What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

[Fife]

Man I miss having the G-Man on in the office every day. Good times.

Virile, vigorous, potent, fecund . . . IT IS I, THE G-MAN. Good to go and ready to launch!

You can still get some of his stuff
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-g- ... oplay=true

I miss the G man

Awesome, thx! I'm going to start using Stitcher more now that I have a new phone with max storage and my old iPod is starting to emit serious warning signals. Anybody bought Stitcher premium?

[DBTrek]

[Speaker to Animals]

Trick question. Two of them are Tolkien ripoffs and Marx is a Romance author.

[Hastur]

Reading this:



Highly recommended. Scott is a bit patronizing and smug but I already was aware of that. He still has a LOT of good points and lessons to teach.

[heydaralon]

Martin has dragons and zombies, but for Marx you have to suspend too much belief for it to be enjoyable. Not that any of those authorsnin that picture are good.

[GloryofGreece]

Reading this:



Highly recommended. Scott is a bit patronizing and smug but I already was aware of that. He still has a LOT of good points and lessons to teach.

Two things.

1). I love you avatar (did that finch kill the rodent)?

2). Give us on of his "good points"/

Thanks

[Hastur]

Reading this:



Highly recommended. Scott is a bit patronizing and smug but I already was aware of that. He still has a LOT of good points and lessons to teach.

Two things.

1). I love you avatar (did that finch kill the rodent)?

2). Give us on of his "good points"/

Thanks

1). It’s a Great Tit. I have no idea what it did to the vole. Tits eat seeds

2). I’m listening to the audiobook. Hard to quote directly. He explains how most people believe they are acting rationally while in fact mostly acting irrationally and afterwards constructing rationale for their actions. Also does a great explanation of cognitive dissonance with plenty of post election examples. I’m about 1/3 in. A lot about how we construct models to explain how the world works and how people mostly get along despite having completely different models.

[Zero]

Finished the Rape of Nanking about a week ago, but read it so fast, I may have another go later. No words, really, to describe the depravity. Just shocking - and yet, on par with so much of the inhumanity of the 20th Century.

Currently, about 2/3 of the way through Democracy in Chains and am finding it engaging. I didn’t really know much about James Buchanan and his role in the public choice / libertarian movement.

Frankl’s book, Man’s Search For Meaning, is up next.


It’s amazing what happens when I put the PS4 in the closet...

[heydaralon]

Finished the Rape of Nanking about a week ago, but read it so fast, I may have another go later. No words, really, to describe the depravity. Just shocking - and yet, on par with so much of the inhumanity of the 20th Century.

Currently, about 2/3 of the way through Democracy in Chains and am finding it engaging. I didn’t really know much about James Buchanan and his role in the public choice / libertarian movement.

Frankl’s book, Man’s Search For Meaning, is up next.


It’s amazing what happens when I put the PS4 in the closet...

Crazy book. Iris Chang, the author, iced herself after she wrote it, I don't know if her research contributed to her decision.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Crazy book. Iris Chang, the author, iced herself after she wrote it, I don't know if her research contributed to her decision.

Very fishy stuff, that woman's death, very tragic, too--fertile ground for conspiracy--it's unfortunate that the book itself didn't have as much of an impact as it should have.
The rape of Nanking is itself virtually unknown--Japanese racism made the Nazis look cute in comparison. Beheading contests between Japanese officers as front page news! Unit 731! Of all the sick shit the Nazi Doctors subjected their victims to, there was almost always some semblance of scientific inquiry involved, whereas their Japanese counterparts often appeared to be just having a good time randomly amputating and reattaching body parts for shits and giggles. Shooting and bayoneting live civilian targets, not by some special einsatzgruppen monsters but by the regular Kwantung army--it's nearly unbelievable.
I've heard people innocently wonder why we dropped the second nuke, if we had made our point well enough with the first. If they had read this book, they might wish we had more to drop.