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Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. so sad. RXTT's Intellectual Journey continues with a book that hits REAL close to home, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...has-never.html
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5295602-michael |
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Thanks man. Means a lot. Please share or disseminate if you like.... |
I have an account on goodreads, but then I realized it was just doubling up the work I put in to the blog. hahahha/
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Has anyone here read Rip It Up and Start Again, by Simon Reynolds? Post-punk history that I'm enjoying from the first two chapters
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Yeah, really good. Seem to remember his chapter on SY being a bit anti, but makes a fair argument. |
Went to the Tiny Town Library Sale today. It’s a great way to find cheap versions of authors you’ve wanted to read, but didn’t want to pay much for, since you may not like them
Scored Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe The Deal Breaker-Edwidge Danticat The Black Book-Orhan Pamuk Plus a few from authors I already have read... The Outsider-Richard Wright Troll Nation -Amanda Marcotte No Good Alternative & No Immediate Danger-William T Vollmann Any Vollmann fans on here? He’s a wordy fucker, for sure, but I’ve always loved his prose. |
I haven't visited Goodreads in months. I reviewed some books. I obviously don't read as much as you guys though!
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Finished a Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsey (1920) https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...920-still.html very cool old proto-sci fi book.
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Finally finished Frankenstein. I'm definitely going a lot slower this year.
Started "The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism" and I purchased these: https://www.instagram.com/p/BvFXJbsn250/ |
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it’s supposed to be a great gnostic treatise or something i got tired of the multiple eyes and murders and abandoned it 2/3 of the way harold bloom was much more enamored of gnosticism than i’ll ever be and probably understood the referent of all that crazy imagery |
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I would not have got it at age 23. I have read a lot of gnostic writings and books about gnosis and the various states of being that the Voyage to Arcturus is actually talking about. |
I just finished re-reading Alfred Bester’s classic, “The Stars my Destination,” and now I’m looking for something new, slimming through samples on Kindle.
This looks good. I saw the author speak a while back, and I’m enjoying the sample. Might dive in: ![]() |
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looks interesting, but a lot of current Middle Eastern history seems to stem from times way before that. If he doesn't go back at least to 1920, I think it's missing a lot |
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who is 23? |
Just meaning, 23 years ago I would not have understood what I understand at 46.
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