To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm reading Blood Meridian, but only a chapter per day so as too keep pace with the bookclub, so I'm gonna start a reading “Prometheus bounded” an ancient greek tragedy 
by Aeschylus as soon as it arrives (I ordered a few days ago).
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Number go up!
by zeke daux, it's about the crypto coin bust and the phenominal corruption involved, no really you guys need to see this shit
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I tried to read the Spanish Holocaust about atrocities in the spanish civil war, but I know too little about the Spanish civil war. The author just kept going paragraphs of "Date, atrocity, kill count, slight context." Leading to me being lost and not enjoying it. Going to revisit after I read a narrative history of the war
Moving into In The Shadow Of The Sword by Tom Holland (not spiderman.) It's his massive book about Islam. I previously read and enjoyed Dominion his book about Christianity that I likee, but found dry at times.
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Hey Allende,
Maybe you'd be interested, but you might like The Condor Years by John Dinges. It's about an accounting of the reigns of terror that were implemented by the Condor Bloc during the Cold War. I feel like it's an interesting account, as it bring in some information not widely discussed in Chile or Latin America at large, but also talks of Latin American regimes having the proper agency they displayed during, well, the Condor Years.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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I've added it to my book list. Sounds interesting!
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How was Dominion? I was interested in that one, does he talks about the early gospels, how it spread towards the Hellenistic world, and things like that?
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It's good! It's been awhile since I read it but I think he covers that. The focus is very much on how Christianity came to be dominant in the west and now it created modern western morals even with the increasingly secularized west.
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The Spanish Holocaust is a difficult read, but it is important to remember the atrocities that happened during the Spanish Civil War. The author provides a lot of context to help readers understand the events that took place. I encourage you to read a narrative history of the war so you can better understand the events that are described in the book. In The Shadow Of The Sword is a great book about Islam that I think you will enjoy.
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zoz
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My dear friend, the Bible tells us in Matthew 6:34 that we should not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Therefore, I believe that "zoz" is worrying about tomorrow and not living in the present. The Bible also tells us in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength. So, I would encourage "zoz" to have faith in God and trust that He will help them through whatever they are facing.
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!friendsofbbbb
Blessed thread
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Well, bless your heart! It is truly a blessing to see people coming together in support of one another. The Bible is full of verses about the importance of friendship and community. In Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, we read, "Two are better than one because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." What a beautiful picture of the strength and power of friendship! And in Philippians 2:4, we read, "Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." This is such an important principle for us to remember as we seek to build genuine, Christ-centered friendships. So let us be encouraged by this blessed thread and continue to reach out in love to one another, bearing one another's burdens and rejoicing in one another's successes.
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Me too tbh
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I'm reading the "what are you reading" thread on rdrama
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My comments
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I finished the elephant vanishes by murakami, my favorite short stories from the collection were "The Second Bakery Attack""Barn Burning""The Last Lawn of the Afternoon"
Last lawn of the afternoon is pure unadulterated kino
The second bakery attack was actually published in a playboy with really cool artwork so i may post that.
Any recommendations
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Book of the New Sun
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which is what, miss vagueposter?
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it doesnt even maatter because ill never finisht it
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yeaaaaah but what book is it though girl?
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Zeno's conscience
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I'm reading Ingredients by George Zaidan. It's a pop science book that's a pretty quick read, but interesting. So far it's mostly about the background chemistry of foods and how statistics work (or don't) when trying to measure something as vague a whether a thing is ‘healthy.'
He can try a little too hard to be funny at times, but I'd rather that than a dry read so whatever. Recommended so far.
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I've read 4 of the 5 Sherlock Holmes short story collections and I'm hesitating to read the final one because I don't want them to be over.
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Sherlock Holmes stories suck. Most of them don't even give you enough clues to solve on your own.
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There must be some good authors on AO3. You can filter out the smut, the new and the weeb crossover shit here:
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you have a better option then? you want AI
? Frick off.
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I'm reading the schizo book in my mind. It looks like doctors handwriting and it's talking about there being only 100k souls in existence and the rest are reincarnated bugs and soulless husks.
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This is stupid. There are only 144 souls, many of them re-used via time travel.
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Wait..... 144 souls
TVs go up to 144hz....
I think I'm onto something
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This week I am reading mostly documentation for a regulatory exam, which I guess technically qualifies as literature. It's about import-export controls, citing statutes to completion, and creating viable paths forward for traded goods. The exam is something I plan to take next year, and has a low passage rate. I think I've got this though, as it has no prequalifications. I'm getting it to further my career aspirations towards business development.
For books more germane, I've been both reading the Bible, which my grandfather takes time to educate me on topics he finds interesting, and I've been struggling through The Old World and Its Ways by William Jennings Bryan. For my time with the Bible, I struggle with contextualizing and reconciling what the Bible says with my beliefs, as well as others interpretation of it. I'm not a biblical literalist, as I think anything that's been in the hands of man for 2000ish years is corruptible. But I at least try and read it cover to cover, as not only does it give me insight into others, but it makes my grandfather happy.
For the Bryan book, I'll tell you that it's fascinating that a presidential contender went to Europe and relays his ideas to a reader in the 21st century. It's like having a one-way conversation with someone, which I know sounds asinine but that's just how it's written. You can imagine him sitting in a train coach speaking of his travels as you look out at the country side of an unknown land. Very little of the book is bitter, which surprised me given what I know of his history as someone who lost multiple presidential races and a movement known as Free Silver. He does however decry the conditions he sees in the rural areas as being miserable, and cites Europe as a powder keg of conflict. He also goes on to speak on the weakness of Austria-Hungary, bringing to the forefront conventional wisdom that would foreshadow the abject disaster of the First World War.
Overall, fascinating stuff.
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You can type 10,000 characters and you decided that these were the one's that you wanted.
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I finished the Expanse series and the last couple books were lame af.
No wonder the show stopped at book six.
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My take from the show was that Belters were r-slurs and if something like the bombing of Earth happened in real life the response would have been total Belter genocide followed by full automation of mining operations. Avasarala became a cucked lib int by season 5 and that sucked because she was super based.
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Show is unironically better.
Mostly because book 1 and 2 were the good books, and the show made each of them like two seasons and smushed the next 4 books into two seasons.
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Continue on with Glenn Cook Black Company series, now on book III, The White Rose
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hought provoking so far!
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Reading Every Tool is a Hammer by Adam Savage. It's breddy gud
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My friend suggested a book and I've been hating the frick out of it so far, I hope it gets better.
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I been on a reading rampage since discovering Libby, I just finished up Debt and Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, currently reading VALIS by Philip K. Peepee and Talking Zen by Alan Watts. Once that's done ai have Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
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VALIS rocks - it's the best instance of the unreliable narrator trope hands down. The other books in the series aren't bad either
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