Reading Corner

1. Why do a boring old person thing like read?
2. How to find a good book
3. Reading list -
- 3.1. Ever growing list of things I need to read
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4. A few reviews I guess -
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1. Why do a boring old person thing like read?

-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. -

2. How to find a good book

-The more questons that answer with yes the more likely it is that the -book is worth a read: -

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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?

3. Reading list

3.1. Ever growing list of things I need to read

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

4. A few reviews I guess

-Warning, most of these are Kurt Vonnegut books. I really need to try -more authors rofl. -

4.1. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

-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. -

4.2. Cat's Cradle

-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. -

4.3. The Sirens of Titan

-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!!! -

4.4. Galapagos

-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. -

4.5. The Children's Crusade

-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. -

4.6. Goodbye Blue Monday

-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. -

4.7. Ready Player One

-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. -

4.8. 1984

-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.
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-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.".
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-GO READ 1984 EVEN THOUGH YOU ALREADY READ IT IN HIGH SCHOOL -

4.9. Animal Farm

-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. -