BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
something tells me you weren't rolling around on the floor with tears in your eyes.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hilarity very much did not ensue. Enjoyed re-reading Tell-Tale Heart though. Thats good Poe that is.
On Violence ( A Reader) - Bruce B. Lawrence & Aisha Karim
A German novel called 'Als wir traeumten', which I really liked. Given that German isn't my mother tongue, it can take me a while to get into some books, but this was no problem. It's about the lives of a group of boys growing up in Eastern Germany & crime etc. It was made into a film where the emphasis is on them starting their own club & discovering techno music but that only covers a few pages in the novel.
Now moving on to 'The man behind the mask'- Mark Archer- The story of Altern8.
Now moving on to 'The man behind the mask'- Mark Archer- The story of Altern8.
Having finished this, it's a pretty comprehensive account of the abolition movement, with a particular focus on black abolitionism and what Sinha calls radical abolition, and well worth reading.
I am glad I tackled those other two books first though as at times I felt that it didn't put some of the anti slavery/slave trade politics of the time into context as well as it might have. Where the Sublettes and Horne are very good is in illustrating how pro slavery factions would at various times argue against the Atlantic trade, or bringing slaves from Haiti or even argue for abolition in certain states, in order to secure the long term future of US slavery. The slave breeding industry documented in The American Slave Coast often clashed with the interests of the slave importers, and I think that wider view and how it related to abolition is sometimes lacking. All the same though it's a detailed book and it's real strength is to show that abolition was a broader and more radical movement than how it is often portrayed. One interesting comment was that the Knights of Labor called themselves inheritors of abolitionism, and I have a book on them lined up to read some time soon so it ties in nicely.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
My James by Ralph Bulger. Harrowing beyond words. 
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ManchesterBeth
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finished Ahdaf Soueif - In the eye of the sun yesterday.
Heavy shit - if you're into the 19th century victorian heroine epics you might enjoy this.
Heavy shit - if you're into the 19th century victorian heroine epics you might enjoy this.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
His Bloody Project- Graeme Macrae Burnet
Very ace collection of materials pertaining to the (fictional) murders by the authors great great great uncle. The killers journal gets us going. But then additional info makes us question his veracity.
It starts well, then gets quite fascinating. Especially interesting after the somewhat similar non-fiction recent Kate Summerscale book. Well worthy of its Booker nomination
Very ace collection of materials pertaining to the (fictional) murders by the authors great great great uncle. The killers journal gets us going. But then additional info makes us question his veracity.
It starts well, then gets quite fascinating. Especially interesting after the somewhat similar non-fiction recent Kate Summerscale book. Well worthy of its Booker nomination
Culture & Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
The Football Factory - John King. Was a bit worried it would just be about the main hooligan character, which would have got quickly boring and I'd have given up, but the other characters are well chosen and complete a much more interesting picture of the time.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt: Andrea Wulf
Great read, great bloke, great Scott we've known we were fucking up the planet for over 2 centuries now and we're still fucking it. Fuck capitalism.
Great read, great bloke, great Scott we've known we were fucking up the planet for over 2 centuries now and we're still fucking it. Fuck capitalism.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I've been meaning to get this. Thanks for the reminder.
Just finished Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines. Most enjoyable. Started Adam Ant's autobiography.
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Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson, which is a collection of various articles of his. I always like his stuff, he reminds me of Louis Theroux a bit. I've already read a fair bit of this one though, it seems. I'm reading a chapter on Indigo Children atm which is by turns depressing and hilarious.
Körperhaltung
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Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Read 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith about her moving to New York, meeting Robert Mapplethorpe and her journey into making music. I took it on holiday so I was able to read it in small stages throughout the day, go for a walk, a swim, read some more. I loved it.
The New Orientalists - Ian Almond
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
it was quite funny the way it had been totally ignored up til now
weltweit
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Finished Saints of the Shadow Bible, Ian Rankin - good like always.
Then read The Time Machine, H.G. Wells - a proper classic, short and to the point, well written and a good read. I felt as if I had already read it as who hasn't heard of the Eloy and Moorlocks from other sources but it was good to read the proper original story.
Then read The Time Machine, H.G. Wells - a proper classic, short and to the point, well written and a good read. I felt as if I had already read it as who hasn't heard of the Eloy and Moorlocks from other sources but it was good to read the proper original story.
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