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I’m still reading Moby Dic, currently halfway through, so far is great, though as English is not my native language It means I have to look up quite a bit in the dictionary to learn the “old timey” words, but I’m using it less now the more I learn, it also made me check up the Bible to find the biblical counterparts of the characters with biblical names, which is interesting.
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I've been making an effort to read more this year. So far I've read Industrial Society And Its Future, and The War of The Worlds. Im currently reading The Hagakure. I don't have any interest in samurai, but I heard about the book in a song and it seemed interesting. The translation I'm reading came with a cool introductory chapter to explain the historical context. It's a samurai philosophy book, written in the middle of a 200 year period of peace. My main takeaway so far is that samurai are fricking crazy. The author wanted to self immolate after his lord died, but they made it illegal so he became a monk and abandoned his wife
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I'm enjoying it so far. Bushido/Samurai culture is so alien to me, a lot of what I'm reading seems like nonsense. It's still really interesting.
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