I have so many critical thoughts cause I read so many books and think about them a lot, but I won't get into it here.
Yeah the second book came, what, 4 years after the first I think? And that was 7 years ago now. He's released a bunch of ministories around it, though. He's done maybe a third of the things that Kvothe is supposed to have been through according to the snippets of the first book, so that final one is probably gonna be either huge, or rush through several events.
Am listening to the Sherlock Holmes collection as read by Stephen Fry and it's quite nice revisiting the only books I ever willingly read. Almost 72 hours of entertainment
I also have a bunch more that I plan on listening to
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one piece- japanese manga
I'm also listening to "HP Lovecraft The Complete Fiction Omnibus" on audible, on the second volume of three atm. I have his complete works in a book and I've read it as a teenager, but I wasn't nearly competent enough in the English language nor literature in general to fully comprehend the stuff, every time I reread a story of his I discover something new, maybe and expression I didn't previously understand or a reference I didn't get. The man fascinates me to no end.
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Commala-come-come, the story is done.
I’m gonna beat up Stephen King, after I’m done weeping at his feet.
Ka is a wheel.
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Just finished Horns by Joe Hill. It was good, a little bit funny near the beginning. I don't have much to say about it.
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I'm starting Q by Luther Blissett right now, and I hope to tackle Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon when I'm done with this book and my re-read of GR.
Working on 3 at the moment
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It examines the British effort at the Somme through the eyes of their opponents - what the Germans thought the British were doing, how they were doing, etc.. Utilzies intelligence gathered from POWs, things like that. Very good read.
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One of the few books on the British submarine service in World War One, a later book British Submarines at War: 1914-1918 by Edwyn Grey was heavily influenced by this one so I'm going back to the older one.
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One of the key books that talks about why so many willingly participated in War Crimes. For Reserve Police Battalion 101, Browning finds that 60% did so due to social/peer pressure. 20% were willing, and 20% just did not. It's a different argument from Goldhagen's argument in Hitler's Willing Executioners which I shall be reading after I finish this one up.
8 months later and I've finally finished reading all 14 books. That's probably the longest I've spent exclusively reading one series, it'll feel weird going to another world but the drastic change in style in the last few books will probably have helped ease be out of it.
I used to read atleast 7 books a week when I was 12 but now I dont read anything unless I have to.
I WAS told to read, "The subtle are of not giving a fuck" but I see it all the time and some people say its pretentious and idk
but other than that, if Audible counts, I recently finished Hygge and some other minimalist book (Not "The Minimalists" though. I find them to be opportunists)
Just finished these three books, really recommend them if you're into military science fiction books!
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I'm currently reading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. It goes into the science of how plastic and malleable our brain is, and how the tools we've made throughout time has changed our way of life and thinking in general. And of course, how the internet /computers as a tool do the same thing to us that other intellectual technologies have done in the past, e.g the map, the alphabet, precise time, typewriters, etc. I'm about 60 pages into it and it's really fascinating so far.
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So currently listening to this and it's suuuper good. Also finished listening to this
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And it's abolutely lovely as well!
Having recently rewatched HBO's excellent series, Generation Kill, I decided to finally pick up the book. Then I learned that Lt. Fick, featured in the mini-series and book, also wrote his own book about the events, so I had to pick that up too.
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Anyways, just finished the Generation Kill book and am halfway through One Bullet Away. Both are absolutely fascinating looks at how america prosecutes modern war- with it's efficiencies and problems.
why though? The general consensus with Hitler’s Willing Executioners is that Goldhagen had a premise, used the same research material as Browning and basically ignores everything that didn’t support his idea that all the Germans participating in the purges were monsters, with basically 3x as many pages as Ordinary Men, and is basically a waste of time to slog through
I find it best to actually interact with the historiography, and to be able to actually deconstruct arguments I don’t agree with.
it’s why I’m planning on reading Alan Clark’s *The Donkeys*, Mozier’s *The Myth of the Great War*, or Niall Ferguson’s *The Pity of War*. Or why I have read books like *The Great War in Modern Memory*.
Fair reasoning
Has anyone read Shogun? It looks super interesting and I'm thinking about putting my current read on hold for it.
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read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas around springtime, loved Thompson's writing style. decided to give this book a spin
not liking it as much, but it's still enjoyable so far
is this how you post here?
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Finished Q by Luther Blissett, which was great although I thought the near end of the book got to be slippery.
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Starting on Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon today, I've been really looking forward to it. I'm about a third of my way
through re-reading GR.
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Hey pal they may be jerks but they are OUR jerks you are not allowed to badmouth them like that D:<
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Hooly shit this is good. I'm at the end of the arrest and god damn does he write it well! Especially the suspense!
About to finish Lolita, I have this thing where the last 50 pages always take me the longest. I've been meaning to read them for like 2 weeks now, but I've been otherwise engaged. I've got a backlog of about 12 classics to read, I think I'll read Prince Machiavelli after Lolita because it's a short one, and then jump into Dracula.
Reading Gramsci
I live in a city with a bookstore that has an inventory of seven million books and there wasn't a single copy of his prison diaries on any shelf in the city. Went to four bookstores. I didn't check the university bookstore but I'd be surprised. Had to get my mom to mail me a copy from Europe.
Finished Stephen King’s The Outsider. As I expected, it’s not King’s best, but it’s still pretty good. And I gotta say, there was one chapter that gave me the fucking creeps, and that’s something that hasn’t happened to me reading one of his books in a while. It’s basically everything you’d expect from a Stephen King book these days: nothing amazing, but still very satisfying.
Spoilers for the last 200 pages or so:
I really appreciated the crossover with the Bill Hodges books and even later (with one word) ties all four of those books with The Dark Tower. Like, god damn, King.
Anyway, I’ve just started Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Last Wish and got through the first chapter. Needless to say, it’s awesome.
What would you consider King's best (sans the Dark Tower books, them I've already read and loved). I'm a little over halfway into the chapter called "Holly" where she made a connection between Terry's dad's retirement home and the monster, and I think this just keeps getting better and better
Ooh I picked it up fairly recently too. I love the stories, they're written in such a digestible fashion. I bought the Poetic Edda in hopes of learning more about Norse mythology but that one is so hard to read.
Honestly, I’ve read so many of his books over the years, it’s kind of hard to say. Probably 11/22/63, IT or The Stand, though I must admit I’m more partial to his short stories. He’s got such a knack for writing short fiction, despite his notoriety for writing dictionary sized doorstoppers. Skeleton Crew probably has my favorites of the bunch, but they’re all pretty great
Finished Sapkowski’s The Last Wish, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s neat to finally dive into the origins of The Witcher series and all the stories are pretty stellar. Immediately after I finished that, I started the next one, Sword of Destiny and I’m loving it so far.
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It goes over a lot of general history rather than art specifically, which makes sense as it's very dense and needs to give context to everything that happens, but otherwise I'm enjoying flipping through this. A particular style has caught my eye, the "gold leaf" style, where a leaf of gold is hammered over some paper and painted over. The pieces are quite big and can look really nice, and when I'm a rich dude with gaudy taste, I'm going to get myself a few.
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