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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:38 am

The Economics of Discontent: From Failing Elites to The Rise of Populism by Jean-Michel Paul
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Madrigal » Thu Oct 17, 2024 2:13 am

The Merchant of Venice

Will try to read a Shakespeare play each week.

Edgar Allan Poe again. It's wild rediscovering how these stories influenced me as a pre-teen.
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Post by Madrigal » Sun Oct 20, 2024 1:28 am

Hamlet

Ok.
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Post by Madrigal » Thu Oct 24, 2024 1:02 pm

My Bones and My Flute, Edgar Mittelholzer. Seasonal revisiting of high school reading.

Also took up My Briliant Friend again since I know more Italian now. Misery and violence and people lashing out, most Italian thing ever.
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Ferrus » Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:20 pm

Barlaam and Josaphat by Gui de Cambrai. A medieval hagriography but extremely curious becuase... large parts of the story are basically the legend of the Buddha, imported and morphed into the tale of two Christian saints by centuries long game of Chinese whispers from India to Europe - via Persia, the Arab world, medieval Armenia and then the trail gets lost until it reaches France - even though by the time it reached Europe many had no idea. St. Josaphat for example is a corruption of the sanskrit "bodhisattva".
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Post by Madrigal » Sun Oct 27, 2024 2:36 am

Ghost stories by M.R. James. So far more annoying than I recall.
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Madrigal » Sun Oct 27, 2024 11:13 pm

Lord of the Flies

Nope, hadn't read it before.
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Post by Madrigal » Thu Oct 31, 2024 12:05 pm

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde

Psychoanalytically ahead of its time.
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Oct 31, 2024 9:34 pm

National Lampoon (the college-oriented magazine that was published and inspired the movie series, starting with Animal House; a bit like Monty Python spinning off into movies.)

https://archive.org/details/LampoonArchive1983/1983_01/

A bigger archive of it
https://archive.org/download/PulpMags/N ... 20Lampoon/
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by starjots » Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:44 am

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Sci-Fi about the fate of humanity featuring sentient spiders. The ending was chef's kiss. Outstanding.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Sci-Fi about the fate of humanity featuring alien lifeform that breathes ammonia. Very good.

Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham

Non-fiction book about relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during WW II.
Matter of fact recounting of the most important personal relationship of the war. Good.
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