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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I started reading “Los Premios” by Julio Cortázar set in the 1950s it's about a bunch of porteños who won tickets to a cruiser ship to somewhere (they have no idea where). First chapter the passengers all meet each other at the London City cafeteria in Buenos Aires (that places still exists, it's located between Av de Mayo and Av Perú, they have a wonderful tea and deserts but are kind of expensive) then they're escorted by the police to the ship at the port, a ship called Malcolm, none of the passengers knows where they're going, the officers refuse to tell them at the first day and I'm getting some White Lotus vibes from the passengers and their companions. I'm also reading “ Tratamento de Água – Concepção, Projeto e Operação de Estações de Tratamento” a textbook on water treatment because of work related stuff.
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Has anybody every read The Books in Fred Hamptons Apartment, or even heard of it. I don't really know what its about but I have been researching the civil rights era and I need books about Fred Hampton. I have done cursory searches of the book and I'm having trouble finding any good information on it. Most of the big sites like Goodreads and Amazon don't have descriptions and the only copies I could find are really expensive. I found one NYT archived article about it but its just poo-pooing on the author for using black people or something and it doesn't really talk about the book, or it does and I cant decipher the writers r-slurred academia speak. I even briefly searched for it on a couple of pirate sites and couldn't find it. The article I did find made it seem like the title of the book has little to do with the subject but like I said, if that was the article's meaning it was buried under nerd speak.
- rDramaHistorian : Poll's closed, 1812 will be read
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I busted my chin open a week ago so I'm leveraging that and taking random days off
I'll complete the entire book and give you guys the essential notes as a blogpost
@neoconshill could you pin this to lit for 5-6 hours?
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One soy milk please, shaken not stirred
Taken from "On His Majesty's Secret Service"
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Have you ever heard of anyone who does this annotation crap outside of school? Is it a woman thing? I don't get it
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Anything suspenseful, mysterious, and a bit creepy would be perfect!!
The last 75 or so pages had my heart feeling like it was about to beat out of my chest, I have never before felt that level of fear for such a prolonged period of time; it was like the feeling right after a near miss on the road, only it kept going. It was incredible and completely got me hooked on horror novels.
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To discuss your weekly readings of books? Textbooks and papers.
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Word limit should be low, because of the average attention span of the site.
topic? topic free?
or maybe a monthly writing prompt thread, under 500 words, or over, idc.
I make constant new reddit accounts and dont have a reddit main, i always end up getting banned or cross banned so i dont use /r/writingprompts,and /lit/ sucks
i'm not a writer, not in the least, but it could be fun
i am anonymous, and i wont make fun of anyones poor writing. im sure mine will be shit, too. nothing to be ashamed of
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The Mahabharata Saga came in today. For a $78 price tag it is huge holy shit.
10 volumes, almost 400 pages each, the last two volumes reaching 800 pages each
Also, fits in snugly into my little book rack
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!bookworms it turns out Meloni is a huge Tolkien fan, so naturally The Economist journos decided to write about it.
https://txtify.it/https://econ.trib.al/k4Sh5eC
Here's the article text.
Youtubercels discuss
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I'm looking for book recs on the development and implementation of drone warfare. I'm interested in books that are pro and against, fiction and nonfiction, especially from earlier (80s? 90s? 00s?) when it was a more contentious topic/there was more debate.
I know nothing about this and want to learn
Thank you