[Wellsy]

The Crisis of Keynesian Economics
A MARXIST VIEW by Geoffrey Pilling (1986)

[Godstud]

Real page-turners, eh @Wellsy?

I am reading 'The Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett.

[Wellsy]

Real page-turners, eh @Wellsy?

I am reading 'The Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett.

XD It has been interesting in framing some impressions of the early 20th century for what I’ve read so far. Pilling is a decent writer and is interesting enough in his analysis of what is somewhat dry.


My wife introduced me to Pillars of the Earth and we even played a game centered on the book. It’s great though the author is often joked to talk about women’s breasts an incredible amount of times.

[Godstud]

Talking about women's breasts seems more like a plus, than a minus. I have not noticed it, as of yet, though. Maybe the reader/critic was the one fixated on them...

Make sure you NEVER read the John Norman Gor novels. They are as written by a sex addled teenager with delusions of female domination. He has a hard time fitting the story in between it, and I can look back and laugh at how awful the books were. He wrote far too many of these "literary masterpieces".

[Wellsy]

Talking about women's breasts seems more like a plus, than a minus. I have not noticed it, as of yet, though. Maybe the reader/critic was the one fixated on them...

Make sure you NEVER read the John Norman Gor novels. They are as written by a sex addled teenager with delusions of female domination. He has a hard time fitting the story in between it, and I can look back and laugh at how awful the books were. He wrote far too many of these "literary masterpieces".

It doesn't detract too much from the story but after listening to so many of his books it just becomes a laugh of oh the tits again! The whole series is great.
Really great historical fiction and I love embedded it feels with it all centering on the cathedral.

[Reichstraten]

"Tropic of capricorn" (1939) by Henry Miller.

[Godstud]

@Reichstraten Do they talk about tits?

[Rich]

Dante’s The Divine Comedy. I would have preferred to be a little high reading this, but I have no idea how to procure green, so stone cold, boringly sober it is.

isn't that a rip off of the Apocalypse of Peter?

[Reichstraten]

@Reichstraten Do they talk about tits?

Who is "they"?

Yes, sex is no taboo subject for Miller.

[ness31]

isn't that a rip off of the Apocalypse of Peter?

I don’t know, I’ve only ever read ordinary Peter.

[orphan]

[orphan]

Application of this theory; if you are superior with hiring compared to HR, employer pays you that is left with your student loans. Point here, if you are not doing it twice for equity, your social adversary, say a communist, may claim superior role and assign you a specialist position (i.e., not a cop). Then you need a cop, if not to stay alive, then at least to appreciate being minor.

[MistyTiger]

You're going to laugh but I found a copy of this book lately. I have not seen any mention of tits yet. I want to see if the book is as awful as they say. It's slow going.

Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman is the book I'm reading now. It's the first book in the series.

[Potemkin]

You're going to laugh but I found a copy of this book lately. I have not seen any mention of tits yet. I want to see if the book is as awful as they say. It's slow going.

Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman is the book I'm reading now. It's the first book in the series.

Fun fact: John Norman himself despised his own books. If he was talking to someone who praised his books, he would immediately laugh at that person as an imbecile with no taste. Be warned.

[Pants-of-dog]

Those Gor books spawned an even more awful subculture. To the point where it is strongly suggested you do not Google it.

I am reading the Oz books to my daughters in order. We are on book 20 or something. Kabumpo of Oz.

I have a Star Wars audiobook out from the library that I listen to when folding clothes. It is good enough to make me forget the time, but not so good that I care if I miss chunks of it because I was doing something else.

And for real reading, I am rereading Chapterhouse Dune.

[MistyTiger]

Those Gor books spawned an even more awful subculture. To the point where it is strongly suggested you do not Google it.

I am reading the Oz books to my daughters in order. We are on book 20 or something. Kabumpo of Oz.

I have a Star Wars audiobook out from the library that I listen to when folding clothes. It is good enough to make me forget the time, but not so good that I care if I miss chunks of it because I was doing something else.

And for real reading, I am rereading Chapterhouse Dune.

I googled the awful subculture many years ago, which is how I know about these gor chronicles.

I can see how they were supposed to be science fiction as book 1 refers to planets but they don't fit in that category. They've gained a cult following.

I remember reading Tiktok of Oz. I do not know which book that is. I typically don't read series and I rarely can finish the entire series. I tend to read a few and then I move on to different books or a different series. I did enjoy the Percy Jackson series. Riordan is fun.

For audiobooks, I like Narnia or Lord of the Rings or A Walk to Remember. But mostly, I can listen to YouTube as I do chores.

[Godstud]

Those Gor books spawned an even more awful subculture. To the point where it is strongly suggested you do not Google it.

I remember reading a lot of that series of books when I was a teenaged boy. It was teenaged male fantasy, at best. It was horrendous, at worst.

The more you read of the series, the more you realized what a One-Trick Pony it was, and how the author probably had serious issues with women. I can totally see why an author would look back on that series of books with regret, and mock those who loved it.

I really liked the Dune series of books. Even the newer ones were really good.

[MistyTiger]

I remember reading a lot of that series of books when I was a teenaged boy. It was teenaged male fantasy, at best. It was horrendous, at worst.

The more you read of the series, the more you realized what a One-Trick Pony it was, and how the author probably had serious issues with women. I can totally see why an author would look back on that series of books with regret, and mock those who loved it.

I really liked the Dune series of books. Even the newer ones were really good.

I'm past page 72 and Norman is still talking about the planet. It reminds me of a Bradbury book so far. But I'm sure it's about to get worse soon.

I want to read Dune. I saw the first book in the library and wow it's a thick book. It looks intimidating.

[Godstud]

Norman settles into this "women actually yearn to be slaves" trope, and loses his plot. While interesting at first, it gets old really fast, and his books later became little more than this. I think his imagination ran out and he had to fill book contracts. he did like 20+ Gor novels and I think the only ones mildly interesting are the first 8. I am going off my teen memories here, however.

Read Dune. It's one of those books you'll re-read, and not toss in the dustbin after reading.

[Szabo]

I'm reading Lost: Breath of Darkness by an obscure Ukrainian author. Available only in Russian for free online.

And before I go to sleep every night I read one Grimm Brothers Fairy Tale. I'm hoping to read all of them by the end of the year.

Last week I finished reading Catcher in the Rye. I decided to read it because it was heavily referenced to in the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man.

Oh, I also yesterday read Nine Princes in Amber, the comic books, not the novel.