I need to rewatch the film after finishing the book as I watched it years ago. From what I remember it follows the book to a tee, was a very good read

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finished this one last week. Great story telling by one of Brazil's finest authors ever. Set in Rio de Janeiro in the 80s. Lot of mistery, humour and science talk on this one.

8/10

IDK if there's an engilsh version of this one tbh

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

5/5 f***ing classic

The Fall by Albert Camus

imagine some snobby drunk approaches you at a bar and starts waxing poetically about his life and lessons learned. a normal person would escape the conversation asap, but if you'd follow him around for 5 days listening to him ramble, then this book is for you. I guess this went over my head as others seem to love it, but this novel had no story whatsoever, the only character was uninteresting, and none of his opinions or realizations were profound or unique. not sure I'll give Camus another try and I NEED to stop reading books like this. gonna read something light next.

2/10

Prose was f***ing incredible, as expected. Insanely heavy and rich plot... partially lost me at the end with John’s awakening scene—think I really need to reread this to fully get it, but yeah this was incredible.

Also the fact that this was his first novel he was really on God mode from book one.

I’m Reborn/10

a really valuable book. it really opened my eyes to a lot of the tropes of gifted kid who didnt have to try and how that can create issues with a fixed mindset and being unwilling to do things out of risk of failure. also taught me a lot about how to teach others things and how to give praise in a way that empowers growth rather than stagnation
if you dont wanna read the whole thing I'd definitely recommend finding a summary

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

"probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered." -Stanley Kubrick

getting into hard crime novels a bit now and this is the first one I read. considered a classic, it's about a Texas sheriff in a small town who is secretly a psychopath and starts killing people. a bit tame by today's standards but I imagine it was much more violent and shocking when written in the 50's. does an excellent job with the narration and the story is interesting as well, though the characters are a bit generic. didn't love it, but it was an enjoyable short read and I'll probably check out some other work from the author in the future.

7/10

Really helpful and comprehensive illustration of the disparities between the subjects of the “Colony” and the citizens of the “Nation”. Hayes clearly thinks with empathy about the plague and prejudice of American systems. Kinda trailed off weirdly toward the end I feel like, but was a gripping enough a***ysis on the whole.

Looking for more sociopolitical-type texts. Recs are appreciated

Amazing book we got taught very little about him in history other than essentially “violent controversial version of mlk” so reading this was incredible

Was literally thinking about this book 5 minutes ago

Wtf

Read it like three times but I wanna revisit it

Yea I’m definitely gonna read again at some point
There’s a ton of stuff to take from it I read on a kindle and I was highlighting s*** like every 5 pages

Yeah man no doubt. Such an important figure and text

Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger

10/10. The advice in this book is timeless.

One of my favourite books ever, I'm a sucker for nostalgia and this one just hit me personally

Yesss

One of the books i've read that i wanted to re-read so soon after finishing it

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Saunders described the question at the heart of this book as "why is the world so harsh to those that are losing?"

another really entertaining and engaging book of short stories by Saunders, who is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. no weak stories, and my favorite was the novella, Bounty, which would make a great movie. also cool to read about his writing process at the end in the author's note. definitely recommend this one for anybody who enjoyed Pastoralia. will read his novel Lincoln in the Bardo soon

9/10

I can see why this play is so revered. Incredible

IN dope thread

Finished song of achille and it lived up to the hype, great book

Now starting escape from Camp 14

I read the summary and first few pages of this and was like, Just read something else

The Stranger was fine, but I’m in no rush to read more Camus tbh