Getting an EReader has increased the rate at which I read drastically. Reading becomes less of a task and more of a convenient way to spend time.
Reading Marx and Engels is also a great primer for anyone getting into Leftist theory.
Have you read any Domenico Losurdo? I want to, but am afraid it will be a dense read.
Not yet, getting an EReader has really accelerated my reading, but I really want to hammer in the basics before moving on to the likes of Parenti and Losurdo. Plus, I have queer theory like Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue as well as Fanon’s works on colonialism I want to visit before then.
Man seconding this. My reading goal was 20 books and I have smashed it before half of the year was over. Few years ago I couldn’t even read got in a year
Yep, same! Not quite at that pace but it totally reversed my years-long spell of not being able to finish a single book in a year
I read the very hungry caterpillar this morning
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https://dessalines.github.io/essays/audiobooks.html?
Any other sources?
I’ve uploaded a few read by tts at https://pca.st/podcast/3af50c70-30cd-013c-f68a-0acc26574db2
Not too proud of it, but might still be useful.
There’s also audioteca critica, with actual people reading the books, https://pca.st/podcast/5a409f90-829a-013a-d7e9-0acc26574db2, in Brazilian Portuguese.
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The noun doesn’t matter after an adjective like ‘multiple.’ Nothing good ever follows ‘multiple.’
-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Including fornication capable products derived from wood cellulose.
I do recommend audiobooks! If you haven’t tried one yet, please do so.
Does multiple research papers count? All of them related to the Relational Model, the foundation for relational database management systems. I’m also currently digging through the Postgres manual (only 3000 pages short).
If you want to read more, don’t listen to others with recommendations. Find something that you like and find books about it. Don’t like it, find another and sell or giveaway your first one. Everyone can read, but not everyone is made to read heavy tomes and they also don’t need too!
I’ve just remembered that like 10 years ago my go-to answer for people bothering me at work with my headphones on just to ask me what Im listening to (wtf??), was just that - “To the Communist Manifesto ofc!”
Sometimes I would spice it up with like a Communist Manifesto - Mein Campf remix or last Sundays black mass I missed, praised be Lucy, the bringer of light.
I’ve def trained people not to ask me stupid or personal questions unless they actually mean it.
I don’t understand nor know how to do small talk, ok?So, besides the Kama Sutra, what else would you recommend?
In spirit of the post, Wage Labor and Capital, Value, Price and Profit, and Critique of the Gotha Programme are the easiest to digest works by Marx, and the most applicable to general leftism. All are short reads too, each can be completed in around an hour.
Engels has some great works too, and his works are generally grouped in with Marx’s because they worked together closely, but I kept it to strictly Marx.
I think the Silo books were pretty good
those are my favourite kinds of books!
are the books fucking or are they about fucking? are pictures included?
Multiple fucking books? Like “Lady Chatterley” or “Joy of Sex”?
Would recommend Aeon Legion by J.P. Beaubien
Audiobooks take away the imaginative ideas of the readers experience of the tales. I like to imagine for myself the feelings of the characters in their given situations.
Audiobooks are also passive listening which is not cognitively absorbed as thoroughly as active reading. IMO you have not “read” a book if you just listened to someone read it to you. Reading with your own eyes engages more thinking processes, forcing the reader to think more about what they’ve read.
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Sorry Carl, I ain’t reading shit. I might listen to an audiobook, but I’m not promising anything
