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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm about to finish Confessions of a Mask, I'll post a review once it's done. I also bought this book
“Rise and Reign of Mammals”, is by Steve Brusatte, and American paleontologist, his book about dinosaurs was good.
Also @kaamrev it's pass 4pm at Cape Town so you can't complain about timing. Most euros are awake too and soon so will the West-Coastcels
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"The Once and Future King" by TH White.
I didn't really know anything about this book before I started. Despite being a well-written fantasy doorstopper recounting the legend of King Arthur, it's at least 50% a pisstake set in an extremely anachronistic world. I mostly find it clever rather than laugh-out-loud funny, but every now and then a line really gets me.
Considering this is the best known modern King Arthur book, I have no idea what the most recent "straight" telling is. As a burger I didn't really grow up knowing anything about King Arthur, but I'm not sure if it's still a universal touchstone for young bongs. What do people tend to read?
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I loveeeeee that book holy shit. My grandpa gave it to me as a kid.
Nostalgia 
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King Arthur had many adaptations. Not about King Arthur himself but one of the most famous arthurian legend romances is “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, it was written in middle-english and is earlier than Chaucer so the language is rough for modern readers but there certainly are modern translations.
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Tolkien has a good translation imo
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