wow books, amirite? trying to replace lethargic social media usage with slothful reading
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For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the …
A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in …
Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and …
@suzyxwvu huh! yeah that's definitely the takeaway i had from it, an investigation into blindness in its varying facets
Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in …
Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and …
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his …
well this was unexpectedly bleak!
In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various …
"A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the …
Thomas Rid's revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology, from the invention of radar …
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This is an excellent takedown of Facebook, going hard on how the company created its own disinformation nightmare by treating extremist hate speech as “important political content.” Outstandingly written and devastating, it also sheds light on the epically gross working relationship between Zuck and Sheryl. If you can tolerate 300+ pages about some of the worst people in the world but want more ammunition against the selective applications of “intellectual freedom,” pick it up.
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is …
The Summer Book (in the original Swedish Sommarboken) is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1972.
