What are you reading at the moment?

[Yvonne]

Cruise by GoodReads, and the readers agree that this book pertains to a slightly different demographic, sampling careers on the higher end of salaries, yet the reading so far is great. I've photocopied the pages and highlighted things of importance to me - lots and lots of Post-It notes. Skimmed through the text and instead of expecting fillers, I go, "Shit, shit, shit! She knows! Gah!".



Thick and kind read. Would recommend. Take breaks in between and extract the many names onto paper and jot notes of their significance to the text.



The trailer for the film was what hooked me. I chose this book from a library raffle draw. Placed it on my shelf and as above, note taking of dates and different timelines.



Great. Read.

[Bamyasi]

I loved the chapter about Pontius Pilate and Jesus but the rest was such a snorefest until the second half imo.



Guess I'm a pleb.

[SrsSam77]

Modern society and culture, especially in first world nations, have developed a bubble of seperation from the events and happenings of the real world found out on the street that enables them to live lives of pathological altrusim, narcissism, and weakness. Sloterdijk in his book attempts to outline the role the bare metal world and how the high emotions of rage and anger play into the development of western society and mankind since the very first works of western tradition such as the illiad and how the loss of rage, anger, millenia of christian values, and altruistic culture has rotted out the sole of the west and made us ripe for the picking by outside forces. (there are also good bits to be found about wounds in the soul of average people and how modern society and it's condemnation of anger has made it harder to cope)

also: tfw your last name isn't pronounced as "slaughterdick"

[Miro]

[bd648]

I'm reading Norwegian wood right now actually. Just finished reading the girl with seven names

[Bamyasi]

Norwegian wood

One of his worst books imo but it's still pretty good I guess. I read them all in high school so my opinion might be different now.

[Necronomitr0n]

a pretty interesting read about the decline of quality of food in the usa (hint: it's the money) and other things, including how to navigate an asian grocery store, and why the best BBQ places open early in the morning

[Yvonne]

I've read up to Billennium by J. G. Ballard. So far, I favour the writing in this text. I've browsed for a copy of the expanded edition but it doesn't seem like they have it in the library.

[Unless]

Just picked this up for 90c, I think, in a second hand bookshop.



Cue some Soul Eater jokes.

[SrsSam77]

[Yvonne]

[SrsSam77]

basket can sit and laugh from his desk at facebook for now but I'm catching up

you fukken kno it m8

[Yvonne]

I'm nearly finished with this one.

[SrsSam77]

tfw slowly turning into a wizard
tfw understanding humans
tfw understanding yourself
tfw understanding dreams and the ability to make it real

[Bamyasi]

Fiction does that too but if you want to stick with your Silicon Valley-approved self-help books I won't stop you.

[SrsSam77]

*sips latte with one eye quirked, pensively tiwddles handlebar moustache, orders the kale panini*

[SrsSam77]

After reading this I don't see how tony schwaartz can keep throwing chimpouts about being the ghost writer of the book when the writing has trump's voice, cadence, and non-accidental mesmerizing qualities to it

[Yvonne]

Riveting stuff  - compelling read. Best pick of the month.

Did you know that I was asked to write the forward? It was a pleasure. It goes on for, like, ⅞ of the entire book (1000 pages+).

@Bamyasi, would you like a copy? I mean, it's your book.

[SrsSam77]

What is this salt you two are throwing
you do know he's taken by his figma 1/8th waifu super sonico right?

[SrsSam77]

This one is more about making one aware of social biases and innate human faults that are commonly exploited with no one being the wiser, takes a lot of digestion to be able to eek out clearly persuasive tactics.


Got on the times best seller list a week after it was released, the other people who have read it so far say that it's not only amazing and gives one the ability to resist modern marketing tactics, but also gives breadcrumbs of tactics one can employ in their own life, I've only just started it though