The Overstory by Richard Powers.
Sublime first couple page. A book about trees!
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232Empire of Pain. Every Sackler should be dragged out into the streets and beheaded.
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233"Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!"
-Burroughs
-Burroughs
"There's a felling I get when I look to the west"
"When the meaningful words. When they cease to function. When there's nothing to say."
"When the meaningful words. When they cease to function. When there's nothing to say."
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2342 new Cormac McCarthy novels incoming....with the thrid of a trilogy planned. I'm reading the news article,,,,not the books...but that's pretty cool nonetheless.
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235Ooh good tip, thanks. It had crossed my mind that he'd retired from novel writing, it's been so many years since The Road.zorg wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 3:46 pm 2 new Cormac McCarthy novels incoming....with the thrid of a trilogy planned. I'm reading the news article,,,,not the books...but that's pretty cool nonetheless.
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236Extinction by Bernhard. A 325 page diatribe against all things Austrian, Catholic, National Socialist and proletarian/middle class.
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238The Rodchenkov Affair. A memoir of Grigory Rodchenkov, who headed the not at all suspicious Russian Anti-Doping Department before whistleblowing and fleeing west.
Reads like a thriller in parts, and is utterly compelling. Highly recommended.
Reads like a thriller in parts, and is utterly compelling. Highly recommended.
at war with bellends
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239Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. A man goes to sleep in 1887, and wakes up in the year 2000. Read it in college, saw a copy for 50 cents at the library. Some of the descriptions of society/politics are heavy at times, but I'm enjoying it overall. The book basically predicted the widespread use of credit cards.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
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240Ur varselklotet (aka Tales from the Loop), Simon Stålenhag.
Mysterious and somewhat ominious, while also remarkably unsensational. The machines and robots here figure in the perifery of ordinary lives, as mundane to the inhabitants as automobiles and tv sets. The pictures take full advantage of the numina of the Swedish landscape, where the machines and the junk, like the gas stations, water towers and telephone poles, blend into the environment and become natural features of it.
Also: The Handmaid's Tale.
Mysterious and somewhat ominious, while also remarkably unsensational. The machines and robots here figure in the perifery of ordinary lives, as mundane to the inhabitants as automobiles and tv sets. The pictures take full advantage of the numina of the Swedish landscape, where the machines and the junk, like the gas stations, water towers and telephone poles, blend into the environment and become natural features of it.
Also: The Handmaid's Tale.
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