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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).
I would be interested in join such a community. I have a dream of having DND campaigns in a home built world.
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.
Why would you say you’ve found Inventing Reality had to stay engaged with?
Probably because some of Michael Parenti's works pale in comparison to his speeches and talks.
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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.
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.
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.
I read the first two books of the Witcher and had a lot of trouble getting into them. I’ve loved other fantasy books but never enjoyed the Witcher when I read it
What about A Song of Ice and Fire?
I’ve read the whole series (besides Fire and Blood) and really enjoyed it
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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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Reading Ordinary Monsters right now, it's a fun dark fantasy novel. I generally enjoy both fiction and non-fiction for different reasons. I like to pick a fiction and non-fiction book to read. Next non-fiction book I'm planning to read is I Am a Strange Loop.
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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.’
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I’m starting The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and will probably finish it quite quickly.
I overall prefer non-fiction as I like to learn things while reading.
I really have been wanting to read Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of The Scarlet Letter, classic Statesian novelist)
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Sutree by Cormac McCarthy and Ulysses by James Joyce at the moment. Just finished some Marxist theory with Engles.
Reading rules
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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.
Leviticus is the part where Christians fail their challenge to read the Bible through
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
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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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Heh, I'm still going at de Beauvoir's magnum opus, the second volume to be exact. However, I did read in the meantime al-Kawakibi's works and I am in the midst of writing an essay analyzing the employed language in relation to the inflitration of Western modernity into the Ottoman Empire.
I hope I can finish de Beauvoir by the end of the month (very unlikely) so I can get my hands on Capitalism as Civilization: A History of International Law by Ntina Tzouvala.
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Just began A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. It is about the end of the Trojan war and possibly the aftermath (? Not sure yet) from the point of view of the women of Troy and Greece. Currently at Chapter 10/43, enjoying it so far. Interesting getting the female perspective of the ancient (mythological?) war.
This is the first non-fantasy/sci-if book I’ve read in a while. Will be getting back to that after this probably, I never seem to deviate too far from those genres.
Oh, I heard of that one. I do like historical fantasy so I may check it out. I'm also writing historical fantasy.
I'm trying to start the Spanish translation of Conn Iggulden's series on Rome at the moment. I read the English version a long time ago and enjoyed it. I've been struggling to get into anything recently, fiction or nonfiction. So I'm hoping that a book I know that I'll like will get me going again.
Still, I've been slowly working through Roland Boer's excellent, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners. But I can only manage a section of a chapter at a time. I'm just busy really, and my attention span is currently in pieces.
The book I'm eager to read is Dig Where you Stand. Translated into English not too long ago. I think it's about workers' inquiry.
Read A Song of Ice and Fire.
I can get you started.
That's a good book! You might be right about giving it another look. It's been a long time since I read it and I never watched the series, so I can't remember the detail, which means all the plot twists will be fresh enough.
It's a series of novels, but yes, they're all good books, especially Book 5 (which is my favorite).
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