Just finished "Submission" by Michel Houellebecq. I had heard a lot about the book and I had an idea of what to expect. It exceeded my expectations.
It is my first book by Houellebecq and I can't wait to read more.
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09-12-2019, 12:14 AM #2511
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“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
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09-12-2019, 10:06 AM #2512
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09-14-2019, 08:57 PM #2513
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of The Immune System. The book explains why your immune system doesn't attack bananas or Big Macs but does attack pathogens.
Studies have shown the MHC gene gives off a scent. The scent is used as a factor in how people choose their mates. If one person's MHC is too similar to another's, the MHC will act as a repellant. The scent of MHC that is sufficiently different will act as a magnet.Climate change is a problem because leftists touch themselves at night.Lark liked this post
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09-15-2019, 04:44 PM #2514
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino. Good collection of essays about pop culture, social media, and feminism
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09-20-2019, 06:14 PM #2515
Just started reading 'An Invitation to a Beheading', by Nabakov, a few nights ago.
"...On and on and on and on he strode, far out over the sands, singing wildly to the sea, crying to greet the advent of the life that had cried to him." - James Joyce
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09-20-2019, 06:17 PM #25161w2-6w5-3w2 so/sp
"I took one those personality tests. It came back negative." - Dan Mintz
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09-26-2019, 06:48 PM #2517
I was looking forward to Kipling's 'Kim', but this is the 2nd Kindle download I've done where something is really messed up with the 'translation' - which doesn't even make sense, as it was written in the English language, correct? (as was the other problem book I downloaded which was by Henry James). It's as if it was translated literally into English (back into English, though a confusing English at that) from a translation made into another language. I don't understand it.
So..... I guess I'll be reading 'Methuselah's Children', by Heinlein, then, instead... Though it appears to have the same characters/'universe' as Time Enough for Love. Hopefully it'll at least be entertaining."...On and on and on and on he strode, far out over the sands, singing wildly to the sea, crying to greet the advent of the life that had cried to him." - James Joyce
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09-26-2019, 07:55 PM #2518
John Grisham’s Camino Island
I’ve only read like three chapters but so far so good - it’s about the theft of rare Fitzgerald manuscripts from the Library at Princeton University and the investigation led by several people (a novelist but also people from Princeton and from the government) to find them in the black marketGreat art captures a time, a place and an emotion.
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09-30-2019, 03:53 AM #2519
gods at war by Kyle Idleman“All men by nature desire to know” ~ Aristotle
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10-13-2019, 08:08 PM #2520
Halfway through 'Pnin' by Nabakov; I so love his writing, it is a delight to read and an otherwise somewhat mundane storyline becomes exquisite.
Going to start 'The Goldfinch', by Donna Tarrt, tonight."...On and on and on and on he strode, far out over the sands, singing wildly to the sea, crying to greet the advent of the life that had cried to him." - James Joyce
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