At the moment, I'm reading two books--fiction and non-fiction as it happens.
Fiction: Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera. A terrific satirical account of how little it takes for writing to become pamphleteering or mere agitprop. Also shows how common it is to regulate aesthetic standards in the name of the common good. There's also a deep, underlying Oedipal theme here, with the poet (our protagonist) simply unable to shake his mother off his consciousness.
Non-Fiction: Bruce Goldstein's work on Cognitive Psychology. Deals with the tensions between the behavioral approach and the cognitive approach and aims to shed light on why the latter might be a bit better. I, for one, am not a big fan of psychology, but it is interesting to read things about it.
When the hero, Winston, reads to her the book within a book that explains
the nature of the Orwellian world, she responds by falling asleep - but then
since the treatise Winston reads is stupefyingly soporific, this may be an
indication of Julia's good sense rather than the reverse.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by David Campbell.
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Very good book if you like fantasy type stuff.
The school for good and evil. Next I'll read one witch at a time.
I love books and minecraft.
I googled these and found a book called "The Brixen witch" by the same author as "One witch at a time". I'll be reading that this weekend.
i started the grand dark (2019) by richard kadrey
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i'm also listening to capital, volume I (1867) on audible while i run.
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At the moment, I'm reading two books--fiction and non-fiction as it happens.
Fiction: Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera. A terrific satirical account of how little it takes for writing to become pamphleteering or mere agitprop. Also shows how common it is to regulate aesthetic standards in the name of the common good. There's also a deep, underlying Oedipal theme here, with the poet (our protagonist) simply unable to shake his mother off his consciousness.
Non-Fiction: Bruce Goldstein's work on Cognitive Psychology. Deals with the tensions between the behavioral approach and the cognitive approach and aims to shed light on why the latter might be a bit better. I, for one, am not a big fan of psychology, but it is interesting to read things about it.
rusty brown (2019) by chris ware
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the fall of chronopolis (1974) by barrington j. bayley
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tactics of conquest (1974) by barry n. malzberg
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12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson
College textbooks.
Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. The whole mission is just fascinating.
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere,
But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.
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isaac asimov, who has their own share of problems, kind of hated 1984 as "sci-fi": REVIEW OF 1984 By Isaac Asimov I
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I highly recommend it.
The Five Kingdoms series by Brandon Mull
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By the way, I also read and I really liked it.
arslan (1976) by m. j. engh
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