Dr. Seuss' Oh Say Can You Say?
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What are you reading?
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One of those books is set in Soviet gulags. And it's depressing. The main character is constantly hungry, going to sham trials, and on the verge of being killed by freezing or brutal guards or overworking or other prisoners. And prisoners sometimes kill other prisoners just so they can go to trial and thus be spared from work for a few months.
They are also so sparse with food that they inspect the outhouses and if there is shit with undigested food in it they would wash the shit off, cook it again, and eat it (again).
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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September 16, 2023 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2023 at 2:17 pm by arewethereyet.)
I finally finished listening to The Hobbit after some series binges. Now on The Fellowship of the Ring.
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The Yellow Sign by James Hodge
I'm having such a good time. Everything I'd want from a King in Yellow novel.  (September 16, 2023 at 2:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: One of those books is set in Soviet gulags. And it's depressing. The main character is constantly hungry, going to sham trials, and on the verge of being killed by freezing or brutal guards or overworking or other prisoners. And prisoners sometimes kill other prisoners just so they can go to trial and thus be spared from work for a few months."A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?" RE: What are you reading?
September 17, 2023 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2023 at 6:20 am by Fake Messiah.)
No, it is by some random commie, and this is who Stalin mostly persecuted: other communists.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 (September 16, 2023 at 2:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: One of those books is set in Soviet gulags. And it's depressing. The main character is constantly hungry, going to sham trials, and on the verge of being killed by freezing or brutal guards or overworking or other prisoners. And prisoners sometimes kill other prisoners just so they can go to trial and thus be spared from work for a few months. I'm glad it's depressing. A novel about the gulags shouldn't be light and breezy. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Midway through Little Green by Walter Mosely. I'm working my way through his Easy Rawlins mysteries.
Revisiting an old friend: re-reading my Sherlock Holmes collection.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Holmes is great fun. I first read all the stories one summer in high school. Took a summer lit class that used detective fiction to emphasize close, critical reading and several of the Holmes stories (Scandal in Bohemia, Study in Scarlet, Five Orange Pips, Speckled Band....) were examples we covered. That was about 1991 or so.
I picked them up again around when my daughter was born - 2012 - and they were as fresh as day once again. I lost myself in it. Here we are a decade hence and I think I'll do it again. It reminds me of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - There's an unreliable narrator who reveres Robinson Crusoe and returns to it for wisdom. The Holmes stories are like that. |
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