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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.
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.
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.
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.
There goes another book into my 'To be read' list. Thank you for informing me.
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You should use the @ symbol to notify, like @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml. This just links to the profiles without sending the notif.
I did that in the main post but people are saying it isn't working for them.
Mentions in the main post don't work, you need to do it in the comments.
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Inching my way through George Politzers Elementary Principles of Philosophy. Itβs finals season so I get bits in when I can.
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.
What is dias y noches which he seems to be reading?
Ancillary justice, book 1 so far. Got recommended it as I am a huge gestalt consciousness fan.
That one is on m list too.
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
Is it working now?
Yes, I got the new ones, thanks
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.
Still slowly going through the books I mentioned in a previous thread (The Kaiserβs Holocaust: Germanyβs 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.
The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber
Flabbergasting title!
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