book thread

Quence said:
One cannot martyr herself. It can only happen if someone else martyrs you because of your unshakable belief in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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And thus, quence decided that reading a book was a fate worse than death and committed martyrdom for the cause.
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i have finished history n social influence of the potato
only took... 3(?) yrs?
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8/10 there were a few pages missing i should probs buy a physical copy
 
few days late but i made it through poirot's christmas. i liked it well enough. i like that the dude who gets killed had a stash of uncut gems in a safe that he would periodically pull out n just roll them around in his hands, cuz guuuuurrrrl same
 
yeh, that movie n book are completely separate entities. verhoeven has had many years to re-read it n understand it's basically a philosophy book n dig any deeper but still refuses to do so. love how "controversial" is on the cover...
because "if you aren't willing to go join the war, you don't get to vote to send others off for it" is a spicy take n not just surface level commentary from anybody with a brain who has lived in america and seen a war hawk politician

i can't slander the film too hard tho. clancy brown is just way too good in everything
 
nah the movie's good. my problem with Verhoeven is that he's a lazy yesman. SST being fascist is a runaway meme that people bought into long way before he came along. and so did he, without even bothering to read it. and you'll hear people say "Verhoeven understood SST better than Heinlein ever did". no he didn't. he's just a yesman giving them what they want, reaffirming the meme.

if there's anything that can be remarked about SST is that Heinlein fetishizes the army way too much (boys will be boys, after all), and that army being efficient and logical is peak fiction to anyone that ever served in it. this actually pissed off a Nam vet so much that he wrote this as a response:

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you should read this @minty , he's often in prolonged cryostasis, during which the society moves on, in one moment he wakes up to find that the government genetically engineered everyone to be homos as a population growth control, and some heterophobe tries to shank him:
 
found it in the audiobook shop.
i have no idea what to start listening to first this yr...

i did get me some neat stuff for holiday that i'm looking forward to that isn't audio n i will have to sit n actually read
Leilah Wendell's Our Name is Melancholy
John Blair's Killing the Dead
Nigel Cawthorne's Public Executions

i also snagged another alchemy book when i was last at the bookstore (i always go to the bookstore. and the craft store)
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Quence said:
That's what counts in terms of READING books.
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y'know, after hassling me abt my tarot cards n heathen jewelry in the other thread, i really woulda thought you woulda ran with the perfectly good leilah wendell bait i left in that post for you
gettin' really lazy. maybe instead of replying to 3 of my posts just pick one n actually put effort into it, sweaty
 
minty said:
y'know, after hassling me abt my tarot cards n heathen jewelry in the other thread, i really woulda thought you woulda ran with the perfectly good leilah wendell bait i left in that post for you
gettin' really lazy. maybe instead of replying to 3 of my posts just pick one n actually put effort into it, sweaty
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I’ll need to read it again.

Wait, how did you know that I am sweaty??
 
spent the day listening to "in search of demons" by richard estep.
book outlines some historic exorcisms, interviews skeptics n psychologists n even an illusionist (could the person have had DID/smth else/been faking it, etc). a bit jealous cuz the dude got to read the journal of one of the priests that did the exorcism that inspired blatty. also a bit jealous one of the interviews is an ordained exorcist who talks abt jungian archetypes n symbolism which is insanely based i wanna have coffee with this dude n shoot the shit

in standard order tho my book app is now recommending me anton lavey bcuz it just saw "demon" in the title n the algorithm doesn't understand historical exorcisms n demon possession cases are cool n that lavey is a fucking faggot
 
been mainlining some hermetic books n ran across the lectures of terence mckenna. while not books, it's my thread n i say it counts
the man was an absolute gem. rattling off books, advocating for psychedelics not liking capitalism n hyper-individualism n mass consumption, talking abt what he saw while doing dmt n hanging out with shamans doing ayahuasca in brazil. his speeches move back n forth fluidly between these topics. what a life
 
minty said:
been mainlining some hermetic books n ran across the lectures of terence mckenna. while not books, it's my thread n i say it counts
the man was an absolute gem. rattling off books, advocating for psychedelics not liking capitalism n hyper-individualism n mass consumption, talking abt what he saw while doing dmt n hanging out with shamans doing ayahuasca in brazil. his speeches move back n forth fluidly between these topics. what a life
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Sounds like a druggy.
 
read smth other than my posts n the same five twitter grifters, you fucking swine
 
just finished tony burgess' pontypool changes everything
i had always enjoyed the movie n it's one of my favorites n finally decided to get the book
vastly separate entities. only two characters transfer over n they're still different entities, n he did the screenplay iirc. in stark contrast to alan moore who hates the adaptations of his work when stuff is changed.
i like the concept of a zombie virus that's transmitted through language. it's unique.
one book left in the bewdley mayhem trilogy. great author. idaho winter is good too, but i think i said that somewhere else on here.
 
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