I've got three bookshelves of varying size - and I have a goddamn pylon of books stacked in my closet. Mostly softcover novels. I'll take a picture here soon and post it. But my main, large bookshelf has lights in it with a remote control so that I can adjust the hue, tone and strength. It's pretty nice.

I own quite a few of the Easton Press biographies on US presidents, which I'm rather proud to own. They look great on the shelf. And I've never met anyone in real life who knows more about Chester Arthur than I do, which is always a plus.

I could see that being an agreement with Marx but it's more likely that his reading of the book doesn't distinguish between Marx describing things as they appear versus how they are. That seems to be the source of most disagreement on its veracity.

No Beefheart material here, but I do have Zappa's autobiography.

Looking at your older post, we also share Orwell essays, writings on Gandhi, and an appreciation for science based books. I have some Newton, Einstein, Hawking, Feynman, Sagan, Hofstadter, Darwin, Shannon, Gleick, and others. I see a lot of soldier stuff in your collection, so you'd probably get a kick out of my WWII books too.

What's your favorite WWII book that you've read, Frown?

The Origins of Totalitarianism by CIA Agent Arendt led me to the Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression files, which includes Bettelheim's Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations. That's the most interesting writing on the subject I've encountered.

As far as full books go, Anatomy of Fascism stands out as the best-written and among the most intriguing. Ordinary Men is great too. I eventually want to tackle The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich but I've got a few doorstops I need to chew through first.

Wait a minute, Hannah Arendt was a CIA agent (or am I missing a joke here)? Never read Anatomy of Fascism, will have to put that on my list. You ever read Stalingrad by Antony Beevor?

Here I was thinking your favorite would be something by David Irving.

She received funding from the CIA to promote anti-communist sentiments in the intellectual community, yes. Haven't read Stalingrad but know about it from Peep Show lol.

I prefer your Parentis when it comes to historical revisionism.

Oh fun
Why would you want to learn Dutch though?

Apart from Denken is Verukkelijk, which is a biography of Paul Ehrenfest and Tatyana Afanasyeva, my science books are all in Holland. I have some by Hardy, Weyl and Feynman apart from study books

I'm sure you would enjoy Mike Barnes' book about Beefheart. I think it was with JackPat that I had a conversation here about the book. Remember him? Changed his name a confusing number of times.

Congrats on your eyesight, to be able to identify any titles at all from my photo! Yes, I like some science, but nothing very complicated. My copy of The Selfish Gene lies unfinished, for example, but I've done better with astronomy; starting with Asimov's excellent The Universe I've found it a fascinating, constantly evolving topic.

In my era, English schoolboys grew up with stories of WWII heroism, so it stays a topic of interest for many. Of course, as an adult you start to see how ghastly war is. WWI perhaps more so with the grinding misery of the trenches.

Yeah, it was the late Paul Panhuysen (and his wife Hélène)
who used to have Het Apollohuis who recommended
Marten Toonder books as a guide to learning Dutch,
but it was easier for me to use Donald Duck (for German too!),
because I could better relate to him than Tom Poes. :laughing:

Yeah I never really got the Marten Toonder hype, to be honest, but comics must be a really nice way to learn a language. Or simple illustrated children's books, I used to read some Le Petit Nicholas in French

Well, I wanted to relate to the kitty, but,
I might have if I had some backstory. :D
You know, Donald has issues and I know his story
(except for why he runs around with no pants).
... and along with my love of wordplay,
I did attempt to read it while eating a tompoes,
so that was fun!

excellent!
When I came out of the closet someone gave me this tompoezen shirt, which is the Dutchest way ever to symbolise lesbianism:
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Is that because it's difficult to eat?

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because it seems difficult to eat unless you make proper use of your tongue, which is usually best left to women

You kinda are...but I don't hold it against you. If it's crypto as a technology, kewl, but if you're looking at it from an investor angle, you might as well just read some Soros or something for broader tips you can apply to crypto.

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**** yeah Drangonlance! Quite possibly the best corny D&D campaign ever set to paper.

Ey I just put together a new bookshelf so at least some of my stacks of books have homes!


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This shelf, which houses all the books I could take with me abroad where I'm currently living, has two groups of books: those that I need for professional purposes and those that are about a fun bunch of guys who I happen to like, that just tell stories of those guys having fun and being dudes. See if anyone can tell which is which.

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The obvious choice would be first one work, second amusement. Nice bookshelf. You're French?

You wouldn't read all that Foucault for amusement?

You need a new phone dude. Can't see shit.

Yeah took these two bad boys with me for whenever I'm in the mood.

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I also have the official Banshees biography but my partner, who's gone to the States to see her parents after almost 2 years, took it to read on the flight.

Only been to France twice but I've spent a significant proportion of my life in the French-speaking part of Canada. Still call it home and hope to return for good in a year or two.

Marie, I noticed some of your books are in German (or maybe Dutch or Swedish)? I have that reference grammar of Shakespearean language at home, waiting for when I have the time and inclination for a deep dive into The Bard...

It's a $40 phone, don't @ me, bitch.

French-Canadian, that's cool! Those books on my shelf are in Dutch :) I'm from Holland but currently live in England. The Shakespearian grammar is fun, and some editions like the Arden Shakespeare specifically refer to it, so that's nice

Not all of it... Actually the two Foucault books that I find the most fun I left at home cause I knew I wouldn't need them, both from 1963: his study of Raymond Roussel and Birth of the Clinique. He was still very close to avant-garde literature back then, very influenced by Bataille, Blanchot and Klossowski, and his writing had an edge which his later work often lacks, in my own humble opinion.

Jeez, what's with all the Robert Jordan?

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I mean if you read one Robert Jordan book you gotta read em all or what's the point?

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Still get the $40 Motorola TracFone myself and then I break it after a few months and buy another. I use the old phones as battery chargers and swap out the batteries. The older I get the less I can try to spin this as just being eccentric and not just being terminally cheap.

I know I'm cheap but there's wireless internet at my home and my work and I don't really spend much time elsewhere so a non-Tracfone would just be a pointless extra expense. I am glad I upgraded to a real smart phone though. I don't know how I lived all this time without podcasts.

50$ gets you unlimited everything... There's no incentive for me to even buy internet I just use my data

Wouldn't mind having a better camera etc though... Maybe I'll get a nicer Android eventually but I can't be bothered with an Iphone or anything that I can't use pre paid service on. At&t can eat a dick.

Plus I'm not very good at not breaking phones... Last one I broke I left on the roof of my car and heard it skipping down the road on my way to work. Pulled over and got it and the ****in thing still works lol but the screen is all busted so I replaced it anything. Still pretty resilient for a $40 phone with no case though.

$20 a month plus the occasional extra $10 for extra data does me fine. And this phone has lasted me a year already. Last phone lasted over a decade.

Well goddamn looks like I've been out-jew'd. What do you get for 20$?

Unlimited talk and text and 1gb of data. But unless you have internet at home you'd burn through that data super quick.

:\ how much data in the 10$ data boost?

1gb. Yeah it's good for losers who live with their mother, not so much you.

That's a ****in rip off man. 10 bucks should get you like 10-12 gigs.

I mean at most I spend $30 a month. Whenever I get my own place I'll have to get a real man's plan but that isn't today.

The $20 for text and talk is a decent deal but 10 bucks to watch like 4 YouTube videos feels like a rip off