What are y'all currently reading?

[Torrential]

I'm currently reading Franz Fanon's "Wretched Of The Earth".

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

alternating between Orwell's Homage To Catalonia and A Dance With Dragons

Spoiler

THEON

 

[Torrential]

^I like Orwell's writing style. I want to check out more of his work in the future.

 

[Classy X]

Not anything right now, I gotta pay off my library fine.

Once that's done, I will be cozying it up with books this fall and winter.

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

^I like Orwell's writing style. I want to check out more of his work in the future.

...Catalonia is his personal account of the Spanish civil war, which he fought in against the fascists.

an excerpt from the first chapter:

I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I had joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do.

The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.

Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags and with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivized; even the bootblacks had been collectivized and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Senor' or 'Don' or even 'Ústed'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' or 'Thou', and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos días'. Tipping had been forbidden by law since the time of Primo de Rivera; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy. There were no private motor-cars, they had all been commandeered, and the trams and taxis and much of the other transport were painted red and black.

The revolutionary posters were everywhere, flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs of mud.

Down the Ramblas, the wide central artery of the town where crowds of people streamed constantly to and fro, the loud-speakers were bellowing revolutionary songs all day and far into the night. And it was the aspect of the crowds that was the queerest thing of all. In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist. Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls or some variant of militia uniform. All this was queer and moving.

There was much in this that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for...so far as one could judge the people were contented and hopeful. There was no unemployment, and the price of living was still extremely low; you saw very few conspicuously destitute people, and no beggars except the gypsies.

Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings
and not as cogs in the capitalist machine."

Also I believed things were as they appeared, that this was really a Workers' state and the entire bourgeoisie had either fled, been killed or voluntarily come over to the workers side; I did not realize that great numbers of well-to-do bourgeois were simply lying low or disguising themselves as proletarian for the time being.

 

[stealthbomber]

my abnormal psychology book

 

[SumBlackguyz]

The Grand Chessboard by Zbignew Bryzynsky (sp?)

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

A book on da vinci and his works

 

[voltronblack]

I reading think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill the part where he talk about the small color girl had me like but after that it was ok .

 

[Torrential]

@ Ritzy Sharon a lot of people I've spoken to suggested "Homage to Catalonia and from what you just posted it seems like a great read.

But breh what the hell is up with that picture on your profile... delete that! I was gonna send you a friend request until I saw that disgusting shyt

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

@ Ritzy Sharon a lot of people I've spoken to suggested "Homage to Catalonia and from what you just posted it seems like a great read.

But breh what the hell is up with that picture on your profile... delete that! I was gonna send you a friend request until I saw that disgusting shyt

*checks*

Jesus fukking Christ.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

cloud atlas

 

[Torrential]

I'm trying to get through 9 books in the next few months. This summer I got through 8.

 

[mr x]

we talking only educational books, or for entertainment too? If the latter....

I mentioned in another thread I'm having a hard time getting through Mario Puzo's Fools Die. About half way through, but the story is kind of slow to me.

I also recently picked up Shakespeare's complete works and started Two Gentlemen of Verona. On Act III right now. Good read so far, I can tell shyts about to go down

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

The Kybalion


Nietsczhe - Thus Spake Zarathustra


Nietsczhe - Beyond Good and Evil


Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception