My dumbass can’t do basic math. My bad

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Ice - Anna Kavan. Finally watched the new charlie kaufman, and there’s a heavy reference to this book, and I dug the movie so I picked it up. Good vibe so far.

Goedel Escher Bach - Doug Hofstadter. Been meaning to finish this for years; hopefully I will soon.

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Goedel Escher Bach - Doug Hofstadter. Been meaning to finish this for years; hopefully I will soon.

curious how this reads. I really liked it when I read it in high school but I kind of don’t trust my tastes from back then.

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not as thought provoking as when you’re first introduced to/exploring the discussed ideas. but it’s an easy/fun/digestible foray into those ideas, and it’s just like a pretty cool opus – like, you can see the craft and love and thoughtfulness that went into it.

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I started Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eyes and Marx’s Inferno

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just read the blurb for Inferno, looks pretty wild. How are you finding it?

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I’m on chapter 1 as he breaks down the way he will be interpreting Marx’s Capital but already got a bunch of reading recs and some contextual information about the discussion around socialism at the time. I like seeing that moral throughline that while not often emphasized, still lives within Socialism.

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I’m about 70 pages into this reaganland doorstop. Having grown up with parents who worshiped reagan, dragged me to pro life rallies, etc- reading it is almost therapeutic lol

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