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@cowboy@bookwyrm.social did you read "Foucaults pendulum" yet?
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reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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@noctiflux spannend. Wie dick ist das Teil? Das ursprüngliche Buch ist ja schon sehr umfangreich.
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mouse quoted Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le …
To be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear. To take the body seriously is to admit one can suffer.
What does that mean, to be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear? Favor debases: we fear to lose it, fear to win it. So to be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear.
What does that mean, to take the body seriously is to admit one can suffer? I suffer because I'm a body; if I weren't a body, how could I suffer?
The final stanza relates this to the public good and body politic, but I like these bits on their own as well
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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
a teapot in a tempest
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"This is How You Lose the Time War" asks the reader to perch on the shoulders of two operatives on opposing sides of a time-traveling war.
Each chapter follows "Red" or "Blue" as they scurry up and down timelines and across dimensions. The book is both sweepingly broad and extremely contained and personal.
The settings flit by, dizzying: a temple for mechanized humans, an ancient holy cave, the assassination of Caesar - each sketched with broad, emotional strokes to give the setting an aesthetic. One gets the sense that a great web of cause and effect is being constantly constructed, altered, and destroyed, without ever seeing the full picture.
Against these backdrops, the characters "Red" and "Blue" write to each other - as nemeses, then as friends, ever deeper entangled even as they demolish each other's plans and forces. The letters make up an enormous part of the experience, and …
"This is How You Lose the Time War" asks the reader to perch on the shoulders of two operatives on opposing sides of a time-traveling war.
Each chapter follows "Red" or "Blue" as they scurry up and down timelines and across dimensions. The book is both sweepingly broad and extremely contained and personal.
The settings flit by, dizzying: a temple for mechanized humans, an ancient holy cave, the assassination of Caesar - each sketched with broad, emotional strokes to give the setting an aesthetic. One gets the sense that a great web of cause and effect is being constantly constructed, altered, and destroyed, without ever seeing the full picture.
Against these backdrops, the characters "Red" and "Blue" write to each other - as nemeses, then as friends, ever deeper entangled even as they demolish each other's plans and forces. The letters make up an enormous part of the experience, and they are comic, intimate... poignant. I didn't give a damn about the war - I just wanted these two characters to be alright.
I loved it. I stayed up past midnight every day I was reading, which wasn't long because I had to see what came next and kept reading.
Falko wants to read Was man von hier aus sehen kann by Mariana Leky
Because of det.social/@t_matam_t/110627825853103872
Falko wants to read Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its controversial beginnings to our digital …
This sounds interesting /cc @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Falko wants to read Das hier ist Wassser / This is Water by David Foster Wallace
Das hier ist Wassser / This is Water by David Foster Wallace
Was bedeutes es eigentlich, erwachsen zu sein, und wie kann man ein sinnvolleres stressfreieres Leben führen?
David Foster Wallace zeigt …
Falko wants to read Wolf: Ferienlager im Wald by Saša Stanišić
Saša Stanišićs erster Kinderroman macht Mut zum Anderssein Kemi wird im Ferienlager Teil einer Gruppe …
Das klingt nach einem sehr schönen Buch für K3 /cc @sasastanisic@chaos.social
@mj_books muss ich wohl auch mal versuchen zu lesen. Mal schauen ob das "funktioniert" wenn man zuerst die Filme so oft gesehen hat.
Falko wants to read Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
of course I'm going to read this. It's available for free as well.
Falko commented on Die Illusion der Vernunft
picking this up again and hopefully finish this week.
Falko reviewed Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Halil Gülbeyaz
Detailed and engaging biography about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
5 stars
While this is a biography and thus rather dense with dates of events and names etc. I found it still very interesting to read. Halil managed to really tell the story of Mustafa Kemal. Carefully collecting sources and trying to carefully tell the tales of the mythos from evidence. He provides references to all the material and also context into other historic events and figures of the time. Really interesting to read the implications of the colonial powers and the demise of the ottoman empire in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The book helps connecting the dots of my rather sparse knowledge of recent european history.
Falko rated Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: 5 stars
Falko finished reading Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Halil Gülbeyaz
Very dense and interesting biography about the founder of the Turkish Republic. It describes his remarkable achievements as a politician, revolutionary and soldier but also pays attention to his flaws.