books to read

[Jagr]

Not sure if it's been brought up here...but has anyone read any Allan Weisbecker? Specifically, Cosmic Banditos or In Search of Captain Zero (maybe better to post this in the surfing thread). Fantastic books.

[Huell Howser]

@Jagr I have not but after reading Barbarian Days I was looking for something to fill that void and In Search of Captain zero came up frequently in recommendations. I bet it's a good read

[botefdunn]

@somefucker Who's the author of the Cherry you're talking about? Sounds interesting, but I'm seeing several books with that title.

wassup @PRISON IKE ? I feel like there's isn't that much sci fi / fantasy in here, it's nice to see.

[somefucker]

@somefucker Who's the author of the Cherry you're talking about? Sounds interesting, but I'm seeing several books with that title.

wassup @PRISON IKE ? I feel like there's isn't that much sci fi / fantasy in here, it's nice to see.

Nico Walker

[brycickle]

Just finished the first book on my summer reading list. Super good, if you have any interest in how the American government constantly shoots itself in the foot when it comes to our dealings with Iran.

[Jagr]

@Jagr I have not but after reading Barbarian Days I was looking for something to fill that void and In Search of Captain zero came up frequently in recommendations. I bet it's a good read

You definitely need to read it. Read Barbarian Days and In Search of Captain Zero is pretty similar...but quite a bit wackier. Let me know if when get around to it.

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

Probably my favorite book ever. Such a classic. Dr. Seuss spitting mad facts in this one.

[Mark Renton]

The victim by D’annunzio.

It made me put my phone on plane mode for the first time in ages. Recommended.

[donkey]

just snagged a copy of "the new centurions" by joseph wambaugh and i'm excited to start digging into it

[Deputy Wendell]

just finished teaching the spring semester and i'm only teaching one online asynchronous class this summer, and although i do need to finish a dissertation chapter (i'm about 30 pages in) and get started on the next by the fall, i will have time to do some "pleasure" reading this summer i'm excited to say, and here it is. Child of God, Suttree, The Orchard Keeper, and Outer Dark are the latest additions to the stack, and the stories i have not read yet, so appreciate some of the comments above in this ongoing discussion...

fuck...ok...fuck...literally, just finished Child of God and, shit...i think, that...hmmmmm...no, i better not try...at least, now...ok...fuck...

[Banned from the room]

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[DaleSr]

Just finished the first book on my summer reading list. Super good, if you have any interest in how the American government constantly shoots itself in the foot when it comes to our dealings with Iran.

I read kinzer's book about the cia overthrow of mosadegh a couple years ago, I'm definitely going to gave to check this out

[Peter Zagreus]

Getting weird with it

[Mark Renton]

Probably a sweet 16 kinda question but what’s the best Jim Morrison book?

Not necessarily biography but I wanna get more into bands way of thinking (any other OG band book is welcomed).

Back in highschool a teacher was linking philosophers with bands and it was making sense it was rad but that was 10+ years ago and even more in drug years. So I forgot haha.

[oyolar]

The victim by D’annunzio.

It made me put my phone on plane mode for the first time in ages. Recommended.

What's it about? D’annunzio was a really, really huge and influential piece of shit in terms of fucking up the world but I only know about his poetry and politics

[Mark Renton]

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The victim by D’annunzio.

It made me put my phone on plane mode for the first time in ages. Recommended.

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What's it about? D’annunzio was a really, really huge and influential piece of shit in terms of fucking up the world but I only know about his poetry and politics

It’s about a family and cheating and discovering passion again through pain. It’s good but I can’t really explain it better, really flowy too I had a good time.

That’s a very “broad” thing to say..
I can try and understand what you’re saying but I can’t agree at all.
I see him as an Hedonist punk that’s it tho.. if you’re referring to him being a member of the fascist party, well during the regime you had to, in order to sell / promote your stuff or simply not to get murdered.
Also übermensch stuff was going hand in hand with the regime ideology. Same with Nietzche and mustache guy from Austria.
As soon as he became just a tiny bit influential they tried to get rid of him and then put him in exile in a house or something.

[MichaelJacksonsGhost]

Anyone ever read Thomas Wolfe?

He’s got four novels, all pretty lengthy, more or less recounting the story of his life. I read the first one, Look Homeward Angel, and now I’m deep into the second, Of Time and the River. He’s just an absolute genius, and his intellect reeks on every page—I love it. Granted, he’s from Asheville NC, as am I, so I could be a tough biased.

There’s a good movie about his editing process, working with Maxwell Perkins (also Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s editor), called Genius. I’d recommend it.

If anyone’s touched his stuff before, I’d be keen to hear their opinions.

[oyolar]

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The victim by D’annunzio.

It made me put my phone on plane mode for the first time in ages. Recommended.

[close]

What's it about? D’annunzio was a really, really huge and influential piece of shit in terms of fucking up the world but I only know about his poetry and politics

[close]

It’s about a family and cheating and discovering passion again through pain. It’s good but I can’t really explain it better, really flowy too I had a good time.

That’s a very “broad” thing to say..
I can try and understand what you’re saying but I can’t agree at all.
I see him as an Hedonist punk that’s it tho.. if you’re referring to him being a member of the fascist party, well during the regime you had to, in order to sell / promote your stuff or simply not to get murdered.
Also übermensch stuff was going hand in hand with the regime ideology. Same with Nietzche and mustache guy from Austria.
As soon as he became just a tiny bit influential they tried to get rid of him and then put him in exile in a house or something.

I feel fine broadly condemning a fascist. What you're saying about him is 100% not true though. He helped create fascism, he wasn't forced into it. He was also so beloved by Italy that they couldn't have stopped him being published if they tried. He was an ideological muse for Mussolini and pushed Italian nationalism to be a driving force in everything he did. He was a fucking dictator of a city, using Italian heritage to justify it. His theatrics and actions when governing Fiume directly influenced Mussolini's fascist policies and aesthetic, which then was a huge influence on other dictators like Hitler. D'annunzio's shitty beliefs are still impacting us today. In fact, he was so influential and not just going along with fascism so he wasn't killed that Mussolini worried at times that his followers would abandon him and make D'annunzio their leader instead. To the point where despite retiring from public life after surviving a potential assassination attempt, Mussolini fucking paid him off and gave him lavish gifts so that D'annunzio would stay out of politics and Mussolini could stay in charge (although D'annunzio didn't stay out of it). That's nothing to say of his raping and physical and emotional abusing women. So I do not think I'm exaggerating by saying he's a huge, yet influential, piece of shit.

Here's some stuff about why he's such a piece of shit and why he's much more influential than you think:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-man-who-invented-56106119/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-the-man-who-invented-56233303/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/04/pike-gabriele-d-annunzio-biography-review
https://newrepublic.com/article/116326/gabriele-dannunzio-poet-seducer-and-preacher-war-reviewed

Your comment about Nietzsche is confusing as he was not at all a Nazi. He hated antisemitism and his übermensch ideas were co-opted by the Nazis based on his antisemitic sister purposefully twisting his work and selectively editing and publishing parts of it to be pro-Nazi. Nietzsche was one of many influences for Naziism, but he was not directly intersecting with its rise like D'annunzio was. Nietzsche had his mental breakdown and was institutionalized in 1889 and died in 1900, well before fascism rose in Italy or Naziism rose in Germany.
https://www.vox.com/2017/8/17/16140846/alt-right-nietzsche-richard-spencer-nazism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1992/09/27/thus-spake-elisabeth/7278ca62-b312-455a-9430-a056e0c8d4b2/

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

The last book I read is called The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg James. Kind of a serious read but a necessary one for myself.

Really excited to read Walden by Thoreau, requested that shit at my local library.

Trying to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy and By night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño next. Kinda want to check out Midnight in Chernobyl maybe. Fuck i got the reading bug...

[Atiba Applebum]

The last book I read is called The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg James. Kind of a serious read but a necessary one for myself.

Really excited to read Walden by Thoreau, requested that shit at my local library.

Trying to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy and By night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño next. Kinda want to check out Midnight in Chernobyl maybe. Fuck i got the reading bug...

I guess I shouldn’t make assumptions, but shocked you had to request Walden.   That seems like the stuff libraries are obligated to have


Re-reading the Sympathizer bc I just got the sequel The Committed in paperback

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

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The last book I read is called The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg James. Kind of a serious read but a necessary one for myself.

Really excited to read Walden by Thoreau, requested that shit at my local library.

Trying to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy and By night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño next. Kinda want to check out Midnight in Chernobyl maybe. Fuck i got the reading bug...

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I guess I shouldn’t make assumptions, but shocked you had to request Walden.   That seems like the stuff libraries are obligated to have

The copy they were supposed to have was lost/misplaced :-///

[Atiba Applebum]

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The last book I read is called The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg James. Kind of a serious read but a necessary one for myself.

Really excited to read Walden by Thoreau, requested that shit at my local library.

Trying to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy and By night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño next. Kinda want to check out Midnight in Chernobyl maybe. Fuck i got the reading bug...

[close]

I guess I shouldn’t make assumptions, but shocked you had to request Walden.   That seems like the stuff libraries are obligated to have

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The copy they were supposed to have was lost/misplaced :-///

I’m sure you’re like 99% of us who’d rather have a book in our hands, but public domain books like that aren’t too difficult to track down a legal pdf of on the internet

[Ricky Vaughn]

[Peter Zagreus]

Picked these up at a wonderful bookstore in Austin, TX. Free time reading:




This week's school reading:

[Abyss1]

I just finished this

[Kumiko]

Read A Confederacy of Dunces over the past coupla weeks. IDK. It was an enjoyable read, but it didn't really hit the way it seems to do for others. I wonder if it's because I don't relate to or didn't really root for Ignatius throughout it? I'm glad to have gone through with it though and wouldn't recommend against it, but... I also wouldn't urge anyone to read it ASAP. I've also been reading a ton of stuff from Amphetamine Sulphate this year. Some of it is incredible and others stink. Lots of stuff from people involved with noise/power electronics if you're into that scene. Their anthology Human Rights was a blast to read - except for, again, a few stinkers.

[brycickle]

So, I gave myself a whole summer to get through this reading list, but finished it up in about two months:










Tried to mostly read 100 pages a day, but didn't always succeed.

[oyolar]

How was Jacobsen? I got the audiobook of Area 51 and it was good and seemed well-researched right until the end where her “revelation” drifted into conspiracy land and made me re-think the whole book.

[brycickle]

It was good, seemed well researched. It was kind of cool that part of the book was her tracking one guy's 50 year career as a green beret/spy.

[Abyss1]

Anyone got any good audiobooks worth listening too?