Currently reading this at the recommendation of a friend.
Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, a lovely read.
Picked up this today
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I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I love the descriptions, characters and the emotion, haven't been this invested in a series since I read the Lost Legion trilogy by Ben Kane. As for how I find it, look at my avatar text thingy
Proudly under the patronage of General Brewster of the Imperial House of Hader
Proud patron of 4zumi, Akar, CommodusIV ,Swaeft and Peaman
Best. Western. Ever.
Well...last of a trilogy, and has a lot of fantasy mixed in. I just got sucked in from the start.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
As a teenager, I was taken to various houses and flats above takeaways in the north of England, to be beaten, tortured and raped over 100 times. I was called a “white slag” and “white ****” as they beat me.
-Ella Hill
Nietzsche - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Guiseppe di Lampedusa - The Leopard
Stephen Greenblatt - Tyrant
Shoshana Zuboff - The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
further planned are:
Nietzsche - Menschliches, Allzumenschliches
some Heinrich Böll
and Karl Kraus - DIe letzten Tage der Menschheit
btw: none of our resident right wingers reading the newest Houellebecq?
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Currently working my way through Leaders eat last by Simon Sinek. Very interesting read, loads of ideas I'm likely to steal as well..
Could anyone recommend a horror, history, or fantasy novel? I'm really in a dry spell for good books. The longer the better in terms of audible hours
Finished up the last of the Horus Heresy novels before the siege of terra (to be started this march), Titandeath and Buried Dagger. Plus a bunch of shorts.
Titandeath was an ok novel. It spent most of the time detailing the background of this all female titan legion, some of its rivalries with other legions, and what not. The actual battle in beta garmon doesnt seems to be focus. It does have some cool titan x titan action and some interesting adeptus mechanicus parts. The portrayal of Sanguinius though was rather disappointing. Not the best of the Horus Heresy novels, id say about low to mid tier.
On Sanguinius...
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The Buried Dagger was good. Half of it details the capture of the death guard by Nurgle AND Mortarion's past in Barbarus, and the other half is about the knights errant and Malcador. However, for Death Guard fans it might be disappointing, as at least for me the better part was the one about the knights Errant. Malcador, Garviel Loken and Nathaniel Garro are featured quite heavily and i felt some nostalgia from books 1 to 4 of the series. All in all its a reasonable 3.5/5 or 4/5 ending to the Horus Heresy Series, the final book 54.
Heavy spoilers about the book
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Also read some Horus Heresy Short Stories, the best one was Now Peals Midnight - John French. Just some 15 pages. It depicts the last hours before the traitor fleet arrives in the solar system, and it was quite awesome, showing the calm before the storm, Dorn and the Fists getting ready, and the anticipation that is felt by everyone in the solar system, space marines, humans and the primarchs.
Basically, im ready with that siege of terra HYPE
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Then, as throngs of his enemies bore down upon him and one of his followers said, "They are making at thee, O King," "Who else, pray," said Antigonus, "should be their mark? But Demetrius will come to my aid." This was his hope to the last, and to the last he kept watching eagerly for his son; then a whole cloud of javelins were let fly at him and he fell.
-Plutarch, life of Demetrius.
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I trust I make myself obscure.
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A trilogy you should be able to get as such: The Devil's West.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
It's time....
So, I read a number of books while in the gulag:
-The myth of male power, by Warren Farrel.
Pretty good, though I don't think he has good solutions to the problems he points out.
-Globalists The end of the Empire and the Birith of Neoliberalism, by Quinn Slobodian.
Excellent book. Biased from a very left leaning perspective, but very informative nonetheless. Highly recommend it.
-Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman.
Belongs to the trashcan. I'm glad I only borrowed it and didn't waste money. The guy is a preacher for irresponsibility and incredibly superficial.
-The Coddling of the American Mind, by Haidt and Lukianoff.
Ok book, convinced me that war in the US is inevitable and the academia is unsalvageable. Pretty ironic considering that's what they want to avoid.
-The End of History and the Last Man by Fukuyama (the book not the essay).
Good, some good predictions and some completely wrong ones.
Upcoming ''Identity'' by Fukuyama and ''The Virtue of Nationalism'' by Yoram Hazony.