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  • Mogworld by Benjamin Croshaw

    7/10, it was fine I guess.

    Ending was good tho, in an uncomfortable kind of way

  • Finished or current?

    Last finished book was "Oynx Storm". A book from the Empyrean series. Book was OK, didn't seem like much happened for such a long book.

    Current reading "Empire of Silence", book 1 of the Sun eater series. So far not bad. Writing style gets a bit confusing at times, but subject is good. Waiting to see where the story goes.

    • Onyx Storm is one I was considering, is it worth it? I do need books where shit happens

      • If you are that far into the series already then I say yes. It wasn't a bad book.

        I just personally felt like not much distinct events happened for such a long book. There are still good parts of the story and twists.

  • Open Veins of Latin America. Finished reading it today. It's a 1973 book that explains some of the reasons for the massive underdevelopment of Latin American colonies. The general gist can be summed up as "it is a place full of riches, and the colonizers only want to extract everything and send it back to their masters" - that still applied to the industrialization efforts funded by foreign capital.

    Although Spain and Portugal were the nominal masters, they, too, were fucking themselves over with debts to Dutch and English bankers back in 16th and 17th centuries, not to mention bad trade deals, effectively killing their own industries and those of their colonies.

    EDIT: Galeano also exposed a lot of the shady deals made mainly by USA companies with governments in order to "develop" the southern countries, like ensuring that they'd get less taxes, better exchange prices and better credit options, that their goods would only be shipped by USA owned ships, etc. Not to mention that, during 1950-1970, the price of the commodities sold by Latin American countries kept falling (probably growing below inflation) and the income from the exports kept getting lower, despite larger volumes.

  • The Langoliers! I liked it. I've never read any King before because I don't like horror and my husband's was like "well its the least horrory of his stuff" and it was but I say I dislike the ending cause it's absolutely a horror ending. Spoilers for a story that came out in the 90s - I have no idea why they're so happy when they realize they're now in the future. Whose to say you are going to get dragged along into the normal time stream and not just watch it fucking slip away as you seem utterly unmoored from time??? Bros???? No celebration yet!!!

  • I'm currently working through my book backlog.

    Last book I read was All Quiet on The Western Front, right now I'm partway through House of Leaves.

    • What's all quiet like to read? It's very famous but I've never read it

      • I enjoyed it, it's not exactly a light read considering the subject but it's well paced and tightly written. Its depiction of war and trauma may be triggering for some people.

        Your experience may vary depending on the translation. Most English translations are based on the 1929 translation that made the odd choice of switching German slang and cultural references with rough English equivalents as well as trying to tone down some of the darker parts.

        I read the 1993 translation which tries to be a bit more accurate to the original book, but does do the thing with swapping the slang around which comes across a bit odd especially earlier on where it's layed on a bit thick imho.

  • I read a book called The Spiritual Tourist by Mick Brown. Very easy read. It's sort of half a travel story with some great moments and scenes from exotic locations and half an exploration of fringe religion.

    Very enjoyable, although in an effort to remain neutral and open minded in tone he might have given some of the subjects a little too much benefit of the doubt. Still a very fun read, would recommend.

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