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Rob Instigator · 08.25.2021, 10:38 AM

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

!@#$%! · 09.20.2021, 09:02 AM

the satoshi nakamoto bitcoin whitepaper.

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

!@#$%! · 09.20.2021, 09:02 AM

the satoshi nakamoto bitcoin whitepaper.

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

tw2113 · 10.02.2021, 02:46 PM

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

tw2113 · 10.02.2021, 02:46 PM

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

Rob Instigator · 01.03.2022, 11:16 AM

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

Rob Instigator · 03.02.2022, 12:25 PM

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

Severian · 03.04.2022, 03:49 PM

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

Rob Instigator · 03.04.2022, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Severian

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

How is it going?

Severian · 03.04.2022, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

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

choc e-Claire · 03.13.2022, 06:59 AM

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

tw2113 · 03.13.2022, 11:08 AM

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

Rob Instigator · 03.14.2022, 09:00 AM

University libraries are fucking awesome.

choc e-Claire · 03.14.2022, 07:19 PM

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.

Rob Instigator · 03.25.2022, 10:32 AM

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

awesome stuff

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

Bertrand · 04.12.2022, 05:22 PM

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

_tunic_ · 04.18.2022, 04:22 PM

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.

!@#$%! · 04.18.2022, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

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.

Severian · 04.19.2022, 06:22 AM

Still reading The Brothers Karamazov

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.

_tunic_ · 04.19.2022, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

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.

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. ..

08.25.2021, 10:38 AM	#5901
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	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 __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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09.20.2021, 09:02 AM	#5902
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,566	the satoshi nakamoto bitcoin whitepaper. im not a bitcoin believer, im just trying to understand the technology.
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09.20.2021, 09:02 AM	#5903
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,566	the satoshi nakamoto bitcoin whitepaper. im not a bitcoin believer, im just trying to understand the technology.
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10.02.2021, 02:46 PM	#5904
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,148	Breezing through "Under The Black Hat" book by Jim Ross. __________________ Shake shake
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10.02.2021, 02:46 PM	#5905
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,148	Breezing through "Under The Black Hat" book by Jim Ross. __________________ Shake shake
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01.03.2022, 11:16 AM	#5906
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I have read so much sinc ethe last post. I have tried to post links but this specific thread seems DEAD __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.02.2022, 12:25 PM	#5907
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	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 __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.04.2022, 03:49 PM	#5908
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,746	I am reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time ever.
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03.13.2022, 06:59 AM	#5911
choc e-Claire expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 2,467	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 __________________ Making myself up as I go along. Check out my music-themed blog, 79:57.
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03.13.2022, 11:08 AM	#5912
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,148	Mallory O'Meara - Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol Kathy Acker - Pussy, King of the Pirates __________________ Shake shake
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03.14.2022, 09:00 AM	#5913
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	University libraries are fucking awesome. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.14.2022, 07:19 PM	#5914
choc e-Claire expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 2,467	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. __________________ Making myself up as I go along. Check out my music-themed blog, 79:57.
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03.25.2022, 10:32 AM	#5915
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	Finished Ivan Van Sertima's THEY CAME BEFORE COLUMBUS: The African Presence in Ancient America awesome stuff https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2022/...-americas.html __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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04.12.2022, 05:22 PM	#5916
Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,267	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
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04.18.2022, 04:22 PM	#5917
_tunic_ invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: I could live in eurHope Posts: 3,944	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. __________________ what comes first, the music or the words?
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04.19.2022, 06:22 AM	#5919
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,746	Still reading The Brothers Karamazov 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.
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