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Turner Diaries
A crudely written dystopia about whitey's guerilla resistance in a judeocracy.
It's got parallels to real life events and some intricacies about the details, but other than that it doesn't amount to much.
 
I’m about to start this book. I utterly loathe the Leftists, so this book better not disappoint me.

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lurk said:
finished metaphysics of war by julius evola. basically its a series of articles evola wrote around the early years of WW2 mainly just putting out his philosophical and political ideas. easier to digest than his touted book revolt.

now, on to medieval chivalry by richard kaeuper. this book covers the rise (the martial elites forming into their own class) and fall (royals eagerness to beknight anyone willing to donate a few bars of gold) of chivalry and what the knights actually thought and believed at the time.
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I might give it a read, curious how deep he goes in arguing for a spiritual aspect of war.
While I take the side of transcendental empiricism because often hierarchies are imposed any explanation of the spiritual, I also want to see what dialectical binary he would impose.
 
minty said:
think ima try to get over 100 books this year?
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i am gonna end up blowing this out of the water i think...
i had read some shorter/faster to read books and i've been using a notebook to keep track of what i read n i found myself abt halfway through february with an equal share of days in and books read so i was like fuck it let's book sprint
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34 books in feb. a nice mix mostly consisting of people freezing to death in the mountains, junji ito, and outdoorsey/garden stuff
with 11 in jan i'm at 45 now. gonna go with long, slow books for march. i got thucydides' peloponnesian war n les miserables.
notable books this month:
the two david lynch books room to dream and catching the big fish. it was nice to hear his voice again
hadrian's wall book was nice. antonine plague is often overlooked
chasing the devil had audio interviews with bundy n green river gary, a nice addition
dark victory was a lovely book about the mca corporation, its mob ties, and how a bunch of their lackeys behind the scenes pushed reagan into politics while he sold out sag from within and then gutted the government's mob and drug fighting capabilities while touting a "tough on drugs n crime" front
dark age ahead was about the direction society has slowly been turning, with the credentialization of universities and shit policies being passed that are out of touch with the actual needs people in towns have. an interesting story in the book which the author stated was how a chicago heat wave killed a large number of elderly and the cdc sent 80 people n the conclusions reached were "well they didn't turn their ac on" but an actual real human person came out and interviewed around where one area of the elderly people who had a high death rate lived and then an area where the elderly died less. discovthe area where they died more had less open air restaurants, shaded areas, and sense of community in the neighborhood. shockingly, the area where more elderly people survived had closer community where neighbors checked up on each other, and more walkable shaded areas. this person who did this interviewing wrote a separate book, and i have downloaded it. i am expecting it to be the spiritual successor to stephen johnson's ghost map, what with the going around and finding the actual cause instead of just shouting "it's the miasma that did it!" over and over again. dark age ahead also dunks on "just add another lane bro. an 8th lane would fix traffic bro" city 'engineers'
the ant architecture book is fascinating
all in all a lovely book month
 
I'm actually going to try to wake up from my multi-year / decade long coma if I'm going to have a chance at a successful relationship. So I'm going to try my hand at actually reading some books.

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The Odyssey and Iliad are my dad's old books from the 50's or 60's and people have been telling me to read the bible, so I might as well go with the children's version since I apparently never grew up.
 
Iain Banks' Wasp Factory

Typical Iain Banks book, the man had a very creative mind when it comes to gruesome death. If you're not gonna read it anyway, have my favorite part so far:

Flies had got into the ward, presumably when the air-conditioning had been faulty earlier. They had got underneath the stainless steel of the child’s skull-cap and deposited their eggs there. What Eric saw when he lifted that plate up, what he saw with all that weight of human suffering above, with all that mighty spread of closed-in, heat-struck darkened city all around, what he saw with his own skull splitting, was a slowly writhing nest of fat maggots, swimming in their combined digestive juices as they consumed the brain of the child.
 
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