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« Reply #200 on: December 23, 2021, 10:55:36 PM »

The Grid by Gretchen Bakke.
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« Reply #201 on: December 27, 2021, 02:53:24 PM »

Just started The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel.
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« Reply #202 on: December 30, 2021, 07:30:55 PM »

One more book for 2021: A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer.
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« Reply #203 on: January 11, 2022, 12:02:52 PM »

Finally getting around to reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
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« Reply #204 on: January 11, 2022, 09:25:11 PM »

Finished reading WE, and I hated every minute of it. As I got off for my personal hour for work I spent it reading this novel so as to not read any other capitalist novel whining about the Soviet Union in the guise of a “critique”. Reading through the self-flagellating recordings of a vain, talentless self-insert I wanted to put it down immediately—but alas, my inability to take charge left this drivel on my desk. I suppose letting little things get to you was the link between me and D, and it only made me hate him more. Even through 99 pages of a writer struggling to finish a bourgeois abomination, I kept going on. Even with his brain getting fried, what I took note was that the protagonist became no less vain, no less melodramatic with his anxiety and search for worry, and equally boring. I am never reading another of its translations ever again; never again will I touch Animal Farm, 1984, or Brave New World ever again. My time out of fixed work for future sustenance is vital to me, and I now realize how precious of a thing I should cherish in a world ran by the capitalists planning and looting of my being in and out of a shift.

 I see why the writer died in crushing poverty in Paris, a shame given that he could have utilized the class structure in the Soviet Union to live a much more stable life until the late 1920s, and at most two years after his death for him to get on the purge list.
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« Reply #205 on: January 11, 2022, 11:13:55 PM »

The Good German -Joseph Kannon
Temeraire Series -Naomi Novik
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« Reply #206 on: January 12, 2022, 03:38:07 PM »

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Daniel Walker Howe

Assignment in Eternity by Robert Heinlein

Out of Time and Space by Clark Ashton Smith
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« Reply #207 on: January 12, 2022, 03:51:32 PM »

Finally getting round to Asa Briggs' Victorian Cities, which I have dipped into before but embarrassingly have not read in full.
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« Reply #208 on: January 12, 2022, 05:10:59 PM »

Nonfiction: The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson and Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and Contests over Ukraine and the Caucaus by Gerard Toal

Fiction: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (I've decided to read his novels in order, though based on discussion here I was tempted to jump ahead to Scoop)
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« Reply #209 on: January 12, 2022, 05:40:36 PM »

Just ordered Submission by Michel Houellebecq, which a friend has strongly recommended to me.

Good grief.

Well, tell us what you think, I guess.

I just looked this up and it sounds hilarious. Half tempted to order it.

Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and Contests over Ukraine and the Caucaus by Gerard Toal

This has been buried in my Amazon cart for a while.
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« Reply #210 on: January 12, 2022, 07:15:31 PM »

Finally getting round to Asa Briggs' Victorian Cities, which I have dipped into before but embarrassingly have not read in full.

A very fine book, one of the classics of Urban History.
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« Reply #211 on: January 15, 2022, 04:59:53 PM »

I've almost finished Stephen King's first Dark Tower book, as part of my effort to read more fiction. I also finally finished reading Dune, which I had stopped about halfway through some years ago. Both are somewhat enjoyable, but they're not really rekindling my interest in fiction. The Dark Tower is too miserable and weird for my taste, and Dune-- while fantastically creative-- is really a slog to get through. The terminology alone is enough to induce a headache.
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« Reply #212 on: January 15, 2022, 11:50:50 PM »

Reading Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark currently. It's an engrossing survey of Prussian history, though I'm worried with law school starting back up in a few days my ability to read for fun is going to diminish.
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« Reply #213 on: January 16, 2022, 07:18:12 AM »

Reading Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark currently. It's an engrossing survey of Prussian history, though I'm worried with law school starting back up in a few days my ability to read for fun is going to diminish.

Excellent book btw.

Anyway, just finished trawling through Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People. Probably one of the worst books I’ve ever read about the Putin regime - so unsurprisingly it got rave reviews in the Western press. Now rereading War and Peace to cleanse myself.
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« Reply #214 on: January 16, 2022, 07:31:19 AM »

Reading Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark currently. It's an engrossing survey of Prussian history, though I'm worried with law school starting back up in a few days my ability to read for fun is going to diminish.

Excellent book btw.

Anyway, just finished trawling through Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People. Probably one of the worst books I’ve ever read about the Putin regime - so unsurprisingly it got rave reviews in the Western press. Now rereading War and Peace to cleanse myself.

Could you elaborate?
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« Reply #215 on: January 16, 2022, 12:24:17 PM »

Omnivore's Dilemma for AP Environmental Science and Project Hail Mary in my spare time.
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« Reply #216 on: January 16, 2022, 01:10:12 PM »

Reading Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark currently. It's an engrossing survey of Prussian history, though I'm worried with law school starting back up in a few days my ability to read for fun is going to diminish.

Excellent book btw.

Anyway, just finished trawling through Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People. Probably one of the worst books I’ve ever read about the Putin regime - so unsurprisingly it got rave reviews in the Western press. Now rereading War and Peace to cleanse myself.

I am very much enjoying it. Would also recommend Clark's Sleepwalkers which is a look at the outbreak of the First World War if you haven't read it.
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« Reply #217 on: January 16, 2022, 05:37:21 PM »

Reading Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark currently. It's an engrossing survey of Prussian history, though I'm worried with law school starting back up in a few days my ability to read for fun is going to diminish.
It's really brutal, isn't it? I was able to get some reading done over the break — Dune and Dune Messiah — and have made it most of the way through Omar El-Akkad's American War, but I just don't know when I'm gonna find the time to finish it, much less start on something new. 50 pages a night for Ad Law & another 50 for water just kills my desire to read anything else.
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« Reply #218 on: January 16, 2022, 06:47:54 PM »

I recently finished The Leopard. One of the most fantastic novels I have ever read, a peerless evocation of the human experience of change and continuity. The atmosphere of fading splendour, languor and decay is incredible - a brilliant recreation of a lost world - as are the descriptions of the Sicilian landscape.
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« Reply #219 on: January 17, 2022, 12:01:58 PM »

Might not be very interesting to the people here, but just started Blood In The Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring. I'm a huge Knicks fan and a fan of Herring as a writer so should be a good time.
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« Reply #220 on: January 18, 2022, 06:51:06 PM »

Just started reading George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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« Reply #221 on: January 21, 2022, 12:24:55 AM »

Finished Faust by Goethe after a three year hiatus.
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« Reply #222 on: January 21, 2022, 12:30:25 PM »

Finished Faust by Goethe after a three year hiatus.

Both vols.? Never got through Part II but Faust is a masterpiece
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« Reply #223 on: January 21, 2022, 01:28:22 PM »

Finished Faust by Goethe after a three year hiatus.

Both vols.? Never got through Part II but Faust is a masterpiece
It truly is, but I got word that Part II is not that good.
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« Reply #224 on: January 21, 2022, 08:29:47 PM »

It's excellent but parts of it are hard to translate. The last scene is used extensively in Mahler's Eighth Symphony - the bit with the Anchorites is a personal favourite.
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