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I thought Kingfish was pretty fair and did a decent job describing his political philosophy and accomplishments though not written from a left wing perspective.
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In Training posted:Bump!!!! Anybody got a good rec for a biography of Huey P. Long. And curious if there's any easy resource of opinions from the US left in the 30s about long and his assassination. He has an autobiography out. Iirc some of the CPUSA guys also wrote about him.
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Started reading Bill Haywood's autobiography. It's long as hell but really good.
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In Training posted:Bump!!!! Anybody got a good rec for a biography of Huey P. Long. And curious if there's any easy resource of opinions from the US left in the 30s about long and his assassination. The T. Harry Williams biography is excellent.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Also has anyone read anything by the Strugatsky brothers? I finished Doomed City recently and liked it overall. It's very C-SPAM, and the afterword gave some interesting context. Andrei Voronin is a great character. Some of the longer bits of abstract political theory, often while characters under the influence, are... well, not very illuminating. It's also full of rampant misogyny and has at most one female character with even a modicum of agency, oh but she's just a slut as are the others who barely even get to say anything. It's pretty disappointing and not really excusable - yeah, the original draft was finished in 1972 but they could have given it a second thought before publishing it in 1989.
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has anyone read Armageddon Averted by Stephen Kotkin i recently finished Collapse by Vladislov Zubok and it was good
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Still on my to read list but his Stalin biography is excellent
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it's pretty short so i'm reading it. it seems fine. it's ~200 pages for 30 years of history vs. Zubok's ~700 (excluding footnotes) for 5 years so not expecting too much.
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Yeah Armageddon Averted is good. I read it well before my opinion on Gorbachev had turned really sour so my takeaway was more about how resilient the USSR was than his engineering of its dissolution, but I'm sure it'd come through stronger now on a reread.
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COPE 27 posted:Still on my to read list but his Stalin biography is excellent I recently finished a biography of Stalin. It wasn't good.  e: "Uncle Joe - A contemporary's stories about Josef Stalin"
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It looks cool though
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Just finished a short story by Philip K dick called "A Surface Raid." It follows the story of an adolescent boy participating in his first excursion to the surface while we slowly realize his people are Morlocks. Only in this the pallid slouched morlocks are the technocrats and elites who started WW3 and the sun-burnt Eloi are hardscabbling communal tribesfolk that are slowly pushing back the nuclear slag surrounding their settlements. I found it amusing.
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extra dumb for IJ because you need the endnotes
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COPE 27 posted:I thought Kingfish was pretty fair and did a decent job describing his political philosophy and accomplishments though not written from a left wing perspective. AnimeIsTrash posted:He has an autobiography out. Iirc some of the CPUSA guys also wrote about him. MeatwadIsGod posted:The T. Harry Williams biography is excellent. Ty all, I ultimately picked up the T Harry Williams one. I got an ereader this year and just plugged it into the libgen mainframe...the world is at my fingertips now, this is awesome. No more big rear end books on the bus.
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genericnick posted:death
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i heard in korea the books are sold like that, in easy to hold parts.
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Suplex Liberace posted:i heard in korea the books are sold like that, in easy to hold parts. 
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i am repeating only what a sales rep from penguin random house told me.
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lol but also in east Asia in general, not necessarily wrong, when mass-market paperbacks get over 250-300 pages they tend to just get split up into different volumes for binding/portability/marketing reasons. Japanese Das Kapital in paperback tends to be either 9 or 13, for example, or on the complete other end SF long-runners like Wheel of Time or ASoIaF get three, five, or even eight paperbacks per book that drop every month or two. Hell, even the TPB/hardcover (not sure which is is tbh, just definitely not the pocket paperback one) of that last one gets released as two-volume sets per book.
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Suplex Liberace posted:i heard in korea the books are sold like that, in easy to hold parts. They stole that technology from Finland. That's what the war was over. 
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German publishers sometimes do that with dumb long fantasy books like Game of Thrones but it's just to make twice the money.
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IMHO, no book should be over 350 pages. Well maybe a dictionary or some catalogue.
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this is insanely based
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anything that de-decorizes books as prestige objects is ftw im afraid
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You heard me. Beat up those books. Throw em at the wall, bury them in a bag beneath heavy groceries. Dog ear your place Except for library books, be kind to them of course
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be kind, rebind
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love reading books
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Mandoric posted:lol sounds way better other than paying for more books
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I did a bookbinding apprenticeship when I left school & this just seems wrong on so many levels. At least rebind them you loving savage!
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Trainee PornStar posted:I did a bookbinding apprenticeship when I left school & this just seems wrong on so many levels. My brother apprenticed at a bookbinder in the 1980s so we had hard-bound volumes of all the Tintin and Lucky Luke albums.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:My brother apprenticed at a bookbinder in the 1980s so we had hard-bound volumes of all the Tintin and Lucky Luke albums. your brother has good taste in cartoons
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Started reading Bill Haywood's autobiography. It's long as hell but really good. This is really good especially when he starts talking about how he got into unions. Nice to bring back union men getting into gun fights with the company reps.
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Been reading the Brezhnev book Gradenko excerpted some time ago. Good job on that, I feels like most everything else is filler. Western academy gets pretty insufferable when writing about the USSR, even when they're doing a generally good job. What's re-Stalinisation even supposed to be? What is rehabilitating the dude supposed to do in the real world?
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I just eat the page when I'm done reading it, makes lunch breaks efficient and leaves nothing to rebind at the end.
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I've been trying to read all the Greg Egan books I haven't yet and just started "Zengedi." The bit were he codes an Iranian politician as one of the good ones by saying they support the recognition of the state of Israel did not age well at all and now a scene later a conservative Iranian is in a sex scandal from sleeping with a trans women. Ugh, I dunno. With every other work of Egan's I've been captivated from paragraph one. To whoever has read this book, does it get better once the science-fiction elements start showing up?
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Yadoppsi posted:I've been trying to read all the Greg Egan books I haven't yet and just started "Zengedi." The bit were he codes an Iranian politician as one of the good ones by saying they support the recognition of the state of Israel did not age well at all and now a scene later a conservative Iranian is in a sex scandal from sleeping with a trans women. Ugh, I dunno. With every other work of Egan's I've been captivated from paragraph one. I loved Egan's early work. What his later work like? I see he's self publishing a lot.
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