EPTWhat Are You Reading 2018 - Page 18
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Silvanel
Poland4731 Posts
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123Gurke
France154 Posts
I finished the first three parts of The Lord of the Rings. They were actually more fun than I remembered them. Then I started part four, and, as I had feared, I stopped. That part with Frodo, Sam and Gollum traveling through bleak landscapes for hundreds of pages is just too damn boring! If anyone has any ideas that might motivate me to continue, I would be really happy since I would really like to finish this. So after that I read ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Capitalist_Realism_cover.jpg) which was quite interesting but also a little depressing. Afterwards, I read ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Bullshit_Jobs.jpg) which is very funny and very true in many places. I also realized that following the Graeber's definition I seem to have a bullshit job. But in contrast to the situations he describes, I am not suffering because of this but enjoying this a lot. I am also reading ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Arsene_Lupin_1907_French_edition.jpg) I still have a pile of those books waiting to be read. They are really fun. | ||
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farvacola
United States18832 Posts
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Silvanel
Poland4731 Posts
![[image loading]](http://warbook.pl/img/ksiazka/107/sente.jpg) (Image isnt loading for some reason, here is the link: http://warbook.pl/img/ksiazka/107/sente.jpg Which is fifth book (just recently published) in series which i really like. I would go as far as to say it is best military sf ever written and i hope it will be someday translated into english because it sure deserves it. Also i know author personally and he is a really cool guy. | ||
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maybenexttime
Poland5621 Posts
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Silvanel
Poland4731 Posts
The third book in series "Forta" won Zajdel award in 2014 which is as You probably know most important polish award for fantasy and sf books. Which is a solid recommendation in itself. I would say You should defiently check it out if You like space ship combat and keep in mind that first book is worst (and has mostly ground combat). Also who wouldnt like to read about future EU kicking ass of future US and getting its ass kicked by future China and all of them getting their ass kicked by AI. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
Graeber’s book on debt is better than the one on bullshit jobs. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21243 Posts
On December 19 2018 02:23 IgnE wrote: Fisher’s Capitalist Realism is a short book with a provocative thesis and some powerful prose. I don’t know that I agree with his empirical evidence regarding music (remix culture frozen in pre-corporated songs unable to produce the new; jungle music in the 90s being the last real musical breakthrough, etc.) and so his larger thesis on late capitalist aesthetics gets a bit tenuous, even if he’s not entirely wrong. It would have been interesting to hear what he had to say about youtube and the igeneration, since some of the commentary and evidence on that has changed quite a bit compared to even 5 years ago. Graeber’s book on debt is better than the one on bullshit jobs. sounds dumb. "le wrong generation" but in meme theory format. | ||
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farvacola
United States18832 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21243 Posts
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farvacola
United States18832 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
i still liked the book and think his writings on “hauntology” and boredom are pretty good | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Falling
Canada11363 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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Silvanel
Poland4731 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21243 Posts
On December 19 2018 16:31 Falling wrote: Are these music guys who bemoan modern music the ones who are really big into atonality? (Particularly if they are complaining about jazz.) Because if so, my general feeling is that of Tolkien's response to his critics: "Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing (music) that they evidently prefer." this is a stupid analogy. adorno would very much be in support of tolkien's practice of creating works for his own sake, with zero consideration of reception and the reader. adorno rightly identified the dangers of the commercialization of art and the encroachments of capitalism. atonality doesn't really figure into it beyond as a conduit through which a composer can free himself form the constraints of popular demand. his views on music is far more nuanced than "atonality good", considering he was an early champion of schoenberg et al.'s twelve tone technique - which is more or less diametrically opposed to atonality - for its artistic implications but was self-aware enough to see the limitations of "serialist orthodoxy" as more new music - darmstadt school, etc. - developed. | ||
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Silvanel
Poland4731 Posts
On December 19 2018 22:49 Plansix wrote: Motzart is the Ariana Grande of his time and his critics are Tool super fans? Traditional/folk music would be Ariana Grande, Mozart would be i dont know - Bon Jovi? Beethoven would be Black Sabbath and Haydn would be Tool. | ||
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