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Listening to the first volume of the Elric saga. I'm actually enjoying it now that the backstory regarding his rule and his conflict with his cousin are over.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Slib - Jiří Kratochvil
Vanis Varoufakis "Technofeudalism"
George Monbiot "The Invisible Doctrine"
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I haven’t read those in years. When I was in my mid-teens a friend recommended them and I thought they were quite good, as I always liked darker fiction. Might give them another go sometime (about 45 years later than the first time…).
Gabor Maté “The Myth of Normal”
Craig A. Falconer “Not Alone”
Recently finished "Ceasar," the fifth book in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. It has been a fun way to learn the general contours of the history of Julius Ceasar and the context that preceded him. McCullough was quite devoted to detail in her research for these novels. The preceding two are heavily concerned with legal and political matters, which are important for understanding the hows and whys of Ceasar, but aren't necessarily great fiction. She shows an unwavering devotion to Ceasar himself as an ubermensch. It's simultaneously a well-researched lesson on this history of the times and a reflection of how the late Roman Republic figures in the western imagination, in good and quite bad ways, for example in the way non-Romans, especially non-Europeans, are depicted.
Returning now to Peter Turchin's "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires." I wish the editor had spent more time aggressively scrubbing out his addiction to parentheticals, but otherwise it's an interesting hypothesis.
I’ve been reading Alastair Reynolds the “Meistersinger of Space Opera. Some of the most imaginative SF I’ve read. Recommend Interceptor Phase to start.
Also rereading Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind for the umpteenth time. Been reading it since my 20s. Best spiritual book for me.
@Montreal_Music you’re on the wrong thread, mate!
Do the never ending tutorials for Dwarf Fortress count as reading a book?
I have been reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Hadn’t read it before and really finding a lot to enjoy about it and also getting educated on some subjects.
Loved both books! Also just finished:
Astra Taylor “Democracy may not exist, but we’ll miss it when it’s gone”
Grace Blakeley “Vulture capitalism”
Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
It's superb, at least for me at this point of my life. I wish I had read this 20 years ago, but I guess I wasn't ready back then, for the teacher to appear.
I've been studying buddhism (as a westerner, only by books) for 30+years, but this book made me realize so many things I was stuck for years. I don't recommend it to anyone not interested in buddhism, it may sound like a lot of nonsense, or like "yeah.. how does this apply to my life", YMMV, but I just had to sharefor posterity.
You can even get it on archive.org:
Here's the PDF: https://ia902801.us.archive.org/28/items/ProgressiveStagesOfMeditationOnEmptiness/Progressive-Stages-of-Meditation-on-Emptiness.pdf
And there's even an audiobook (I just found out, so I downloaded but haven't even listened yet):
https://archive.org/details/ProgressiveStagesOfMeditationOnEmptiness
They sound up my street, thnx!
Interesting. I'm also just starting a book related to Buddhism, though more from a modern academic perspective, David L McMahan's Rethinking Meditation. In my opinion anyone interested in Buddhism, or any religious or spiritual tradition, really, should read at least the first chapter of his earlier book, The Making of Buddhist Modernism.
I had heard of them through the tabletop rpg hobby: https://stormbringerrpg.com/
Then the series was put on discount at chirp.com so I grabbed it. On the whole, I like it so far, though the quality can be pretty uneven from story to story when compared to other authors like Andre Norton. Still, I am glad to have the opportunity to listen.
I don’t read book usually, especially novel or old classic's from the past, but, I read a lot of other stuff…
Just began reading the manual to Davinci Resolve - it’s just over 4500 pages so I have something to do over the summer! 😎😎
Holly Jackson - “Kill Joy” (Note: I think this book is for fans who have read a trilogy by this author.)
Douglas R. Hofstadter - “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (20th Anniversary Edition)”, “I Am a Strange Loop”
this book is really impressive
My son is a Buddhist monk, and I’ve been learning a lil bit more and Buddhism over the past 2 years. I have no plans to convert to any religion at this point in my life but i love buddism. Meditation, mindfulness, generosity… its all beautiful n many ways so i plan to check out this author
Just started The Aeneid again. I think it’s a different translation from the last time I read it (on Apple Books this time) as this one seems to have more focus on the English verse.
“Crying in H Mart” by Michele Zuaner, the lead singer of “Japanese Breakfast”.
Is it good? Only starting but it’s loaded with references to Korean Cuisine. H Mart is a chain of Korean Food markets in the US:
Thanks for the recommendation! I had heard about the author (and the modernism book) but never really read anything from him.
Now I got my hands on rethinking meditation, only read a few parts (chapter 7) but I’m enjoying it a lot. Really well structured, thought provoking ideas there.
Good stuff 👍🙏
Good to hear! If you can handle quite an academic, critical approach to Buddhism, you might enjoy Glenn Wallis. His interviews are much easier to understand than his books and papers, he's been on a few podcasts over the years. He's been very influential on me. I would never have regarded myself as a Buddhist, though I have read and meditated a lot over the years. But I was definitely less of a Buddhist after reading him. So tread carefully 😂
'Kill the Buddha' and all that, eh? 😁
Sure, kill the Buddha! But I’m partial to the Shentong (tathagata-gharba) view…
Can’t be all emptiness…
Siobhan Dowd - “The London Eye Mystery”, “Bog Child”
Robin Stevens - “The Guggenheim Mystery” (Based on an idea and characters by Siobhan Dowd)
Stephen Hunter - “Game of Snipers”, “The Bullet Garden”
Steven Millhauser - “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright”
Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman - “Gödel's Proof”
etc.
My favorite book I read this year.
I just finished “Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World” by Irene Vallejo.
This is an excellent and fascinating survey of the history of the written word. Highly recommended.