Really good skin-crawling shit. Read this and some of her other short stories on a flight. Need to explore some more of her work.
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rooneymcnibnug finished reading The yellow wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
rooneymcnibnug reviewed The crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Perennial fiction library)
The Crying of Lot 49
4 stars
Love the early pangs of some of his larger themes and main topics. Loved the ending here.
rooneymcnibnug reviewed The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the …
THE MANIAC
4 stars
Really good stuff, just wish the AI pieces towards they end didn't meander as much.
rooneymcnibnug reviewed Existential Monday by Benjamin Fondane (New York Review Books classics)
"Benjamin Fondane--who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived …
Existential Monday
3 stars
It was interesting. Wasn't feeling most of it, but when it did resonate it was pretty glowing.
rooneymcnibnug reviewed Means and Ends by Zoe Baker
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe …
Means and Ends
4 stars
Well structured with good research (lots of sources). Made me understand things like syndicalism more clearly. Also made me want to read more Malatesta.
rooneymcnibnug rated Means of Control: 4 stars
Means of Control by Byron Tau
For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalistByron Tau has been piecing together a secret …
rooneymcnibnug rated README.txt: 4 stars
rooneymcnibnug finished reading README.txt by Chelsea Manning
Earnest and clear. A mesh of internal struggles in places. Some of the videos and documents Chelsea leaked were pivotal to changing key aspects of my world view at an earlier age, so it was very interesting to see her detailed experience with it all.
rooneymcnibnug started reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets …
It's re-read time...... pairing with www.gravitysrainbowguide.com/ , open.spotify.com/show/0K132R4Katg2oyEOSG3vRl?si=8ed19bae5fd24c25 , & gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php
rooneymcnibnug finished reading The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Was nice to read more of his stuff, especially enjoyed Zarathustra.
rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Chugging through Part 3 of Zarathustra
rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
First part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra was pretty good. I especially liked the end - it really served as proof to what Kaufman mentions in the intro of this collection about Nietzsche being a “bridge between positivism and existentialism”, which I think is much needed these days.
rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Great forward by Walter Kaufman, of course. On the segments so far.. well, the man sure could aphorism.
Looking forward to finally reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra in full here soon.
