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Elwher
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Postby Elwher » Wed Jul 31, 2019 2:48 pm

David Weber - The Apocalypse Troll
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Aug 02, 2019 3:55 am

Terrible swift sword. -- Bruce carton

Volume 2 in the civil war centenial series.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
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The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

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Elwher
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Postby Elwher » Fri Aug 02, 2019 6:35 am

John Ringo - The Last Centurian

Good story, but almost as many political rants as Atlas Shrugged and just as welcome.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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Postby The Macabees » Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:28 am

Cicero, On the Good Life
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The Macabees' Guides to Roleplaying, Worldbuilding, and Other Stuff (please upvote if you like them!)
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Alexiandra
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Postby Alexiandra » Fri Aug 02, 2019 12:02 pm

Just finished The Looking Glass War by the inimitable John le Carré. Truly superb fiction.

Hoping to move on to Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo, once it arrives.
'A distinction is made in private life between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does. In historical struggles one must make a still sharper distinction between the phrases and fantasies of the parties and their real organisation and real interests, between their conception of themselves and what they really are.'
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:16 am

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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Postby Platypus Bureaucracy » Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:02 pm

The Bhagavad Gita. Apparently, if you meet Krishna's definition of evil, he'll ensure that you're reborn into a similarly evil family.

TIL Krishna is basically a really shitty criminal justice system.
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Postby Psukhe » Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:44 pm

"Discourse on Method" by René Descartes. Almost makes me believe in God.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:24 am

Along with the civil war books.

The war of the Ring. -- j.r.r Tolkien
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby Jolthig » Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:42 pm

Republic by Plato
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Postby Jean-Paul Sartre » Wed Aug 07, 2019 6:04 pm

As soon as it gets here, about half of the discworld novels.
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The Canadian Confederacy of Provinces
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Postby The Canadian Confederacy of Provinces » Wed Aug 07, 2019 7:24 pm

Bernard Cornwell's Saxon/Warrior chronicles.
A historical fiction based upon the exploits of the ancestor of the historical "Uthred the Bold".
The series starts during the time of Alfred the Great (878 ad); and extends through the early/middle years of viking britain.

There is a current miniseries based upon the books yet that is woefully inaccurate to not only the books but to history itself. the books while openly taking liberties is nonetheless culturally & historically accurate!

Both The First book, and the miniseries are titled "The Last kingdom"; refering to how at the beginning Wessex is the last Anglo-Saxon kingdom to survive the "great heathen army" led by the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok in retaliation for the death of their father.
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Postby Geneviev » Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:41 pm

Aristotle's Rhetoric. I've been meaning to read it for a while, and I finally found it. :)
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Postby Jolthig » Thu Aug 08, 2019 2:34 pm

Geneviev wrote:Aristotle's Rhetoric. I've been meaning to read it for a while, and I finally found it. :)

Great book indeed
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Postby Nakena » Thu Aug 08, 2019 2:43 pm

The Medici: A Tale of Fifteen Generations by James Cleugh

Really makes you appriciate italian renaissance. Florentine history is very interesting.
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Sat Aug 10, 2019 5:16 am

Rereading The King in Yellow by RW Chambers
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Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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PRO: Socialism, Communism, Internationalism, Revolution, Leninism.
NEUTRAL: Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism.
ANTI: Capitalism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Fascists, Hyper-Sectarian Leftists.
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Giovenith
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Postby Giovenith » Sat Aug 10, 2019 9:09 am

"Everything is Fucked: A Book About Hope" by Mark Manson.
⟡ and in time, and in time, we will all be stars ⟡
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:53 am

Bezoek Van De Knokploeg, the Dutch translation of A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. A big hit back in 2011, given how it won the Pulitzer Prize and other awards.


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Aug 14, 2019 4:56 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I still need to finish Grant Takes Command. I don't know if it's in the same trilogy though.

He wrote 2.

The centennial civil war, and the army of the Potomac .

I am reading the centenial trilogy

Cool. I didn't know that.

I finished Robert Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky earlier today.
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Postby UniversalCommons » Thu Aug 15, 2019 3:27 pm

I am reading a variety of professional books. However the one item I am looking at right now for entertainment is The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague De Camp. He wrote some nonfiction.
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Postby Jolthig » Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:12 pm

Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:35 pm

UniversalCommons wrote:I am reading a variety of professional books. However the one item I am looking at right now for entertainment is The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague De Camp. He wrote some nonfiction.


i have that book.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Soufrika
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Postby Soufrika » Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:16 pm

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Libertarian Agnostic
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Thepeopl
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Postby Thepeopl » Sat Aug 17, 2019 2:28 am

Zero History, by William Gibson

Dance, dance, dance, by Haruki Murakami

Underground, by Haruki Murakami.

I mostly read several books at the same time.
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:51 am

Rereading Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology
[_★_]
(◕‿◕)
Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
ＦＵＬＬＹ　ＡＵＴＯＭＡＴＥＤ　ＬＵＸＵＲＹ　ＧＡＹ　ＳＰＡＣＥ　ＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＳＭ
PRO: Socialism, Communism, Internationalism, Revolution, Leninism.
NEUTRAL: Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism.
ANTI: Capitalism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Fascists, Hyper-Sectarian Leftists.
Portal Nationalist | Proletarian Moralist
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