To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I started reading “Los Premios” by Julio Cortázar 
set in the 1950s it's about a bunch of porteños who won tickets to a cruiser ship to somewhere (they have no idea where). First chapter the passengers all meet each other at the London City cafeteria in Buenos Aires (that places still exists, it's located between Av de Mayo and Av Perú, they have a wonderful tea and deserts but are kind of expensive) then they're escorted by the police to the ship at the port, a ship called Malcolm, none of the passengers knows where they're going, the officers refuse to tell them at the first day and I'm getting some White Lotus vibes from the passengers and their companions. I'm also reading “ Tratamento de Água – Concepção, Projeto e Operação de Estações de Tratamento” a textbook on water treatment because of work related stuff.
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Got to the 5th book of the Gor cycle and I'm bored now it's basically just coomer stuff. I wanted dudes fighting monsters and unveiling political plots, and it's been 200 pages of detailed notes on this dudes fantasy intercourse slave society. Incidentally, you can tell there was a no-edit clause in the contract because he keeps saying "incdentally" twice in the same run-on sentence, incidentally.
My advice, just read Conan instead.
Rereading Dune and Dune Messiah to remind myself what changed between the films and the book. Saw part 2 recently and it was ok, but I definitely preferred the book.
Gonna read Siddhartha on the plane later. I really enjoyed The Glass Bead Game when I read it over a decade ago. Might read Serpent's Walk if I can find an epub of it
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