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« Reply #975 on: March 27, 2014, 03:57:51 PM »

a mix of lenin, althusser, ilyenkov and colletti
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« Reply #976 on: March 27, 2014, 04:57:48 PM »





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« Reply #977 on: March 27, 2014, 05:27:48 PM »

Constantine: The Emperor, by David Potter.
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« Reply #978 on: March 29, 2014, 10:59:47 AM »

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« Reply #979 on: April 16, 2014, 05:47:53 PM »

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« Reply #980 on: April 16, 2014, 08:58:59 PM »

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« Reply #981 on: April 19, 2014, 03:46:12 AM »

Latest novel was Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene. Pretty hilarious and at the end of it pretty touching as well!
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« Reply #982 on: April 19, 2014, 04:20:22 AM »

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
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« Reply #983 on: April 26, 2014, 10:44:52 AM »

I'm currently (re-)reading Dancing in the Glory of Monsters.
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« Reply #984 on: April 30, 2014, 01:18:29 PM »

Various things (as is usual), but the important one is Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death which is brilliant and something that everyone should read but which - due to the subject matter - is not exactly easy reading. Heavily recommended.
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« Reply #985 on: April 30, 2014, 01:55:08 PM »

I finished Baudolino--which is charming until quite late in the going end and then rapidly becomes heartbreaking, as is so often the way with Umberto Eco--and I'm trying to decide between rereading The Brothers Karamazov and starting A Secular Age.
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« Reply #986 on: April 30, 2014, 02:12:55 PM »

Northanger Abbey
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« Reply #987 on: May 01, 2014, 09:55:28 AM »

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« Reply #988 on: May 03, 2014, 07:00:03 PM »

"The Red Room" by August Strindberg. Very well written and sharp satire from one of my favourite eras (1870s) and a lot of it is still remarkably relevant.
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« Reply #989 on: May 03, 2014, 11:01:18 PM »
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The author, Jarrett Walker, is kind of a personal hero of mine/model of what I'd like to be if I ever got my sh*t together, insofar as he is not just a really smart and perceptive transit planner (with a popular blog)... but one who came to the field via a PhD in literature.

And, actually, it really shows, in a positive way.  This thing is full of examples of how being attentive to the nuances of language, and values, and other more humanities-indebted ways of thinking are actually really important to the crafting and selling of good plans and policy.

Honestly it's kind of embarrassing I hadn't read it already.  Will pepper this space with a couple choice quotes when I figure out what's most worth typing out.
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« Reply #990 on: May 10, 2014, 12:44:21 AM »

The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
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« Reply #991 on: May 10, 2014, 12:26:42 PM »

Diplomacy, by Henry Kissinger (kind of old, but still interesting)
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« Reply #992 on: May 10, 2014, 07:15:34 PM »

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Piketty. I'm a bit disappointed.
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« Reply #993 on: May 19, 2014, 05:33:48 AM »

Fury by Rushdie. Came off as off-putting old man stuff for quite a while but vindicated itself a fair bit towards the end. Still, I'm a little disappointed, the worst book by him that I've read.
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« Reply #994 on: May 19, 2014, 05:40:45 AM »

A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya by Aage Storm Borchgrevink.

Very well written and a fascinating tale of class, race relations, politics, youth culture, internet culture, outsider dynamics and a dysfunctional family.

The sheer fact that Breivik was examined by a team of child psychiatrists when he was 4 and they basically knew that this boy had severe personality disorder and would be ruined if he wasn't removed from his mentally ill mother is scary and thought provoking.
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« Reply #995 on: May 19, 2014, 09:25:02 AM »

I had a few hours on planes this weekend so I read The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson and The Drunkards Walk by Leonard Mlodinow. Both are good choices for one who enjoys learning about science or math from a historical view written in a readable style rich in anecdotes.
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« Reply #996 on: May 21, 2014, 06:20:59 PM »

A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya by Aage Storm Borchgrevink.

Very well written and a fascinating tale of class, race relations, politics, youth culture, internet culture, outsider dynamics and a dysfunctional family.

The sheer fact that Breivik was examined by a team of child psychiatrists when he was 4 and they basically knew that this boy had severe personality disorder and would be ruined if he wasn't removed from his mentally ill mother is scary and thought provoking.
That sounds like a really good read.
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« Reply #997 on: May 23, 2014, 12:06:15 PM »

Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year by David Von Drehle. The book examines the moral, economic, millitaristic and political struggles Lincoln faced in 1862, the most important year of the War Between the States.
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« Reply #998 on: May 27, 2014, 09:07:35 AM »

Americanah. Really cool book about race and pretty touching as well. Takes the unusual perspective of what she terms the "Non-American Black".

Then The Wayward Bus. Depressing and not my favourite Steinbeck, though it did have its moments.
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« Reply #999 on: May 27, 2014, 09:08:11 AM »

No Higher Honor. By Condoleezza Rice.
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