Right now I'm reading:

Bullshit Jobs (2018) by David Graeber - I loved Debt but had low expectations for this one and was reluctant to read it (I expected it would just be an extremely padded out version of the essay, which I liked). I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected, and I'm reminded how skillful graeber was at gently taking a reader along and path that is unambiguously radical, yet each individual step on the path seems casual and reasonable.

Western Marxism (2017) by Domenico Losurdo - it's good. It's Losurdo, if you've read him before this is about the same - very rigorous and orderly arguments that lead to some very powerful insights. I'm only 100 pages in so far but liking it and feel that this new English text might become a vital text once it gets read more widely

Exhalation (2019) by Ted Chiang. Science fiction short stories by one of the best to do it rn. I'm about halfway through, so far I enjoyed his first collection more (Story of Your Life and Others). I liked the first story quite a lot (The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate) but most of the rest of what I've read so has been dominated by one 100 page novella that felt kind of weak for the amount of real estate it takes up. I've heard a few of the later stories are real bangers though so maybe it will balance out.

As for what I'm excited to read next, I'm kind of spinning my wheels a bit. Might do Washington Bullets by Vijay Prishad, or maybe some Strugatsky Brothers. Open to suggestions!

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      16 hours ago

      Oh right, I get you. Sorry, I'm good at semantics but I always trip up over pragmatics kitty-birthday-sad

      • roux [he/him, they/them]
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        14 hours ago

        I guess rereading my question, I was asking you. That's me posting before coffee lol. I think I meant trying to find audio rips with chapters. I know Spotify does have Conquest in broken up into chapters. I donno how to pull that off of Spotify but I bet there is a free version floating around.

        Sorry about the pre-coffee brain fart rofl.

        • ReadFanon [any, any]
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          2 hours ago

          You're alright, I figured it was just that rhetorical you in the way that people will say "Why can't you just buy one streaming service - how come you have to get 5 just to have something decent to watch?" but it's you a personal you it's just that people no longer say "Why can't one just buy a single streaming service?", except if they're some Eton scholar bougie fuck.

          No harm, no foul.