I'm reading Moby Dick, which is actually incredible even though the kind of woke racism is hard to parse and interpret.
I'm also reading "Red Revolution, Green Revolution" about agriculture and science in the early days of the Mao's China. It's also really fucking good.
Been reading some Thomas Ligotti short stories
Good choice! Love some Ligotti, The Clown Puppet might be my favorite short horror story.
Have you read his The Conspiracy Against the Human Race?
It looks interesting but no library near me has it so I'd have to buy it.
I started reading it, but couldn't stomach it, particularly not in 2020/21
I have not. I'm just diving into his work
town manager, purity, nightmare network
TCATHR is pretty good but shouldn't be taken too seriously, particularly if you have clinical depression
Ligotti should be read as somewhat tongue-in-cheek, otherwise it will make you self-harm
I am familiar with some of the ideas already but yeah I'm sure it's not a good read for mental health... I thought he was being serious tho?
I mean he's not joking but (1) his work incorporates a lot of humor, hence tongue-in-cheekness (2) he's a self-described leftist but if you don't take his fiction and nonfiction work as horror genre, as in specifically meant to scare you and not to educate you, then the lessons you learn will be reactionary and politically unhelpful.
Ah gotcha, I'll keep that in mind when I read his stuff.
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