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[–] 8 points 9 months ago

I just started reading Assata's autobiographical. Really like they way it's writing, can't wait for later this week, when I have lots of time to read it.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I recently finished Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Trruelove. A little random but a fun read.

    I've just started Metal From Heaven by August Clarke, which seems like a really fun class conscious workers' revenge story but I'm having a hard time getting into the almost poetic narrative style.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Please let me know whether it has the typical "Their intentions were noble but their methods were wrong" ending or not once you're finished reading it.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It does not! I was pleasantly surprised. The author does a good job of illustrating the effects of material conditions on a person and the class struggles within a society without being heavy handed or preachy about it.

    The author's acknowledgements even call out Marx, Federici, and CΓ©saire.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ancillary justice, book 1 so far. Got recommended it as I am a huge gestalt consciousness fan.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Inching my way through George Politzers Elementary Principles of Philosophy. It’s finals season so I get bits in when I can.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You should use the @ symbol to notify, like @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml. This just links to the profiles without sending the notif.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I did that in the main post but people are saying it isn't working for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What is dias y noches which he seems to be reading?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    Finished the Jakarta Method. Very eye opening, the worldwide connections between Indonesia and Brazil/Chile. Now I'm trying to re-read Capital, and also listening to an audiobook of the Divine Comedy, very amusing. Also, the Lemmygrad Study Group selection "Blood in my Eye" by George Jackson. I was really inspired by reading Soledad Brother last year, and this is cementing those feelings from last year.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm still just slowly going through Losurdo's Democracy and Bonapartism, and I think I might start Dubliners by James Joyce as my next fiction book.

    P.S. my notification didn't work, not sure what's up with that

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I just finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake this week, hardest book I've ever read but the most singular experience I've ever had reading a book

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm also very curious about it, it's on my list, but I probably won't get to it until later on. I've heard it's quite disorganized and chaotic without having a straight forward plot. So, you liked it then overall?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Honestly I don't know if I liked it or not, I liked the experience of reading it, it's fun particularly out loud as it is very melodic, but I wouldn't read it again, it's densely written. It does present the more Eastern notion of cycles and circles of life and history which I found interesting, but I also found some underlining bigotry in certain passages which was weird.

    I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to have a totally new experience reading a book, although I myself didn't approach it like that as I stumbled upon the book by chance and wasn't all that familiar with what awaited me.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Still slowly going through the books I mentioned in a previous thread (The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, and Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies). Set them aside for a little bit because I started reading The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber as I was looking for some historical information on rubber production. I think today I'll pick one of these three and make some more progress in it.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    @cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml

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