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#2012
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^ I can see how that would have happened, it allows people to stay awake for days on end doesn't it? But after a while of continuous use it starts to cause psychosis.
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#2014
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Christ this was grim. Much of the book is an all too real depiction of the devastation wrought by a traumatised soldier returning from WW2 on his wife and small child. And there's a story arc about Nazi genetics being used on a captive character to try to create a superhuman creature. The writer subtly makes the two stories metaphors for each other to great effect. |
#2015
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#2017
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^ it's a bit more poppy than the one you're reading. Have you found it interesting?
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#2019
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I'll give it a go
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#2021
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Not necessarily a book in particular, but >>> http://reddit.com/r/nosleep/
Helps me get to sleep somehow ironically |
#2022
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The autobiography of someone I once knew, now dead.
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#2023
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Ayn Rand's Christmas Carol*
Three ghosts turn up at a generous man's house to convince him to become a complete ba**ard. *not really I made it up |
#2024
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That's the plot of Blackadders Christmas Carol
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#2025
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#2026
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Just started reading the Beekeeper of Aleppo. I think this is going to be a great read, but very moving and upsetting. Only two chapters in...
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#2027
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Unmasking Neurodiversity
I feel like I haven’t focused so much on this book. I have but I mean I haven’t taken too much of the book in. However in a part of the book it stated how am example of an autistic person being unable to keep a clean house and how that is acceptable as maybe having someone to help clean the house is acceptable. Other things such as some autistic buying fast food a lot as cooking might be too much. A criticism on how modern Western society expects too much independence and in the past we would have community to help with stuff like cooking or chores that we might find challenging. It also talks about ableism actually coming from other autistic people when they aren’t well informed but are able to function in society. It made me think of my sister. I don’t think she is super popular but she had more friends than me. I think one friend since primary school that maybe she could go to when she didn’t want to be home as a teen. She went on holiday with some friends. It’s like she has had some amount of social support to know our be regulated in a way that makes her able to fit into social groups. However, she posted on tik tok how she was obsessed with Uber eats, since coming home from uni hardly does any house work and works from home. She has adhd but these things makes me wonder if like the autistic people talked about in this book she has similar symptoms but because she has had social support or has fitted in enough with her peers she hasn’t had to deal with the consequences her adhd, wouldn’t be surprised if she has autism as she also stims, may have posed if she didn’t fit in like me. I feel like she is also a golden child to my mum. |
#2028
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No, a writer though, and the book was out of print, I got it on Amazon marketplace.
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#2029
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Great explanation of human behaviour, motivation & choices.
Worth it for Chapter one alone. |
#2030
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My latest attempt to develop a chess opening repertoire with black that stops me being mated inside 20 moves every game. Unfortunately the book is 400 pages long, so I doubt this will be the solution to my problems. But I live in hope.
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#2031
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(The second book in the original 3 Body Problem trilogy of books). It's very science-y and clever. |
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"Where the rich own the truth."
Now that's a very incisive statement on modern society. Sounds a good book! |
#2035
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I’m reading Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, where he discusses what he believes are the greatest books ever written. I love Bloom’s writing. I love his passion for literature. I also love his angry contempt for the way literature departments have been hijacked by people with an axe to grind. Mediocre writers are being praised and promoted not for the quality of their work but because they tick certain boxes. Other writers, who really are great, are being ignored and dismissed. Even the university libraries are being ‘de-colonised’.
Bloom has the guts to fight back, and refuses to discuss second rate books in the name of ‘diversity and inclusion’. Instead, he focuses on the writers who really do deserve a place in the canon- Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy, Kafka, D H Lawrence, Dickens, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Nabokov, etc. I use him as a guide to who to read because I know I can trust his judgement. |
#2036
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It covers Putin, his oligarchs, the Tories, Charles, Camilla, Camilla's nephew, all intertwined with the UK financial system that enables them all to f*** us mere tax paying mortals year after year. It makes the Post office horizon injustice seem a tiny kiddie playground nursery argument in comparison. It'll take the death of Putin & Charles before Netflix turn it into a 10-parter |