aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/testTheThing/org/reading-corner.org
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'testTheThing/org/reading-corner.org')
-rw-r--r--testTheThing/org/reading-corner.org188
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 188 deletions
diff --git a/testTheThing/org/reading-corner.org b/testTheThing/org/reading-corner.org
deleted file mode 100644
index 0981a09..0000000
--- a/testTheThing/org/reading-corner.org
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,188 +0,0 @@
-#+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.