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Mr. Manchester said:
Finished the first volume of Black Company after putting it down for a month. The last couple of chapters are excellent. I didn't think I was that into it before but at the end I want to see where the story goes in volume 2. I'll pick it up at some point.

I'm into the first couple chapters of Blood Meridian. I was never that big into westerns but the absolute grime of everything makes the book interesting. Looking forward to getting further into it.
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Finish blood meridian, its so worth it just for those last few chapters.
 
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Bob Faget said:
Just finished blood meridian, never felt the urge to read in my life, but i kept hearing so much good things about this book(as well as seeing redditors cope and sneed over violcence and the use of slurs) that i decided to pick it up. And goddamn, its fucking incredible, hard to get through sometimes but its so worth it. Has given me and urge to start reading as a hobby. Im going to start fight club next, loved the movie and ive heard the book is great too. If not better in ways.
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reading as a hobby's fun just because of the reader's mental imagery.


If you do like violence, there's always stuff like Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
 
Bob Faget said:
Finish blood meridian, its so worth it just for those last few chapters.
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It's excellent so far. One of the most brutal things I've read, there's no part where you sit and relax. I really like the main character, he's a mean motherfucker from the start and there's no qualms about it.
 
I just finished Mind Hunter and am most of the way through Journey Into Darkness. Would recommend if you're into true crime, there's a description of a type of predator in the latter that immediately made me think of Rekeita and thank God he got busted before he could develop into it
 
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Bob Faget said:
Just finished blood meridian, never felt the urge to read in my life, but i kept hearing so much good things about this book(as well as seeing redditors cope and sneed over violcence and the use of slurs) that i decided to pick it up. And goddamn, its fucking incredible, hard to get through sometimes but its so worth it. Has given me and urge to start reading as a hobby. Im going to start fight club next, loved the movie and ive heard the book is great too. If not better in ways.
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It's the best book in his catalogue and also one of the few books I would consider perfectly written.
 
+1 for blood meridian, feels like a "Farms Featured Reading", been meaning too pick up "all the pretty horses" but I'm just biding my time.

I was making my way through "The man in the high castle" from Phillip K. Dick, I really enjoy his sci-fi stuff, however I just couldn't get in the flow of his alternate history. I can appreciate the prose, I'm just looking for an entertaining read though.

I've started reading "The Fall" from Albert Camus, only knowing of this book from a bands namesake. Only a chapter in but it is seeming too be a fun read.

I've got "Heart of Darkness" next, but I might end up re-reading Blood meridian since it's been a while, and I've been itching for a dark western. "The Sisters Brothers" was a fun read, but Cormac just has a way of drawing you in, be it the lack of punctuation or the feeling of being lost in the writing.

Kiwi farm book club when, would love too get more ideas of what too read and genres too explore
 
MS-09 DOM said:
Kiwi farm book club when, would love too get more ideas of what too read and genres too explore
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could be fun

Finished James M. Cain's Mildred Pierce.

This novel's been adapted to film at least once that I know of. It's a classic noir story, without any detectives or criminals. It's a story about a very tough, but flawed, woman as she navigates life in the Great Depression. Success comes, but so does tragedy. And, boy, there's a lot of fuckin' tragedy in this book. Every character feels real. There's something to be said about Cain being able to economically paint a picture. The world is ruthless. Mildred learns a lot about swallowing her pride for the sake of her kids early on. It's this pride that proves to get in her way, repeatedly. It's this and her. . . preference in shiftless men and her devotion to a rather monstrous brat of a daughter. The entire novel's pretty short and takes place over the course of the Great Depression. It's a raw window into another time, yet the themes and narrative seem to be eternal. I suggest giving the film adaptation a watch as well. But the book's pretty good too. Cain could have had the story go on longer, but the story ended on a perfectly raw note. I don't want to spoil this, but I'll just sufficiently say that this was likely considered rather scandalous and dark for the time. The reader spends so much time with Mildred that it turns into such a fascinating character study. She's tough and she's willing to learn and work. However, she also kinda lets her obsession with her bratty daughter snowball. Her inability to properly read people also causes trouble. She's stubborn to a fault and has grit, but is also damned prideful to the point that it blinds her. The reader can't help but root for, but we're only given her point of view. When the ending happens, it should be predictable. Hell, you should have seen it coming a hundred pages before. But that doesn't happen. The entire book is full of bad people, screwed up situations, and the feeling that every time Mildred gets one good thing, 3 more obstacles pop up. Everything collapses in the end. Cain tells everything he wants to tell and does it beautifully.

That being said, the entire book is one painful woman moment piled on top of another. It's a beautiful trainwreck. I fucking hate Veda. Holy shit.
 
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1984. We had to read it in high school. It's more relatable as a grown up in this year of our Lord. Christopher Hitchens' book Why Orwell Matters would probably be a good companion reading guide.
 
The world has completely changed since pre 9-11. People wanted privacy, now everyone wants Big Brother's attention. Also, seems like more abbreviations (new speak) now then there used to be? The Clinton years were a time of innocence looking back.
 
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The world has completely changed since pre 9-11. People wanted privacy, now everyone wants Big Brother's attention. Also, seems like more abbreviations (new speak) now then there used to be? The Clinton years were a time of innocence looking back.
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Reagan too. I didn't like either of them at the time and maybe it's nostalgia goggles, but I didn't get the impression either of them hated the half of the country that didn't vote for them.
 
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
I kept hearing that it's really good from people in similar situations to mine.
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Croco said:
The world has completely changed since pre 9-11. People wanted privacy, now everyone wants Big Brother's attention. Also, seems like more abbreviations (new speak) now then there used to be? The Clinton years were a time of innocence looking back.
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It wasn't that bad right after 9/11. The brutal crackdown on freedom of speech is more recent. I've been interested in this topic for the last decade and just baffling how bad it got, honestly. Combine this with something that Josh discusses often, which is being refused service by payment processors like Visa, Mastercard and Stripe and it makes me think we're at the lowest point in years.
 
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong, an 18th century Joseon crown princess who was married to the mentally ill and violent crown prince Sado. Details all the crazy shit he did and how he was eventually executed by his father, as well as how she navigated the fallout from that and secured her son’s position as the future King Jeonjo

 
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Head Muggle said:
What do you think of it?
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I haven't finished the introduction yet :lossmanjack: My adhd makes it so that I have to read one sentence like 10 times before I can understand it. And my ocd makes me wanna count the words in every single sentence too. I swear I love to read but that stuff makes it really freakin annoying and tiresome :( I'll put an update when I've actually read more lol
 
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Hentai-Semitism said:
It wasn't that bad right after 9/11. The brutal crackdown on freedom of speech is more recent. I've been interested in this topic for the last decade and just baffling how bad it got, honestly. Combine this with something that Josh discusses often, which is being refused service by payment processors like Visa, Mastercard and Stripe and it makes me think we're at the lowest point in years.
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Remember when the Dixie Chicks were 'cancelled' for criticizing Bush? Times have changed, but in the opposite, pro liberal direction. Gay bashing was considered an acceptable past-time.
 
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