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has a lot of the copyright-free books! including romeo and juliet, pride and prejudice, etc etc.
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BraveCrab
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:01 am
Non-Fiction books I really enjoyed:
•Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World - Jason Hickel •Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millenials - Malcolm Harris •The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Possiblities - Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt •Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference - Cordelia Fine •The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones •Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy - Elizabeth Gillespie McRae •How Non-Violence Protects the State - Peter Gelderloos •How To Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahl •Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber •The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Gould
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Totel Admin
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:21 am
BraveCrab wrote:
Non-Fiction books I really enjoyed:
•Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World - Jason Hickel •Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millenials - Malcolm Harris •The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Possiblities - Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt •Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference - Cordelia Fine •The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones •Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy - Elizabeth Gillespie McRae •How Non-Violence Protects the State - Peter Gelderloos •How To Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahl •Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber •The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Gould
i haven't read these, but it's because I actually prefer to read in my native language. ToT i should maybe start reading in english more because so many books aren't translated to my language. these sound ESPECIALLY interesting - i am a marxist, and i should really read more of those books. but alas, you know, you can't find them in my country. do you have any links to these?
some books i've read which i'd reccommend:
The first day of Spring - Nancy tucker
Absolute masterpiece, however trigger warning because it's really dark, and deals with murder, abuse, even eating disorders. it's the first book that made me SO uncomfortable while reading, but it's absolutely amazing. it goes deep into psychology of murder and the protagonist is a girl (not much of a spoiler since it happens literally in the first sentence), who kills a boy, while not even understanding what death really is.
The Maid - Nita Prose
Suuuch a lovely book. it's a comedy, and it talks about a kinda autistic maid working in a hotel. hilarity ensues when she gets dragged into a murder investigation (all on her own). it's super endearing, it talks about friendship.
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
something i've read yeaaars ago, but it has stuck with me forever. absolutely my favourite book ever. a genuine anti-war, absurd masterpiece.
City of Thieves - David Benioff
i can't forgive him for the horrid work he did with Game of Thrones (GRRRRRRR), but this book also remains one of my favs. it's just so... funny. it's set in russia during WW2, in leningrad, and follows two guys who got captured by the police due to... reasons. both stupid reasons. and to get out of the predicament, they need to find a carton of eggs for the colonel's daughter to get married.
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
ANOTHER AMAZING CLASSIIIIIIIC. it's the best WW2 anti-nazi book i've read, and so soulful. it follows two stories; one of a blind girl, and one of a nazi boy. it handled the issues of nazism and being dragged into it really well, without being offensive or sappy, and yeah, it got a pulitzer, so i'm not just speaking without no reason.
BraveCrab
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:36 am
I can't guarantee that they're all on there, but I download a lot of my ebooks from libgen.is
8bitdyke
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:43 am
Totel wrote:
i haven't read these, but it's because I actually prefer to read in my native language.
would u mind recommending some good books in croatian / good translations? been trying 2 read less english and more of my native languages
that aside here r some favs !!
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
This one i finished just recently, great book, first in a trilogy. Science fiction with a strong taste of physics, set during the cultural revolution in china. Exciting and relatively fast-paced but can go a little heavily on the physics very very cool though definitely recommend!! lots of crazy stuff described like it's not crazy or physically impossible but also in a way where sometimes i wouldn't b sure if this was factual or not bc quantum physics do tend 2 fly over my head but again still Very enjoyable
We are Five by Matias Faldbakken
this book was assigned 2 my class once and surprisingly i liked it ! a mix of horror, satire and science fiction, set in a small town in norway can't really say too much without spoiling stuff but it's good! would perhaps check for trigger warnings on storygraph b4 reading though
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
my dad gifted me this book and i put off reading it for wayyyyy too long (whoops) but the book is really nice ! it's sort of an intro or lecture to zen philosophy, sort of a love letter to motor cycles and a travel log and sort of a bildungsroman but it's also very slow and heavy at times... i did like it though, and it's worth a read if you like any kind of philosophy i think has also got a very exciting subplot with a character named incorrectly in latin
it's been a little while since i read the last 2 so i hope my memory serves me well
Totel Admin
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:00 am
8bitdyke wrote:
would u mind recommending some good books in croatian / good translations? been trying 2 read less english and more of my native languages
ye ofc!!! all the books i've mentioned have croatian translations. (Prvi dan proljeća, Sobarica, Kvaka 22, Grad lopova...)
but if you're looking for croatian authors then specifically:
anything from Renato Baretić (Osmi povjerenik is A MUST, another great one is Hotel Grand by him) also Ivica Ivanišević, anything goes, but I recc Primavera
Solunska 28 by Nele Karajlić is also a fantastic one; it's in serbian tho (but written in latinica).
also
and if you're looking for something older, Marija Jurić Zagorka's series Grička vještica is one of my fav series ever. It reads like a netflix show
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wormie
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sat Jul 08, 2023 12:35 am
Reposting this from the web archival board.
REPPING PROJECT GUTENBERG for books in the free domain! Free pdf downloads of all their books too! Some notables:
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sat Jul 08, 2023 12:58 am
@Totel thank u for the recs !!!!!! travelling 2 belgrade in like two weeks so i'll definitely look around if i find any of the books you've mentioned ^^
Totel Admin
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:14 am
wormie wrote:
Reposting this from the web archival board.
REPPING PROJECT GUTENBERG for books in the free domain! Free pdf downloads of all their books too! Some notables:
if you have any more free sites, please feel free to share! i'll edit the first post so that the info is all in one place.
8bitdyke
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:52 am
@totel if one makes a user etc on z-lib it's very handy! (the user has 2 b make bc they were taken down so they're running on personal servers 4 each user instead)
oh apparently they've gotten a launcher in alpha stage now 4 windows/macos/linux! anyways gold mine if u can find it !!! i think https://z-lib.io/login should be working right now
Totel Admin
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:52 am
8bitdyke wrote:
@totel if one makes a user etc on z-lib it's very handy! (the user has 2 b make bc they were taken down so they're running on personal servers 4 each user instead)
oh apparently they've gotten a launcher in alpha stage now 4 windows/macos/linux! anyways gold mine if u can find it !!! i think https://z-lib.io/login should be working right now
ooo, im not sure if i can join, not being american? or is it world-wide open?
8bitdyke
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:13 pm
Totel wrote:
ooo, im not sure if i can join, not being american? or is it world-wide open?
it's open worldwide! have never set my foot in america but i use it all the time
ChronicVillainy
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sun Jul 09, 2023 10:16 am
I read a lot of SFF, but sometimes also literary fiction. Here are some of my favorites:
- The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan - Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - The Priory of the Orange Tree / A Day of Fallen Night, both by Samantha Shannon - The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell - Dogs of War / Children of Time, both by Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers - The Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb - The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - Temeraire series by Naomi Novik - Watership Down by Richard Addams - Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
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J-Snapdragon
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Subject: Re: Book reccomendations Sun Jul 09, 2023 5:03 pm
The Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natasha Ngan (tw for rape/non-con, slavery) It's a queer fantasy novel where two royal concubines fall in love, also their world has 'castes' which represent how human/animal they are (book explains it better)
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Diango Wexler (tw for a LOT of violence, as well as brief sex) fantasy novel where the main character gets sent to investigate a ship that isn't supposed to exist, and encounters lots of funky characters. multiple background queer relationships, and the main character is probably bisexual. also many people are descendents of 'wells' which of course give them cool powers
the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher (also tw for lots of violence) fantasy novel where in a world with everyone having 'furies' (powers via creatures of an element), Tavi has none. warning: there are SIX BOOKS in this series
Subject: Book reccomendations 
Mon Jul 03, 2023 5:17 pm
very very cool though definitely recommend!! lots of crazy stuff described like it's not crazy or physically impossible but also in a way where sometimes i wouldn't b sure if this was factual or not bc quantum physics do tend 2 fly over my head but again still Very enjoyable
can't really say too much without spoiling stuff but it's good! would perhaps check for trigger warnings on 
