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i've been wanting to read the mountain lion for a while, but haven't gotten to it yet. i'm interested to hear what you think. the earthsea books are definitely more young adult than the hainish books, but they read quickly as a result and are definitely enjoyable.

fields, factories, and workshops (peter kropotkin) **** - mostly for the final chapter on intellectual and manual labor
a wizard of earthsea (ursula k le guin) [reread] ****
autonomy, solidarity, possibility (colin ward) ****
the philosophy of poverty (pierre-joseph proudhon) **

for what it's worth, i probably was reacting to seeing an adaptation of the novel, so the movie might actually not be that great.

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, John Blystone, 1923) Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929) M (Fritz Lang, 1931) Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932) The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938) Subida al cielo (Luis Bunuel, 1952) Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958) Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, 19...

diacritical marks are undesirable, right? so joao cesar monteiro instead of joão césar monteiro?

thanks for the work on this, therouxxx!

the ten best books i read in 2024 (will update as the year goes on):

ghost town (robert coover)
an enquiry concerning political justice (william godwin)

haha, if you need a palate cleanser just pick up a lispector or a le guin and you'll be all better.

23,000 (vladimir sorokin) ** - maybe moderately better than ice and slightly worse than bro, done with the trilogy sartor resartus (thomas carlyle) [reread - liked it better the first time] **** lust (collection of stories by roald dahl) * - plenty of misogynistic bullshit and rape apologism the vul...

after a long slump, where i did read a few things, i've gotten closer to my old self. reading gil scott-heron's the vulture. didn't know he wrote a couple of novels until a week or so ago.

really light in terms of reading for a while, which is weird, but over the past month or two: the color line (igiaba scego) **** the beginning place (ursula k le guin) *** essays from tula (leo tolstoy) **** currently reading the death ship, by b traven. after that, i might get to martin chuzzlewit ...

i sent $10

yep, i'm guessing we've got 16 people who can toss in $10

haven't been doing as much reading recently, but managed to find a copy of tolstoy's essays from tula, which includes "the slavery of our times" among others, and it's really very nice and engaging. his novels are obviously good but also not too exciting for me, but the essays really give ...

dariush mehrjui, killed in his home

a bit behind here july the carreta (b traven) *** lapvona (ottessa moshfegh) ***** the outsider (richard wright) ***** the treasure of the sierra madre (b traven) **** always coming home (ursula k le guin) *** birth and death of the housewife (paola masino) **** i belong only to myself (writings and...

yay! i think i've at least really enjoyed every one of her novels except for a breath of life, which was good but not as good as the others. i've been wanting to reread all of them for a little bit, but i'm trying to finish vanity fair and it's taking it's sweet time...

feyder is belgian, not sure how many of his films were made in belgian studios, though.

might need to get a book about the author at some point. was very close to buying the mystery of b traven at a used book store this weekend, but had already picked up too much else. have only read the death ship but was pretty taken with it - expected more of a pulp adventure novel, but it was knot...

currently reading vanity fair, which is pretty funny so far. also been making my way through some b traven novels, including treasure of the sierra madre, which i just picked up today. crazy fascinating backstory on that guy, might need to get a book about the author at some point.

haha i like that story even better

is that teddy wiesengrund theodor w(iesengrund) adorno? seems a bit coincidental, yet still...

i really enjoyed a couple of his early novels (orchard keeper, outer dark), but read everything else up to the end of the border trilogy and really didn't get the hype at all. suttree was fine too. but i'm not sure there are that many highly hyped writers from the us that really justify it, so maybe...

yeah all of central america remained behind some other parts of latin america in terms of several forms of culture, and would import movies and music from mexico or argentina in particular. even printing presses didn't arrive until the nineteenth century, when mexico had several as early as the sixt...

nope, no reading order at all, just jump in wherever. i bet you'd love the word for world is forest, and the left hand of darkness is also really good.

the english american (thomas gage) *** anarchist pedagogies (various) ** party going (henry green) [reread] **** sam dunn is dead (bruno corra) [reread] ***** the dispossessed (ursula k le guin) ***** innocence (roald dahl) [around 5 stories] ** the pedagogy of the oppressed (paulo freire) [reread] ...

i'm reading le guin's the dispossessed. really enjoying it so far. the later hainish novels are really my style.

didn't like confederacy of dunces at all, but i'm the minority opinion on that it seems.

seen 10, would happily see more

stromboli
spellbound
viaggio in italia
notorious
for whom the bell tolls

i've seen 20, but i'm definitely not a big fan, and really hate a lot of the movies he's been in. so yeah, this isn't easy...

deer hunter
godfather part ii
frankenstein
wag the dog
raging bull