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32% complete! Lucie Rage-Reading has read 16 of 50 books.
How climate change will affect our political theory--for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states …
"A new, conversation-shifting book that encourages women to own their anger and use it as a tool for positive change, …
The Way of Zen is a 1957 non-fiction book on Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy …
I've read about 15% of this book and tbh I am just not enjoying it at all, nor do I feel like I'm learning much from it, so I'm gonna commit my reading time to something else.
A groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget …
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former …
The Way of Zen is a 1957 non-fiction book on Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy by philosopher and religious scholar …
"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. Recent years have seen an explosion of …
Philip José Farmer took the art of literary mashups to an epic new level with his novels of the Wold …
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former …
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless …
The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists …
Damn these fellas sure loved decapitating one another, according to this account.
It's an interesting book but so many of the anecdotal tales are just about dudes killing each other for seemingly no reason, or being ordered to kill themselves for arbitrary reasons.
The first part of the book about honour and respect and politeness is probably most interesting, as it is almost wilfully contradictory in various areas so it's like a range of thought exercises trying to understand how one could hold the various conflicting ideas in a stable tension. Alternately you could interpret this as the way of the samurai, the way of death, being inherently absurd, which I suppose would explain all the spontaneous murders.
The author basically doesn't think of women as people and is only interested in what it is that makes men worthwhile, despite his never actually seeing battle and directly participating in the …
Damn these fellas sure loved decapitating one another, according to this account.
It's an interesting book but so many of the anecdotal tales are just about dudes killing each other for seemingly no reason, or being ordered to kill themselves for arbitrary reasons.
The first part of the book about honour and respect and politeness is probably most interesting, as it is almost wilfully contradictory in various areas so it's like a range of thought exercises trying to understand how one could hold the various conflicting ideas in a stable tension. Alternately you could interpret this as the way of the samurai, the way of death, being inherently absurd, which I suppose would explain all the spontaneous murders.
The author basically doesn't think of women as people and is only interested in what it is that makes men worthwhile, despite his never actually seeing battle and directly participating in the culture, spending his life cataloguing it instead to try and find insights.
It's only short and it was very interesting to read anyway, definitely worthwhile.
