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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51iMPVCSaXL.jpg The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen |
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Anyways, I got a copy of Hegel's The Phenemology of Spirit that I'll be starting on soon. |
I liked wuthering heights. I agree it's technically problematic, but it's just so wild in a totally mental way, I love it. Even the technical issues can be funny, like at the beginning when Cathy and Heathcliff fall in love, she just completely ignores the show don't tell principle and more or less postulates that they're in love and you have to take her word for it. Like believable story building, she has no time for that ****, she wants to get to the dark part and go nuts. Bless her
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I’m so excited! My friends know that I’m an avid proponent of copyleftism, the free software movement, Creative Commons, and related philosophies.
My research led me to a powerful collection of 48 essays by Richard Stallman - the renowned father of the free software movement. Stallman is the programmer who launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, and wrote the GNU General Public License. I found his essays so captivating that I had to secure a physical copy for my library. As luck would have it, I found a pristine unread copy of the latest edition actually SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author for just $4! I didn’t hesitate and ordered it on the spot. This third edition features a new Forward by journalist and hacker, Jacob Appelbaum who was formerly a core member of the Tor project. It also includes the prior Forward from the first and second editions penned by famed Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. These are foundational documents in the realm of copyleftism and the history of free software. I’m astounded by my good fortune! https://i.imgur.com/4sNRax9l.jpg |
I just read the first book of Dune until I got to this page
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Why is that a ding dong sucker? Maybe you have better reasons but the way you're framing it just makes you look like a snob with inscrutable standards of snobbery.
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Maybe if I read it as a kid like you’re supposed to... |
It's been well over a decade since I read it and I only read it the one time but just going off memory of the plot it's supposed supposed to be some kind of colonialist commentary, right? Civilized powers control the resources of a land where the indigenous population are seen as uncultured savages. Thinking about it now the whole second half of the book as I remember it sounds like obvious white savior schlock with the indigenous population ending up being the universe's greatest badasses with grit the effete colonialists can't recognize with the main character going native and becoming the biggest badass of them all. Maybe you're better off actually . I definitely remember trying to read the second book and the quality taking a steep nosedive off a cliff that made it unreadable.
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