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Jinx 🎶🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉✊🏿🥖🌹

Human Acts (Han Kang)

Not even halfway through yet and this book is blowing my mind. A brilliant translation by Deborah Smith makes it an easy read in the linguistic sense, but emotionally it's challenging.

Such an important topic. I'd known almost nothing about this terrifying era of Korean history. Sad to learn that the US (Carter administration) supported the Korean government's military violence against its own innocent citizens.

[…] inclusion in a full and revised edition at some point in the future. In the introduction, he wrote: "The decisive factor dominating the morality of the crowd has not yet been clearly identified. One point of interest is the emergence in situ of a particular ethical fluctuation separate from the moral standards of the individuals who constitute the crowd. Certain crowds do not blench at the prospect of looting, murder and rape, while on the other hand, others display a level of courage and altruism which those making up that same crowd would have had difficulty in achieving as individuals. The author argues that, rather than this latter type of crowd being made up of especially noble individuals, that nobility which is a fundamental human attribute is able to manifest itself through borrowing strength from the crowd; also, similarly, that the former case is one in which humanity’s essential barbarism is exacerbated not by the especially barbaric nature of any of the individuals involved, but through that magnification which occurs naturally in crowds." The censors had scored through four lines in the paragraph which followed that one. "Bearing that in mind, the question which remains to us is this: what is humanity? What do we have to do to keep humanity as one thing and not another?" Eun-sook could remember the precise thickness […]
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Estarriol, lucozade dragon

Help me Booksodon, you are my only hope.

I need something to read, Just finished the new James M Corey and the works of John Buchan, tried the new Blackheart Man and not getting on with it (me not the book, in a different mood I would likely shoot through it).

Very widely read already, likes sharp Sci Fi, good (not 280,000 page long) fantasy and generally well written or interesting like Kate Atkinson or ANgela Carter.

ANy ideas of something I might have missed?

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Roberto von Archimboldi

Finished reading #AlexanderBaron's memoir, 'A chapter of accidents'. I wouldn't particularly recommend. There are flashes of his great abilities, but is mostly a list of communists that he met in the 30s interpreted with splenetic attacks on the CPGB. The part describing life in the army is moving and worth reading.

It is a shame because some deeper reflection on life in Britain as a Jew in that period and why Stalinism seemed so attractive would have been very interesting.

His novels are brilliant and worth reading.

#books, #booksodon @bookstodon

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AlsoPaisleyCat

@petertrek1 @theresmiling @trekfan4747

The ebook deals vary slightly by country, but there seem to be analogous offers for TrekLit each month.

I find the best way to see what’s on promotion is to search your favourite ebook vendor for Star Trek, then filter by price. In most countries, ‘lowest to highest’ puts the ebook deals at the top. In some countries, like the UK, you may have to filter by setting a maximum price like £ 2.99.

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