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throwaway wrote (edited )

I just finished Animal Farm by Orwell and The Method of Freedom by Malatesta. Picked up Nietzsche, got myself a copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. I'm halfway into So Spoke Zarathustra, and goddamn is it an interesting, provoking read.

e: I hope to get some printer ink soon, too, so I can print a copy of Desert (yo f/anticiv).

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throwaway wrote

Ah, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. My copy isn't in English.

- and yeah, it seems fucking great. It's been twisting my mind a whole lot so far.

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mofongo wrote

My first book Nietzsche book was twilight of the idols. First step and here I am.

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GaldraChevaliere wrote

Psychonaut field manual. I've been meaning to get back into practical magic and it's a good no-fluff read so far that goes out of its way to be as understandable and plain language as possible. Plus it has cute punk girls on the pages. Biggest annoyance so far is it's aggressively agnostic and I get aggravated by the computer analogies for everything, but to its credit it acknowledges that and encourages readers to develop their own approaches including theological ones.

https://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/13/psychonaut-field-manual/

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Bandit wrote

Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother. It's good, and an easy read.

She's one of the names in w/decolonial.

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mofongo wrote

I'm off and on with 100 years of solitude. I'm starting to see what everyone sees in it. Took quite a while before things got interesting, but damn it's worth it.

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dice wrote

just started world of warcraft chronicles in preparation for classic launch!

been working on the book of chuang tzu, the broken earth trilogy, and earthsea books on and off. also looking at some hostis that i'll probably start today or tomorrow. glad this thread popped up!

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shanc wrote

Far North. It's a novel I can't recommend highly enough. Think of it as a successor to The Road.

Be warned: the edition I read had spoilers in the blurb. Why do they do that?

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heckthepolice2 wrote

Looked it up; if the Far North I found is the right one (it seems to be) the author is Marcel Theroux

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ThrashGoat wrote

Reading:

Bolo'bolo

Recently finished:

Against Domestication - Jacques Camatte

Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm - Murray Bookchin

A Crime Called Freedom - Os Cangaceiros (Audibook)

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

How was A Crime Called Freedom? I've wanted to read it for a while but known I wouldn't. Realising there's an audiobook makes it possible. Is it generally available?

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ThrashGoat wrote

Yeah, It's on archive.org here.

It's was good. It was unintentionally on my part just the right thing to read after Foucault's Discipline and Punish as A Crime Called Freedom was mostly about French prisons and probably inspired by Discipline and Punish.

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LearnedChao wrote (edited )

"The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects."

If things have been going wrong for you, or you want your life to go more smoothly, or you want some good entertainment, this is the perfect read.

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unfun wrote

Halfway through You Can't Win

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startrek wrote

I'm currently working through Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh.

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ThreeTimesThree wrote

"On China" by Henry Kissinger. A lot better than I thought it would be. He has a lot of insightful things to say about things that happened during his lifetime. You could easily skip the first three chapters though.

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ThreeTimesThree wrote

I'm about 1/4 of the way through it. The first few chapters talk about China's pre-revolutionary history, and I just finished the Korean War chapter this morning. I think a lot of his points regarding regional geopolitics are very interesting. Stuff I hadn't heard or thought about before.

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