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Not books, but mostly been reading other people's worldbuilding posts lately. Been really on a kick developing my fictional worlds and have been really interested in what others have created as well!
My web novel is historical fantasy so there's that.
But you still need to develop the "world."
Where do you suggest I look for world-building ideas online?
I'm on the worldbuilding subreddit, it's actually the only thing keeping me on Reddit still but it's definitely in a slow decline along with Reddit in general. Been transferring my lore posts to Lemmy in the past few days though as I do want to leave Reddit at some point, and even started a worldbuilding community on Lemmygrad! Hopefully I can help grow the writing and worldbuilding scene on Lemmy!
Same here. I want to world-build here but don't want anyone stealing my ideas (I know, I know, it's a baseless fear, but still).
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Im like 80% in Confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins. Book is good and is easy to consume, tho his views are way too idealistic. His testimony is great but i can't stop thinking that he is one of those guys that believes that this is not real capitalism but corporatism, as if it was a completely divorced economic system.
Well To Be Fair he was in the system. He only got 'out' as it were because of a girlfriend he met in central America who had a conscience. One of those things you know. You are so in the system that even though you're shown the reality of how awful it is, you still want to believe it was somewhat ok because of whatever. Like libs that get a taste of radical thought, they're so preprogrammed....
But still. Straight line from the tactics of economic hit men to Jeffery Epstein. Shit never ended and is still happening today
Yeah, this book was written during the early 2010s, I think, and has the time-period stamped on it, essentially.
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 feel that Killing Hope is standard, but then again, I grew up knowing about this shit.
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.
Also thanks for reminding me and about Rogue State. I need to add it to my library.
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.
Started reading Fanon's 'Wretched of the Earth'. So far just reading the preface by Jean Paul Sartre which is already very good, I imagine this was ground breaking and very exciting when it was released, during the time of great optimism in the "third world", the Bandung conference etc. For fiction I'm reading The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I really struggle with fiction generally. I usually find it very hard to pursue fiction for some reason.
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Currently reading The Last Wish, which is a bunch of short stories following Geralt from the Witcher. Really enjoying it so far and if anyone here is a fan of the games or watched the show you'll like it. The short stories will also be recognizable if you watched the show as well.
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Just finished Chapterhouse Dune. I'll try to find Brian's sequels at a library if I can, or maybe Foundation.
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Thinking about re-reading The Hunt for Red October, I know it's trash, but it's entertaining trash
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I finished ‘Custer died for your sins’ yesterday, which was good, though a bit dated. I’m just about finished with ‘I am Malala’ which is better than I thought. I’m almost halfway in ‘settlers’ which is good. I’m halfway in ‘The Fall’ by Albert Camus, which is ok, and the first fiction I’ve read in a bit. I’m also reading ‘The Dialectical Biologist,’ though I’ve taken a break, and I don’t think I’ll finish ‘Karl Marx’s eco socialism’ right now. I probably prefer fiction though I mostly read non-fiction because it seems more important. I’m eager to read ‘Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals,’ ‘socialism or extinction,’ ‘half earth socialism,’ and ‘parable of the sower.’
Settlers by J. Sakai is the one with the bad citations and is dated nowadays.
I would suggest Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly for the other side of the story when it comes to the labor movement in the United States.
I know Settlers is dated now, I just wanted to see what all the hype was about. It’s got some good information but I definitely want to look into the more reasonable and well sourced works of Gerald Horne among others.
I'm reading the Bible right now, not because I'm religious but because I was curious. I'm at Leviticus right now. Genesis and Exodus were entertaining but currently I'm only reading about laws which is a bit boring, to be honest.
I got half-way through the Old Testament and plan to pick up where I left off soon enough.
I read The Qur'an in the meantime.
How was the Qur’an? I have a translation I should probably read but haven’t got past the translator’s preface
Depends very much on the translation and exegesis. I read the International Sahid version or whatever it was called. I didn't read the hadiths, though.
Leviticus is the part where Christians fail their challenge to read the Bible through
Sutree by Cormac McCarthy and Ulysses by James Joyce at the moment. Just finished some Marxist theory with Engles.
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