Celebrating 5 years of marriage today so I won't be on much, can I get some Ws in chat :D. The announcement for the book winner should go out tomorrow.
What are you reading? what's good, what sucked?
Everyone have a great weekend!
Has anyone had that occurrence where you recommend a book to someone and they take your suggestion and they love it. I had that with my brother-in-law and it felt really nice _. So Imma take that W today.
lmao. imagine spending your 5 year anniversary doing something other than posting on Hexbear all day. smh.
Better add a W or you are looking mighty bannable friend.
a w? huh? I'm confused.
anyway, it was just the usual "we're all terminally online libs here!" joke.
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W :rat-salute:
I’m still rereading wheel of time :comfy-cool: rip my free time though
W :duck-dance: enjoy your 5 years dude!
I'm almost finished Engles' Socialism Utopian and Scientific, 10 more pages to go. I'd consider it an essential read if you're getting into the fundamentals of socialism. It's still a dense read, as most theory is, but it's not an insurmountable read to the people newer to reading theory like myself. Wish I could find something that expanded more on how to analyze things through dialectics but for now I'll continue going through my theory backlog.
Aside from theory, I've downloaded Roadside Picnic because I've got the itch for a good sci-fi thriller. I've never played the Stalker games but I've enjoyed what I've heard about the settings, so I'm sure the book that they are based off of will be up my alley
I'm still working out dialectics myself, but I think reading Engels' own profound historical materialism in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State would probably help with your own analysis.
Thanks for the recommendation, funny enough I got a copy of Origin of the Family last week. I'll bump it up the reading list then, looking forward to it
:stalin-smokin: Hell yeah, W.
As far as theory goes, I'm reading The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. It's certainly outdated in terminology and in some of Engels' more unconsciously chauvinistic ideas, but his demonstration of a dialectical path of human evolution is fascinating and revealing.
As far as fiction, I'm reading The Three-Body Problem. I'm only a third of the way through, but I'm very impressed. There's some fascinating cerebral stuff as well as a tone of kind of... sci fi cosmic horror.
Still stuck on climate Leviathan. That book is pure :doomjak:
Also reading Sunstone. This one on the other hand is :meow-hug: :comfy:
I picked this up at my local library and I am gonna read it during Christmas. Check out The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine.
Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya’s secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants’ displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.
Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina’s singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.
I'm reading Andreas Malm's How to [redacted] a Pipeline and it's fucking fire.
Reading him real-time dunk on XR and non-violent strategies honestly reminds me of reading State and Revolution where Lenin is constantly dunking on Kautsky - like they both feel like vital texts written to address something happening at this very moment.
I honestly think if you imagine you'd have been reading Lenin in 1917 you should be reading Malm today. This entire community should get Malm-pilled immediately, we have very little time to waste.
Ive read 4 books by Malm now and every single one of them I’d consider absolutely essential theory. Amazing and incredibly important writer.
I hopped on the bandwagon and just finished Dune, it was great. I like sci-fi that really digs into the cultural side of things, and all the Arabic terminology is neat.
Probably gonna switch to theory for my next book, not sure what thoughFrom what you've liked so far, I believe you'll really appreciate the second novel in the series: Dune Messiah.
In a sense it is the second, richer, half of Dune. Herbert widens his world with each entry in the series -- there's more of what you already relish.
It's pretty neat :meow-melt:
Yeah, it's definitely on my list. I read Speaker for the Dead recently as well, so I'm kinda spoiled on this very specific sci-fi subgenre.
W :D
i'm rereading the importance of being earnest, chisling at Slaves on Horses & thoroughly enjoying the Shahnama
I am reading Confessions of a Hitman when I feel like it on the bus (it's alright)
The City & The City by China Meiville before bed (It's really good but I haven't been reading it much)
Exhalation and other short stories by Ted Chiang when I'm on my break at work (some neato little short stories)
And also here is a W you happy comrade!
So far it’s quite good, it’s very much Graeber’s usual style of writing. The premise so far is, broadly, that the European notions of freedom and equality were actually the ideas of indigenous thinkers who had very eloquent criticisms of European culture. I’ve only just started, it’s a long listen, 24 hours and change.
did you happen to obtain it legally? Cause i'd love to hear it.
I am reading Bell Hook's "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love" trying to figure out to be a lover, a better dude, and just a better person overall all at the same time.
She is a bit flowery for my personal tastes, but she has some real poetic passages that really hit ya in the heart. I'm trying to expand my reading to more emotionally heavy stuff and she is a great intro if you ask me.
Mark Leier's Bakunin biography
Absolutely hooked on it tbh. Leier does a very great job at putting Bakunin's life into context. Also now i kinda actually understand hegelian philosophy? Highly recommended.
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Been reading Suetonius' "Lives of the Caesars" for class, Catherine Edwards' translation. Really like it, it's in that genre of well-written history that ancient historians were so good at writing, reminds me of reading Livy tbh
