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Two things: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf and The Persian expedition (or however you want to translate that title) by Xenophon. The former is a whimsical, cosy, moral Swedish fairy story, the latter is ancient Greek war/autobio/philosophy/statecraft. The contrast works imo.
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I finished reading Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro a few days ago, and I loving hated it.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:54
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He embraced absurdism and it worked for him.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:42
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deep dish peat moss posted:I started The Glass Bead Game by Hesse but I haven't got very far because so far all it has talked about is how everything about The Glass Bead Game is too difficult to explain or be understood. If you are hoping it will properly explain at some point, it won't. Not really. It's meant to be largely unfathomable and abstract.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:20
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It's been a few years, and I would not call it an easy book to read, but I think it is interesting and worthwhile if you like philosophical meditations on the nature of intelligence and educational seclusion.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:25
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Just remember to go no further than #4.
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Dec 31, 2023 22:42
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I'm trying to read The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe. It's been pitched to me as a surreal satire of modern survivalism, but I'm struggling to get into it because I find the central character so thoroughly unpalatable. I don't care that the humour is at his expense, I just don't enjoy spending time in his viewpoint.
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Jan 25, 2024 23:36
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I read the Martian and thought it was p weak tbh. Too many contrivances and coincidences, characters were one note, whole thing smelled of IFLScience writing. Never saw the film. e - I never read any of his other stuff because that was supposedly the best of his work.
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Jan 26, 2024 16:50
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I find audiobooks too slow.
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If I'm not doing anything I would much rather read the book myself. If I am doing something, there is such a fine balance point between "too slow, painful to listen to" and "too fast, not catching the content" that I just cannot be arsed to carefully locate it. Podcasts I only need to catch 40% of the context of can fill that space.
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