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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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I'm reading The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu. I've never really read anything this sci-fi ish before, but 25% of the way through the first book, it's ok. Does it improve in the rest of the book/series, or is this kinda how it's gonna go?
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thanks to you both
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Epic High Five posted:the pacing in that series is off the wall, sometimes it feels like it lingers on stuff that you don't normally see in sci-fi like chapters dedicated to finding the main character a girlfriend, then you'll be 50 pages past a slow part and you're so far along in the plot that you have to double check how far you've gotten no lie on that poo poo. i rolled the dice having read a thing for work about china's response to SETI and they interviewed the author. being a giant nerd who is into more non-fiction than any sci-fi, I thought I'd give the book a try based on it having a start in the cultural revolution.
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succ posted:I'm not sure if the translation is bad but the characters in the Three Body Problem series are loving AWFUL. Such bad writing. EVERYONE IS 'FAMOUS'! poo poo broke my brain in the 25% of the first book in the series I read
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Mar 14, 2019 23:39
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IDONTPOST posted:there's a lot of novel recommends itt, does anyone have some cspam non fiction i got a buncha poo poo saved from the old lf book thread but i need more recommends "white trash" by nancy isenberg is an interesting bit of American history and a helpful reminder that there is no war but class war and a bit of a study into poor white folks and how the monied class hosed up some real solidarity back in the day
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Pathos posted:it’s non-fiction and massively long (1100 pages) but I’m on page 1040 and I can really really recommend The Executioner’s Song. it’s not really political, per se, but it’s politically adjacent and suuuuuper loving good. I highly recommend it to all cspammers who need a massive book to read. really loving great. easily the best nonfiction read in the last few years. I commute around 3 hours a day. Massive nonfiction audiobooks are extremely my poo poo. I just used an audible credit on it. Thanks!
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is there a good book on 20th century Chinese history? im more or less interested in WWII-1980s, but something more comprehensive would also be cool. I know that is one broad category that could be a 10k page volume, but i know very little about the occupation period, and a more nuanced look at the history of the communist revolution, great leap, cultural revolution, opening up the country etc
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May 17, 2019 20:10
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im on the net me boys posted:I'm glad I still have access to my student email from years ago! I pulled my syllabus for my East Asian foreign policy class and came up with the following: thank you! a great place to start and some good insights. very appreciated
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May 17, 2019 21:41
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cyranos descent into madness was pretty funny imo
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jerry seinfel posted:im reading John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights i looked it up after your post. i picked up a copy through audible because i spend hours a day on the road. looking forward to learning more about brown. thanks!
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Jul 19, 2019 20:15
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sounds like a book about levittown(s) to me. this one sounds kinda neat: https://www.amazon.com/Levittown-Families-Tycoon-Americas-Legendary/dp/B00CC6QTM8
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just finished " john brown, abolitionist" and it is good old man brown is my homie
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Oct 13, 2019 06:01
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where's the best place to start reading socialist theory? ive read a bunch of history, but I'd like to play the left version of the Cosmo quiz to figure out exactly what type of socialist I am PLUS how to drive my partner wild in bed
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thanks folks. "manifesto" seemed the natural place to start, but glad to have it confirmed. I'll branch out from there. Thanks!
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if anyone is interested in the political equivalent of a beach read, i enjoyed "a libertarian walks into a bear" which chronicals a town very near where my wife grew up that was taken over by libertarians of the "free town project." it is an interesting look at what happens when a bunch of cranks decide paying for stuff like roads and fire protection is for suckers
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The Half Has Never Been Told is required reading IMO. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America is a decent companion piece and highlights how racism really hosed up many opportunities for class solidarity in the US.
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PostNouveau posted:Just finished Death's End, the third in the trilogy that starts with The Three-Body Problem. It was my favorite of the three, just fantastic. Cheng Xi is probably the only good character in the trilogy aside from Ye Wenjie. There's a lot less dialogue, which gets around a problem where either because of translation or the author's style, no one in the trilogy sounds like a real person. Death's End really spreads out across the ages like the other two books promised but didn't really deliver. I started the three body problem a couple years back on audiobook during my hellish commute but never finished it. I should really restart it now that my helliah commute is gone. Thanks for the reminder
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