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#+SETUPFILE: ../org-templates/level-1.org
#+TITLE: Reading Corner
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* Why do a boring old person thing like read?
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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
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: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
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: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
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: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
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: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
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: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
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: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.\\
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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*
** Animal Farm
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: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.
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