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Homeless Friend posted:remembered i had a paperwhite from like 5 years ago, and found it, hell yeah babyyyyyy this things got a more influential legacy than obama, if u think about it
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The best thing about Kindles is that if you buy one from 5 years ago it's gonna be pretty much identical to the same model you could buy new today
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Epic High Five posted:The best thing about Kindles is that if you buy one from 5 years ago it's gonna be pretty much identical to the same model you could buy new today yeah I looked it up and it's basically the exact same thing. Holy poo poo at their e-ink racket, their big boy flagship goes for $250 and comes with a whopping 8GB just lmao
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Homeless Friend posted:yeah I looked it up and it's basically the exact same thing. Holy poo poo at their e-ink racket, their big boy flagship goes for $250 and comes with a whopping 8GB Yeah I used 5th gens for years until I upgraded for the backlight and splurged on a Voyage. It's wonderful but I can't really recommend it over a paperwhite for twice the price now that I've tried them all
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For anyone interested in knowing why the other side does what it does, I'd recommend George Lakoff's Moral Politics. The central claim of the book is that conservative and liberal ideology originate subconsciously from different conceptions of the "ideal" family. It's hard to understand (I didn't have a problem understanding it, but just a heads up), somewhat dated (it uses examples from the Clinton presidency for crying out loud), and has a whole section at the end dedicated to why the author is a liberal, but the model it proposes is scarily good at explaining why each side has the positions that they do. Despite being written before the emergence of the alt-right, Moral Politics is probably going to be your best tool for understanding the alt-right. Pretty pricey though.
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I'm reading nixonland. It'd a good book
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Jan 11, 2018 11:04
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Reading Invisible Man and it makes me feel p loving uncomfortable. Harrowing stuff
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Yossarian-22 posted:Reading Invisible Man and it makes me feel p loving uncomfortable. Harrowing stuff I read it years ago but think I was too young & stupid for it. I should revisit.
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I'm halfway through Fire and Fury now. It's certainly a fun read but I often find myself questioning whether something is accurate or not. It's more like enjoying a scathing piss take than reading a well-researched, reliable narrative.
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whomupclicklike posted:I'm halfway through Fire and Fury now. It's certainly a fun read but I often find myself questioning whether something is accurate or not. It's more like enjoying a scathing piss take than reading a well-researched, reliable narrative. you know a take is a piss take without the pisstape
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The Picture of Dorian Grey is written in that way that made Dracula a tedious chore but this is not as bad because it's also super gay and catty
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Invisible Man is just.... god drat. It's good. Like 69/10 good
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I can also report that it only took 10 volumes for Battle Angel Alita: The Last Order to start measuring up to the original run I look forward to this plot arc being tossed out in favor of 800 pages of pornographic ultraviolence Yossarian-22 posted:Invisible Man is just.... god drat. It's good. Like 69/10 good added to my enormous list of books to read
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Jan 12, 2018 18:43
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Epic High Five posted:I look forward to this plot arc being tossed out in favor of 800 pages of pornographic ultraviolence Well at least you know it's coming
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Well finished Forever War. Fantastic, probably one of the best scifi books ive ever read. Anyone read the sequels/side books?
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TheDon01 posted:Well finished Forever War. Fantastic, probably one of the best scifi books ive ever read. I haven't, but I've heard they're good reads and passable but it's important to go into them realizing that they aren't going to be as incredible as the first because so much of the philosophical ground is already covered I know they aren't reviewed very highly
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nah posted:what are the best biographies Kotkin on Stalin CLR James’s “The Black Jacobins” on Toussaint L’Oeuverture George Pendle’s “Strange Angel” on John Whiteside Parsons for a more fun one Christopher Freyling’s “Something to do with Death” on Sergio Leone
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TheDon01 posted:Well finished Forever War. Fantastic, probably one of the best scifi books ive ever read. forever peace is v good not as good as forever war but not much is
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Last and First Men is a ponderous tome that I'd probably like less if it didn't start out by explaining that capitalism, and American finance and hubris in particular, strangled a newly forming movement to truly advance human civilization and then plunged it into a thousands year long dark age
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Epic High Five posted:I haven't, but I've heard they're good reads and passable but it's important to go into them realizing that they aren't going to be as incredible as the first because so much of the philosophical ground is already covered mormonpartyboat posted:forever peace is v good Right on, ill go find a copy. The philisophical stuff was great but i just got a hunger for more shooty spacemen, weird aliens and relativity fuckery. Hell right now Id sit down and read just a timeline of what all happened on earth in those thousandish years.
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Epic High Five posted:I can also report that it only took 10 volumes for Battle Angel Alita: The Last Order to start measuring up to the original run Mars Chronicle is also good.
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TheDon01 posted:Right on, ill go find a copy. The philisophical stuff was great but i just got a hunger for more shooty spacemen, weird aliens and relativity fuckery. Hell right now Id sit down and read just a timeline of what all happened on earth in those thousandish years. If you're just looking to embed yourself deeper in the universe then you'll probably love the followups. All the negative reviews I saw were like with Echopraxia - hoping it would be as groundbreaking as the original, which is almost impossible since it's set in the same world
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Epic High Five posted:Last and First Men is a ponderous tome that I'd probably like less if it didn't start out by explaining that capitalism, and American finance and hubris in particular, strangled a newly forming movement to truly advance human civilization and then plunged it into a thousands year long dark age Odd John is also pretty wild. Garbage Pale Kids are the ubermensch, and they're communist survivalists
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TheDon01 posted:Right on, ill go find a copy. The philisophical stuff was great but i just got a hunger for more shooty spacemen, weird aliens and relativity fuckery. Hell right now Id sit down and read just a timeline of what all happened on earth in those thousandish years. forever peace has no aliens and very little sci fi fuckery and isnt set in the same world its a more grounded story about attaining partial post-scarcity and living within the violence of people leveraging that over others and pacifism the only real connection is the author and the general theme of "war bad"
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mormonpartyboat posted:forever peace has no aliens and very little sci fi fuckery and isnt set in the same world That sounds good too! Edit: bookstore just called, my copy of The Divide just arrived. So I guess I got all weekend to be angry as hell. TheDon01 has issued a correction as of 09:01 on Jan 13, 2018 |
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Picture of Dorian Gray end notes: There's a good story in there, but it's buried under endless tedious exposition. Do not recommend. Just picked up my copy of Fire and Fury from the local shop and lmao there was a whole shelf of preorders for it
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I'm about halfway through A Murder on the Appian Way and while I more or less like it, I'm a little annoyed that this just seems to be mostly a vehicle for educating me on the political chaos during the fall of the Roman republic before Caesar seized power. So far the protagonist has met Clodius, Cicero, Milo, Marc Antony, Pompey and I'm sure Caesar will show up at some point. The investigation/mystery is about to pick up in earnest so maybe the infodump phase is over.
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Finished Invisible Man One of the greatest books I've ever read. The epilogue is a bit peculiar as it more or less coincides with the author's pivot from communism to overt anti-communism, but otherwise I enjoyed it all thoroughly
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An interesting passage that jumped out at me in A Murder on the Appian Way when Gordianus and his son Eco are captured and imprisoned in a hole for forty (or thirty-seven) days... Especially in light of the book I just finished (The Divide) I thought this was an interesting argument against incarceration:Steven Saylor, A Murder on the Appian Way posted:Our captivity was indeed maddening, and the hardest thing I ever had to endure. There is something in the spirit of a Roman that cannot acquiesce to such an unnatural condition. In other lands, where kings rule, imprisonment is a common punishment. This is because a king wishes to see his enemies suffer. What better way than to lock them in a cage or throw them into a pit where he can watch their inevitable physical and mental decline, tell them about the suffering of their loved ones outside, listen to their pleas for mercy and taunt them with false promises of release? But in our Republic, punishment is not designed to bring pleasure to a given ruler; it is meant to permanently remove an offender from the community, either by killing him (sometimes, admittedly, with rather gruesome punishments involved, especially for religious crimes) or by allowing him to choose exile instead of death. The notion that anyone should be indefinitely locked away, even for the most horrible crime, is too cruel even for Roman tastes. I think that as the world has grown smaller and smaller, and the population larger and ever-larger, exile has become less and less feasible as a solution, until we arrived at the point where if a citizen was a criminal in one jurisdiction then he would be considered a danger anywhere else, so better to incarcerate him as punishment instead of offload the problem onto somewhere else. There was also a much smaller emphasis on the whole "arc of life" deal, so it'd be preferable to just be executed and have it done and finished, instead of rotting in a dark pit, beyond miserable and slowly going insane, for decades. Of course, restorative and rehabilitative justice is better than punitive, but Gordianus's Rome would still be a couple millennia away from that.
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Yossarian-22 posted:Finished Invisible Man
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Just finished a re-read of Between the World and Me Cannot recommend this book highly enough. A very quick read, and poignant throughout.
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I liked A Murder on the Appian Way enough that I decided to read through the rest of Roma Sub Rosa. The first book (Roman Blood, about Cicero's first case as an orator) is surprisingly richer in detail, character, and setting than than Murder was, which at times felt like I was receiving a history lesson. Wonder if Saylor had gotten to the point where he was just cranking out books or if Murder was an outlier or something. No particular hurry to get back to nonfiction and political poo poo, so I'll probably be on the RSR kick for several more weeks.
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Anyone know of any good books re: predominantly white Southern churches becoming unhinged racist lunatic factories during and after the Civil Rights Era? that seems like something someone might have looked into and written about.
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Epic High Five posted:Just finished a re-read of Between the World and Me i listened to this one as an audiobook since tnc did the reading himself. it was real good, and ill probably actually read it sometime
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skaboomizzy posted:Anyone know of any good books re: predominantly white Southern churches becoming unhinged racist lunatic factories during and after the Civil Rights Era? that seems like something someone might have looked into and written about. I don't have a particular recommendation but this seems like something Jeff Sharlet would have written about -- here's his Dartmouth faculty page, here's his Twitter account. If nothing else you could probably tweet at him and ask for guidance.
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RIP Le Guin  May put current stuff down for a re-read of The Lathe of Heaven in honor, was definitely one of the formative books of my youth and I often go back to it
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I loaded all the earthsea books onto my Kindle should I read the short stories before or after the main series?
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SKULL.GIF posted:I loaded all the earthsea books onto my Kindle read The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven and The Birthday of the World and then consider the rest imho
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So I finished Fire and Fury a while ago and I'm only now getting around to writing a post about it. Bottom line, it's an interesting book. But I find myself wondering how much of it is true and how much of it isn't. And honestly, some of the things written seem somewhat suspect. He includes quotes from telephone calls that I wonder how he would have possibly gotten to hear both sides of. He's said he has tapes and all, but in the end I can't reliably trust anything in it, and that hampered my fun in reading it more than a little. I think it's still worth checking out at the very least. As someone who has very much enjoyed every slip-up and stupid mistake that's come out of this White House, this book really tickled the part of my brain that loves this stuff.
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