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Dramacrat
Been re-reading too many books I've read before lately, so I mashed the randomiser button in my eBook library software and picked the four first books that were under 500 pages.
Starting off with what I prefer to call "In the budoir of the goblin sluts", which I'm 95% sure is self-published, will make a short review if I can be bothered to finish the entirety of its 239 page length.
Edit:
Scratch the review, this is shite.
Book is Oathbreaker Goblin's Allure by Montgomery Quinn if anyone else will brave it. @ZZZandeRRR
Didn't even make it to the appearance of any goblin bitches, lusty or otherwise - very evidently self-published, no editor listed either. I've read a bit of LLM generated content and this seems genuinely humanly bad
Starting off with what I prefer to call "In the budoir of the goblin sluts", which I'm 95% sure is self-published, will make a short review if I can be bothered to finish the entirety of its 239 page length.
Edit:
Scratch the review, this is shite.
Book is Oathbreaker Goblin's Allure by Montgomery Quinn if anyone else will brave it. @ZZZandeRRR
Didn't even make it to the appearance of any goblin bitches, lusty or otherwise - very evidently self-published, no editor listed either. I've read a bit of LLM generated content and this seems genuinely humanly bad
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minty
runs bartertown
i am still mainlining audiobooks
i have started and finished gilles deleuze and felix guattari's anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia
this is a very verbose book to sum up, buuut the basic idea is that capitalism produces the madness that psychoanalysts blame the parents for in the oedipal triangle of mommy, daddy, me by putting boss and the state in place of mother and father. with this system all pervasive (written in 1972, it even chastizes the soviet union for still keeping the daddy-state) people tend to mentally castrate themselves by going along and worshipping the system.
i next, for a bit of a breather, listened to shadow over innsmouth. because fishmen.
i have also gotten further in potato book. the current chapter covers ireland's relationship with the potato, detailing how the irish peasant class lived and worked and i love it because it's not huge chunks describing plant leaves
currently listening to michel foucault's madness and civilization. about halfway through. this one's about how society, after learning it could take the lepers and put them elsewhere, decided afterwards to just do that with poor beggers and mentally unwell people... with the actual criminals. because what would brighten a suicidal person's day better than being shoved in a cell half-naked with a pile of straw to sleep on with a murderer for a cellmate? maybe making them work 14 hours a day with a 20 minute break for gruel? yeh, that should fix 'em right up
i have started and finished gilles deleuze and felix guattari's anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia
this is a very verbose book to sum up, buuut the basic idea is that capitalism produces the madness that psychoanalysts blame the parents for in the oedipal triangle of mommy, daddy, me by putting boss and the state in place of mother and father. with this system all pervasive (written in 1972, it even chastizes the soviet union for still keeping the daddy-state) people tend to mentally castrate themselves by going along and worshipping the system.
i next, for a bit of a breather, listened to shadow over innsmouth. because fishmen.
i have also gotten further in potato book. the current chapter covers ireland's relationship with the potato, detailing how the irish peasant class lived and worked and i love it because it's not huge chunks describing plant leaves
currently listening to michel foucault's madness and civilization. about halfway through. this one's about how society, after learning it could take the lepers and put them elsewhere, decided afterwards to just do that with poor beggers and mentally unwell people... with the actual criminals. because what would brighten a suicidal person's day better than being shoved in a cell half-naked with a pile of straw to sleep on with a murderer for a cellmate? maybe making them work 14 hours a day with a 20 minute break for gruel? yeh, that should fix 'em right up
squiggles
Ediot
that reminds me of the stories of Port Arthur prison and asylum back in the 1830's. people weren't allowed to talk and had blinders put on them when they were taken to church on Sundays. somehow this was thought to be beneficial to people to be forced to be penitent. if not, he's possessed by the devil so fuck him.
minty
runs bartertown
i have finished second foucault book... lots of rambling about how mania n melancholia were influenced by which humors. long story short tho, after more factories were built they stopped putting poor ppl into confinement. then they were like "why are we housing these people who see demons with the child rapists?" and built asylums
i have downloaded do androids dream of electric sheep? and the king in yellow
i have downloaded do androids dream of electric sheep? and the king in yellow
i doubt you will found an audiobook of if it but there's a book called Foucalt in Warsaw abt how he was set up as a big ol' pederast by polish secret police and it made him disillusioned with communism among other things
man literally abandoned an ideology because of underage bussy
minty
runs bartertown
it's available as paperback on amazon. ordering it after work
a lot of us commies dislike state socialism. soviets are only perfect when i have to post stalin memes at shitlibs. utopian marx said abt the state would wither away n i never bought that. ppl with power who like having power will always find ways to maintain it. every conversation i have with a marxist-leninist leads to "you'd get the wall" or "you need to self-crit"
just as annoying as the anarcho-liberal whores who say they would be a sex worker in the commune. no, rebecca.
anyways lunch rant over, thoroughly enjoying the android book
minty
runs bartertown
i have finished android book, and am thoroughly in agreement with the main character that the purchase of a goat would be life-changing, and bring joy to myself and those around me, and my joy about my goat purchase could even prevent weaker people from committing suicide
i have also listened to tolstoy's death of ivan ilyich, and that was interesting. the jealousy and hatred the character felt towards his family as he withered away is... understandable but petty and cruel.
lastly, listened the the king in yellow, which i absolutely loved and adored. i know it influenced lovecraft's work (tho he did the necronomicon as his overarching madness-driving book) but i prefer the idea of a play driving people mad. just a lovely book
i've next downloaded plato's apology, spinoza's ethics, and slavoj's pandemic
i have also listened to tolstoy's death of ivan ilyich, and that was interesting. the jealousy and hatred the character felt towards his family as he withered away is... understandable but petty and cruel.
lastly, listened the the king in yellow, which i absolutely loved and adored. i know it influenced lovecraft's work (tho he did the necronomicon as his overarching madness-driving book) but i prefer the idea of a play driving people mad. just a lovely book
i've next downloaded plato's apology, spinoza's ethics, and slavoj's pandemic
Lovecraft
Dramacrat
Started listening to It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
Read it as a kid maybe 25 years ago, and it made an impression then, despite it being a somewhat more optimistic time.
Listening to it as an audiobook now it retains the impact from its original publishing 89 years ago, and is perhaps more relevant than ever. Frequently banned in third world schools for some reason.
Following it up with On The Beach by Nevil Shute, another book that made an impression on me as a kid without featuring either Wizards nor superluminal travel.
Read it as a kid maybe 25 years ago, and it made an impression then, despite it being a somewhat more optimistic time.
Listening to it as an audiobook now it retains the impact from its original publishing 89 years ago, and is perhaps more relevant than ever. Frequently banned in third world schools for some reason.
Following it up with On The Beach by Nevil Shute, another book that made an impression on me as a kid without featuring either Wizards nor superluminal travel.
minty
runs bartertown
on the way to waterpark i listen to plato's apology
standard socrates courtroom rhetoric
on the way back listened to the enchiridion by epictetus. i prefer stoicism myself, mostly. the narrator was a fag tho n pronounced his name episeetus and then later epictotis. it's only an hr n a half i dunno how he managed to bungle the name that badly, repeatedly at that
stopped by the bookstore n holy fukken shit they had sartre's being and nothingness and jung's the undiscovered self. will have to delve into those after the potato book. tomorrow's audiobook timeline will start off with wittgenstein n then probably finish with spinoza
standard socrates courtroom rhetoric
on the way back listened to the enchiridion by epictetus. i prefer stoicism myself, mostly. the narrator was a fag tho n pronounced his name episeetus and then later epictotis. it's only an hr n a half i dunno how he managed to bungle the name that badly, repeatedly at that
stopped by the bookstore n holy fukken shit they had sartre's being and nothingness and jung's the undiscovered self. will have to delve into those after the potato book. tomorrow's audiobook timeline will start off with wittgenstein n then probably finish with spinoza
George_Ramirez_1997
proud elo terrorist
Read Blood Meridian and was sold by the main bad guy. To put it short, Judge Holden is the (potentially?) real-life counterpart to the Tyrant from Resident Evil, mixed with enough sadism to dedicate his life to roving around Mexico and America murdering people for fun. Alot of the violence in the book feels senseless, but I somewhat feel it's meant to be that way. I was certainly entertained by the Judge and he felt like the archetype of the "Agent of Chaos" but done right.
I also got back my copy of House of Leaves that I lent to a coworker. She didn't really understand it, so I guess I'm glad it wasn't just me who struggled to make sense of that damn house.
tl;dr read Blood Meridian if you want a fictional story about marauders doing horrible shit during the Mexican-American War
I also got back my copy of House of Leaves that I lent to a coworker. She didn't really understand it, so I guess I'm glad it wasn't just me who struggled to make sense of that damn house.
tl;dr read Blood Meridian if you want a fictional story about marauders doing horrible shit during the Mexican-American War
minty
runs bartertown
listened to and greatly enjoyed spinoza's ethics... has some overlap with some of the previous philosophy books i've been mainlining lately
he refered to humans as beings ran on desire and that reminded me of anti-oedipus as deleuze refers to people as "desiring machines"
i have a strong desire to write an essay comparing the two works with something outlined in erich fromm's the sane society.
wittgenstein is a math book in a philosophy book's outfit, i feel.
felt odd listening to the enchiridion, wittgenstein's tractatus, and then spinoza's ethics one right after another as they all were simple one sentence breakdowns instead of narrative formats. there was a... tediousness listening to "4.1.145" and such through wittgenstein followed by "proposition 40" over n over in spinoza...
also listened to macchiavelli's "the prince" today and feel the hype around it is a bit misleading? there was a looooot in there that had nothing to do with manipulativeness? comparison between using your own people vs mercenaries for armies, for example (your populace is fighting for their homes and families which brings a loyalty to them that money-grubbing mercs belonging to whoever pays the most cannot replicate)
halfway through the slavoj books
he refered to humans as beings ran on desire and that reminded me of anti-oedipus as deleuze refers to people as "desiring machines"
i have a strong desire to write an essay comparing the two works with something outlined in erich fromm's the sane society.
wittgenstein is a math book in a philosophy book's outfit, i feel.
felt odd listening to the enchiridion, wittgenstein's tractatus, and then spinoza's ethics one right after another as they all were simple one sentence breakdowns instead of narrative formats. there was a... tediousness listening to "4.1.145" and such through wittgenstein followed by "proposition 40" over n over in spinoza...
also listened to macchiavelli's "the prince" today and feel the hype around it is a bit misleading? there was a looooot in there that had nothing to do with manipulativeness? comparison between using your own people vs mercenaries for armies, for example (your populace is fighting for their homes and families which brings a loyalty to them that money-grubbing mercs belonging to whoever pays the most cannot replicate)
halfway through the slavoj books
macchiavelli had quite the reputation amongst the people of florence so ppl who knew him already formed an opinion on him without even reading the treaty, then church put it on the banned list so nobody could print or copy it and actually familiarize themselves with the work so the infamy grew
christ
who is this?
did you?
10/10 would read again. my favorite part was when Boomer had an anonymous exchange with Deepthroater in chapter 17, it was like that one animu with the killer notebook.