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What's Everyone Reading this Week?

submitted by __47__ to books 1 weekApr 22, 2025 17:58:40 ago (+5/-0)     (books)

Gimme shit I don't care. I'm reading Jurassic Park. I haven't finished but I'd like to see how it was all a setup and a mind fuck. Hammond ran a flea circus where he could convince people that there were fleas there. His "dinosaurs" are bastard biological engineering but the power of persuasion makes the people think they're seeing dinosaurs. Cooked up in a lab in plastic eggs. I feel it's a real testament to what's coming. Genetic manipulation.


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[ - ] NoRefunds 3 points 1 weekApr 23, 2025 00:20:59 ago (+3/-0)

Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Seven Dawrves, Paw Patrol, Elmo, Bert & Ernie, Oscar, Big Bird, Whale, Green Eggs and Ham, among others.

[ - ] paul_neri 3 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 21:20:46 ago (+3/-0)

Your posts.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 1 point 1 weekApr 23, 2025 12:58:18 ago (+1/-0)

Awe shucks.

[ - ] beece 3 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 21:11:17 ago (+3/-0)

Having read all of David Irvings excellent histories of WW2 https://irvingbooks.com/, once you've done that, I'd suggest in no particular order:

"Freedom Betrayed" by ex-President Herbert Hoover.
"Operation Snow" - by Jon Koster
“The Iron Curtain Over America” by Colonel John Beaty.
"The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II" by Viktor Suvorov.
The Bad War -by M.S. King
“Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War”. by Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor

Unlike most of the other books noted on this thread, this is all real stuff.

[ - ] paul_neri 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 21:22:24 ago (+1/-0)

beece! You're war-obsessed, man! Try reading something cheerful.

[ - ] beece 1 point 1 weekApr 23, 2025 09:42:29 ago (+1/-0)

Call it "history obsessed" Paul:-). I had direct relatives fight in these wars. BTW, did you ever get the full story on Gallipoli? IE, Churchill and the powers in England wanted to keep the Russians in the war. They knew it had no chance of succeding. You have any relatives in that mess?

[ - ] calx 1 point 1 weekApr 23, 2025 17:27:37 ago (+1/-0)

Lately it's just been Philip K. Dick and Charles Bukowski.

[ - ] Reunto 2 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 23:32:12 ago (+2/-0)

Slowly working on 'City of God' by St Augustine

[ - ] Trope 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 23:52:57 ago (+1/-0)

Some years back, it had occurred to me that wealthy successful people may have written down their wisdom into books. That got me back into reading useful nonfiction about life, business, and health.

Likewise, doctors who discover useful stuff will often write books as the establishment would never make their findings public.

Last book I listened to was on testosterone. Prior to that: Endocrine disrupters. (absolutely do not drink the tap water), and other various topics such as: Dealing with women, masculinity and femininity, vitamin C, Niacin, establishing business credit, effective communication skills, parenting books, iodine, magnesium, sunlight, vitamin D, The Carnivore Code, and a book on the history of Poland.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 21:21:00 ago (+1/-0)

The Stormlight Archive. It's ok, but it's full of boomer-tier feminism and woke girl-power bullshit. Mostly reading it just to see how bad it gets.

[ - ] WhiteCollarCriminal 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 19:55:58 ago (+1/-0)

Seth speaks, visions beyond the veil, Stephen King bazaar of bad dreams, the real Anthony fauci, don't make the black chiles angry.

[ - ] Her0n 0 points 1 weekApr 23, 2025 21:00:09 ago (+0/-0)

I'm reading tech manuals and learning how to optimize a system to help a friend. Do you want to learn more efficient ways to integrate Structred Text with Ladder logic for a 16 lane divider?

I'll send you the manuals.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 18:36:51 ago (+1/-0)

Sphere by the same author is a certified banger jsuk.

[ - ] __47__ [op] 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 18:41:47 ago (+1/-0)

I have it in paperback. It's on my exceeding long list dangus.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 18:20:04 ago (+1/-0)

Read Jurassic Park and the Lost World last year. I'm a big Crichton guy. Finished State of Fear recently. He was the tip of the spear in warning of biotechnology and AI before he died, but he was also a conservative (medical doctors usually are) skeptic of climate change. His stuff there hasn't aged well.

Currently finishing up some of Agatha Christie's earlier stuff, featuring her famous private detective the Belgian Frenchie Hercule Poirot:

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780440192282-us.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Under_Dog_and_Other_Stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot

[ - ] __47__ [op] 0 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 18:28:00 ago (+0/-0)

I'd have to disagree and say it's more relevant today than ever. Men are cutting their dicks and balls off with genetic engineering to help. Making a profit using these methods? Check. All for substantial political gain check. If Spielberg hadn't fucked up the movie so hard it could have helped folks.

Pro Muldoon. Dude was the only one with sense.

Lost world was bullshit. Malcom died in the book but nah. Gotta keep the gravy train going. At least Chriton hit on his morphine withdrawals.

[ - ] Spaceman84 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 18:09:10 ago (+1/-0)

Riddley Walker again because I love it. Then Eagle in the Snow. Great books.