Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #84

I prefer to COOM to hardcore TORRENTED videos of hot SLUTS throwing away their dignity and exposing themselves online. But sheeit sometimes I read to GOON. Here are some gooning deep cuts:

• 50 Shades of Grey

• The Giving Tree

• The Fault in Our Stars

• I know why the caged bird sings

• The dictionary

I aint religious but sheeit sometimes I be getting into that gooner literature. Read Songs of Solomon and respect that GOONERS were going hard during Biblical Times. I respect that, I even had Latter Day Gooner Cult tryna recruit me. But nah they're too stuffy and formal. I strive to be the wildest gooner on earth with Instagram and Twitter fame, my own wiki page and shit. Maybe even meet Jayman079 one day and leave a path for the next generation of gooners to follow and GOON to their full potential and beyond.

Steve Coll is back baby

Incidentally found out my dogs breed (Scandinavian elkhound) is the only baseline breed that bred with another set of wolf DNA way later than others.

Most dogs come from one or two base wolf genetics from Eastern Europe (and maybe one in western) and Elkhounds had one extra pass 30k yrs after. They have a narrower face and are grey

I'm reading "Petersburg" as part of the book club but also finished "Afgantsy".

@Cantor_Dust I highly recommend Afgantsy to you, is not a dry military textbook but rather covers the regular life of the military and civilian Soviet staff during the occupation and it's political aspects.

At some point Soviet soldiers were trading AK-47 cartridges (sabotaged of course) in exchange for levy's jeans and other western consoomer goods they could find in the afghan bazaars and then sell it in the USSR's black market. There's also a chapter named "The Nationbuilders", the Soviets forcefully recruited language students from the universities as translators, and brought Komsomol officials to help indoctrinate the Afghan youth (with little to no success). There's a chapter covering Soviet foids who ranged from doctors and nurses to secretaries who according to soldiers where there to find a husband (in one of the interviews a Russian foid said "I'm 32 and I'm lonely, so yes what's wrong if that's why I came here for").

!historychads

I read Harassment Architecture. Mike Ma comes off as a seething cosmopolitan twink

Its been a bit since I checked in.

@weiguksa I finished Sorrows of Young Werther and I really did not enjoy it. A lot of the nature writing was nice, but the cultural differences between 18th century Germany and today made the whole thing bizarre. Very weird to think that people thought Werther creepily hanging around Lotte and randomly bursting into tears was admirable.

I read All the Pretty Horses, which absolutely kicked butt. Definitely recommended this for anyone that likes Americana. This one just falls out of my absolutely top tier of books.

I've just started the Two Towers as my casual reader and I'm going to be starting East of Eden this week for my more serious reading.

This week I'm reading No Country For Old Men

Liking it so far

Just finished Addiction by Design.. only took two weeks longer then planned 😎.

It's pretty interesting, but I would have thought a book published in 2012 would have more info about electronic gambling. Maybe it was more primitive back then, then I thought it was

Gellhorn and Mann's Administrative Law.

I listened to Ushers by Joe Hill and it was pretty gay.

I've been reading Ministry for the Future. Which is pretty good. But the white woman author keeps having all the Indian characters say "do the needful." I've cataloged at least three instances.

Porn comics

I tried "Petersburg" but it was too Russian for me, my ruined attention span can't cope with 10 page descriptions of some guy heading to work.

Reading some other book about how the Oxford English Dictionary was created, can't remember the name rn

Just dropped "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" the man-child protag got on my nerves.

The Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb, the second book in the Farseer Trilogy. After that I'm reading Wind and Truth.