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Two chapters in I’m finding this book to be fairly dry and academic — which makes sense given that it started as a PhD thesis — but nevertheless engaging. Still, I think there’s space in the world for a book like this one that’s a bit more... fun? Idk. Anarchist history is hard because we have always faced violent oppression from all corners, but it’s also the story of some of the coolest and most interesting people in history.

Saw this recommended by a Fedi mutual in this excellent thread: wandering.shop/@AlinaLeonova/112049621532058513

I pre-ordered this book because I was supposed to read this with a book club. We were planning a public event with Baker and everything. But then the book club fell apart due to interpersonal stuff (mostly between people other than me), and I think I’m still pretty upset over that. So I’ve been putting this off, and even now I’m not sure if I can stick with it.

Ok this is just pandering now. 😆

This book reads like it was written by a late Gen Xer at the turn of the millennium, and by that of course I mean that it has aged terribly. I could not recommend it. But also, I was a white boy in Southern Illinois in the late 90s myself, so I understand where it comes from and cut it more slack that I should. I stuck with it because some friends insist that the rest of the series gets better.

I requested that my public library buy this book, and I just learned that they have ordered it; I’m now first in line to check it out.

My digital note-taking has been slowly improving over the past few years, but I’m still not to the point where I feel like my prosthetic brain is as good as it was when I wrote everything down in a physical notebook (I could go back to that, but I’m too stubborn). I’m hoping that this book helps me surpass that level.

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This would be the first in the series. Oops.

So far this is fun, but I think it’s the second book in a series and I didn’t realize that when I started.