What are you reading right now?

Ginger Piglet said:
You might like it. All I'll say is, "lick a snozzberry, it tastes like a snozzberry" takes on a whole new meaning afterwards.
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I've started "My Uncle Oswald." I like it so far. When you marathon 30 Roald Dahl stories you really get the sense that he had an uncharitable outlook toward other people. I wonder if that's actually true.
 
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I'm reading the third book of the Horus heresy. (Galaxy in flames) It's fun pulp to just take my mind of stuff.
About halfway through
 
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Fortunato Brown said:
A lot of these guys on the left show a complete lack of understanding of the right so these civil war scenarios are almost always Neo Nazis taking over the entire South or Idaho somehow or these 2000s era Moral Majority types taking over. If they did any research or spent some time on social media, they'd see it's actually more interesting than their lame Bush era retreads.

And definitely tell us how stupid the book he wrote is.
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Tl;dr: book is garbage, don't bother. Author just copy/pastes Syria and ISIS to Republic of Texas and the Heavenly Kingdom. One of the main characters is even a dumb middle class white girl from what's left of the United States who gets catfished into being a not-ISIS war bride. The rest is just standard capitalism and Christianity bad, socialism and anarchism good. Also, the author does that thing I've noticed leftists do where anarchist society=24/7 sex and drugs and nothing else.

Podcast is worth listening to, skip the book.
 
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Hugbox Kommissar said:
Tl;dr: book is garbage, don't bother. Author just copy/pastes Syria and ISIS to Republic of Texas and the Heavenly Kingdom. One of the main characters is even a dumb middle class white girl from what's left of the United States who gets catfished into being a not-ISIS war bride. The rest is just standard capitalism and Christianity bad, socialism and anarchism good. Also, the author does that thing I've noticed leftists do where anarchist society=24/7 sex and drugs and nothing else.

Podcast is worth listening to, skip the book.
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Is his prose at least passable?
 
I usually read pretty niche crap and history books, but this time decided to try something popular. The Secret History catched my eye. It had an interesting description on Goodreads, had a ton of positive reviews and the author even mentioned Bret Easton Ellis in her preface! I was excited about this book. But... It was very meh. Like, the prose is great and it had some really interesting ideas. But then this book turned into some dumb soap opera with drinking, incest, hospitals and more drinking. Everything that was good about this book just drowned in endless plotlines that go nowhere. And then again, this book presents itself as a satire of uppity academic types, right? Well, this also was really downplayed.
I honestly don't know what to think about this book. I thought it would be an American Psycho set in college with ritual murders and some whacky cult shit. But no, it's tame as fuck.
Well, the lesson is learned. Never trust retards on Goodreads about what a good book is. Even /lit/ niggers have better taste.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
You might like it. All I'll say is, "lick a snozzberry, it tastes like a snozzberry" takes on a whole new meaning afterwards.
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I finished it. I have to say, I have mixed feelings. Some parts were very funny; others were tedious and asked the reader to tolerate too many dumb, tasteless shenanigans. I also wish the heroes had faced a little more difficulty accomplishing their goals. Unlike so many of Roald Dahl's best stories, there was rarely a sense of tension or actual risk -- it was too gratifying. On the whole I think I enjoyed it more than "Switch Bitch," though.
 
Splitting my time between The Divine Comedy (tl;dr religious self insert fanfiction) and "The House Of Government", a thick and very good overview of Soviet history through the lens of party officials who lived in a gigantic apartment block. Latter I can only really take in small doses though, when it's good it is great but it's also extremely academic and makes some wild segues into Russian religious and literary history. I mean it's "relevant" but I don't know if we need like 200 pages explaining how the Bolsheviks were basically atheist Christians.
 
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feedtheoctopus said:
Splitting my time between The Divine Comedy (tl;dr religious self insert fanfiction) and "The House Of Government", a thick and very good overview of Soviet history through the lens of party officials who lived in a gigantic apartment block. Latter I can only really take in small doses though, when it's good it is great but it's also extremely academic and makes some wild segues into Russian religious and literary history. I mean it's "relevant" but I don't know if we need like 200 pages explaining how the Bolsheviks were basically atheist Christians.
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I need to beef up on my Soviet history literature, I didn't know about "The House of Government"
 
I've been reading Alan Knight's Mexican Revolution, it's a big boy, so it has taken me a while
Mahoyo to reinforce japanese learning
Gunt lore in the farms because I had missed most of that trainwreck
 
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Currently into Thus Spoke Zarathustra since Nietzsche is being mentioned a whole lot lately and I want to know what's so special about him.
People like to say he's nihilistic but so far it's been pretty optimistic.
I tried reading some other book he made but his pretentiousness and self affirming logic (which this book has but at least it's a story) is hard to read through at times.
 
No Exit said:
Currently into Thus Spoke Zarathustra since Nietzsche is being mentioned a whole lot lately and I want to know what's so special about him.
People like to say he's nihilistic but so far it's been pretty optimistic.
I tried reading some other book he made but his pretentiousness and self affirming logic (which this book has but at least it's a story) is hard to read through at times.
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honestly I think it's his worst work in terms of accessibility, given its intentionally biblical prose. Good use of allegory, but On Good and Evil imo is better.
 
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A 500+ page biography on Siegfried Sassoon. 100 pages down, over 400 to go.
 
I recently started re-reading "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty" by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
A fascinating book detailing how - and why - some countries become rich over others.
 
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Just finished reading the first three books in the American Praetorian series by Peter Nealen. I don't know anything about the author but he should be patting himself on the back so hard he sprains his shoulder because his books are looking incredibly fucking prescient after the events of the past month. Basically the books are set in the near future a few years after the US military got publicly humiliated by some third world army while the economy shit the bed so the bulk of the military got recalled to the States to keep a lid on domestic insurgencies. The books follow a group of former American soldiers who now work for a PMC. Since the US Military got hollowed out over infighting/fear of another defeat/going woke virtually all boots on the ground are now PMCs and the US Army is a paper tiger.

Decently written action and story if you're looking for something adjacent to, say, Larry Correia or Mike Kupari.
 
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Blood Meridian. Another one of those "must reads" that I've come to dislike. It's repetitive, but gets circle jerked over because it subverts based spaghetti westerns, and bugmen love it when you subvert those toxic stories their dads had them watch. Writing is good, but going "and then people died and the west was bad and we should stop glamorizing it" over and over is just stupid. Babies hung from holes in their neck in a bush? So shocking, the edge.
 
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