The Bookworm Corner

[el sargantano]

Currently finishing 'We' by Ievgueni Zamiatin in... (drums) 1921!!
Magnificient, a classic must read, unsuspected viewpoint, higienic and brilliant.
It's the real first distopy where Huxley & Orwell base upon their ones, but from the inner part of a totalitarian state.
The barrier between android/humans dillutes a bit in a if I can call it 'soviet classic way'.
Lil Bud 4 flower & VapCap 4 hash makes my brain rush!

 

[el sargantano]

Well, during these strange times I've been reading. To take a break from microbs sinergies I stumbled upon 1961 'Return from the stars' by Stanislaw Lem (the Solaris writer).
Good one. Deeply sad, depicts the loneliness of a cosmonaut on his first day back to Earth after a hundred years long space trip. No family, no friends and a completly changed society where he cannot fit in.
Obsolete, rejected & isolated hero trying to find his place in an alienate society.
Lem makes you think on existencialism and your goals.
Good read, tho not so happy.

 

[el sargantano]

@Grobalot @Dank_Star
Did you find 'The Gods Themselves' in those irc boards?

 

[Philabrookla]

The lady and I are getting back into reading. Her friend started a book club, their first read is Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Supposedly a candidly poignant take on Israel/Palestine relations.

For me, I decided to start acquiring books that I've been wanting to read, mainly recommended by guests on podcasts. Love Lex Fridman's podcast.

The first is American Cosmic by Diana Walsh Pasulka, and then I am going for Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber. Feel free to ask me about these.

One thing I wanted to add, before ordering a ton of books from Jeff Bezos, we went to our local bookstore. They had my lady's book, and they ordered my 2 books for me, same price as Amazon, to arrive this week. What is the opposite of guilt? Righteousness? Yup. Righteous.

 

[Greenteam]

The lady and I are getting back into reading. Her friend started a book club, their first read is Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Supposedly a candidly poignant take on Israel/Palestine relations.

For me, I decided to start acquiring books that I've been wanting to read, mainly recommended by guests on podcasts. Love Lex Fridman's podcast.

The first is American Cosmic by Diana Walsh Pasulka, and then I am going for Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber. Feel free to ask me about these.

One thing I wanted to add, before ordering a ton of books from Jeff Bezos, we went to our local bookstore. They had my lady's book, and they ordered my 2 books for me, same price as Amazon, to arrive this week. What is the opposite of guilt? Righteousness? Yup. Righteous.

+1 for supporting your local bookstore, I started to change my buying behaviour with regard to that more and more , although it's sometimes convenient to buy online or from bigger stores. My last book was 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' but although normally I like that type of humour, I couldn't really warm up to it. But I read it in German, so maybe it depends on the challenge to translate the given Humor in another language, like in TV series from UK or US, lots of friends only watch the original version.
My next book will be 'Water Music' by T.C. Boyle, my first book from him was 'Budding Prospects', i liked it a lot, so I'm excited about his other books.

 

[FlyingLow]

Just picked up Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens Georgia... this show was a heater!
Any FC'ers in attendance?



In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crowd of twenty thousand would prove to be nearly five times that size. The ultimately successful show, now known as “Panic in the Streets,” went on to become a cult favorite of Panic fans and a decisive moment in Athens music history. This event still holds the record for the world’s largest record release party, but the full story of how the event came to be has not been told until now.

Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia places readers at the historic event, using in-depth investigation and interviews with the band, city officials, and “Spread Heads” who were there. Told as much as possible in real time, music journalist Gordon Lamb’s narrative takes the reader from conception to aftermath and uncovers the local controversies and efforts that nearly stopped the show from happening altogether.

This deeply researched and richly sourced book follows every stage of the concert’s development from the spark of an idea to approximately one hundred thousand people from all over the world packing the streets of a legendary music town. Taking us back to 1990s Athens through vibrant, on-the-scene writing, Lamb gives us the story of a band on the verge of greatness and a town reckoning with its significant place in music history.