This one?
I like their slogan:
Because life’s too short for a book you’re not in the mood for.
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This. This man. One of the good ones.
So, was “The 2,000 Year Old Man” a prediction?
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I now have several of these in my wish list but reading Mickey 7 right now. Well, listening to it. Not sure I care for the narrator
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Part 3… it includes a deep dive into Hegseth and his twisted ideologies around gender and religion…
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Kept me up till 2:00 am last night.
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Yeah, i do always try to link to Storygraph instead.
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For my b-day rain-check celebration, my brother bought me 3 books: “As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy”, by Edie’s oldest sibling, Alice Sedgwick Wohl; “Demon Seed”, a rewrite of the original published in 1973 by Dean Koontz, who hated the original book and wrote an afterword explaining why he rewrote it; and, “The Haunting of Hill House”, by Shirley Jackson.
I finished off E&A, working on DS. The latter is even more terrifying than it would be due to the evolution of AI since 1973, not to mention hardware and software. SPOILER: The heroine doesn’t have sockets in the back of her neck so she can physically plug into the system, as she did in the original novel - and that really scared me!
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Forgot to add that "The Ice Storm: by Rick Moody was also part of my present. I wasn’t even aware the book existed! Ang Lee did a great job of adapting it to the screen.
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It’s getting a boost, because fuck Jeff Bezos.
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Archive link for people who have “used your last free article this month” (I don’t even remember when I was last on Wired, but that might be the effect the last couple of weeks had on me):
https://archive.ph/vAqGh
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I wonder if women have posted in this thread more often than men…
The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/men-fiction-novels.html
To be clear, I welcome the end of male dominance in literature. Men ruled the roost for far too long, too often at the expense of great women writers who ought to have been read instead. I also don’t think that men deserve to be better represented in literary fiction; they don’t suffer from the same kind of prejudice that women have long endured. Furthermore, young men should be reading Sally Rooney and Elena Ferrante. Male readers don’t need to be paired with male writers.
But if you care about the health of our society — especially in the age of Donald Trump and the distorted conceptions of masculinity he helps to foster — the decline and fall of literary men should worry you.
In recent decades, young men have regressed educationally, emotionally and culturally. Among women matriculating at four-year public colleges, about half will graduate four years later; for men the rate is under 40 percent. This disparity surely translates to a drop-off in the number of novels young men read, as they descend deeper into video games and pornography. Young men who still exhibit curiosity about the world too often seek intellectual stimulation through figures of the “manosphere” such as Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan.
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I just finished up Monster by Claire Dederer:
https://www.clairedederer.com/monsters
And I’m now reading R. Derek Black’s memoir growing up the scion of the white nationalist movement, The Klansman’s Son:
It’s remarkable how they’re able to both hold compassion for their father and for Duke, while illustrating the danger of the ideology. I can’t imagine it was an easy book to write, and I appreciate them deciding to do so in order to maybe help others get out of the movement and to show how dangerous it is to our democracy… It seems more critical than ever to have this book available…
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