ATF

1y

Is it possible to download (pirated) books and read them on kindle ereader? Any reliable sites? There’s several books on my list that my local library doesn’t have

kogoyos

1y

libgen.is and send to kindle

ATF

1y

Good looks. “Get” at the top is the correct link, right?

babylon sherm

1y

I can’t describe how disappointed I am in myself for waiting well into adulthood to begin reading Borges 🤦‍♂️ face-melting levels of genius

UIP

1y

what would you recommend starting with?

babylon sherm

1y

Whatever the most recent reissue of Labyrinth is, I’d recommend that. The translations seem excellent and the short stories are well-ordered. It’s been a breeze diving into his work and I owe it to this compilations’ lack of pretension and overall sleekness. Ficciones seems like it would do in a pinch as well

babylon sherm

1y

I can’t describe how disappointed I am in myself for waiting well into adulthood to begin reading Borges 🤦‍♂️ face-melting levels of genius

Koala

1y

4.5/5

Not much more needs to be said bout this classic. In the hellish of landscapes, The Judge is closest thing to evil incarnate

Would still give the nod to Suttree as my fav McCarthy

HrdBoildWndrlnd

1y

Incredible book, an academic in an unnamed authoritarian country is pursued and persecuted for his refusal to participate in the myth-making of his country. Lots of thoughts on how fascism comes to be, how a population is coerced into giving up their rights in the interest of ""safety"". It's interspersed with notes from the "author" (really another fictional character within the canon of the novel) as they slowly lose track of who is really writing and who is being written about. I think this would be considered slipstream fiction, similar to my favorite book of all time Ice by Anna Kavan.

I was not the biggest fan of this one. A family all realizes they are actually aliens, each from a different planet in our solar system, and they have to help the human race avoid nuclear destruction by teaching them peace. This seemed to me the book that Murakami has spent his entire life trying to write, and similar to how I feel about Murakami it was just kind of toothless. There's a 20-page straight dialogue section towards the end that was almost entirely inscrutable to me, discussion about how best to goad humanity into world peace that was fraught with metaphor and disconnected leaps of logic. I've liked the previous Mishima's I've read, I think this one was a little too out there for me.

Fantastic book. Two detectives try to find out how three people disappeared from a mining camp at the top of a mountain. There are Maoist guerrillas operating in the area who could be responsible, there are also the old gods of the Inca who could be demanding sacrifice to guarantee the safety of the miners. It's an intensely eerie and paranoid book. The subplot has one of the detectives describing to the other the story of how he met, "rescued", and fell in love with a woman from his past. Apparently there are important allusions to Peru's contemporary political situation couched in this story, however these went over my head. It seems at it's heart to be a book about people (standing in for a country) struggling between archaic tradition (the old ways) and revolution (modernity). The epilogue is maybe the best chapter of a book I've read this year.

kogoyos

1y

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

true story about a ship that sailed from England to Patagonia and was shipwrecked. the whole thing is kind of laid out in the introduction and then the story gets fleshed out. this is the third book I've read by Grann and he does a great job taking true stories and bringing life to them. definitely a page turner, and I'm hyped that Scorsese & DiCaprio already signed up to make the film version

8.5/10

Signs Preceeding The End of The World by Yuri Herrera

short novella about a young Mexican woman crossing the US border in search of her brother and a land that was promised to her. felt a bit too rushed with a lack of characterization, but honestly this might have gone a little over my head because I read it in Spanish and there was a lot of slang. considered a new classic but I wasn't that impressed

6/10

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

second book I've read by Abdurraqib (his ATCQ book was excellent) and really love the writing style he uses in his essays. he writes with a poetic prose that makes just about anything interesting. that said, I thought this petered off a bit after the start and wasn't quiet sure what the overall message of the book was. seemed a bit all over the place and he interjected his own personal story into some chapters, which worked better in his earlier books imo. still want to check out They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and would love to see him take a crack at fiction

8/10

WRU

1y

Read Macbeth which I think I’ve seen on stage and partly read at different points in life. Saw the Denzel movie too.

Shakespeare is cool and I really like how you know you’ll enjoy the play even more if you go back to it after a while. I read a few of his plays and I think I’ll stick around for a few more, maybe his lengthier stuff. Started Hamlet yesterday and it’s pretty cool so far

Choking

1y

been meaning to read Macbeth again just cause of this song

kogoyos

1y

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

true story about a ship that sailed from England to Patagonia and was shipwrecked. the whole thing is kind of laid out in the introduction and then the story gets fleshed out. this is the third book I've read by Grann and he does a great job taking true stories and bringing life to them. definitely a page turner, and I'm hyped that Scorsese & DiCaprio already signed up to make the film version

8.5/10

Signs Preceeding The End of The World by Yuri Herrera

short novella about a young Mexican woman crossing the US border in search of her brother and a land that was promised to her. felt a bit too rushed with a lack of characterization, but honestly this might have gone a little over my head because I read it in Spanish and there was a lot of slang. considered a new classic but I wasn't that impressed

6/10

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

second book I've read by Abdurraqib (his ATCQ book was excellent) and really love the writing style he uses in his essays. he writes with a poetic prose that makes just about anything interesting. that said, I thought this petered off a bit after the start and wasn't quiet sure what the overall message of the book was. seemed a bit all over the place and he interjected his own personal story into some chapters, which worked better in his earlier books imo. still want to check out They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and would love to see him take a crack at fiction

8/10

gbluecheez

1y

I loved a little devil but they can’t kill us is a must read for anyone with an interest in popular music/culture