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« Reply #2970 on: March 06, 2019, 09:06:05 PM »
The audio version of Gucci Mane's autobiography is super good. Not narrated by him but it still works somehow.

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« Reply #2971 on: March 06, 2019, 09:23:37 PM »
I'm not sure if someone has said this before, but most books are made for reading.

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« Reply #2972 on: March 07, 2019, 04:05:08 AM »
I'm not sure if someone has said this before, but most books are made for reading.

You could also buy them by the meter for decoration. Sort them by color or make those book wheels. Or buy them for hoarding and say you have the "tsundoku" and blame it on the "new book smell". There's more than one way to skin a cat.

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« Reply #2973 on: March 07, 2019, 08:43:57 AM »
i knew these two guys who sold tailored to person bookshelves,
One was a carpenter and would make the actual bookshelve,
the other would have talks with the soon to be owner and pick the books for him to put on the shelves...

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« Reply #2974 on: March 07, 2019, 02:47:36 PM »
This book is pretty theoretical, but Harry Partch is a fascinating character and a good writer. I highly recommend checking out his operas Bitter Music, and Barstow, played on instruments he invented with texts from his hobo travels.



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« Reply #2975 on: March 09, 2019, 08:42:18 AM »
Probably already posted:

“The War of Creativity”

Will flip your brain on its side when thinking about why you don’t do things.

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« Reply #2976 on: March 09, 2019, 08:53:07 AM »
studied the beats last year, fell in love with Kerouac. Any more American writers who write similarly to him?

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« Reply #2977 on: March 15, 2019, 09:55:03 PM »
coworker gave me "ghost in the wires" to borrow after we chatted about the deep web and hacking
should be an interesting read

also going to read ubu roi

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« Reply #2978 on: March 16, 2019, 03:56:54 PM »
studied the beats last year, fell in love with Kerouac. Any more American writers who write similarly to him?

Kerouac's pretty unique stylistically, but Richard Brautigan is in the same lineage. Check out A confederate General from Big Sur, ususally pretty easy to find in used book stores.

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« Reply #2979 on: March 17, 2019, 04:10:11 PM »
This one was an interesting read for sure, dude lived in the woods alone for 27 years. Eventually got caught/arrested for stealing food and supplies from a nearby Summer camp and breaking into peoples vacation homes.




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« Reply #2980 on: March 18, 2019, 06:05:57 PM »
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many good reads in here, you guys have good taste.
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i think this is in part due to the fact that we are not a reading demographic that is marketed to, and we are therefore more likely to read widely and be influenced by a variety of sources. Also, there is little to no expectation for skaters to be literate, so unlike communities that are self-consciously intellectual, people here feel more free to talk about what they enjoy rather than what will impress. my 2 cents.
Could you elaborate on the first point? It seems true, but I’m curious about how you think books tend to be marketed to other demographics. Like, people who read the New Yorker tend to only read books recommended by them?

P.S. This isn’t meant to be critical or snarky, I’m geniunly interested in understand this more.

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« Reply #2981 on: March 18, 2019, 06:16:15 PM »
reading one right now called 'Because They Hate' about muslims taking over the author's Lebanon. just like Europe and the states, there was a leftist, tolerant christian side that invited the PLO in which upset the uneasy Muslim/Christian balance in the terrorists favor. Beirut went from being synonymous with Milan to synonymous with Detroit.
read a few of similar subject matter lately and also some lighter memoir type stories from Colin Broderick.

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« Reply #2982 on: March 18, 2019, 08:18:05 PM »
Don’t listen to her propaganda.

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« Reply #2983 on: March 18, 2019, 08:26:09 PM »
did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.

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« Reply #2984 on: March 18, 2019, 08:56:16 PM »
The Woman in the Dunes.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #2985 on: March 18, 2019, 10:33:04 PM »
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber. The most interesting thing I’ve read in a while. Came across it while reading some stuff on paranoid schizophrenia. Apparently it’s influential in psychology and Freud and jung were both into it. It’s this German guy who was one of the first to elaborately document schizophrenia. He wrote a bunch of notes while in his psychosis then organized them as he was coming out of it. Highly original language/ideas to describe his religious beliefs, which have the kind of cool bizarreness of like Isiah or Ezekiel or any of the Old Testament prophet books or Greek mythology. Also interestingly, his father was this severe disciplinarian that wrote these super harsh manuels on raising children that were popular in the decades leading up to the rise of the nazis, and of course his own son descended into madness. I’ve been reading a PDF online that is missing some pages but am going to seek out a physical copy.
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« Reply #2986 on: March 19, 2019, 09:10:23 AM »
did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.

No, but I’ve listened to her and she’s a pretty transparently anti-Islam, Western chauvinist type with a very myopic and narrow view of history. 

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« Reply #2987 on: March 19, 2019, 09:32:19 AM »
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did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.
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No, but I’ve listened to her and she’s a pretty transparently anti-Islam, Western chauvinist type with a very myopic and narrow view of history.
maybe being anti-Islam is the same thing as being anti KKK? they both wear dresses, cover their face and terrorize people who are different than them. i mean, klan is an anachronism but peak klan was sort of a local, backwoods Islam, no?

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« Reply #2988 on: March 20, 2019, 04:35:02 AM »
The Woman in the Dunes.

This is on my shelf but not read yet. I did read The Box Man which was pretty weird. So many people say Dunes is a great book so I’ll get to it soon.

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« Reply #2989 on: March 20, 2019, 07:16:53 AM »
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did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.
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No, but I’ve listened to her and she’s a pretty transparently anti-Islam, Western chauvinist type with a very myopic and narrow view of history.
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maybe being anti-Islam is the same thing as being anti KKK? they both wear dresses, cover their face and terrorize people who are different than them. i mean, klan is an anachronism but peak klan was sort of a local, backwoods Islam, no?

No, it’s not. Not at all. Particularly when most people use their Islamaphobia to mask just blatant racism and the fact that they don’t like Arabic / non-white people.

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« Reply #2990 on: March 20, 2019, 10:33:40 AM »
Just bought Revolutionary Road and Eleven kinds of loneliness by Yates.
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« Reply #2991 on: March 20, 2019, 05:39:04 PM »


Maybe the funniest book I've ever read. I don't know.
Most of the editions currently in print are illustrated by Ralph Steadman to boot.


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« Reply #2992 on: March 20, 2019, 06:52:08 PM »
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did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.
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No, but I’ve listened to her and she’s a pretty transparently anti-Islam, Western chauvinist type with a very myopic and narrow view of history.
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maybe being anti-Islam is the same thing as being anti KKK? they both wear dresses, cover their face and terrorize people who are different than them. i mean, klan is an anachronism but peak klan was sort of a local, backwoods Islam, no?
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No, it’s not. Not at all. Particularly when most people use their Islamaphobia to mask just blatant racism and the fact that they don’t like Arabic / non-white people.
well since she's an Arab herself, you can't really say it's racism against non-white/Arabic people. i'm gonna go out on a limb and say the reasons she has an issue with Muslims is they destroyed her idyllic life in Lebanon. i think it has more to do with cutting off clits, executing gays, throwing rocks at rape victims and you know, suicide bombs and the like. but maybe you're right and it's unwarranted. i don't want to keep going back and forth but i'd recommend reading this yourself and then we can chat about it. like men.

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« Reply #2993 on: March 20, 2019, 06:56:54 PM »
Yo you should check out this book:

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« Reply #2994 on: March 20, 2019, 07:07:25 PM »
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many good reads in here, you guys have good taste.
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i think this is in part due to the fact that we are not a reading demographic that is marketed to, and we are therefore more likely to read widely and be influenced by a variety of sources. Also, there is little to no expectation for skaters to be literate, so unlike communities that are self-consciously intellectual, people here feel more free to talk about what they enjoy rather than what will impress. my 2 cents.
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Could you elaborate on the first point? It seems true, but I’m curious about how you think books tend to be marketed to other demographics. Like, people who read the New Yorker tend to only read books recommended by them?

P.S. This isn’t meant to be critical or snarky, I’m geniunly interested in understand this more.

Doesn't sound snarky at all. Books are marketed in various ways, but what I was talking about is the expectations that exist pertaining to readers as groups. If you go into City Lights, what you see on the shelf is in large part a reflection of who they think their customers are, and what they think those customers will be interested in. If you take a literature class, you mostly encounter canonical selections meant to illustrate whatever facet of literature is being explored. Since there is no specific literary tradition associated with skateboarding, we can't tailor our recommendations to what we think will be relevant- there is no relevant. Therefore, we get a more direct sample of people's individual backgrounds (geographic, cultural, professional, etc.). The part about skaters reading more widely is pretty questionable, but again, if you don't identify with a particular reading public, then I think you're less likely to have your tastes dictated to you.
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« Reply #2995 on: March 21, 2019, 01:57:24 AM »
Been reading a lot lately and just remembered this thread existed.
Many good suggestions over the last pages, thank you all.

Just finished Kafka on the shore.


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« Reply #2996 on: March 21, 2019, 08:19:09 AM »
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did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.
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No, but I’ve listened to her and she’s a pretty transparently anti-Islam, Western chauvinist type with a very myopic and narrow view of history.
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maybe being anti-Islam is the same thing as being anti KKK? they both wear dresses, cover their face and terrorize people who are different than them. i mean, klan is an anachronism but peak klan was sort of a local, backwoods Islam, no?
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No, it’s not. Not at all. Particularly when most people use their Islamaphobia to mask just blatant racism and the fact that they don’t like Arabic / non-white people.
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well since she's an Arab herself, you can't really say it's racism against non-white/Arabic people. i'm gonna go out on a limb and say the reasons she has an issue with Muslims is they destroyed her idyllic life in Lebanon. i think it has more to do with cutting off clits, executing gays, throwing rocks at rape victims and you know, suicide bombs and the like. but maybe you're right and it's unwarranted. i don't want to keep going back and forth but i'd recommend reading this yourself and then we can chat about it. like men.

Yes, I can say that.  You can be a POC or member of a marginalized community and be anti- that community (see Candace Owens).  And I didn’t say her experiences didn’t impact her thoughts.  I said that her thoughts are based solely on her experiences and she has a narrow and myopic view of history which reinforces her extrapolation of her anti-Islam, anti-Arab world, and Western/Christian chauvinistic beliefs.

But agreed that this isn’t the place for it.  Partly because just your last sentence shows that you’re not the best person to have a conversation with, probably about this or any topic.

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« Reply #2997 on: March 21, 2019, 02:18:59 PM »
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did you read it? i've always sided with Palestine against Israel but i really can't think of a livable muslim country. Lebanon is arabic but at least half christian.
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No, but I’ve listened to her and she’s a pretty transparently anti-Islam, Western chauvinist type with a very myopic and narrow view of history.
[close]
maybe being anti-Islam is the same thing as being anti KKK? they both wear dresses, cover their face and terrorize people who are different than them. i mean, klan is an anachronism but peak klan was sort of a local, backwoods Islam, no?
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No, it’s not. Not at all. Particularly when most people use their Islamaphobia to mask just blatant racism and the fact that they don’t like Arabic / non-white people.
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well since she's an Arab herself, you can't really say it's racism against non-white/Arabic people. i'm gonna go out on a limb and say the reasons she has an issue with Muslims is they destroyed her idyllic life in Lebanon. i think it has more to do with cutting off clits, executing gays, throwing rocks at rape victims and you know, suicide bombs and the like. but maybe you're right and it's unwarranted. i don't want to keep going back and forth but i'd recommend reading this yourself and then we can chat about it. like men.

real men don't read. gtfo this thread.

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« Reply #2998 on: March 22, 2019, 01:05:09 AM »
Hey any of you guys are on goodreads?
I find it useful to keep track of my library, as most of books I read are e-books.

About to start this which I’ve been stalling on because it’s 1,336 pages. All about the guy who basically built modern day New York.



I have this as audiobook. Seems interesting to learn about person behind building New York, and at same time 1300+ pages seem too much.
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« Reply #2999 on: April 02, 2019, 03:01:31 PM »
read this one recently 'Black Rednecks and White Liberals' by Thomas Sowell. the thesis of the book is black hood culture is holding back the citizens who practice it and as such, Nigerians, Ghanians and even descendants of slaves from the west Indies come over here and thrive over native born blacks. he says that there was a white trash Scottish culture in northern England, circa 1600s that went away after that country industrialized but the exported slaves/indentured servants brought it to the American south. we know them today as rednecks. so those rednecks lived in close quarters w/ their black coworkers and pawned off their bad culture on them.
i'm a product of it too, great energy for frolic but lazy at work. prone to alcoholism. braggadocia. it was really eye opening.
the Irish were treated horribly too, he talks about their oppression a bit.
there's another chapter comparing jews to other merchant ethnic groups around the world.
Germany and it's brief collective loosing their shit.
and one about how slavery existed all over the world but once the English/Americans got it in thier head that it was immoral, they ended it in the states and then everywhere else except interior Africa because one didn't simply go deep into Africa in those days [diseases].
Arab slavery was particulary gory, they abducted whites and blacks equally and castrated their slaves to create eunuchs. Jews from the north [Newport RI] financed a lot of the slave ships but if you're a northern white, chances are you descended from the brave men who ended slavery.