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I am currently reading a book called "Philosophy of the Common Task" by Nikolai Fyodorov. It's a very obscure book that I spent too much on (I really regret it now). But the book is really interesting, and the guy who wrote it (Fyodorov) had some really interesting thoughts. Pretty much he was into cosmism and transhumanism, and how we humans need to unite (even the dead, as in the resurrection of humans) to ascend into the higher reaches of space and achieve physical immortality. I don't remember much of it as I still haven't finished the book. But the guy had some really strange and interesting ideas, I mean he was alive during the 1800s and he was respected by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and many more and was even called the "Socrates of Moscow." What's also funny is that he was a Christian and he influenced the Russian space program. So yeah, really interesting guy. But you will never find his book, why? Cause it was only translated once into English and was never translated again, it does exist in Russian and it's quite cheap in Russian. So if you can read Russian might as well buy it.
 
This one
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After I'm done with 1984
 
governments no longer exists, and we only have presidents as faces of the countries while the companies rule everything,
i sure am glad nothing like that happens in our modern world.
anyway i got into reading when i got sick this winter and am still pushing through grapes of wrath. as if i needed more reminders of how messed up things can get. but i really like the writing style.
 
Was looking thru my little collection of books & found I still had a copy of The Color Purple by Alice Walker from when it was required reading in highschool. It’s on the shorter side but I stopped reading at the last couple chapters the first time & was determined to find out how it ended. glad I did, really good read with a satisfying ending!
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I've been slacking off but I've got a chapter left of Inherent Vice which has been pretty good, and I plan on watch the PTA film afterwards. My only other Pynchon experience has been the Crying of Lot 49 (some excellent prose but anticlimactic -- which I get is kind of the 'point' but ehhh) andthe first half of Gravity's Rainbow (which was great but I got lost in it because I wasn't taking notes or keeping a list of characters etc.) On the non-fiction front I've been going through a book about China's Belt and Road Initiative and volume 2 of Caro's LBJ biography (which has been excellent).
 
I'm reading Demian by Herman Hesse for the second time.
It's a really old copy I found at a second hand bookstore.
 
Finished Inherent Vice and then Kairos (Jenn Erpenbeck). Now I'm moving on to Plato's the Republic while I wait for Extinction (Bernhard) to come in the mail. On track for 52 books this year but I'd really like to hit 70.
 
I'm almost at the end of Treasure Island.

I've also started 1984 for a while but I'll read it small bits by small bits.
I've finished Treasure Island and the first part of 1984 by the way.

I don't know what to read next and if I want to continue the later...

Either Forrest Gump, Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and the Great Glass Elevator) or any other books I got in my stash.


I really should make a list of my books.
 
Re-reading The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. Great book, great movie starring Bogart if you haven't seen it. Got a copy signed by Wouk for pretty cheap on Ebay recently ::winnie

Love reading books about WW2 or any other period drama written during or around the era (this book was written in 52 or so I believe) because they still have period-correct language and social mores intact. And no, I don't mean that in a political way at all lol; I mean that the author actually lived through the times and can accurately depict the way characters spoke and behaved, as well as other details about everyday life (technology, etc.) that are otherwise lost to history. I've learned more about how people lived back then from period fiction (books or movies) than any other way. The Caine Mutiny is a font of interesting tidbits about life in America just after the attack on Pearl, as well as being a junior officer in the US Navy back in the day, in addition to being a great courtroom drama with well-written characters that illustrate what an amazing grasp Wouk had on the human condition and how to describe it in words.
 

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