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What are you currently reading?

submitted by Joe_McCarthy to OccidentalEnclave 18 hoursJun 14, 2025 17:58:16 ago (+2/-2)     (OccidentalEnclave)

https://www.abebooks.com/9780875185811/Margaret-Sanger-Child-Wanted-People-0875185819/plp

A basic bitch biography of Margaret Sanger. Fair to say it'll have fuck n' suck relevance.

Also of relevance is this Thomas Hardy novel I just got free in the library:

https://kara.reviews/media/review/covers/tess-of-the-durbervilles-cover.png

The fuck n' suck rejects the prudish Victorian morality the misogynist right promotes so this novel, given the subject matter and date of its publication, should be useful in helping me more fully develop my system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_d%27Urbervilles

It's pretty cool when you don't have to staff a government, replace the bureaucracy with your own capos, or focus on amassing all that biopower to kill people. Just build it and they will cum.


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[ - ] Stonkmar 1 point 17 hoursJun 14, 2025 18:26:05 ago (+1/-0)

The bible

[ - ] con77 1 point 17 hoursJun 14, 2025 18:35:06 ago (+1/-0)

The Giant Killer
True story of a 4'9" guy that became a Green Beret in Vietnam

[ - ] pickingrinninspittin 1 point 17 hoursJun 14, 2025 18:36:48 ago (+1/-0)

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. After playing the video games I was curious about the source and so started reading the novel. As good as they are the games are only superficially similar to the books, which are surprisingly rich, deep, detailed and well written.

Tess of the Durbervilles was made into a movie called Tess by Roman Polanski. I recall really enjoying it and it won a load of awards, though it doesn't hold a candle to the book. Still you might want to check it out after you finish the book. If you enjoy Hardy you should consider The Mayor of Casterbridge as well.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy [op] 1 point 17 hoursJun 14, 2025 18:43:30 ago (+1/-0)

Read The Mayor of Casterbridge years ago. It is very good. Everything he wrote that I've read is excellent. Much better than Dickens in my opinion.

[ - ] pickingrinninspittin 1 point 17 hoursJun 14, 2025 18:51:12 ago (+1/-0)

Interesting comment. I just started reading Dickens and I'm not sure what I think of him yet. It's a lot of words, that's for sure.

Have you read Vanity Fair by Thackeray? Highly recommended also.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy [op] 0 points 17 hoursJun 14, 2025 19:01:58 ago (+0/-0)

Have intended to for years but no. Only thing of his I've read is this - maybe his second best known work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Henry_Esmond

I wasn't overly impressed.

I read David Copperfield last year. Slogged through over 700 pages. I have never seen the appeal with Dickens. But I do take him seriously enough that I'll read Great Expectations when a chick I know gives me the book soon.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy [op] 0 points 18 hoursJun 14, 2025 18:01:13 ago (+0/-0)

Also got a bio on Mother Teresa, a book on public speaking, and poetry by Jorge Luis Borges on tap. A minister just gave me a Christian book too. This all should keep me busy for the next couple of weeks.

[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 0 points 15 hoursJun 14, 2025 20:36:30 ago (+0/-0)

The Frontiersman, Allan Eckert. (a 2024 translation of a 1965 work)
The story of our westward expansion through Ohio and Kentucky after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
While the novel tells an interesting tale of Simon Kenton, Danial Boone and Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee, there are two major flaws.
1) The author is a self-hating White who projects human qualities onto primitive savages in typical liberal fashion.
2) Of all the books I've ever read, this author uses the most incredibly annoying writing style I've ever encountered. Every chapter is peppered with at least 20 paragraphs that end in mid sentence with no follow up. Sometimes 40.
Don't buy this book. Go to a book store. Find a copy. Open it at random and start reading. You'll quickly see what I mean. I hate an author that automatically takes the side of non-Whites in an effort to show how politically correct they can be, but this one is the first I can say I actually hate for the writing style.

Not recommended.