Lapeno77
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Finished it a couple of months back and yeah, not great for the nerves.
All gone in a little over 2 hours essentially.
Definitely doesn't help to watch the news coverage of the current global clown show.
The GOT Book Club
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All gone in a little over 2 hours essentially.
Definitely doesn't help to watch the news coverage of the current global clown show.
Tim's tourettes
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Moneyland. Oliver Bullough. Brilliant but so frustrating to see how the mega rich cheat the system
rigg
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen 2017
Jacobsen writes this potted History as if the subject matter could be real but never committing herself truly. There is no real truth in this book as you are dealing with a massive psyop throughout the cold war that was used as a cover for spies, bugs and satellite spying. and this is just a narrative of that fake narrative. Disappointing.
Have you read Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything? One fo my fave books. Sounds quite similar.
A Little History of the Earth by Jamie Woodward 2025
Great little overview of the creation of the earth to modernity. Full of archeology, dinosaurs, science and the rest. It provides lots of different jumping off points if you want to go and look deeper into subjects it covers (I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube about the Messinian salinity crisis for example). Might be a good recommendation for kids and teens into science and stuff.
Started Ender's Game, interesting so far, feels like a quick/easy read. Is the quartet (as the first four are apparently called) worth it to finish? I don't want to commit to another 20 book series personally - already have Warhammer for that 
rigg
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Not yet, maybe someday.
If you enjoyed that you defo should. Would be interesting to see how they compare. Found out (and forgot) so many cool things reading Bryson's book, and I love his writting style - makes it more like a story than a dry factual book.
I thought it was worth itStarted Ender's Game, interesting so far, feels like a quick/easy read. Is the quartet (as the first four are apparently called) worth it to finish? I don't want to commit to another 20 book series personally - already have Warhammer for that
Consider Phlebas the first Iain M Banks Culture novel is 39!! years old. Remember reading it as a student.
Didn’t actually read all the Culture novels so just going to start going through them in chronological order.
Be interesting to see what the old(er) me makes of them.
Loved them back in the days. Epic,epic books.
Didn’t actually read all the Culture novels so just going to start going through them in chronological order.
Be interesting to see what the old(er) me makes of them.
Loved them back in the days. Epic,epic books.
A request rather than recommendation:
Can anyone suggest a book, podcast or series that would detail the history of Israel and the USA?
I struggle with explaining that a country of 8 million people wield so much influence over the world.
Can anyone suggest a book, podcast or series that would detail the history of Israel and the USA?
I struggle with explaining that a country of 8 million people wield so much influence over the world.
Efcjake
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It takes a dive in quality for the sequels and they go down different paths.Started Ender's Game, interesting so far, feels like a quick/easy read. Is the quartet (as the first four are apparently called) worth it to finish? I don't want to commit to another 20 book series personally - already have Warhammer for that
The first book and the first bean sequel are all I read and I'd say that gives you enough to know that there's some interesting ideas in the sequels but the stories aren't as interesting.
rigg
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Couple of books. They maybe dated now.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Alantic by Ilan Pappe
The Sixth Crisis by Dana Allin and Steve Simon
The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein
Al Jazeera did a documentary series called The Lobby and The Loby US, it used to be on YouTube.
Appreciate this, sincerely. I don't want to go down antisemitic rabbit holes, but I do want to make of this - frankly mental - state of affairs
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They are all mainstream books, not tin hat merchants.
Yeah see this is also what I've heard - wife has read them and liked them for what they are, but even she was more on the "well, the first book is great and the others are... good, BUT...". I'll finish Ender's game when I can and will decide then*.
* Sadly not a lot of time left for reading recently.