paulkersey
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Post by paulkersey on Sept 21, 2018 17:52:05 GMT -5
Read a good interview with the guy that wrote this, so I picked it up at the library. Hoping it's good!
I read How Propaganda Works by him and it was good. Gonna check this out too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 18:13:44 GMT -5
Been reading some shorter stuff lately. Want to reread through all of Steinbeck so kind of jumping between him and other stuff. Go Tell It To The Mountain - James Baldwin, incredible Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman, actually really wanted a good collection of Norse stories, does a great job with them The Likeness - Tana French, good typical police crime book The Red Pony and Tortilla Flat Currently reading, and so far it's pretty good.
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refill
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Post by refill on Sept 21, 2018 22:30:01 GMT -5
Read a good interview with the guy that wrote this, so I picked it up at the library. Hoping it's good!
I read How Propaganda Works by him and it was good. Gonna check this out too. Finished it, and it was really good. Hard for me to be objective, but I think his takes on our current political climate seem accurate.
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koreangirls
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Post by koreangirls on Sept 27, 2018 10:25:37 GMT -5
Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent (slowly making my way through the entire Discworld series)
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dij6669
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Post by dij6669 on Sept 28, 2018 8:04:42 GMT -5
Dune Book 1 by Frank Herbert. Fucking Dope.
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Post by antipasto on Sept 28, 2018 10:53:07 GMT -5
Dune Book 1 by Frank Herbert. Fucking Dope. I've been meaning to read these but have been putting it off. I'm reading The People Who Eat Darkness rn
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frozenrapture
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Post by frozenrapture on Sept 28, 2018 11:21:48 GMT -5
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guttertech
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Post by guttertech on Sept 28, 2018 11:37:11 GMT -5
previously read Roland Topor's The Tenant. I'm a big fan of the Polanski movie but I could never find a copy of this at a decent price. the movie follows it pretty closely but there's a few nightmarish sequences that were probably too hard to capture. highly recommended if you like Kafka.
currently reading Something Happened by Joseph Heller. read it a few years ago and it's still as appallingly humorous as I remembered it. no clue what was going on in Heller's life when he wrote it but I would've expected him to commit suicide had I read it when it was released.
tried reading Thomas Ligotti's first collection of stories but it's worse than I remember. his narrators having this heavily affected Hannibal Lecter way of speaking is horrible. I ordered a copy of My Work is Not Yet Done though because I like his later writing a lot.
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dij6669
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Post by dij6669 on Sept 28, 2018 11:38:31 GMT -5
Dune Book 1 by Frank Herbert. Fucking Dope. I've been meaning to read these but have been putting it off. I'm reading The People Who Eat Darkness rn Just looked this up. Sounds interesting. How do you like it?
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Post by folding person on Oct 15, 2018 10:46:43 GMT -5
Ulysses
It’s making me feel really dumb.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 10:48:07 GMT -5
Ulysses It’s making me feel really dumb. All of "classic" literature will do this. Keep going, though. It is very fulfilling once you finish it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 10:55:16 GMT -5
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Post by jimmyjump on Oct 15, 2018 11:15:37 GMT -5
Picked up The Wall Of Storms by Ken Liu from the library, need to jump back into it. Really enjoying this series.
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refill
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Post by refill on Oct 15, 2018 11:18:56 GMT -5
Ulysses It’s making me feel really dumb. All of "classic" literature will do this. Keep going, though. It is very fulfilling once you finish it. That's something started with modernism. Literature was pretty digestible until the turn of the century.
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paulkersey
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Post by paulkersey on Oct 15, 2018 16:11:57 GMT -5
The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War
A good overview of labor/union history
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Frederik
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Post by Frederik on Oct 15, 2018 17:15:46 GMT -5
Just Finished: Just Started:
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Post by afr2000 on Oct 15, 2018 17:21:40 GMT -5
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren Winner
Not my favorite so far. She makes a lot of great points, but her writing style is awful
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 19:15:47 GMT -5
Interesting cause I don't know that much about modern Chinese history, a little dry of course. Discovered mobilism for downloading ebooks so far, so I've got a lot of new stuff lined up.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 19:19:33 GMT -5
Read a good interview with the guy that wrote this, so I picked it up at the library. Hoping it's good!
I read How Propaganda Works by him and it was good. Gonna check this out too. Just finished it. Quick read but a solid and cohesive argument. Also working through: Eric Fromm's Marx's theory of man, The Sane Society sucked me in. Unapologetic: Queer/Black/Feminist mandate for revolution. Planet of Slums
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Post by norrinradd on Oct 16, 2018 0:16:18 GMT -5
I’m about a 1/4 of the way through the first volume of My Struggle(not the Hitler one). So far I don’t get the hype.
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Post by w on Oct 16, 2018 1:21:54 GMT -5
Started reading Nixonland with a couple of friends. Have also being re-reading Infinite Jest for the last month or so. Have been going through Matthew Berry's fantasy sports book while taking some dumps.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 1:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by refill on Oct 16, 2018 7:57:23 GMT -5
I’m about a 1/4 of the way through the first volume of My Struggle(not the Hitler one). So far I don’t get the hype. Really? It's fucking incredible.
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antipasto
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Post by antipasto on Oct 16, 2018 8:19:13 GMT -5
I've been meaning to read these but have been putting it off. I'm reading The People Who Eat Darkness rn Just looked this up. Sounds interesting. How do you like it? a little late on responding, but I like it a lot. Still not done with it because I've only been able to read between classes lately, but I'm trying to get through it this week
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 8:29:06 GMT -5
can some of you commies recommend good books on marxist theory? i've read marx and engels for a couple of political philosophy classes but never had the opportunity to dive deeper into what came next. thanks y'all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 8:52:27 GMT -5
East of Eden
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refill
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Post by refill on Oct 16, 2018 9:05:25 GMT -5
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cammobreed
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Post by cammobreed on Oct 16, 2018 19:50:27 GMT -5
Just finished:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 20:30:34 GMT -5
can some of you commies recommend good books on marxist theory? i've read marx and engels for a couple of political philosophy classes but never had the opportunity to dive deeper into what came next. thanks y'all. do you have any particular areas youre most interested in?
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refill
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Post by refill on Oct 27, 2018 12:00:26 GMT -5
FINALLY finished Grant by Ron Chernow. Great book!
Now I'm back on fiction: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Circe by Madeline Miller
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