Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #78

Just started the wealth of nations by Adam Smith

Only one chapter in but what was once revolutionary for its time seems common sense today

As I progress I'll be looking for where the economy diverged from his vision and think about whether it was for better or worse

!neolibs !neocon !anticommunists

Didn't have time to read so still stuck on Harry Potter 3. There is a plot line in this book where Hermione says divination is bullshit and makes all the usual arguments. Y'know, predictions are intentionally vague, they dress up obvious/known things, they only come true because of the reaction to the prediction itself and so on. Which would be fair enough... if magic wasn't literally real in that world Hermione, you are literally time traveling, why is it so hard to believe that it's possible to see glimpses of the future? 😭😭😭

!bookworms Anyone have a good one and done fantasy book for me to read on the plane?

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

FulMedamas? FulHamas? FulChristmas in my mouth? I love it. The taste makes my tongue COOM

Not reading anything given how sad I am this weekend, only bad things after bad things happening irl

Eu queria te perguntar umas coisas sobre livros caso essa desgraça de PC meu funcionasse, depois eu te mando uma mp sobre esse assunto de leitura e literatura

I've got a few irons in the fire right now.

I'm wrapping up Andrew Robert's Napoleon biography "Napoleon, A Life" which was incredibly interesting. I'm currently on the Waterloo campaign so our boy Napoleon is on his last leg.

I've also recently started Lord of the Rings. I've never read it and only seen the movies as a child so this is really my first experience outside of second hand cultural consumption. Very fun writing. Those plucky little fellers just met Tom Bombadill

I also started reading Godel, Escher, Bach. I'm just through the 20th anniversary forward. Seems like it's going to be fricking weird as heck.

Finally, my wife got me a cookbook called 6 Seasons about cooking with seasonal vegetables. It's got a lot of technique and veggie growing/selecting advice so I'm planning on reading it cover to cover.

Read "The Case of the Perjured Parrot", a Perry Mason novel. First time reading one, Erle Stanley Gardner is very dialogue heavy, but it made the book a pretty breezy read. I'll check out some of his other stuff when I have some time

I've started reading Piers Anthony, mostly because I saw someone on reddit crying about how they realized that he was hecking problematic and they couldn't believe they ever enjoyed his books

It's far from great literature, but both as enjoyable and as exhausting as an acid trip. I doubt I'll read all six million books he wrote but I'm not bored quite yet either.

I got a new puppy so reading this book by these Monks in New York that raise German Shepards

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57258037-the-art-of-raising-a-puppy

I want to do an effort post on reddit seethe about Cesar Milan

What's wrong with the frog's eyes?

O! Pioneers by Willa Cather, amazing novel about life in the 1800s in the west.

I've been reading Lenin's Tomb, a really good history on the last days of the Soviet Union that also blends in the author and his family's personal experiences living in the 80's Soviet Union. I thought it was a gem when he perfectly predicted that a leader like Putin would come up to lead Russia in the preface.

LOTM, circle of inevitability.

I don't go on long bus rides anymore so I only read a chapter or 2 a day.

The setups take forever but I love the climaxes. The power system is also amazing.

Heck Mode

History of politalogy

read A city and it's uncertain walls,

then read the hunger games book 1, it was good. My partner made a deal and said they will read a murakami novel for this.

on to throne of glass for my book club (I'm full of hate and spite)

I finished the first 3 Mountain Man books, they were fun popcorn books. Nothing too deep but overall a good time. Started to hate the main character in the second book, but that was by design. Third book was probably my least favorite but worth a read if you want something easy and enjoy zombie stuff.