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>> | No. 5456
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This was really good. |
>> | No. 7345
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>>7344 |
>> | No. 7346
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61Xz4YYkr0L.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() Fuck Thomas Mann and fuck Germany. There's no humanity in this book, it's just a young insular man pattering about in a mountain health retreat getting browbeaten by an Giuseppe, a failed clergyman, some hoe and his doctor. Yes, you can certainly tell that the author stopped and came back to it at which point he shoved his mental diarrhea onto the pages and found a narcoleptic editor to approve it. |
>> | No. 7347
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>>7346 |
>> | No. 7348
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dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective_1_06867f037eeedcd0.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I should read Douglas Adams more. |
>> | No. 7351
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grb.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() The author is a misanthropic bastard, but this is really good travel writing. |
>> | No. 7352
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brave-new-world-11.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm finding Brave New World difficult to finish. I don't care about the characters nor understand how the 'civilised world' works. Thank god it's short, else it'd join the long list of books I've only partially read. |
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>>7352 |
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>>7353 |
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>>7354 |
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>>7355 |
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>>7352 |
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>>7355 |
>> | No. 7359
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s-l400.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the second Iain Banks novel I've read. I picked up The Wasp Factory about four years ago and it's one of my favourite books. I've found A Song of Stone, on the other hand, to be rather shite. |
>> | No. 7360
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>>7359 |
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>>7360 |
>> | No. 7362
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Complicity is pretty good. Hard Boiled Scottish Detective Noire written in the second person with a soundtrack by the Pixies. |
>> | No. 7363
7363
412BEQEMIuL.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is fucking dumb and I say that as a fan of Joe Pera. What we got for the long wait was a simple picture book that isn't particularly funny or insightful and whose artwork is just ugly. |
>> | No. 7364
7364
'When_the_Sleeper_Wakes'_by_Henri_Lanos_.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who finds out he owns most of the world, thanks to a trust managing his money on his behalf whilst he slept for just over 200 years. The trust, of course, never expected him to wake up again. It's alright, quite campy, but it gets very racist when the 'negro police' are on the scene. |
>> | No. 7366
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51pVDZTQzwL.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() Qualityland is hilarious, its a dystopian novel about what if Amazon was brought in as consultants to help fix Germany following a financial crisis. In one section in outlines how books have become personalised to the user so the Bible becomes a father-son story with a Star Wars twist and The Trial is an action story. |
>> | No. 7367
7367
B4F26A69-EE5E-42B1-A827-1357107C7D7BImg400.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() The title is a little clickbait but its an assessment of what has gone wrong between Sino-American relations in recent years followed by a sober analysis of the difference between the two and some predictions for the future. |
>> | No. 7368
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>>7367 |
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america and iran.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >>7367 |
>> | No. 7378
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21k4icux5fu71.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm hoping the rest of the Culture series is a marked improvement because this was alright, but it certainly wasn't anything to write home about and it dragged in parts. |
>> | No. 7379
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2012-01-27_image1.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() This was, indeed, a marked improvement. |
>> | No. 7380
7380
700x1000bb.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I think Mieville is definitely writing for adults now. Not to everyone's tastes but this one just works as a little gem of a story; somewhere between The Road and... I want to say Kafka but can't really say why. Something Liggotiesque maybe. It has the feel of Urban Fantasy but is extremely bleak. |
>> | No. 7381
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610aIX-H53L.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I've not finished it yet but it, it's an odd book. I get many of the examples are cromulent solutions with real evidence behind them but as a 'maximiser' (you can find the quiz here: https://www.loganury.com/quiz) it feels like it falls into the same pitfall most dating stuff suffers which is that you can't really write a book on men and women at the same time. I'm also horrified at the thought of women freezing their eggs as they reach their 30s - it makes me feel old. |
>> | No. 7382
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>>7381 |
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>>7382 |
>> | No. 7384
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And I've just done her quiz and I hate it. And it doesn't even tell you your results unless you hand over your email address. Nope. What a shit quiz. |
>> | No. 7385
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>>7383 |
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>>7385 |
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>>7386 |
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>>7385 |
>> | No. 7389
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md30129572540.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm about 120 pages into this, roughly a quarter of the way through, and I'm toying with whether to give it up. This is the third Banks novel where it's very hard for me to care about any of the characters or be invested in what happens to them. I've noticed all three of them have a female character whose sole personality is "being a badass", but his female characters in general seem quite two-dimensional. |
>> | No. 7390
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>>7389 |
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>>7390 |
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>>7388 |
>> | No. 7393
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Finished Against A Dark Background (and the unpublished epilogue online). |
>> | No. 7394
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61R4llNQbkL.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I've been reading Ray Dalio's recent book Changing World Order. Basically a billionaire investor talking about his process to understand and predict economic trends on a global level and how we're at the end of a 75 year debt cycle and about to get utterly fucked in about 10-15 years as China becomes the dominant superpower. |
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>>7394 |
>> | No. 7396
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9780141190174.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() The other week I was chatting with a couple of sci-fi enthusiasts, aged in their eighties, and asked them to recommend a few books to try. |
>> | No. 7397
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mouth-scream-harlan-ellison-1967_1_7b2f4213ed5ff83.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the first thing I'd read by Harlan Ellison. It left me with the distinct feeling that his writing may have been seen as groundbreaking about 60 years, but to the modern reader it won't stick out as being remarkable. My favourite story in the collection was Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes. |
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>>7397 |
>> | No. 7399
7399
nightflyers_and_other_stories__1591532630_baa3c6c4.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn't brilliant, but it was the first book in a while that I've actually felt myself enjoying whilst reading it. |
>> | No. 7400
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>>7399 |
>> | No. 7401
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9781447273301.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally got around to reading Children of Time and yeah it was alright. The book is Avatar done right where the alien civilization is actually radically different and it's all accounted for which is pretty neat to explore for worldbuilding. Plus there's the whole dying embers of humanity subplot that take place over thousands of years due to the non-FTL universe. |
>> | No. 7402
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>>7401 |
>> | No. 7403
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81BBJDWCVNL.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() This was entertaining enough, but it did leave the impression what could have been an impressive novella was stretched out by at least a hundred more pages than necessary. |
>> | No. 7404
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DgEHsHzWkAYFZ0o.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I had been reading If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, but I made the mistake of putting it down for a week and I just could not get back into it. |
>> | No. 7405
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610zNTYy32L.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this, although I imagine Sedaris would be rather insufferable in real life. |
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