Discussion questions:
What new books are you reading?
Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
Question of the week:
What books are you eager to read that you haven’t read yet?
Enjoy!
Discussion questions:
What new books are you reading?
Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
Question of the week:
What books are you eager to read that you haven’t read yet?
Enjoy!
I’m about 20% through Inventing Reality and still struggling to stay engaged. I might put it down for a bit and start Killing Hope or Fraud, Famine, and Fascism.
I bought the entire Paper Girls series and that arrives today.
I also just bought the Peter Kropotkin collection with some freebie kindle credits I had. I had a digital copy of Conquest of Bread but it was pirated. I don’t know when I will get to reading any of them.
Killing Hope should be classified as a must-read for anyone serious about anti-imperialism. Rogue State is an invaluable sister piece.
Just do not let the anger you will feel consume you. William Blum’s work is instrumental in understanding the evils of empire, and once you delve into the nitty-gritty of shit like the psychological terror operations unleashed on the Philippines and Guatemala, there is no turning back. There is no return to the comfort of ignorance. The U.S. is the primary contradiction.
I think this sells me on Killing Hope. I’m jaded as it is and am aware quite a bit of what the US has done. I mean People’s History, Untold History of the US, Blackshirts and Reds, and even my fairly based college history professors have helped in that regard. I’m eager to be more angry lol. I might start it tonight if I can get to a stopping point on Inventing Reality. I can come back to that later. It ain’t going anywhere.
I feel that Killing Hope is standard, but then again, I grew up knowing about this shit.
Also thanks for reminding me and about Rogue State. I need to add it to my library.
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I think it’s mostly just with life stuff happening right now it’s hard for me to focus on reading as much as I’d like, let alone just find the time to read. It’s also not quite as easy of a read as Blackshirts was. I don’t think it’s a bad book at all.
Probably because some of Michael Parenti’s works pale in comparison to his speeches and talks.
He does set extremely high expectations with his talks.
Yeah. His books are secondary in quality.
Oof, I’m not sure I’d put it like that.
I have a book about Freud and what a fraud he was and how he had ramifications for today because people still look to him and Jung and psycho-analysis… but I haven’t gotten around to it… yet.