Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
this reads like epic fiction, it’s so entertaining and thrilling i have to remind myself sometimes that it isnt fiction all of this happened
gonna get into Ten Days That Shook The World next, John Reed’s account of the Russian revolution
I found October a little dry personally, although I still enjoyed it
I’ve been reading House of Leaves. Not too much to say on it yet since I’m maybe a third of the way through. There’s one chapter that serves as a deconstruction on the meaning of echoes that was exceptionally difficult to get through .
Ministry for the Future. A little bit scattershot, not enough rising action and falling action, but goddamn that was an excellent chapter 1.
About to finish it today. Thinking about picking up “Humankind: A Hopeful History” by Rutger Bregman.
Still reading Fraud, Famine and Fascism. I loved this part: “In the subsequent House debate on July 25, 1934, the Archbishop of Canterbury … supported Lord Charnwood by claiming a hearsay figure of 5,000,000 deaths. Government members shot down the discussion, partly ‘on grounds that those who wanted to talk about famine in Ukraine were not noticeably eager to examine oppression in Germany or poverty in England’”.
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