What book(s) are you reading at the moment?

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by Merritt

Didn't he have a doctor who was giving him a drug cocktail for his chronic farting?

I've not heard that before but I can imagine it might be true

[Dougella]

^ 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.

[Amara 94]

[Mike.Kzov]

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.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by Amara 94

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I'm listening to this audiobook:

[Amara 94]

^ interesting

[biscuits]

^ it's a bit more poppy than the one you're reading. Have you found it interesting?

[Amara 94]

Yes

[biscuits]

I'll give it a go

[Amara 94]

I’ll download unmasked soon.

[Just-Matt]

Not necessarily a book in particular, but >>> http://reddit.com/r/nosleep/
Helps me get to sleep somehow ironically

[choirgirl]

The autobiography of someone I once knew, now dead.

[anxiouslondoner]

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

[choirgirl]

That's the plot of Blackadders Christmas Carol

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by choirgirl

The autobiography of someone I once knew, now dead.

Was it someone famous?

[Marco]

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...

[Amara 94]

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.

[choirgirl]

No, a writer though, and the book was out of print, I got it on Amazon marketplace.

[genovese]

Great explanation of human behaviour, motivation & choices.
Worth it for Chapter one alone.

[Scurrilous Rumour]

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.

[genovese]

[Mike.Kzov]

(The second book in the original 3 Body Problem trilogy of books).

It's very science-y and clever.