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So, what have you been reading recently? | ๐ Weekly book discussion, review, and recommendations thread, November 23rd, 2025
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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.
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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
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?
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.