Definitely useful as I try to keep my head straight watching everything get worse.
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rickwysocki finished reading A lamp in the darkness by Jack Kornfield
rickwysocki reviewed A lamp in the darkness by Jack Kornfield
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rickwysocki reviewed Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
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rickwysocki rated Headshot: 3 stars
rickwysocki finished reading Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
rickwysocki rated The Trial and Death of Socrates (Four Dialogues): 4 stars
rickwysocki rated Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism: 4 stars

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, by Chögyam Trungpa is a book addressing many common pitfalls of self-deception in seeking spirituality, which …
rickwysocki rated The changeling: 4 stars

The changeling by Victor D. LaValle
"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared …
rickwysocki reviewed James: A Novel by Percival Everett
Harrowing
4 stars
Amazing and harrowing. I haven't read Huckleberry Finn since I was a kid, and I honestly appreciated not having re-read it before jumping into Everett's reclamation. There is so much to talk about here on its own. From the commentary on marginalized language practices, the abominable history of slavery, to the subtle indication that the character James wrote the the actual book held by the reader. I strongly recommend this one.
rickwysocki finished reading Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
rickwysocki reviewed Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Review of 'Breakfast of champions' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
The last 20-30 pages were an incredible (short) book and admittedly brought the slog through the preceding~270 into focus. I'm amenable toward both the project of "total life through art" and the critique of narrative reality.
But, man, this book was tedious. And while it's clear that Vonnegut was depicting racism, sexism, and homophobia in order to condemn them, he just wasn't landing the tricks.
Not my favorite Vonnegut.