I went back to reading Neil Price's vikings, the book has very interesting insights but holy shit, I didn't expect for him to dedicate 25 pages to viking gender fluidity (an entire chapter). He begins the chapter talking about how there were non-binary or “queer” people in their society, then he goes on talking about how homophobic and sexist viking society was, how ancient germanics and norse cultures used to shame and even kill men for engaging in homosexual acts, but then, he talks about a certain tomb found in sweden of a person dressed in armor, recent studies showed it was a woman and the author speculates whether it could have been a transgender lmao. Why do academics keep doing this projection into the past?

!macacos !historychads

O'Reilly Practical Deep Learning for Cloud, Mobile, and Edge because Im getting a cs degree and data science sounds way more interesting than software engineering.

!codecels tell me why im stupid for reading this and what i should be reading instead

I'm reading two books, Stand Up For America, and Hear Me Out, by George C. Wallace. Although I'm probably a moderate on the chud scale, I find it interesting that these people, who were once so influential over American life, have functionally no voice in history. I make it a point to read books by unpopular people, and to determine what their contribution was as opposed to PhD's looking at history with an axe to grind...

Anyhow, the book's prose leaves something to be desired, neither book is well written as either an autobiography or as a blueprint for America. It could be said that the books were for the campaign faithful, and perhaps only were meant to be read by layman. For the historical value, they're well worth reading. In a sense, Wallace predicts his own assassination attempt in a roundabout way, and also speaks of the radicalization of the black community against the white one. He also predicts that rich people would and have cornered influence from Washington to dismantle their way of life, and that if left unchecked would destroy regular, honest, God-fearing people. And he was right about that.

He did have a coherent voice on policy where you could hear it in the books. He was against the war in Vietnam in terms of putting troops on the ground. He didn't like Vietnam because of the aimless objectives in the war, and his opposition to Vietnam made him very popular, even in places like California. He also predicted that the Civil Rights Act would be used as a pretext in some years to abridge rights of white people and create unaccountable standards for white students and university goers while holding no one else to those standards.

Wallace of course would later go on to recant his views on race after he was shot during his presidential run by Arthur Bremmer, who is still alive. Bremmer had no reason to do it, and in fact was campaigning for Wallace up until a few months before he shot the governor.

Anyhow, the books are no longer in print, so I'm sure at some point this will be lost to time. But it is creepy to see that Wallace and his ilk could see the future, but LBJ, Nixon, Reagan all missed that crystal ball reading. Not that it matters, and not that I'd have it happen any other way. Just makes you think.

I'll ping !historychads on this one.

Started book 3 of LOTR and shit's really poppin off

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti , I'm not far enough in to say how good it is in total but the first few stories were spooky

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy Winegard, very interesting, more focus on warfare and how mosquitos have effected it

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, kino, can't believe I never read this

China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon

Just finished it recently. It's an amazing book, a wonderful primer about China's economy and how it differs from America's. It's not going to have any really groundbreaking info if you already know a lot about China, but a great introduction if you don't.

Graveyard Apartment . A Japanese Horror novel.

Just starting to go through Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. I find it interesting that he was writing during his failed engagement since I just went through that myself, so I'll take it as a sign that it's about time I took the leap of faith and read some Kierkegaard.

I'm reading a non-fiction book about weather.

It's amazing how much is going on around us, that we normally just ignore!

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Just finished The Great Migration. Might read The Screwtape Letters next

A friend recommended the Sophus Helle translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh. I'm enjoying it overall so far. It can be hard to tell the intended tone of a text without its cultural context, but I found the sequence where the priestess fricks the hairy wild-man Enkidu and then the animals don't like him anymore pretty funny. The fragmented nature of the text can make it a bit frustrating. I understand why publishers don't just invent text to fill the gaps, but reading it feels more like a historical project or a school assignment than an ordinary book.

Brene Brown- Dare to Lead

The ability to get along with people and society is pretty valuable. Better plant that tree today.

what am I reading? What every human being should be forced to read...

I'm reading Blindboy's Topographia Hibernica. I like his short stories, kinda reminds me of Irving Welsh mixed with Vonnegut.

V. Slowly working through Henryk Sienkiewicz's Polish trilogy. Unfortunately the only existing English translation was done with the 19th century equivalent of Google translate, but when my zoomer brain doesn't make me stare at a computer screen blankly for hours, it's a great romp through removing hohol, removing swede, and removing kebab.

Jan Zagloba is also an absolutely top tier character in any book

I'm rereading Call of the Wild, such a great story

anyone know the best method to learn Esperanto?

It's on my bucket list, but haven't been successful.

Is just using DuoLingo the best way.

Asking in the bookcels thread because you're wordcels.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45047384-the-house-in-the-cerulean-sea

It's really gay, and kind of bland, read it for a book club with friends

For reasons I'm not quite sure of myself I've decided to read The Ring. I hate most of the characters in it so I'm rooting for the ghost.

Couple Magazines you know how I bee!!!!!! Buzz Buzz!!!!

GOD BLESS

I've been reading The Werewolf of Paris. Shit's weird

Finished watching “the fall of Minneapolis” it was pretty goood