 12, 2020 16:31
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I'd like to read something like this again, but probably not as long. I really liked how insightful and diligent he was about describing certain feelings, and how he perceived things really clearly that were only on the edge of my awareness and brought them into full focus. Tbh I didn't care too much for the overly long sentences and paragraphs and at this point I am eager to get to the end of the story. Book recs welcome  Also really loved the funny, dysfunctional world he built but pays little mind to, like the mention of waste catapult and the fans is about as far as it goes without really the whole book being about the reconfiguration or whatever you call it. All the stuff what was on TV and who was a celebrity and what not, loved it |
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The DPRK posted:I'd like to read something like this again, but probably not as long. I really liked how insightful and diligent he was about describing certain feelings, and how he perceived things really clearly that were only on the edge of my awareness and brought them into full focus. Tbh I didn't care too much for the overly long sentences and paragraphs and at this point I am eager to get to the end of the story. Book recs welcome yeah, and there's a lot of kind of worldbuilding that gets hinted at in the beginning of the book that you don't really get the context for until later. after you finish the book, reread the endnote about J.O.I's filmography. it's great
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