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Devil in the white city owned, good one from eonwe. My rec is Big Dead Place, a candid series of funny stories and journals on working in Antarctica from a janitor. Also available on audible for those of us that listen to our books. It's one part drunken sex in a shack, one part fruitless raging against government backed corporate structures, one part threatening your lovely boss, one part figuring out how to store frozen piss, and three parts laughing at the futility of it all. The book is insanely C-SPAM. Coolguye has issued a correction as of 07:15 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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i still find jane eyre a self-centered jerk as an adult e: also that all of the bronte sisters are extremely grating to read Coolguye has issued a correction as of 16:50 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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my sister took a speed-reading class a couple of years back and according to her it actually helped. apparently the majority of the material they were slated to absorb were nonfiction and technical manuals so i'm not sure how well it would translate to reading novels or biographies, but you could doubtlessly look up a bunch of the techniques online if you wanted to work with it.
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Epic High Five posted:I've gathered from my research into "how did Teddy Roosevelt read so goddamned much despite everything else he did" that one of the big secrets to quickly reading fiction and biographies and the like is to skip the fluff. For books where you enjoy the fluff, there may be no alternatives obviously there are some books that don't translate over to the medium very well, but most do. Coolguye has issued a correction as of 17:36 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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all readers are welcome friend 
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drat, doesn't look like two of the three main front runners are available in audiobook form. anatomy of fascism is, but the others are not. big shame on the last soviet generation, too, that one looks like an interesting sociological study that a body could take some relatable lessons from. also, i am gonna keep recommending big dead place until we read it. seriously, that book is so c-spam it must be read here.
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Thatim posted:Started reading, lets see if i can keep up. I like the subject, but since it is not really my field of expertise, i am not sure i can discuss much about it. a lot of the most valuable contributions to a book club are simply different perspectives and interpretations of the same passages. it encourages other readers to understand other points of view. even if you discard those points of view as superfluous or uninteresting 15 minutes later, it still is a big deal for the overall value extracted from the book to have at least considered them. i've got it on my kindle, hoping i can find a quiet afternoon to read soon but i'm not holding my breath with how my last few weeks have gone. even if i can't read it, i'll be following ya'll's discussions closely 
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Epic High Five posted:Well nobody showed, including the person who recommended the book, so I'm going to conclude that interest in CSPAM book club isn't actually there. Hopefully you guys enjoyed the book who ended up reading it. baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllls well maybe we can try again in a month or two when ostensibly people have reset. i wasn't able to join this particular book but i've bookmarked this thread for a reason.
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