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Debt: the first 5000 years [pdf available]

David Graeber is an American anthropologist, anarchist, and professor at the London School of Economics. His book investigates the history of debt and money, overturning common misconceptions (like "money replaced the barter system", in fact barter generally operates only where money has already been in use) and exposing all the odd ideas which have made their way into our legal and religious systems from unpleasant roots like slavery and oppression of women. Could do with some more editing but it's an engaging and educational read.
 
parttime crackhead said:
I'm still charging on with the 3rd Game of Thrones book. It's a fucking mission due to having watched the TV series. I've still got half this one & another full book to go before I'm going to get anything majorly new to the story. There's a few differences (enough to mean I can't just skip ahead) and a bit of extra detail to keep me interested but I essentially know what happens for the next good while. It's a cunt. Gonna power through though.
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Thinking of reading the books myself, is it still enjoyable to catch up to the series or simply a drag? I know quite a bit was changed from book to series.

I just don't fancy waiting a year (and many more) to see what happens, I got really fucking hooked on this series.
 
Uncle Robert said:
Thinking of reading the books myself, is it still enjoyable to catch up to the series or simply a drag? I know quite a bit was changed from book to series.

I just don't fancy waiting a year (and many more) to see what happens, I got really fucking hooked on this series.
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I read the wiki synopsis for the books ... I liked what I read and then quickly forgot about what happens

win-win
 
Tony O'Neill is my new favorite author! I read his book "Sick City" recently. Now I reading another of his books called "Down & Out On Murder Mile."

If you like books about drugs you'll love Tony O'Neills books! He was a drug user himself, so his books are very realistic. Great characters, great stories! Great books! They only bad thing about these books is they make me want to score!

"Down & Out On Murder Mile."

http://www.amazon.com/Down-Murder-M.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

"Sick City."

http://www.amazon.com/Sick-City-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B003MVZ5S6/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1


(I'd never know that Murder Mile was in Hackney. I used to think it was somewhere in the US.)
 
Limpet_Chicken said:
Why the hades do you say that, crackhead.

Its hardly like I want to make a bomb...I certainly do not. Just to fill out my element collection. The likes of technetium, polonium, the transuranics with a sensible half-life, and promethium are not particularly easy to get hold of.
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IDK about UK, but in the US you can buy polonium 210. I'm ordering some too, it will surely come handy if I'll ever need to kill some fugitive secret agent. :P
 
Yes, Po is one of the easier and most effective alpha sources to acquire.


Currently reading 'the hunger games' by Suzanne Collins. Or rather I was. Picked up the trilogy yesterday on my return home from town, started reading maybe 6pm yesterday, finished them earlier this morning. Not found many books so unputdownable in quite some time (*IHKAL, Shulgin&Shulgin; IMHO)

I just wish that I still had some to read. For me one problem is, that new books just don't last long at all. I'll buy a few good books, and its usually hours, not days, that they are all finished, read cover to cover within a few hours.
 
Uncle Robert said:
Thinking of reading the books myself, is it still enjoyable to catch up to the series or simply a drag?
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the books are excellent and, i think, they can be enjoyed separately from the hbo show.

before i read them, i was told that the first two books were great, the third was ok, the fourth started the drop-off and the fifth was just not very good.

i enjoyed them all immensely and can't wait for the next one.

alasdair
 
I'm reading something that makes other people go 8o

And then once I read a novel that I really fucking liked, but I didn't tell no one coz I woz embarrassed.

Always dipping in and out of Beowulf as well, standard.

www.lovereadingwhenhighorclucking.cock

Then I got sad about my life so read some other sad cunts shite about their sad life that made my sad life much betterer.

www.itsoktotortureanimalsifyoureonheroin.no
 
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Devil's Disciples (non fic) about Hitler and his inner circle. A class book.
Recently finished Scag Boys; great, but preferred Trainspotting and Porno, to be honest. (I'll read anything by Irvine Welsh).
 
Just finished 'Wool' by Hugh Howey and really enjoyed it - its part one of a trilogy so will be buying part two ASAP.

Currently reading 'In one person' by John Irving - found it today (can't remember buying it). Not my typical kind of book but starting off well.
 
anyone read midnights children by salman rushdie ? apparently it won the booker prize of all booker prizes ever. I dont tend to like some of the things that have won the booker, but as this is so highly acclaimed I'll try to d/l it on audiobook.

CBA with sitting up and reading and turning over pages any more, i havent got the concentration, but if someones speaking to me with inner ear hedphones i can lie down in total comfort and concenrtrate without my mind wandering. Ive listened to some brilliant books this way, all of stephen frys autobiographies (absolutrly fuckin brilliant tales), ranulf fienes auto boig was great too. I listened to it straight after Frys' and there couldnt have been more of a contrast between their characters. Frys books were full of deep inner reflections and Fienes did not have even one such 'self indulgent' thought. His book was all about what was going on in the world, not what was in his head. Those and Keith Richards auto biogs were great.

Someone else on here told me about james freys a million tiny pieces, that was awesome, but it turned out that parts of the narrative werent actually true. He wasnt quite as heroic as he made himself out to be. All the parts about enduring total teeth reconstruction and root canal drilling with no painkillers or anaesthetics were not true. I was gutted to discover that as parts of that book had me sobbing away they were so moving. I felt like id been cheated to quote john lydon. Oprah Winfrey blew that one open, and he confessed all on her show.

Also Jack Londons The Call Of The Wild was so good i couldnt stop listening to it until it had finished, 8 hours in one go, never done that before, i think mdai had something to do with it. I followed that by The White Fang which was also very good. MDAI makes an excellent accompliment to listening to audiobooks in bed. Its not a very exciting drug but its perfect for enhancing such pleasures.

I need to find another good audio book to get into. It's been a while since my last one, david attennboroughs auto biog.
 
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Do you not think your missing something by hearing the words than reading them ? TBH never tried an audio book - when I read I feel that its something for me (personal) somebody telling me it - meh!
 
mydrugbuddy said:
No, i love the author reading out his own words to me. He is literally telling you his own story. I can connect to it much better that way.
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I have never tried them and tbh thought it was some random reading a book to you. I will download one and give it a try - Its hard to explain but I find reading a private thing (pure my time) not sure If I could have that 'alone' time with a person talking to me?
 
theres only 1 way to find out, a great starting point would be Stephen Fry (if you like him of course) or Ranulf Fienes. Older books are 'some random' person reading out 'librivox recordings'. Some of them are very good at it, some of them really grate. Call of the wild and white fang had several different readers, that was my only gripe about it, when one disc was read out in a way i liked and the next by a different person, who wasnt so good.

I was dissapointed by David Attenboroughs auto biography. Parts of it were interesting, some parts were very dull. He does not have a great gift for trying to tell funny anecdotes. Mind you that did come straight after keith richards. That was bound to be a hard act to follow.
 
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