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When I am "pleasure reading" I (almost) always read Tolkien.
So at practically any given time I am reading Tolkien.
LOTR again at the moment. I just lose myself in that world.
 
cduggles said:
Did you enjoy the movies?
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Ooph! You're killing me with that question.
I did enjoy them, but I was not happy with many things.
Especially Saruman's death made me really angry.

It's not that they're not great movies, but they're so inaccurate to even the point where people are saying dumb things like "they could have just used the gryphons" - No, they could have not. Bringing the Gryphons close to the ring would have been dangerous as hell. Also Strider(actually Pippin mostly if you think about it) led Sauron to believe that the humans had the ring, not two hobbits wandering alone through Mordor. So Sauron's eye was fixed on them. He couldn't think about anything else other than the human(Aragorn) that was going to bring the ring to Mordor and push Sauron from his throne.
I'm not even going to talk about Sam & Frodo not being dressed up as Orcs while they're in Mordor. That's just a major plothole. Do they think Mordor is empty?

Well I could rant here for hours, sorry. I do like the movies though.

edit: No, seriously though! How can a fucking Wizard die?! He is a fucking Einur, he is immortal. It's just not possible that he could die in ANY way, and especially NOT BY FUCKING ARROW! ... ok that had to come out. The only reason why Sauron(Einur too) could lose his essence was because he had connected it to the ring.
 
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I'm slowly working on PiHKAL among my crazy schedule. Great book.
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Working on or working with PiHKAL? 🤣

Finished "The Trial" by Kafka (book explains my inner feeling most of the life and actually the real experience with the "system" that is established in my country - corrupt, repetitive, never ending, mindless and dissociated) and am now starting "Catch-22" by Joseph Haller.
 
I'm reading a book called Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Linday which describes the history and development of all the sketchy and anti-intellectual postmodern ideas advanced by Social Justice Warriors. I think it added back the 50 IQ points I lost reading Judith Butler's work.

 
Atelier3 said:
I'm reading a book called Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Linday which describes the history and development of all the sketchy and anti-intellectual postmodern ideas advanced by Social Justice Warriors. I think it added back the 50 IQ points I lost reading Judith Butler's work.

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Judith Butler can go to hell. Sorry.
The book you're reading sounds quite interesting though. "Social Justice" is a dangerous path, and not to be taken lightly.
It always reminds me about (I think it was) Machu Pichu, where the mothers protected their sons so much from the outside world, that when war came - none of them could actually fight.
 
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I had to debate a Feminist at a conference so I tried reading Butler to understand where this Feminist might be coming from. I could barely follow Butler's argument. She is wilfully obscurantist - probably because her ideas are so worthless.
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I've actually had the same impression. She even obscures her own arguments, gender being a social construct and all that hell. Honestly, she's the reason that kids today think there's 150 genders, and that "Astrogender" is a viable sex. IT'S NOT VIABLE IF YOU THINK YOUR GENDER COMES FROM SPACE.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for equality. But equality for all, not special treatment for some, and treating the rest like shit. That's supremacist.
 
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell. I did not know that Orwell was an empirical cop for England for years and this lead to his awareness and disillusionment of the criminal means used by the "powerful" to continually exploit the masses. His views on Socialism and the struggle it faces are still deeply relevant today. I'm certainly going to read his work about his cop days.

I scrapped The God of Small Things as It was well written, just not my cup of tea.
 
The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy today and started and started Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs.
 
The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis the Netflix series is almost spot on with the novel.

Started The Confederate General From Big Sur by Richard Brautigan.. cracking me up at points
 
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek

NF Great book. Economics, politics, human expectations, desires and goals, best and worst human intention and the reality of what happens. Written so clearly, utterly unemcumbered and strikingly still relevant today.
 
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Drug Lord by Terrence E. Poppa

Wild tale of a of crazy story, corruption.. that's a Mexican word right? No its an international drug war certainty. Turns pages from sugar smuggling via mule during world war ration times to tell of Mexican Generals and even Presidents providing complete protection for cash and expensive gifts with regular payoffs off estimates of 400 mil plus in the 1990s and tons of coke per flite ,, solid conclusion as far as the real results of the drug war and even presents a decent argument for the border wall as Mexico will likely either return to a narco country or fail completely into narcotic gang anarchy. Ruthless violence driven by greed for the power and unlimited wealth, that the prohibition of drugs have created introducing a prolonged state sanctioned hell in Mexico. Who's got the plaza? The drug war destroyed and takes uncountable lives, ruins communities and whole countries, makes psychopaths into powerful billionaires and promotes the very thing its supposed to combat. Who's got the plaza? Certainly not the prohibition drug warriors.

www.dhakatribune.com

Mexico ex-defense chief held in US on drug allegations

Other senior military officials of Mexico had also come under investigation when US authorities began to collect evidence against drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman
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The Illustrated Secret History of the World by Mark Booth ISBN 978-1-4683-1566-0

A very nicely illustrated history of mystery schools from around the world in chronological order. It starts with the dawn of civilized culture and ends up with the modern world, tying together all the differing schools and how they evolved as the ages went by. The book itself is a nice hard bound edition with excellent quality printing in full vivid color. There's 420 (plus 12 introductory) pages at standard textbook size page so it's a fairly long read, but I'm halfway through in just a week. It's written in a very easy to read style and accessible to novices in the subject while shedding new ways of viewing the seeming differences and finding commonality in their subject matter and approaches. I don't agree with everything the author proposes, but it stimulates the reader into re-evaluating the differences.
 
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Re-reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. I think I was too young to fully appreciate it the first time I read it, glad I found it again in my bookshelf
 
I just picked up a copy of Crooked River by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Their books are my favorites, so I'm excited to start it. They're some of the only authors whose books I will buy in hardcover without hesitation.

I'll add more to this post after I read it.

www.prestonchild.com

Crooked River

Crooked River
www.prestonchild.com
 
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