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Currently reading this - think it might be something @sufi might be interested in - it’s fucking grim. In the same way as Svetlana Alexievich is grim - that is brutal and essential. Eye witness accounts of the horrors of the forgotten war in Yemen.

Place down the road from me is full of Fitzcarraldo Editions. I'll keep an eye out for this. Support the local :)

Picked up Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes last night. Recommended up thread.
 

catalog

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I'm on DH Lawrence's 'The Rainbow' which is pretty good, if a little slow and samey just at the moment - I'm only 100 pages in. He's very good at saying the same thing over and over again in slightly different ways but building it all together with a sense of rhythm. This section i just read where it's Brangwen marrying the Polish woman and the number of times he describes her as a flower having her petals opened by the sunlight.

Also, a lot easier to read than I thought it might have been.

Also got this Kate Molleson book on the go about not-well-known classical composers which is well-written but slightly wasted on me given that I know very little about classical composers full stop. Just finished the chapter on Ruth Crawford, Peggy Seeger's mum, had no idea that classical composers borrowing stylings from folk music was a thing.

And I've also got hold of Joe "Enemy of Dissensus" Muggs' book, 'Bass, Mids, Tops'. I read the Sarah Lockhart chapter first which was good, now onto Terror Danjah. Not fully grabbed by anything just yet, it's all useful but such familiar ground by now.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
And I've also got hold of Joe "Enemy of Dissensus" Muggs' book, 'Bass, Mids, Tops'. I read the Sarah Lockhart chapter first which was good, now onto Terror Danjah. Not fully grabbed by anything just yet, it's all useful but such familiar ground by now.

I got this book kinda lying around in the car. When I'm waiting to pick someone up or whatever it's there to kinda flick through, I guess something like when you leave magazines or books you can dip into in the bathroom. To be honest though... I've listlessly flicked through the odd bit but somehow none of it has really grabbed me at all yet.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've got two friends who don't really like reading, hardly ever read anything, and both loved "The road". I've not read that one though. I've read Blood Meridian and No Country...
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Around halfway through Progress & Poverty now, and just swung by the local bookshop to use up my vouchers - with $17 remaining!

I had been looking for Remembrance, On War, and Spirit for a while, but the others were spontaneous decisions.

What does this stack of books tell you about a person?

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Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I’m interested in On War from a guerrilla lawfare perspective, IE seeing what of this theory can be appropriated into a corporate context. That said, I’m not a lawyer.
 

jenks

thread death
Around halfway through Progress & Poverty now, and just swung by the local bookshop to use up my vouchers - with $17 remaining!

I had been looking for Remembrance, On War, and Spirit for a while, but the others were spontaneous decisions.

What does this stack of books tell you about a person?

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They’re upside down or you’re standing in your head.
 
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