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Dave N. wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 1:56 pm
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:43 pm Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. It’s alright
I’ve read it 3 or 4 times. One of my all-time faves. Something about the idea of walking into the woods with nothing and amassing something appeals to me. Then there’s the complexity of amassing too much.
Yeah, it was fucking great. I started to appreciate more as the civilization outside of the farm slowly started to reveal itself. Plus I have a soft-spot for sort of multi-generational epics.

Many times I was reminded of Cormac McCarthy’s first novel, which I have a sublime dislike for, even if he is one of my fav authors. Growth of the Soil kicks its ass walking.

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Gramsci wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 4:48 am Grinding through The Sillmarilion… Christ it’s tough. Like reading the bible but less crazy. The first third is almost unreadable. The “story” kicks from there but it’s still a hard read.
Reading it is very much like that. It is like reading a translation of an ancient text, like The Iliad and Odyssey or Livy's Roman Histories or Caesar's Gallic War reports or Greek classics. A stilted translation of a dead language.
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El Protoolio wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 1:33 pm
Gramsci wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 4:48 am Grinding through The Sillmarilion… Christ it’s tough. Like reading the bible but less crazy. The first third is almost unreadable. The “story” kicks from there but it’s still a hard read.
Reading it is very much like that. It is like reading a translation of an ancient text, like The Iliad and Odyssey or Livy's Roman Histories or Caesar's Gallic War reports or Greek classics. A stilted translation of a dead language.
Yes, that’s how I’ve had to frame it to make it readable. I actually think I prefer something like Nerd for the Rings to get the lore from this book. I’ll barrel on.

From further down, Ursula Le Guin is on my to read list.
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Gramsci wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:55 am From further down, Ursula Le Guin is on my to read list.
The book I'm on is the second in the "Earthsea" series - though this one does not start off where the second one ended, and is about other folks in a different place. Will something connect them thematically later? Guess we'll see.

Anyway, the first one called A Wizard of Earthsea had me hooked from the start, and I finished it in a blip. Put her next in queue!
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I'd wanted to read some essays/interviews in a few issues of the no-longer-published Just Intonation Network newsletter, though Frog Peak Music sells back issues. So I bought four, and they sent me a zip of the whole run of them in PDFs. Long interview with La Monte Young (some inside-baseball just intonation stuff I'd not known, and confirmation of stuff I'd thought), interview with Lou Harrison, an essay by David Rayna (built the synth LMY used in the Dream House), an essay on Branca's JI work... A real wealth of stuff in here.
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The Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn. It's largely a compilation of his journal entries from 2001-2016 covering the Arab Spring and wars in the middle east. He spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain over this period. It's gripping and every bit as tragic as one would expect, but very well done.

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mrcancelled wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:20 pm The Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn. It's largely a compilation of his journal entries from 2001-2016 covering the Arab Spring and wars in the middle east. He spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain over this period. It's gripping and every bit as tragic as one would expect, but very well done.
Noted. Thanks for the rec.
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