I'm beating the jannies to the punch for that sweet, sweet dramacoin
I'm reading This Kind of War a history of the Korean War recommended by Mattis. It's an older book so has some very dated terminology, and an older way of thinking. But pretty solid so far, very play by play.
I've been on a huge non-fiction kick recently reading Rampage (about Japan in the Philippines.) A book about the fall of Japan whose name I don't remember
and before that The Franco Prussian War by Wawro. I've liked all of them with Rampage being the hardest to read due to crazy Japanese crimes. I think the last fiction book I read was Medicus a Roman murder mystery that was really enjoyable.
Dramatards what y'all reading?
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Reading Dox Quixote, laughing my butt off at the jokes because I didn’t realize a guy from 1500s Spain could be be so funny.
Also just a great book if you want internet/culture parallels, it’s really obvious in that story how media content (books about chivalry) can delude a person and drive them insane. Look online for a few minutes and you can see lunatics who are crazy in just the same way, thinking they know everything about the world because they have read some story or seen a meme.
Amazing how Don Quixote always has an explanation handy too, you can break his body but his spirit is constantly iron clad. You can’t convince him he’s not a knight, and everything that happens to him fits neatly into his chivalry worldview. Reminds me of someone I’ve seen online….
I like it a lot because it’s about illusion, perception and obsession, just like another book I love (Moby Peepee)
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