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Last Days of John Lennon

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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Take that back right now.

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If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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What? Love John! He had the best voice

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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Secret Stories to Tell in the Dark: The Haunted Book of Sarah Bellows

It's from the 2019 movie. It was made after Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Not sure if you heard of it, it was sorta popular.

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The Time Traveler's Wife.

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Hey, that sounds like a good one and for you!

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All The President's Men

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'The Mirror and the Light' by Hilary Mantel.

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I'm always doing two books at the same time, usually one fiction the other non fiction.

Fiction: Rendezvous with Rama

Non-fiction (second read of this book as its the best thing I've read in the last two decades): The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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A book about herbal remedies.

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a biography of Gisèle Freund (by Hans Joachim Neyer), a Franco-German photographer/photojournalist who photographed famous people at the time, such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Simone de Beauvoir, Evita Perón, George Bernard Shaw, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Romain Rolland, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, Colette, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, François Mitterrand etc and who published photo stories in Time Magazine and Life Magazine.

here's the book: https://www.amazon.com/Gise%CC%80le-Freund-German-Joachim-Neyer/dp/3870241438

wiki page of Gisèle Freund: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Freund

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he asked what we was reading, not for you to actually start reading the book to us, you catfish fuck stick

and to answer the OP, 50 shades of grey.

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I'm reading "Jews don't count" by David Baddiel.

My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.

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How ridiculous. Of course they do. In fact, some of the most gifted accountants are Jewish.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

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It's been an interesting read so far. Baddiel's position isn't one of attacking racists or anti-Semitism in the right but rather that the so-called progressive left have failed to recognise Jews as a group deserving of inclusivity or protection. They are considered to be white, privileged, rich and/or being able to pass as white. He talks of the stereotyping of Jews in literature as being greedy and miserly (think Fagin) and how it is somehow acceptable for that to have escaped being cancelled by the left because Jews don't count when it comes to racism.

Not that you asked lol

My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.

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I'm clinging to the hope that the masses of decent straight males and females who are considered enemies of "progress" (what an unbelievably ironic view the left-wing has of its corrosive ambition) will soon unite with the Jews and begin the long overdue backlash.

We need a new set of Ten Commandments that we can unite around.

1. Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law
2. Equal opportunities for all is equity
3. Equal outcomes for all is tyranny and counter-productive - the only way for everyone to have the same is for everyone to have nothing
4. Cultures are often incompatible
5. Progress can only be achieved when all of society is pulling in the same direction
6. To get society pulling in the same direction everyone must feel they belong and that society's success will be good for them
7. Freedom of expression is the right to offend
8. Democracy only works if the electorate are educated, not indoctrinated
9. Therefore, all institutions, but especially the media, the judiciary, and the education system, must be non-partisan and objective
10. Communism must be recognized as being as immoral as Nazism

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

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4. Cultures are often incompatible
I recently watched a documentary called "Things we won't say about race that are true" presented by Trevor Phillips, he re-examines his own opinions on race, racism, racial stereotypes and the inevitability of the rise of the right in the UK.

One of the things that he soon realised was that integration is a noble intent but that it often fails because it isn't wanted.


6. To get society pulling in the same direction everyone must feel they belong and that society's success will be good for them
7. Freedom of expression is the right to offend

One of the other things that he realised is that in recent years the whole cancellation culture thing has left a large group of people feeling as if they had no voice, that in turn left a void which was swiftly filled by UKIP and Farage.

I had a friend, an ex-friend, who would never allow her husband to join in if we were having discussions she'd literally tell him to shut up and send him out of the room, we always protested. She would tell us that he talked too much and would only talk rubbish, She never could understand that she not only humiliated him she also deprived us of hearing his voice, eventually he stopped trying and we all grew apart.

My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.

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I've just googled Trevor Phillips - black man, heads up the UK race relations board? I'll check him out.

I'm always keen to explore views from "minorities" - blacks, Asians, gays, women, etc - who are standing up to the left, because I think they tend to have the more balanced voices and are able to say things that straight white men can't.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

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Yes, he's been in politics for a long time and I thoroughly enjoyed watching his documentary.



This is what he had to say recently about that Oprah interview.

"A genuinely interesting question about race would have been to ask the couple whether they had discussed Harry's own past behaviour and remarks.

"It would've been a big positive for them to talk candidly about how they got past that history, and possibly an injunction for people to be generous.

"That's assuming that Meghan actually knows about his past life — she seems remarkably ill-informed about the family she married into, even though it is the most famous and widely reported clan in history."


My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.

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Thanks, I've added that to my watch list.

Yes, funny how Meghan is fine with her husband's racist past.

We all know these kinds of complaints are either virtue signalling or a power play. Rarely are they fueled by genuine offense.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

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I haven't watched the interview, however I wasn't aware of any racism directed towards her in the press, in fact it anything the fact that her white family members were attempting a character assassination seems to have garnered her sympathy. The tide turned when she decided that Royal duties were not for her, it wasn't racism it was disbelief that she didn't understand why life as a princess wasn't like a Disney movie. She's rewriting history to gain attention.

My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_UK_Labour_Party

Hep: "I'll post a topless picture if you do the same ;)"

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It goes back to what you often say yes

The first ten minutes of reading presents several incidents that made me do a double take. When I'm on my other tablet I'll try to copy and paste a few examples.

My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.

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Labour are better off with Starmer. He’s not from money, but got a 1st in law and became a QC. So he has solid credentials for the party and could potentially swing some of the right too with that background.

He’s got zero charisma though, so he’s going to struggle against Boris.

Have you been following Sturgeon v Salmond? She was trying to play him off as best pals with David Davis and basically a Tory the other day. Aye, good one, Nicola. He made you.



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Trance Formation of America

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two books i’m reading at the moment are Dune and the first book in the Altered Carbon series

two graphic novels i’m reading atm are The Boys omnibus edition and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen omnibus edition

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What are you reading?

At the moment?
This thread.

Book?
My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent

You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

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None of your goddamn business.

Why we all got to prove ourselves to your cracker ass? You ain’t the boss of me. You’re a no good whitey fuck boi.

GTFO

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Are you planning on reading the sequels?



I might have an older edition of it



or this




I'm not really reading anything at the moment but leafing thru this after I watched some podcast on Marjorie Cameron a couple weeks ago that has me intrigued on what other books are written about her.
I have some but just obtained this one recently -





I'll try to sit thru this vid later, since it's pretty long, but wanted some more details about the book. She hasn't read the sequels yet but mentions them later in the video



Are you okay?

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Books like those aren't available in certain regions of the U.S.
I don't get exposed to them. Reading while black is considered a crime. There are times when I am reading anything silently out in a public place like a hospital waiting room, train or bus, someone around me looks up sharply as though they can hear me reading silently. Their facial expression turns aggressive and they look around to see where the voice is coming from. Sometimes they rise from their seat searching for who own that voice. I stop reading at once.
Scary.

What does it mean when they act that way?

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Other countries have censored which books are available to me. So I get stupid easy choices meant for the Latino population.

When I found out from my grandmother that her father was a black man from the Dominican Republic and that Spanish was his native language soon marketers put me in that category. The Latino community is very much a social construct.

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Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil. John Berendt

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That was so good. I worked in a book store when that came out and we couldn't stock enough copies.

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Felicity Jones's Fart Cheeks.

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I'm going to read "The Power of the Dog" by Don Winslow next.

It's not on Audible, so I'll be getting a physical copy at some time.

Just because I'm not on THEIR side, doesn't mean I'm on YOURS.

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'Island on Fire' by Tom Zoellner. It's about a slave revolt around Montego Bay in the early 1830s that basically convinced the British that it wasn't worth it maintaining slavery anymore; it was like the last straw. Emancipation came shortly after.

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I stopped reading Half Moon Bay because the message the baby killer left at the construction site where the remains where found is the same thing PE promoted and what someone wrote on a stop sign near where I lived.

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The Exploding Detective. It's by John Swartzwelder, former Simpsons writer. The third of a series of novels about a private detective. They're short and funny.

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"Nabokov's favorite color is mauce" and "Empires of the sea."

One uses stats to analyze language patterns; the other is about the Battle of Malta.

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The movie becomes a mess but I did like Strieber's The Wolfen a lot. I might give The Hunger a try.

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Haven't started yet, but just bought A Wrinkle in Time.

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Dr Mirabilis by James Blish, a novel about the life of Roger Bacon. It is the first volume in what Blish called his After Such Knowledge trilogy, which is composed of Black Easter and Day After Judgement (which is usually read as one novel, about the fall of God) and then probably his most popular novel, the Hugo award winning A Case of Conscience is the final book.

Dr. Mirabilis is a challenging work, to say the least. Blish very often uses archaisms, had an intimidating knowledge of history and science, and while I like many of his works his writing can be a awkward.

To most people, Blish is best known for having adapted the original Star Trek tv series into a series of 12 books, which aren't bad but don't represent him at his best.
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