To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, papers, etc.
I started Lolita this week, I’m currently on page 61. I have no idea why some people believe this is a p-do apologia, it took me only 10 pages to feel completely disgusted by Humbert Humbert, especially when he started talking about his “nymphets” 
. But as with Charles Kinbote, I have to say Humbert is a super funny narrator, the way he trashes Mrs Haze at every opportunity, so bitchy and so manipulative lmao, which makes him much scarier than Kinbote, who was unmistakably a schizo to everyone around him.
Sometimes I can’t believe Nabokov was Russian, his dominion over the English Language is quite impressive, even if he grew up in a trilingual environment, typical of the Russian aristocracy.
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Finishing up Killers of the Flower Moon
in preparation for this October's kino. I must be able to smugly tell the pedestrians in my life that I read the book, therefore I am more qualified to give critique and am a more intelligent and worthwhile human 
But it's actually a really great book. It's @KinoHashira's first time reading literary journ*lism and it flows so fricking smoothly. The story is tragic and will give you more reasons too hate mayos
That got me on a Native American bend, so I ordered Empire of the Sun which I'll read next
Trans lives matter in Tomahawk
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If you want to read about mayos getting mogged by feather then read The Comanche Empire which is a history book about the Comanche terrorizing the frontiers.
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That's interesting. As allegedly woke as academia is I distinctly recall from working in bookstores, you have a hard time finding "The American Indian Genocide Book," or even interesting stuff about how their attacks on whites really worked at different times and places. Isn't "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" a very particular kind of moralizing? People like moralizing because they're weak and stupid and can't handle the truth.
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The Comanche Empire and Empire of the Summer Moon are good compliments. They present the Comanche story from two perspectives, The Comanche Empire presents the events as an extension of Native American history and is rooted in the Comanche perspective almost exclusively while Empire of the Summer Moon presents the Comanche story from the perspective of their victims, whites and other Native Americans. If only you only read the Comanche Empire then the Comanche will seem like valiant saviors which tragically lost. If you only read Empire of the Summer Moon then you'll see them as slavers and r*pers which deserved their defeat due to the hatred they fostered. You have to read both to understand the true story.
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Or to put is simply, reading of the Comanche wrecking whites with guns makes them look cool, learning those guns were bought through selling girls as s*x slaves to the Spanish removes the romanticism.
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GOOD book
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That trailer looks so awesome
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It's been delayed for like 2 years now but @KinoHashira is only even more hype after reading it.
I was actually really surprised by the casting choices because uhhLeo plays the villain
Trans lives matter in Tehran
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