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i read 2 textbooks on andean archaeology i had: incas new perspectives by mcewan and incas and their ancestors by mosely. andean history is pretty cool and the incas are wild. shame the conqueror guy just literally walked into the incan empire at the right time. like he literally just stumbled upon the emperor while he was on his way back from defeating his enemies in a civil war and captured him, then it was all over. also read silk road: a new history by hansen. ancient central asia is cool, lots of cultural diffusion and a huge variety of comingled people in a little area. her thesis is that the silk road wasn’t a trade route as such, goods just kinda diffused through the area and the cultural and technological diffusion was the more important feature. i’m reading voyagers by thomas about the peopling of the pacific. alright so far, when you think about it that’s a hell of an impressive feat for people in outrigger boats. and then those fuckin imperialists came through and ruined everything like usual. tomorrow i’ll talk poo poo about the books that i didn’t like.
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i enjoy them + thats all that matters anybody else runnin a book server in docker? 
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Jonny 290 posted:anybody else runnin a book server in docker? What does that mean? I use calibre for my ebooks but I just store all the books on my PC and connect my kindle when I want to move something over.
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it basically is that, but it runs in a vm and i can just pull up a web browser from anything + read a book. its neat anyways yeah get a lil ebook management system if you have more than a few book i want to read: dune. hear its p deece
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fart simpson posted:the 3rd was pure sf schlock which im a sucker for same, the back half after the dark forest attack destroys trisolaris was especially great
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recently finished the (so-far published) murderbot chronicles, which are a fun light sci-fi read that transpose the very human experience of social anxiety onto the titular not-human construct. it’s not really important message sci-fi but is very enjoyable just started 3 body problem so excited to maybe be disappointed by that? or you’re all fools, who knows
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well-read undead posted:recently finished the (so-far published) murderbot chronicles, which are a fun light sci-fi read that transpose the very human experience of social anxiety onto the titular not-human construct. it’s not really important message sci-fi but is very enjoyable murderbot was a fun, light read, i agree. i held off for a long time because it didn’t seem like my kind of thing but very enjoyable. most of them are novellas so very quick to get through
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currently working on the Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I’m halfway through Eyes of the Void. it’s delicious space opera, I rank it up there with the culture books
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books i did not like or finish: cahokia: ancient america's great city on the mississippi by pauketat. it was actually mostly a fine read, but there were simply too many descriptions of mass burial mounds of human sacrifice victims, complete with vivid descriptions of how they were dispatched and interred. just a bit too much for me so i put it down. india's ancient past by sharma. i just did not enjoy reading it. very rambly, and he had some sections describing the different peoples of india talking about body hair and complexion and poo poo like that, which i wasn't sure was particularly useful. ancient africa: a global history, to 300 ce by ehret. kind of a mixed bag. he talked a lot about linguistics which i don't really know much about so it was hard to follow. i wasn't sure how good of evidence that usually is. he also made some outlandish claims, like he said that women in africa invented pottery, because in most african societies pottery is women's work exclusively. it was just very flimsy evidence to make that claim, even if it may or may not be true.
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Cities of the ancient andes i felt was a good book on the civilizations of the Andes, presenting it a lot more as a continuous chain of rising and falling centers rather than a set of distinct civilizations with dark ages in between that seems to be a popular perception of the area.
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Eeyo posted:books i did not like or finish: seems like history isn’t your thing op have you tried science fiction
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i read all of my books in libby. the library is extremely good
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Bloody posted:i read all of my books in libby. the library is extremely good its prononced "lie-berry". 
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The Berry of Lies sounds like the title of a children's book
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read the first 10 “Vlad Taltos” books (Brust) this summer. Above average 90s antihero snark. A Harry Dresden that doesn’t have that stink of chauvinism following him around. probably going to try Becky Chambers’ “Wayfarers” series next. (First book is The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet) I like Vlad and all, but I think I need a break. Also, isn’t there a new murderbot?
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i been thinking about making a books thread here for a long time thanks op. re posting a post i made in hell world thread the other day: As I am starting to wrap it up, I want to put the Post Hole Digger Stamp Of Approval on Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris, a wonderful and brilliant book that traces the founding of california and advent of silicon valley through the birth of stanford university, the story of herbert hoover (truly insane stuff here that i knew so little about), post-war anti-communist military funding driving silicon valley's original boom, social unrest in the 60s, california's suburban conservative turn in the 70s/80s, the dot com booms into current day, and then glimpsing into the future. its so sweeping in scope but still coherent throughout and highly readable. i've been telling my wife you could make whole movies out of tons of single paragraphs throughout the book. One of the best books i've read in a long time and something that seems really tailor-made for yospos. i seriously can't recommend it highly enough.
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fart simpson posted:seems like history isn’t your thing op have you tried science fiction cant wait for this thread to turn into sci fi thread mk II 
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MrQueasy posted:probably going to try Becky Chambers’ “Wayfarers” series next. (First book is The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet) I like Vlad and all, but I think I need a break. i really liked the first three but i'm struggling to get through the fourth quote:Also, isn’t there a new murderbot? oh poo poo there is, coming out in november
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Elder Postsman posted:oh poo poo there is, coming out in november gently caress yeah 😎 murderbot rules
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post hole digger posted:cant wait for this thread to turn into sci fi thread mk II sci fi rocks though. it’s all I read
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Silver Alicorn posted:sci fi rocks though. it’s all I read could i interest you in some wuxia novels
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maybe. whatcha got
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Sword of the Yue Maiden is a good start!
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ahhh cool. I’ll add it to the list. I don’t get much time for actual book readin lately, I mostly do audiobooks, but a change might be nice
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MrQueasy posted:read the first 10 “Vlad Taltos” books (Brust) this summer. Above average 90s antihero snark. A Harry Dresden that doesn’t have that stink of chauvinism following him around. brust starting writing more of those recently. he’s also a big marxist
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rotor posted:its prononced "lie-berry". lol
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post hole digger posted:i been thinking about making a books thread here for a long time thanks op. re posting a post i made in hell world thread the other day: adding this to my list, thx op i just finished "the wind-up bird chronicle" by murakami and it was the most compelling thing i've read in a couple years. loved it, will have to check out more of his stuff
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Bloody posted:i read all of my books in libby. the library is extremely good libby has been a godsend for actually getting me to read again. my broken 21st century brain can’t just sit down with a physical book anymore, but i’ve been able to seamlessly replace idle doomscrolling and hate reading on the internet with actual books, which feels a lot better
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mediaphage posted:brust starting writing more of those recently. he’s also a big marxist he never stopped! the reason there’s a 6 year gap between Vallista (15) and Tsalmoth (16) is because he stopped to write a Paarfi novel. (same universe, slightly different style, different/mythological characters)
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even though i'm a grown rear end man whose college major was english, for some reason i never read the grapes of wrath. i just recently started it and got a couple hundred pages through so far. and holy poo poo, i'm kicking myself for not reading it earlier. especially since i've read other steinbeck and loved it
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DaTroof posted:even though i'm a grown rear end man whose college major was english, for some reason i never read the grapes of wrath. i just recently started it and got a couple hundred pages through so far. and holy poo poo, i'm kicking myself for not reading it earlier. especially since i've read other steinbeck and loved it i just read it last year for the first time. it’s no science fiction, but still pretty good
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Epic High Five posted:One thing I always think about whenever this sort of thing comes up was how in one of the book threads, when Grapes of Wrath came up, a goon mentioned that at their nice liberal arts prep school they were assigned to read it but were told they could skip the intercalary chapters lol. Apparently it's a not uncommon take among book sickos that they're just useless fluff which is wild to me. lol
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this was my favorite bit but feel free to skip it i guessquote:The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
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fart simpson posted:this was my favorite bit but feel free to skip it i guess he said the thing
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i was made to read the grapes of wrath in high school but all of it was lost on me and i don’t think i even finished it. i think i got the coles notes for my book report all I remember is tom joad because of the rage against the machine song
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lol. at first i thought the high-level narrative might take me out of the story because i was initially invested in tom joad, but gently caress that picky bullshit e: like i wasn't totally feeling the first chapter because it felt like a summary instead of a story, but then we meet tom in chapter 2 and i was immediately vested in the whole shebang DaTroof fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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grapes of wrath is very very good and that is probably the best pull from it, and it's only gotten more true as the years go on.
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Jonny 290 posted:grapes of wrath is very very good and that is probably the best pull from it, and it's only gotten more true as the years go on. he also has an oklahoma onion burger recipe slipped in there, 90 years before the hipsters caught on to them
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I was able to read T C Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain instead of the grapes of wrath in high school. The terrible life of the undocumented immigrant couple was so tragic, I remember laughing when the yuppie couple’s dogs get eaten by coyotes.
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