To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, papers, etc.
I’ve been very slow this week, currently should start act III of Hamlet. So far is very good. It looks like Ophelia has BPD, and if I had to choose, Claudius seems much saner than Hamlet even if wicked, and therefore a better ruler. Queen Gertrude is a c*nt though.
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I'm reading Fukuyama's The End of History and sperg-reviewing it to
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harass those commies, king.
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You WILL be forced to read my sperg posting about chinamen pseudo intellectuals and you WILL like it.
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Fukuyama is great, I read his book “the origins of political order”.
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Camus' The Stranger. Kind of a downer so far.
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It do be sunny out there
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Isn't it all so ABSURD
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I want to read that one at some point. I’ve been learning french since the pandemic
and it’s time to give it some use lmao.
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It's really good but La Chute is better.
Reading Le Premier homme made me wish Sartre had died instead
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I have “La Peste” downloaded on Kindle. Should I begin with that one or with L’Etranger?
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I would say L'Etranger. I just read his works in the order he wrote them.
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Merci, je vais lire ses livres après finir ma liste actuelle
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The Worm Ouroborous by E.R Eddison from 1922.
Made Tolkien seethe with the lack of morality in it but he also recommended it because it was pretty darn good.
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I've been reading The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson for about the past month. It started off well with an interesting universe but towards the middle started to slow down and get a bit boring. I'll power through it at some point.
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my fave stephenson book
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I like the part where the nanorobots are like viruses and immune systems
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Who here was reading Moby Peepee again? I just watched the Ron Howard movie about it and now I want to read it
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That would be me
I finished it a month ago. Great novel, but I can see why many people don’t like it. People get a wrong first impression on what this book is actually about.
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Thanks
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rereading hyperion series because i wanted pulp sci fi, it doesnt really hold up and the last 2 books are so much worse than the first 2 that i might quit reading soon
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I only listened to the first one lol
I enjoyed it at the time but then I was a lot younger. Even then, I realized how corny it was, but I love a bit of corn
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the first ones still p fun imo but im real forgiving of sci fi, im three quarters through the fourth and just skipping whole paragraphs to get it over with tho
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"The emigrants" by Vilhelm Moberg
A Swedish classic about a peasant family emigrating to America.
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Boutta read some book called the Yukon trail or whatever. Bout a guy going to Klondike for the gold rush and his journey in 1897
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Now watch
roman 
polanskis hamlet
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Wasn’t it Macbeth? Still looks good. I want to watch the Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet.
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You are correct. I was drunk. Not fun fact: Polanski was directing macbeth during the tate- la bianca murders.
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Well, that’s sad
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I'm continuing to read An Immense World, which is about the variety of animal senses and how those senses determine how various animals perceive the world around them.
Just finished a chapter on "vibrations", stuff like surface waves, which was really interesting. Lots of stuff about animals that can feel other animals nearby from their footsteps, plus a bunch of insects that use plant stems as a sort of communication network by vibrating the stem (similar to voice/hearing, except via a solid medium like a plant and not air). Very fetch.
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Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and various
novels
Sadly ive been heavily addicted to caffiene and youtube im trying to recover and get better but its a hard road
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Rifters trilogy Peter watts
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Just started Killing Floor. I liked the Reacher series and want to check if I like the books as well.
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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Mein Kampf directors cut
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