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« on: February 12, 2020, 08:24:14 AM »
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2020, 05:02:21 PM »
The lockdown enabled be to start a Philip K. Dick re-reading marathon. I'm through with Time Out of Joint and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch now and I have begun Martian Time-Slip this evening.
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2020, 01:36:22 PM »
Quote from: Old Europe on April 17, 2020, 05:02:21 PM
The lockdown enabled be to start a Philip K. Dick re-reading marathon. I'm through with Time Out of Joint and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch now and I have begun Martian Time-Slip this evening.

Started on Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said now, PKD's dystopian Watergate-era fantasy.
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2020, 04:28:22 PM »
« Edited: April 23, 2020, 05:10:45 PM by Old Europe »
Quote from: Old Europe on April 19, 2020, 01:36:22 PM
Quote from: Old Europe on April 17, 2020, 05:02:21 PM
The lockdown enabled be to start a Philip K. Dick re-reading marathon. I'm through with Time Out of Joint and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch now and I have begun Martian Time-Slip this evening.

Started on Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said now, PKD's dystopian Watergate-era fantasy.

Finished A Maze of Death, started on A Scanner Darkly.
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2020, 03:45:52 PM »
Almost finished with The Trial by Franz Kafka.
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2020, 03:17:14 PM »
I just finished the Tao Te Ching.
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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2020, 04:39:05 AM »
I recently finished the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's The Parable of the Sower.
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2020, 04:04:59 AM »
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2020, 12:57:28 PM »
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming.
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« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2020, 07:49:19 PM »
Finished The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth today.
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« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2020, 06:23:27 PM »
Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
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« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2020, 06:28:54 AM »
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2022, 07:07:06 PM »
The Communist Manifesto
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2022, 02:56:08 PM »
The Prince by Machiavelli
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« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2022, 04:46:34 PM »
Hamlet
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« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2022, 05:32:57 PM »
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2022, 04:51:58 PM »
Animal Farm
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« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2022, 02:42:12 PM »
A Christmas Carol by Dickens
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« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2022, 03:23:38 PM »
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2022, 09:56:47 AM »
Slaughterhouse-Five

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« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2022, 04:36:47 PM »
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2022, 05:44:46 PM »
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2022, 05:41:12 PM »
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2022, 05:53:25 AM »
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I’m sorry for you having to pull through with that kitsch trash

Why would you go out of your way to make a rude and dickish comment like this? Just let people enjoy what they're reading without trashing it.
Enjoy it all you want, literature speaks to the reader.

However, from my experience reading Breakfast of Champions and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five, is it really hard to see how it isn’t some angsty schlock writing with radical chic that leads nowhere but basic statements like “duuuude, war is bad man” or “duuuuuuude, America is really wacked out”. I did not find the jokes funny, in fact it was really hard to find much humor at all in the work, and it is immensely simplistic for something considered commercially popular. He just lists a bunch of concepts without any serious threading to attach these ideas, leading nowhere.

People have made more simpler satire focusing on fewer core ideas that are just as effective and funny, if not more.

Yes, this is the hill I’m willing to die on.

I don't think that Breakfast of Champions is one of the best books ever written nor will it likely become one of my favourite books. I enjoyed reading it for what it is though. Then again, as something I read on three consecutive evenings to pass the time I didn't analyze it as thoroughly as you did it.

That's not something I will die on because I've got better things to do.
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« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2022, 12:23:08 PM »
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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