Just put up review of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.

super deep. Latest book review up on RXTT's Intellectual Journey, Viktor E. Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2020/...e-even-in.html

I actually enjoyed that more than I expected. One of the few music biographies I've read where I came away thinking I'd actually happily spend time with the person.

The Pyrates and a book about the science of naps.

The Immortal Hulk rules. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2020/...e-bennett.html

the bible

what's your favourite translation of the bible?

Karel Capek's Andrias Scheuchzeri.
It starts as an adventure book, turns into a selection of newspaper clips about salamanders discovered by the captain of the first part, and evolves into an invasion due to greed...
I nearly put it away but ended up liking it.
Karel Capek brought the word robot in the late 1920's in a play where Man creates robots, over and over, and robots discover that Man is quite useless and give him the push.

New Susanna Clarke boom — first in like 16 years or something — and it’s short so I’m savoring it and reading like 2 pages a day.

Alexandra David-Neel's Magic and Mystery in Tibet (1929)

Very cool stuff. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...s-mystery.html

Here's what I've handled in 2021 so far https://apiratelifefor.me/book-chall...021-challenge/

Not sure about translation but the best part is where the wizard from Mordor turns the water into Wine. Has got to be up there

Looking forward to reading Ellroy's This Storm.
I started it but stopped, to freshen my memory by reading again Perfidia (Ellroy came to Paris for a lecture in a nice theatre, after which he signed some of his books, including the copy I handed him - he asked me what my nationality was as it was the English text. I noticed a weird smile on his face when I said I was French).

Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”

The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P. Hall (1928)

Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Hobbit

Still technically have IT going, and making zero progress.

Finished Manly P. Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories, and Mysteries of all Ages"

Amazing work of symbological reference.

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...-all-ages.html

Finished Manly P. Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories, and Mysteries of all Ages"

Amazing work of symbological reference.

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...-all-ages.html

Finished Joan Didion's BLUE NIGHTS, a memoir of her mind after the loss of her daughter. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...-by-those.html

Enjoyed a military sci fi romp after the heaviness that was Joan Didion. Damien Larkin- Blood Red Sand

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...en-larkin.html

Enjoyed a military sci fi romp after the heaviness that was Joan Didion. Damien Larkin- Blood Red Sand

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...en-larkin.html

the satoshi nakamoto bitcoin whitepaper.

im not a bitcoin believer, im just trying to understand the technology.

the satoshi nakamoto bitcoin whitepaper.

im not a bitcoin believer, im just trying to understand the technology.

Breezing through "Under The Black Hat" book by Jim Ross.

Breezing through "Under The Black Hat" book by Jim Ross.

I have read so much sinc ethe last post. I have tried to post links but this specific thread seems DEAD

Man, I have not been able to update my reading here for so long!

BTW, my book review blog, RXTT's Intellectual Journey, is nearing 80,000 original HITS. (counting only when individuals click on a specific review, not when they visit the homepage) https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/

Alan Moore's run on SWAMP THING - https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...-where-it.html

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth - Otto Rank https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...otto-rank.html

The Loom of Language - Frederick Bodmer https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...e-listens.html

Freedom of Thought - J.B. Bury https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...-progress.html

Demonology and Devil Lore - Moncure Daniel Conway https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...ons-alike.html

The Astonishing Hypothesis - Francis Crick https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2022/...athway-to.html

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance - Alex Hutchinson https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2022/...limits-of.html

I am reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time ever.

How is it going?

Pretty well. I’m going slowly but I’m liking it a lot. I’ve been avoiding this bigass motherfucking book for at least 10 years. I’ve made enough progress that I don’t think my brain will let me stop now

Borrowed from my uni library:
Simon Reynolds & Joy Press - The Sex Revolts
Noam Chomsky - Latin America
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
David Goldblatt - The Ball is Round

Mallory O'Meara - Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
Kathy Acker - Pussy, King of the Pirates

University libraries are fucking awesome.

Indeed they are, even if I'll basically never need to use them for my boring analytical course.

I'm enjoying the Reynolds/Press book, I've loved a lot of the other stuff that he's written and this offers some interesting perspectives on identity in rock (although it does seem a little negative on riot grrrl). Should probably read more gender theory so that it can be linked into more stuff.

Also on track to borrow The Shock Doctrine.

Finished Ivan Van Sertima's THEY CAME BEFORE COLUMBUS: The African Presence in Ancient America

awesome stuff

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2022/...-americas.html

A journalist written book about Emmanuel Macron's path to his first presidency, portraying him as a piece of...

Alain Damasio's les Furtifs (hyped sci-fi related French writer, using quite a demanding style for a somewhat interesting story tasting like fantasy with too big chunks of over-intelligent-childish fodder and a self-centered main character who's adored by so many other characters that it made me want to skip pages - and there are many pages)

Tolstoi's War and Peace
BS Johnson's The Unfortunates (a translation of it, I couldn't find the original through the English bookstore in Paris I order UK/US books from)
Intriguing form, making re-reads more interesting perhaps in your perception of it if you shuffle your deck again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfortunates

A Flemish writer who in the early seventies wrote a book about the Flemish kitchen.
It's actually a compilation of columns he wrote for a newspaper.

It's very funny, and it's about food.

This is a re-edition from 2015 which has recipes from a Flemish chef-cook.

hey! i wish i could read this. unfortunstely i don't understand vlaams. so please let me ask--what's his formula for carbonnade flamande, if any is discussed? goddamn i love that stuff.

any info you could smuggle this way would be much appreciated.

Still reading The Brothers Karamazov :D
Slow and steady, I guess. And I have every intention of finishing it. It is in fact a resolution of mine for this year. Also I’ve had some life stuff come up (job interviews, DATING, work shit) so I’ve been spending less time reading in general.

I’m about 3/4 of the way through it. Tremendous literary achievement already. I think there are some surprises in store yet, but wow, this book deserves its reputation.

I haven't reached the meat part yet, it's divided into more or less three parts: bread, vegetables (including potatoes), and meat. Oh no, four parts, last is deserts
I skipped most of the bread part for now, and am on the end of the veggies part.
But there's no specific recipe for the carbonnade flamande. Perhaps it is mentioned somewhere in the meat section. I did find this recipe though: https://www.ah.nl/allerhande/recept/...onade-flamande
It's from the local supermarket ;-) Perhaps you can google translate it.
Mind you though, we cut the meat differently in Netherlands (and Europe) versus the US.
This is more of a winter dish though, but I might still make this some day, I love beef stew, and never made it this way.


This is confusing for me I always thought a carbonade was pork meat. ..