!bookworms Also bought some books on ebay to fill gaps that werent there

The fricking ketamine must be working bc I'm reading for pleasure again

It's basically about this one cave which is the fricking origin of Ebola and Marburg (basically b-word butt Ebola).

It talks about trying to find the fricking source of the fricking diseases, what they do to the fricking body, the fricking terrifying spread and trying to figure out what the fricking heck was fricking going on in Africa basically.

I read half the fricking book yesterday and will probably finish it today. It's an easy read/brain candy. Highly recommend if you want to get absorbed into a fricking book since Netflix is fricking shit these days.

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers. !bookworms

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

I'm just a few dozens of pages from finishing “Maldita Guerra” by Francisco Doratioto, a book about the Paraguayan War which was the bloodiest inter-state war fought in South America. A war that also defined the development of the Brazilian military and its institutional role.

!bookworms !classics

https://archive.org/details/greenflaghistory0000keer

!historychads

TLDR, the future is queer and you can go frick yourself. Dumb peasants actually believed they own the books they bought

!bookworms I'm thinking about reading “Confessions of a Mask” by Yukio Mishima, what are your thoughts on him and other Japanese authors? Personally I've never read a book by any Jap author so far (Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki but he's pretty much an Englishman through and through and his best book The Remains of the Day is the quintessential portray of British character).

!nooticers

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Me at the top right

I'm writing a short story, it's a sequel to The Metamorphosis, except it assumes that (spoiler) Gregor didn't actually die, he only envisioned his death, though I leave it unclear where the story diverges from the original .

It's the first page, tell me whether or not it's shit:

A failure of imagination

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Rip to one of the greatest sci-fi writers of all time. I remember reading a comment a few years ago that Vinge had retired from writing due to a medical issue. Guess that was his Parkinson's diagnosis

If anyone has only read his zone of thought series, I also highly recommend "Marooned in Real Time" and "The Babbler"

Should I just go chronologically, for instance: Aristotle -> Descartes-> Kant -> Schopenhauer or something like that, or go some other way like reading secondary authors' summaries of works and views of said philosophers first?

I'm not interested in any single philosophical movement or ideology, but in terms of topics I'd like to read on epistemology and metaphysics.