i wanna read some fantasy books everybody but i definitely do not need another In The Name of the Wind in my life
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Unrelated: I am reading Septimania in which a young English chap who can trace his lineage back to both Isaac Newton and Charlemagne finds out he’s the long lost King of the Jews and unknowingly anoints Pope John-Paul II. I’m about a third of the way through.
The book is better than that sounds.
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mary gentle’s “ash: a secret history” is on the top of my to-read list when it comes to fantasy; only heard great things about it
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reading the book about theranos, still don’t understand how they got away with this grift for so many years
The whole Theranos story really makes me dream about utterly fleecing the richest rubes in our country and then using the profits to fund socialist movements. White collar crime is so rarely prosecuted, we should use this flaw in the system against the system.
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But I guess the problem is, you only get in trouble if you’re fleecing the rich.
I read The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
It’s really good, and also feels like a Kilgore Trout novel idea that was actually written out.
you can read multiple books at once??
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are all torturers stubborn assholes or just Severian
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It was better than it sounded but maybe got a little maudlin at the end, and luckily, did quite a bit to steer clear of any hand-wavy math or science stuff because it is sure full of hand-wavy historical contrivances. What the hell, let’s call it a B+
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I really like The Revenants by Sheri S. Tepper
- she has lots of solid books. But that one strikes a particular chord, for me.
*Grass is supposed to be her best. I have it on the shelf, but haven’t read it.
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I will check it out. I have never read Ursula Le Guin, or finished anything by Pyncho nand I wanna get that done this year, as well as just well
buying more books that seem good.
Today I am reminding myself that some divides just seemed unbridgeable to ol’ stick in the mud Dunsany
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(also that he never, ever rewrote a sentence)
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@u_u if George H. W. Bush had a secret bonus career as a specialist in ancient Chinese alchemy under a v. dubious alias you have to tell us
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Homer Dubs is a real person w a ridiculous name
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Homer Hasenpflug Dubs
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Peter S. Beagle’s Summerlong is another “gods of an ancient pantheon in the modern world” book and I’m going to be honest it squanders a lot of its build up, a lot of the pathos feels unearned.
I’ve started reading The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
It reminds me of the Water Margin, but it is a lighter easier read.
I think this is exactly what I want right now.
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