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diff --git a/org/reading-corner.org b/org/reading-corner.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0981a09 --- /dev/null +++ b/org/reading-corner.org @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +#+SETUPFILE: ../org-templates/level-1.org +#+TITLE: Reading Corner +#+BACKGROUND_IMAGE: images/reading_background.jpg + +* Why do a boring old person thing like read? + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: why-do-a-boring-old-person-thing-like-read + :END: +I use to dislike reading because I thought reading was for boring old +people. It turned out I was correct, reading is for boring old people. +Than I became a boring old person, so now I read. + +* How to find a good book + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: how-to-find-a-good-book + :END: +The more questons that answer with yes the more likely it is that the +book is worth a read: + ++ Do christians dislike the book? ++ Did a school board in florida or texas try to ban it? ++ Is the author mentally insane? ++ Did a German dude write it? ++ Do book reviewers struggle to wrap their tiny brains around it? + +* Reading list + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: reading_list + :END: +** Ever growing list of things I need to read + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: ever-growing-list-of-things-i-need-to-read + :END: ++ Danzig Trilogy: + + The Tin Drum + + Cat and Mouse + + Dog Years ++ The People's Republic of Walmart ++ Cybernetic Revolutionaries ++ Jailbird ++ God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ++ Brave New World ++ Fahrenheit 451 ++ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ++ The Flounder + +* A few reviews I guess + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: reviews + :END: +*Warning, most of these are Kurt Vonnegut books.* I really need to try +more authors rofl. + +** The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: the-last-of-the-really-great-whangdoodles + :END: +A underrated masterpiece. A must read. This book is mind opening in so +many ways and will improve your life. Read it to your dog, your cat, +your braindead grandparents... Afterwards give the Whangdoodles in +Whangdoodle land a visit and tell them I said hihi. Its one of those +childrens books that is strangely enjoyable for all ages. + +** Cat's Cradle + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: cats-cradle + :END: +Dont waste your time reading the fucking bible. Read Cat's Cradle +instead. Its a book with countless layers that all play into each other. +Every detail is important and meaningful even if its enteracting with +the story on a abstract level that doesnt show up at first. Cat's Cradle +is the golden example of how to write a story. It has a way of almost +feeling like its putting you in the middle of a historical event instead +of simply telling a fictional story. It has a tastefully dialectical +natural that makes every detail in the story work more like parts in a +well tuned machine. Cat's Cradle might even be your vin-dit into +Bokononism. + +** The Sirens of Titan + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: the-sirens-of-titan + :END: +Kurt Vonnegut books arent known for making very good movies but +reguardless *I need this one to be turned into a movie right now!* It +has a surreal almost dream like vibe like the army on the rusting metal +surface of mars, the beautiful landscape of titan, and a flavor of +sci-fi that seems fitting for the time it was written but strangely +modern all at the same time. How the fuck can a book have so much blunt +foreshadowing yet leave you completely unprepared for whats about to +happen?! You must read this book. I will stage an entire war if you +dont, I will make you get into a rocket and fly to titan if you dont. +*You have to read this book!!!* + +** Galapagos + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: galapagos + :END: +Jesus be dammed, booked reviewers are harsh af on this masterpiece. Its +always shit like "I cant understand the small clever details and it +doesnt hold my hand and tell me everything in simple tv news approved +words there for its a bad book". This book does a good job putting down +Social Darwmism and explaining how evolution actually works. The way +every detail connects is just wonderful and the way it so very carefully +frames every moment passing by and choices what to bring into focus at +any given moment. It has a way of spending most of the book on just a +few days worth of events yet going into detail about the next one +million years of humans. Its a work of absurb chaos carefully looked at +under a microscope. + +** The Children's Crusade + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: the-childrens-crusade + :END: +An anti-war book from the 60s? Already sounds based! Anyways if you read +this book you will become unstuck in time. Time doesnt move, we dont +control time... Everything is already planed out and we are just looking +at one moment at a time. Once you read this book you will instead see +time for what it really is. + +** Goodbye Blue Monday + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: goodbye-blue-monday + :END: +This book starts out with a hand drawn picture of the authors asshole +just to prove a point. It continues to include hand drawn pictures of +the most random things throughout the book. What does the book say? I +dont know because I never read it... fooled you! You believed me for a +second didnt you? dumb ass! Well anyways, the book is about some dude +who reads a sci-fi book and thinks its real. You know the same thing +happened to me when I watched Star Wars for the first, second, and 10th +time! Anyways, even though this book is a fucking mess everyone should +be required to read it. In some twisted way you might learn a thing or +two. + +** Ready Player One + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: ready-player-one + :END: +Its kind of a fucking mess of a book. Nothing about the story line +itself is that creative by any means and the character design is kind of +flat, but just the amount of details packed into it is insane. I dig the +world building and just the grand scale of it all. The movie puts it to +shame. Unlike the movie the egg hunt is actually difficult. + +** 1984 + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: nineteen-eighty-four + :END: +This book is part of something I call the "read it in high school +effect". The best way to keep people brainwashed without causing a +uprising is to make them read these kinds of books while at the sametime +making sure they dont understand them. High schoolers being forced to +read books wait until last second to read it than skim through it +carelessly, watch the movie and pretend they read it, flat out dont read +it at all, find a article online summarizing it, use chatgpt to do their +home work... the only kids who actually do their work correctly in high +school are the ones loyal enough to know the truth while still being +loyal supporters of our corrupt society just like the inner party +members in 1984. Years later no one remembers what they read in high +school and only remember what they are told they read. No one wants to +reread a book they were forced to read in high school. Lucky for me I +was home schooled and got to read it based off actual interest.\\ +\\ +I know what your about to say "You are a socialist so you clearly didn't +understand 1984". I have a quote from 1984 for you "... the Party +rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement +originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of +Socialism.".\\ +\\ +*GO READ 1984 EVEN THOUGH YOU ALREADY READ IT IN HIGH SCHOOL* + +** Animal Farm + :PROPERTIES: + :CUSTOM_ID: animal-farm + :END: +Its a clever little book indeed. Had me laughing the entire time. +Anyways, *its not designed to be used entirely as a anti-socialist +book*. Think it through: so in the book the animal revolution is a +socialist revolution, the humans are the capital owning class, the +leaders who took control after the revolution was a pigs, years after +the revolution the pigs started walking and dressing like humans and +they even became friends with the humans. Aka revolution needs to put +democracy first or risk going back to square one. *If you read Animal +Farm and think "the animals should have just happily put every ounce of +their geist into working for the humans instead of rebelling" I have to +ask: do you know what stockholm syndrome is? You better call the doctor +because you seem to have it for the capital owning class.* Thinking in +simple black and white terms is a clear sign of mind control. |