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.
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32% complete! Lucie Rage-Reading has read 16 of 50 books.
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Lucie Rage-Reading started reading CLIMATE LEVIATHAN by Geoff Mann
CLIMATE LEVIATHAN by Joel Wainwright, Geoff Mann
How climate change will affect our political theory--for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states …
Lucie Rage-Reading started reading Rage becomes her by Soraya L. Chemaly
Rage becomes her by Soraya L. Chemaly
"A new, conversation-shifting book that encourages women to own their anger and use it as a tool for positive change, …
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
Lucie Rage-Reading started reading A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
A groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget …
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former …
Lucie Rage-Reading started reading The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
The Way of Zen is a 1957 non-fiction book on Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy by philosopher and religious scholar …
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. Recent years have seen an explosion of …
Lucie Rage-Reading started reading A Feast Unknown by Philip José Farmer (Secrets of the Nine, #1)
A Feast Unknown by Philip José Farmer (Secrets of the Nine, #1)
Philip José Farmer took the art of literary mashups to an epic new level with his novels of the Wold …
Lucie Rage-Reading started reading I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former …
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading Godkiller by Hannah Kaner (Fallen Gods, #1)
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner (Fallen Gods, #1)
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless …
Lucie Rage-Reading finished reading Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
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.