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Big Bad Blue
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Ex-Nation

Postby Big Bad Blue » Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:29 pm

Just started Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn. I was laughing out loud before I got 20 pages in at his description of the goings on at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of America (i.e. Western Union), then marveling at the deft Milleresque turn to an absolutely profound critique of the sick, twisted American dream.
"...the Republican strategy of disenfranchisement is a state-by-state strategy. It looks like judicial rule where they cannot win. Where they cannot win by judicial rule, they will rule by procedural theft. Where they cannot convince voters to vote for them, they will convince the candidate they voted for to become one of them." - Tressie McMillan Cottom | "...now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot." -- Marcus Hutchins*
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Luziyca
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Postby Luziyca » Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:35 am

The last book I read was The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby. It is a pretty good book, even if I only read it because it was one of the suggested books for the book review for my class.

I haven't read often in a long time. Maybe some day, I'll have a chance to read something that isn't on a screen. ;)
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The Macabees
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Postby The Macabees » Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:40 am

Alistair Finlan, The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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Of the Quendi
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Founded: Mar 18, 2010
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Of the Quendi » Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:56 am

I just finished the Help by Kathryn Stockett.
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The Coalition of Mankind
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Founded: Feb 27, 2022
Ex-Nation

Postby The Coalition of Mankind » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:06 am

Death's End by Cixin Liu
The Coaliton is an emprire that has territories in multiple unverses. It's led by the Master His power is immense and His intention are uncomprehensible. Is he trully humanity's messiah or just a cruel deity that sees us as his playthings.
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Elwher
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Capitalizt

Postby Elwher » Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:28 am

John McWhorter - The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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.
Ambrose Bierce
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Of the Quendi
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Postby Of the Quendi » Sun Mar 27, 2022 7:56 am

Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay by Aldous Huxley.
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The Macabees
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Postby The Macabees » Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:48 am

Jack Snyder, From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict
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Isle of Westland
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Founded: Sep 17, 2021
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Isle of Westland » Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:55 am

The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien

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Soveiniesberg
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Father Knows Best State

Postby Soveiniesberg » Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:58 am

The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven

I lost the book though.
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Snow Bird-Worldism Crash
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Snow Bird-Worldism Crash » Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:06 pm

Waif (2021) by Samantha Kolesnik
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Of the Quendi
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Of the Quendi » Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:59 am

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
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Seorabeol Federation
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New York Times Democracy

Postby Seorabeol Federation » Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:00 pm

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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Riam
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Founded: Mar 11, 2021
Left-wing Utopia

Postby Riam » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:19 am

Seorabeol Federation wrote:Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

A book I really enjoyed. Its sequel, Homo Deus is also good.

On the other hand, I'm reading Michael Löwy's Walter Benjamin. Avís d'incendi.
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Tsarus 2142
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Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby Tsarus 2142 » Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:24 pm

I just recently finished reading Berserk. I really enjoyed it. Many moments I took a picture of the page, or just closed my eyes and meditated upon what I just read.
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Big Bad Blue
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Ex-Nation

Postby Big Bad Blue » Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:20 pm

Big Bad Blue wrote:Just started Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn. I was laughing out loud before I got 20 pages in at his description of the goings on at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of America (i.e. Western Union), then marveling at the deft Milleresque turn to an absolutely profound critique of the sick, twisted American dream.


About 200 pages in now, just finished the "interlude" and the passage about Miller's epic tryst with the sister of a Jewish friend of his in the vestibule of her apartment building. Imagine getting your hands on a copy in like 1950 after hearing how filthy it was, then trying to beat off through 20-30 pages of stream of consciousness..."Jesus when's he gonna write 'fuck' again..."
"...the Republican strategy of disenfranchisement is a state-by-state strategy. It looks like judicial rule where they cannot win. Where they cannot win by judicial rule, they will rule by procedural theft. Where they cannot convince voters to vote for them, they will convince the candidate they voted for to become one of them." - Tressie McMillan Cottom | "...now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot." -- Marcus Hutchins*
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Arpasia
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Founded: Jun 18, 2021
Ex-Nation

Postby Arpasia » Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:23 pm

Jeff Kinney's Diary of a wimpy kid: Rodrick Rules.
Ek Sê!, A Nation on Eastern Altropia, basically an Alternate Universe France.
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The Grene Knyght
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Founded: May 07, 2016
Left-wing Utopia

Postby The Grene Knyght » Thu Apr 07, 2022 1:34 am

In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
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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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The Macabees
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Postby The Macabees » Sat Apr 09, 2022 12:44 pm

Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy
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Yurmama
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Posts: 7
Founded: Feb 16, 2022
Ex-Nation

Book

Postby Yurmama » Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:19 pm

Hey! I'm currently reading the "Blindness" by Jose Saramago.
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Dow Salold Islands
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Posts: 14
Founded: Sep 11, 2021
Psychotic Dictatorship

Postby Dow Salold Islands » Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:04 am

Reading the most recent WoF book.
Long live the AK-47
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Maraband
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Posts: 4
Founded: Apr 11, 2022
Ex-Nation

Postby Maraband » Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:04 pm

How Asia works by Joe Studwell
I enjoy reading it, Bill Gates also enjoyed it and I think you will too.
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The Grene Knyght
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Posts: 3274
Founded: May 07, 2016
Left-wing Utopia

Postby The Grene Knyght » Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:06 am

Hard To Be A God, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (t. Olena Bormashenko)
[_★_]
(◕‿◕)
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.
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Nova Universo
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Posts: 244
Founded: Mar 01, 2022
Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Nova Universo » Thu Apr 14, 2022 7:07 am

American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision.
Free City of Nova Universo: an international city in Otter Island on the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Union of Nova Universo: a supranational union of ten polities in Earth, Heimat and the Universe.
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Union of States of America
Secretary
 
Posts: 37
Founded: Apr 13, 2022
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Union of States of America » Thu Apr 14, 2022 7:49 pm

I currently am reading Oliver Twist. Books that I've read within the past month or so include Armageddon: 2419; A.C. Doyle's The Lost World; C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy; and William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Gotta love a good sci fi ( or history book ).
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