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notion to bring tbb book club thread to gbs so it actually gets posts
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social vegan posted:notion to bring tbb book club thread to gbs so it actually gets posts
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Jan 22, 2015 14:45
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bensnotacat posted:infinite jest same i'm about 200pg into it(out of what 1100?) so some of the seperate stories are coming together but still pretty 
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Jan 22, 2015 15:31
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Jan 22, 2015 15:40
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I'm reading a book about the history of treatment of people with 'madness' in europe and america from the 1700's to the present day. its pretty hosed up man. It really pokes a hole in the 'society is and always is progressively getting more progressive' because in the 1820's to 1880's ish there was really humane treatment for the mad that involved giving them a supportive environment that had a high recovery rate, and then around 1880's to 1940's the eugenics movement started and and insane people started to be viewed as cancerous wastage on society that should be sterilized, imprisoned, and/or executed. From the 30's to 50's a lot of 'cures' for insanity were invented that were ways of destroying the frontal lobe either directly through lobotomy or indirectly through cutting off sugar or oxygen to the brain for extended times on a repeated basis (like 40 - 100 insulin induced comas for example). The child-like placid body that resulted was considered an improvement because it lacked any self-awareness or will and could be easily shuffled around a hospital. Yikes. I'm just getting to the chapter on anti-psychotics, looking forward to it.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:15
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I'm finishing up 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. He's a jap dude, but I swear it's not a manga or animes.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:23
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i jheard that is cool, is it cool?
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Jan 22, 2015 16:24
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im reading the hyperion series by dan simmons its really good and would make a good bunch of movies imo
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Jan 22, 2015 16:24
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Ocean Book posted:I'm reading a book about the history of treatment of people with 'madness' in europe and america from the 1700's to the present day. its pretty hosed up man. It really pokes a hole in the 'society is and always is progressively getting more progressive' because in the 1820's to 1880's ish there was really humane treatment for the mad that involved giving them a supportive environment that had a high recovery rate, and then around 1880's to 1940's the eugenics movement started and and insane people started to be viewed as cancerous wastage on society that should be sterilized, imprisoned, and/or executed. What book is taht
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Jan 22, 2015 16:25
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Beef Turret posted:What book is taht p.sure that's a foucault book
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Jan 22, 2015 16:26
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murakami is cool if you like fantastic reality or w/e it's called but basically the main character is always this really mundane dude who lives a boring life and then all sorts of crazy poo poo happens and hes not sure if its real or not ive read maybe 3 books of his and ive liked them all.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:26
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Ocean Book posted:i jheard that is cool, is it cool? v cool in fact. Murakami writes in a way that is just fun to read. Dyna Soar posted:murakami is cool if you like fantastic reality or w/e it's called but basically the main character is always this really mundane dude who lives a boring life and then all sorts of crazy poo poo happens and hes not sure if its real or not This is pretty much spot on. I've only read 1Q84 and Wind Up Bird Chronicle though. You also learn about crazy hosed up things that (maybe) happened in WW2.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:30
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human being.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:32
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ive read one where the main character sat in a well half the book, kafka on the shore which was cool and broke the mold a bit and then his first which was a scifi story about lizard people living under tokyo they were all good
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Jan 22, 2015 16:33
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1q84 sucks compared to his other stories because it just feels like the same density as one of his normal books diluted to fill more pages imo. It's good, but get wind up bird or wild sheep chase or kafka on the shore first
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Jan 22, 2015 16:35
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Dick Torture the Book: Bitches and Buttholes, a Collection Book 1 http://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Dick-T...orture+the+book
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Jan 22, 2015 16:37
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all the robert greene books they are legit good even if they seem really bad on the surface
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Jan 22, 2015 16:45
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GBS
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Jan 22, 2015 16:48
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Beef Turret posted:What book is taht Mad in America : Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by robert whitaker. I happened to see it when looking for my differential equations textbook and I'm glad I picked it up. de_dust posted:p.sure that's a foucault book there are good books by foucault that center around the creation of docile bodies and their enclosure for the effective running of industrial age institutions (discipline and punish, madness and civilization, birth of the clinic) if you are further into this stuff, though this book reads a lot easier than foucaults work. I read the first 150 pages yesterday. Ocean Book fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Jan 22, 2015 16:53
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Ocean Book posted:I'm reading a book about the history of treatment of people with 'madness' in europe and america from the 1700's to the present day. its pretty hosed up man. It really pokes a hole in the 'society is and always is progressively getting more progressive' because in the 1820's to 1880's ish there was really humane treatment for the mad that involved giving them a supportive environment that had a high recovery rate, and then around 1880's to 1940's the eugenics movement started and and insane people started to be viewed as cancerous wastage on society that should be sterilized, imprisoned, and/or executed. I want to read this. What's the title?
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Jan 22, 2015 16:54
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If only there was some way to read mentally ill people talk about books on mental illness.. holy loving poo poo i think our dreams are being answered in this thread
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Jan 22, 2015 16:56
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Rabbit Hill posted:I want to read this. What's the title? see my above post sexy young infidel posted:If only there was some way to read mentally ill people talk about books on mental illness.. holy loving poo poo i think our dreams are being answered in this thread a marked improvement from the marginalization of mentally ill voices imo.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:59
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Instead of reading a book like a hosed up retard I'm going to write one
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Jan 22, 2015 17:00
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i hesitantly look forward to reading it
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Jan 22, 2015 17:01
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im trying to read moby dick too but it's secretly really boring
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Jan 22, 2015 17:02
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sexy young infidel posted:Instead of reading a book like a hosed up retard I'm going to write one I want to write a kids book
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Jan 22, 2015 17:02
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hemale in pain posted:im trying to read moby dick too but it's secretly really boring most classic are and if its boring to you i suggest dropping and reading something you enjoy then maybe in a few yaers try again
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Jan 22, 2015 17:04
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Dyna Soar posted:most classic are and if its boring to you i suggest dropping and reading something you enjoy the first 40 pages of bram stokers dracula are really good, then all the sudden it turns into a giant boring poo poo fests. The only readable classics now are sci-fi.
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Jan 22, 2015 17:09
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hemale in pain posted:im trying to read moby dick too but it's secretly really boring i made this mistake last year, sometimes it's interesting but dude writes like he's getting paid per word
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Jan 22, 2015 17:15
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19th century lit just needs patience and practise imo, if you're just looking for a good story you should probably stick to modern stuff
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Jan 22, 2015 17:16
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and what about that classical music, i mean where's the drop?
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Jan 22, 2015 17:22
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read american gods again
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Jan 22, 2015 17:24
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open container posted:i made this mistake last year, sometimes it's interesting but dude writes like he's getting paid per word one time i made it to the part where it basically turns into an encyclopedia about whales and then nope
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Jan 22, 2015 17:24
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lol at the guy itt who was like "wow why am i surprised that loving goons read fictional books  "
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Jan 22, 2015 17:26
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social vegan posted:one time i made it to the part where it basically turns into an encyclopedia about whales and then nope i made it half way through moby dick realized i didn't pay attention for like the last 50 pages and didn't know what i was reading and said gently caress it.
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Jan 22, 2015 17:27
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teatro grottesco by thomas ligotti and i also started in cold blood by truman capote
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Jan 22, 2015 17:28
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the changing light at sandover, a three-part epic poem by james merrill (son of the merrill & lynch guy). it's extremely dense and erudite, but the stuff that i do get is drat good. it's the best book about people loving around with a ouija board
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Jan 22, 2015 17:48
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Ocean Book posted:there are good books by foucault that center around the creation of docile bodies and their enclosure for the effective running of industrial age institutions (discipline and punish, madness and civilization, birth of the clinic) if you are further into this stuff, though this book reads a lot easier than foucaults work. I read the first 150 pages yesterday. ah, thought you were talking about 'madness & civilization'
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Jan 22, 2015 17:53
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Jan 22, 2015 17:54
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a collage of 4chan and twitter screen caps purporting to explain why someone ive never heard of and dont care about is a sjw
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