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Currently Reading
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:58 pm
by RUBBISH
Now reading this book about the gin craze in early 1800s England.
Proof that modernity is not the cause of people being fucking nuts.
Craze https://g.co/kgs/yVVAxa
And
This fantasy about a royal bastard being trained to be an assassin.
Assassin's Apprentice https://g.co/kgs/VwFZyF
Also in the bathroom.
Basically a primer on the most popular/infamous secret societies
Secret Societies: Inside the World's Mo ... kgs/rGggTB
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:44 am
by melko
Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash
A collection of essays on "evolutionary psychology". Stupid, boring, and Barash's writing style is super annoying.
Still finishing it out of principle.
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:08 pm
by RUBBISH
melko wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:44 am
Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash
A collection of essays on "evolutionary psychology". Stupid, boring, and Barash's writing style is super annoying.
Still finishing it out of principle.
Usually if its fiction...ill just drop it if its boring or written all clonky.
The last nonfiction I somehow forced myself through was about the Vietnam phoenix program. Wasnt one full of purient details. Was byzantine level detailed for sure...mind numbingly so.
Now a book at first I thought would be a bit of a drag but turned out to be really good is The Fatal Shore about colonization..penelization? of Australia.
Recomended.
Its based around firsthand accounts and has plenty of gruesome bits.
...also details the idea of a 'criminal class' and the abject fuckery of English culture.
they were plagued by mosquitoes, against which they employed the deterrent of fish oil: xe2x80x9cIt is by no means uncommon to see the entrails of fish frying upon their heads in the sun, till the oil runs over their face and body. This unguent is deemed by them of so much importance, that children even of two years old are taught the use of it.xe2x80x9d21 Since the Iora never washed, they spent their lives coated with a mixture of rancid fish oil, animal grease, ocher, beach sand, dust and sweat. They were filthy and funky in the extreme. But their stamina and muscular development were superb, and, because there was no sugar (except for the rare treat of wild honey) and little starch in their diet, they had excellent teethxe2x80x94unlike the white invaders.
The Fatal Shore https://g.co/kgs/HrxqSw
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:05 am
by RUBBISH
Just started in on the murderbot diaries and really hope Netflix doesn't ruin it with a halfassed series...
This is good non fiction so far...cromags from 100,000 years ago and modern humans have the same psychology.
How that will affect us is obvious from history...
If we don't exterminate ourselves we will...could...be a type 1 civilization by 2100
Physics of the Future https://g.co/kgs/bL4m6R
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:02 am
by RUBBISH
Picked up all of these because I have a problem.
The wild cards I read as a teenager...think they are making a tv streaming series out of it?
I think I read up to book 8..9..maybe 10?
Assassins apprentice was a good read and part of a trilogy or longer series.
The jim butcher stuff I may never gst around to reading.
Probably trade or give them away.
Glen Cook black company I had to get after reading books 4, 5 and 6. Its a classic in the genre.
The icarus hunt ...is on my reading list
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Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:07 am
by banned
loads of different stuff. just ordered the collected kenneth patchen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Patchen
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:20 am
by NoiseWiki
I was briefly in a band with the author of this book
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:23 am
by WhiteWarlock
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:52 am
by RUBBISH
Some magazines I am slowly going through...would love to have some old 70s and 80s sleaze and biker mags.
New MAD Magazine...I subscribe.
Some old mad and cracked I traded some horrible country tapes for...want more epic and heavy metal or anything like that.
Re: Currently Reading
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:31 pm
by banned
finished charles rakosi -- amulet.
ends
...
Little mood is to be gathered
from these sheepskin faces,
drumtoght and wandering,
unnless as primitive
I move my bulk no nearer
(brideless light affair)
but pass them with retentive eyes,
manifest and lonely.
