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Raijinili |
May 15 2019, 06:21 AM
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QUOTE(Rhiannon @ May 10 2019, 09:18 PM) ![*](style_images/2/post_snapback.gif) I read Wizard's First Rule ... The whole thing seems to exist just to hate on communism. There were some odd lines throughout the book that made me raise an eyebrow, but I realized I wasn't imagining it and it wasn't a coincidence once they described a master torturer villain's outfit with colors and a symbol very much conjuring up the whole hammer and sickle thing. Let the record show that I almost knew EXACTLY what she was talking about from the keywords "fantasy book" and "hating on communism": <~Rhiannon> Alright I was getting weird vibes from some things before <~Rhiannon> But I'm 600 pages into this fantasy book and I am now 100% positive this writer is just hating on communism <Raijinili> Sword of Truth is definitely hating on communism. <~Rhiannon> THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR PICKING THIS BOOK UP AGAIN TO GIVE IT A TRY AFTER I DITCHED IT WHEN I WAS WAAAAY YOUNGER BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE THE COVER <Raijinili> WAIT IS IT ACTUALLY SWORD OF TRUTH FAITH OF THE FALLEN <~Rhiannon> (it was actually bought by someone else for me) <~Rhiannon> No <~Rhiannon> It's Wizard's First Rule <Raijinili> oh <Raijinili> well i got the sword of truth part right <Raijinili> yeah the author is an objectivist Because there's like one author that that describes. Here he is defending himself about two quotes attributed to him: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1...oodkind/c9nnrqq
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Rhiannon |
Jul 18 2019, 11:31 PM
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Read Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman, which I liked. I really feel the main girl. Everything's so much easier if it's known and predetermined.
Oliver Sacks' The River of Consciousness was also very interesting. I'd only read The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat before, but unlike that, this wasn't descriptions of odd patients or anything like that. It was just sort of musings on a few subjects. I learned a looot of lesser-known things about Darwin from it, I feel like.
And what really made me want to post here was finishing Dave Eggers' The Parade. The book was entertaining enough to go through, but then that ending! It just comes out of nowhere, hits you like a rock and then you're knocked out. It's so right, and so depressing... Really makes the book, I feel like. It reminds me a little of Waiting For the Barbarians but the different mood Eggers builds compared to that changes how it affects you, significantly. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
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Dr Strum |
Mar 20 2020, 05:06 PM
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The Parade had a rock'me sock'me ending that's for sure. I read Clea, the last book in the Alexandrian Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. If I aspire to any writer, it's probably him. Finally finished Midnight's Children by Rushdie. Really enjoyed it it was a wonderful book with a satisfying (in the sense that you're okay with the) ending. Reminded me a lot of 100 Years of Solitude, though I'm not the first to make the comparison. Read Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem which was very entertaining. I don't read much SciFi to be honest, but I was told to pick up Hyperion as a result of my reading that, so I'll get to that soon. A night of serious drinking by Rene Daumal perplexed me but also made me LOL on my bus commute. Google describes the subject as being about the drinking of alcoholic beverages which means Google never actually read it. My roommate got on a Vonnegut kick so I wound up reading Mother Night which was a fun mystery kinda novel. Really densely sparse in his trademark way, but maybe more so than some of his more famous works. What's the adjective to label a Vonnegut writing style? Vonnegutian? Been reading a lot of books on typography as of late. Also restarted Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles which I had picked up (maybe even posted here about) several years ago but then stopped so I could lend it to a friend who was trying to get laid and now they're engaged so I guess it was worth the delay... It's pretty good. I dig Murakami's bullshit though, maybe not everyone does.
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Rhiannon |
Oct 2 2020, 11:07 AM
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I'm really moved by the chicken bone
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I don't think I said before but I did finish The End of Trust, and then immediately decided I must convince coworkers to use it in our remedial reading classes and they were like "f yeah we need this kind of content." But then we couldn't use it because we're all online now using some random site that was not built for us or our highly specific methods. Anyway, the point is it had very informative parts explaining various surveillance technology, and there were some essays in it that were very right and a bit feelsy.
I read Spirits Rebellious, a book I randomly picked up out of my work's yearly book giveaway because it had a pretty cover and a cool name, and wow, this is beautiful and locks right into the way I feel about the ways society and religion wind up functioning even though this book's setting is so far removed from mine. I ordered The Prophet, another book Khalil Gibran wrote, almost immediately after finishing it, because I loved it so much. While I definitely liked that a lot too, it didn't hit me hard like Spirits Rebellious did. I still wanna read more from this guy, man. Can't believe I stumbled on something I loved so much in such a random way.
Slowly reading through The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, which I picked up thinking it would be a fantasy story, because I wanted to read some random fantasy. I don't know why I thought that. It's Sci-Fi. It's fine though, they're about to unleash a terrible virus that's going to kill everyone in the story so this one person can remain in power.
Also reading... Werewolf Cop. The main guy's name is Zach. They even spell it right! It's so far kind of a dumb book though, yep, I said it, I don't care what praise Stephen King gives this author. Its attempts to conjure up a noir-style narration keeps making its descriptions of some of the female characters extremely weird and kind of bad in ways that an actual noir story would be unlikely to do (not like noir's a super nicetowomen genre in the first place either, so that's kinda bad). I was also hoping it would be funnier, because the title is very silly, but it's not very funny. It is very easy to read, though! That's some praise I can give it, it's pretty good at keeping you moving.
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Dr Strum |
Dec 30 2022, 09:21 PM
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Another year, another round of bookos. - American Gods - pretty much captures the midwest
- The Martian Chronicles - The story of America but it's Mars
- Death’s end - the action movie entry of the trilogy
- Smashed - if you only liked the tornado riding part of uzumaki...
- The arrival - immigrants helping immigrants
- Thinking fast thinking slow - all the ways in which your first impressions are WRONG but also IMPORTANT?!?!
- Ulysses - at least 20% dedicated to shipping the Shakespeare-was-a-cuckold theory
- Cry, the beloved country - kinda like Crash but South African
- Ni independencia, ni revolución - kinda like a Mexican graphic novel Zinn
- Too loud a solitude - poop princesses and book hoarders, oh and SORROW
- Fever dream - I think the Spanish title (Rescue Distance) is better
- Their eyes were watching god - what's the most absurd way to die from an heroic gesture?
- Hyperion - Space Chaucer
- Zen in the Art of Writing - According to Bradbury, "zen" in writing is writing about what pisses you off
- Data oriented programming - fuck type systems
- American Loom - the supreme court can't save you from corporate surveillance
- Thinking in Numbers - tell me you have adhd and you're incredibly well read without telling me either of those things
- Maus I - man it was hard to be a Jewish mouse in Poland in the 30's
- Devil House - true crime is for chumps
- Maus II - man it was reallly hard to be a Jewish mouse in Poland in the early 40's
- Rethinking consciousness - "reptile brain" is an offensive slur
- A long day’s journey into night - hurt people hurt people
- Probable impossibilities - helped me understand why the last 100 years of science mattered
- Project Hail Mary - bonding over diy space travel hacks
- Walden - how Thoreau, unable to buy his favorite (unfashionable) pants, became a curmudgeon and how you can too
- Near to the wild heart - one big mirror for so many of my philosophical turmoils
- Ashoka the great - white wash a ruthless conqueror and MAKE ME CRY THE WHOLE TIME
- The jazz of physics - just read the last chapter, or just study Coltrane's mandala
- The prophet - god-tier
My top five for the year? In order, "Ulysses", "The Prophet", "Near to the Wild Heart", "Cry, the Beloved Country" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God." High recommendation for all of them. The only book I suggest avoiding is "American Loom" because I'm college friends with the author and how dare he publish before me! Nah, actually I just think it would have been better as a screenplay than a novel.
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