by bodantogat
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- I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It follows a scientist sentenced to a prison camp on a planet teeming with bizarre lifeforms. So far, it hasn’t drawn me in the way Children of Time did, though I’m only about a quarter of the way through.
- Civilisations by kenneth clark - an art critic tries to understand western civilization through the "book" of its art.
- I read The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken and was struck by similarities to Pratchett, for instance the part where the main character heroically defeats monsters in a wood by using knowledge gleaned from an old encyclopedia that he carries everywhere, and how he ſpeakſ like thiſ when reading aloud from it, and the part about underground camels in Wales. It references The Far-Distant Oxus at one point, which I want to read (a pony adventure story written in 1937 by teenagers).
(I know the long s wasn't really used at the ends of words, that was just a hurried example.)
by andyjohnson0
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- Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. As with some of his other work, the punctuation can be a challenge and the prose can sometimes border on the ponderous, but I'm enjoying it. Currently about half way through.
- A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer
Augustine's Confessions
Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge
by kapilkaisare
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- Simmons, Dan. The Terror
I'm about 50 pages in, and am entranced with the prose.
by whatamidoingyo
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- I'm reading The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot for the second time. It's full of gems.
by jorisboris
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- Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", about our first civilisations.
by ValtteriL
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- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
by chairmansteve
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- Post Soviet Britain by Abby Innes. Excellent so far (70 pages in).
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte. Also excellent. Nearly finished it.
- Currently: Moby-Dick and Termination Shock. (That the former gets brought up a lot in the latter is a coincidence.)
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder
- Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, by Jeremy Utley
by alberto_ol
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- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- I'm favoriting this for later.
by constantinum
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- War and peace - third attempt
by precompute
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- The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.
- “How Can I Help” by Linda Hand
by BOOSTERHIDROGEN
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- How to get along
- Rereading Bliss by Peter Carey after opening a 45 year old box o' books from a back shelf in the shed.
It's a red pill fable for marketing directors (and other threads are pulled).
Later adapted for film, it saw 400 viewers walk out on it when screened at Cannes... most likely when the fish hit the floor. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifR7tsVT_-Y
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