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It doesn't really count since I finished it a few weeks back, but a book that really stuck with me was LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer; a quasi-academical/memoir of a Jewish linguistic professor who survived Nazi Germany who tells how he survived through the framing of the language used by the Nazis and how it influenced the general population. If you like Eco's Ur-Fascism, I'd definitely recommend this.
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Yiddish Policemen's Union, and so far am enjoying it. Good, vivid descriptions of the world it's set in. Described the flavour of a good beer perfectly: bitter caramel.
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Earwicker posted:i enjoyed the book but yeah the movie is better. the book has several other plotlines that were cut from the movie, of varying quality. also a lot of stuff that ended up in the second movie as the basis for the young vito story. I have to admit, I'm glad the vaginoplasty plotline wasn't included.
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I started reading 'Lovecraft Country', reached a section which made me think, '...is the author of this book white?', looked it up, found that it was indeed the case, and now really can't get back into it (also with the fact it isn't really grabbing me). Still trying to get through Stone Butch Blues but... That's a hard one.
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Feb 26, 2024 10:55
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Captain Hygiene posted:Yeah, that was weird, I read it a while back and had the same realization. I was also mixed on it anyway, but with the specific characters and themes it covers, having "but written by a white guy" hanging over it the whole time didn't do it any favors. At what point did you get that feeling? I got it when I was reading about Horace's doodles on the gas station stops indicating which places were safe for black peoples, and one of the 'safe' icons mentioned among castles, oases and tree houses was 'hobbit holes', and that was what made me think 'hold on a second'.
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Feb 26, 2024 18:49
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I WAS trying Quo Vadis, but am thinking of giving it up, despite it having a pretty good research base into Nero-era Rome, because it is too much if a 'just-so' story. It ain't no I, Claudius.
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Mar 23, 2024 06:17
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Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman - it's interesting enough, but... I dunno it isn't fully grabbing me to say that I like it. I've also got Hermann's Comanche comic series that I'm thinking of making a translation project of (to train my Swedish).
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Apr 7, 2024 13:04
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Non-fiction book, but 'The War of the Fists' by Robert C. Davis - which details the history of an old Venetian tradition of a bunch of men beating the poo poo out of each other in order to occupy a bridge. It's like if Fight Club was crossed with WWE and was in the Renaissance era, along with the analysis of how it was a bunch of machismo posturing that did very little but provide a public show.
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Apr 12, 2024 14:43
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Love in the Time of Cholera. So far it has been very evocative, but it's... Not grabbing me as much as I would like; cannot quite articulate why, though.
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Apr 27, 2024 10:54
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Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman which, while the historical evidence FOR Christ is well-argued enough, there is a gigantic textual error in it which I sincerely hope was addressed in later editions.
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May 11, 2024 12:24
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madmatt112 posted:“I am Nah, it was a bit where he was in explaining that divine beings having a non-divine twin is something that is seen outwith Jesus (Thomas in question being the supposed twin), and he gave the example of Heracles, in that Alcmene slept with Amphitryon after the visitation by Zeus, resulting in the birth of 'the immortal Zeus and the mortal Iphicles'. Obviously he meant to write 'the immortal Heracles'. Zeus did not have sex with and then be born from Alcmene. Must have been a copy-paste error, and didn't remove anything from the actual arguments made, but it was pretty noticable.
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EoinCannon posted:From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple I've been listening to his podcast on Empires, and it has been pretty good, too
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