http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

I usually only bother reading things if they're pretty dissident since most things mainstream are backed by piles of money and agenda setting.

hannibal

witcher books, they are pretty g000d

Does anyone know of a any good introductory neuroscience books? I'm not looking to be a doctor or anything I'm just looking for something that deals more on the theory and current understanding of how the brain works.

Not entirely related but my sister got me a book called Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks that was pretty fucking banging

the first book in the witcher series "blood of elves"

it's good

Currently reading...
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
Boku Girl
Made in Abyss
Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!

451

basic economics by thomas sowell

I’m currently reading Alice in the Wonderland. Rereading it after a long time now. Alice in Wonderland carries as much or as little significance as you want it to. It’s everything from a mindless romp in an imaginative land to a depiction of the effects of a ruthlessly authoritarian system of justice.

Kite Runner, really great book with some really well executed literary devices

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Roadside Picnic by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky

I wonder if someone just made a bot thats going to give a default response to every question on tftv

https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-review-my-favorite-book-everrrr/

Hey my bad bumping a dead thread but I remember somebody mentioned WoT in this thread. I started reading wheel of time in December and I just finished a memory of light, the last book.

Holy shit this series was great. Before reading WoT I had stormlight, kingkiller, and first law as my top 3 but wheel of time was better than all of them. The battles in the last two books were insane. 12 books of setup/development led to the most ridiculous shit. Ending was amazing.

Robert Jordan died before the series was finished. Four years later they got Brandon Sanderson, who at the time was pretty much a nobody, to finish the series. I'm shocked by how good of a job he did. You could tell the style/prose was slightly different but every character, characters who had been developed across millions of words, felt just as genuine as when Robert Jordan was writing.

The series isn't going to be for everyone, Jordan's writing can be overly descriptive sometimes. A few of the books called "the slog" (https://i.redd.it/ihqfile627g11.jpg) are said to be extra difficult to get through. I loved it though. I think Amazon picked up the series recently due to the GoT fantasy tv show craze and are gonna start filming soon.

Was a great read hope you're enjoying/enjoyed it glop :>

im reading this right now, I like it

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SRPr5-%2BiL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

im reading like 4 different things at the same time and its kinda fucking cringe
160 pages into crime and punishment
its extremely dense and i dont really enjoy reading it that much
50 pages into some self help book my parents gave me
kinda mediocre and not really gripping
sum by david eagleman is a collection of short stories about the afterlife and it seems cool but im only like 20 pages deep so who knows
one day ill get past page 10 of animal farm

I'm not actively reading anything right now but I'm trying to read more since I've found this great app called Hoopla that lets me legally read just about anything on my phone or computer with my sister's library card.
-I just finished Animal Farm. It was good!

-I just finished reading the Vision 2015-2016 comic series (12 issues across two volumes). Honestly, I wanted to like it because I love robots, the pitch was great and the art was gorgeous, but it felt like 12 issues of filler and disconnected plot points.

-If I have downtime in the car I'm usually reading some transformers comic! More Than Meets the Eye (2012-2018) is SO good you guys if you like humor, sci-fi settings, losers on spaceships and things that are good you will like it! It's just about my favorite piece of fiction ever! The first five volumes (which is one complete story arc) are avail on Hoopla, so if you have a library card you can read them for free! It costs you nothing!

Started read Roadside Picnic, which is the book that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are based off of.

Finishing up The MVP Machine, which covers how player development in baseball has evolved over the years. Very solid book, especially all the Trevor Bauer stuff.

I have all the King Arthur stories For when I finish the latter. I want to start on The Damned Trilogy too.

Reading

The Killer Whale Who Changed The World (About the first killer whales in captivity and the public perception at the time)

On Personal Identity and Immortality (A series of dialogues by John Perry about the possibility of an afterlife)

Homo Deus (Future forecasts and predictions about the human identity in a post singularity world)

Storm of Swords (asoiaf book 3)

i read sapiens a while ago, would you recommend reading this too?

I'm currently working on the first book Issac Asimov "Cycle of Foundation" series (one of his most famous), and enjoying it so far.

It seems to generally be about important dudes pulling off 200iq political maneuvers in a far future sci-fi context, so I'm having a good time

i love isaac asimov, if you want another cool sci fi read give "children of time" by adrian tchaikovsky a go

@nimby or anyone interested in fantasy. The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson is fucking primo, I love it. The series is very detailed and is much more gritty than wheel of time. It might be discouraging because it's very complicated and has a shitload of characters.

Also I did finish WoT nimby, Sanderson did very well on the last few books; I couldn't even tell Jordan wasn't writing.

been slowly getting through east of eden in the last few weeks and i pray for adam you poor poor boy

Recently finished the secret commonwealth by phillip pullman. It was good but its very much only the first half of a complete story so im reserving my judgement until the final volume.
Still have not gotten past page 160 of crime and punishment
Started the overstory by richard powers a few weeks ago and so far its pretty good, looking forwards to finishing it over the holiday.
Also picked up dune which ill probably read after the overstory.

"1776" by David McCullough. Good stuff.

children of dune by frank herbert, about halfway through. interested to finish it to see what the implications are on the remaining books in the series, definitely doing a good job of moving the plot

Game of thrones, the whole series. I just finished Dance of Dragons and god damn I wish the next book was out cause that series is amazing if you are patient enough

I've been reading "Boomerang" by Michael Lewis. It's about how the 2008 recession impacted the economies of other countries across the world, and how they still haven't recovered from it.