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Time Stand Still Tears

Time Stand Still Force One

Presto Working Man

Presto Dreamline

Presto Available Light

Presto Far Cry

Presto Madigral

Presto Hand Over Fist

I remember loving Dostoevsky (or his translators) in school, but it's been a while. As for Stoppard, I only know the one work and I really hated it this time. Perhaps I don't have patience for existential or nihilist works any more, or perhaps the humor of the absurdism is more frustrating than funny to me now, but the best thing I can say about that work was that it was short.

I’m with you, Rhyta. I actually love the classics, but it can be more like work than some modern works. One of the great things about the audible books is that I can listen while I do something else, like cleaning the house or playing video games which don’t take too much of my thought (like racing games or collection quests in a Mario game). However, the classics demand my attention. Often the beauty of the language and the complexity of the thought requires me to slow down and read and re-read the book. The Red Badge of Courage and The Heart of Darkness were like that for me. They are short novellas, but it took me days to get through them (I think the former could have taken me a few weeks as I’d find myself reading something else when I couldn’t devote 100% of my attention to it). As for The Picture of Dorian Grey, I made my opinion on that book clear above, I think. Once you are introduced to the conceit of the book, there’s really not much else to get from it. I’d either skip to the end and call it a day or just forget it.

Perhaps, but both are short. Just trying to knock off a few of the short ones on my list. I’m not as disciplined as you and haven’t mapped out a list, but I have a huge backlog of books and am trying to read some short ones to get a couple of Ws under my belt to start out the year.

Started and finished Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I did not enjoy it, but at least it was short. I’m starting Notes From the Underground now.

Happy New Year I get more enjoyment out of Presto now than Ghost of a Chance and I think the latter might be better, but Ghost ain’t 2112: Presto Stick it Out

While it is true that Mush doesn’t believe in completely free speech, he certainly believes in it more than any other owner of social media. It’s possible that more people say stupid stuff than before on X, it’s also true that obviously correct statements like “women are women” are no longer banned, completely normal non-leftist speech is not prohibited, advocacy for sexual slavery and child pornography is not allowed, and foreign bots are minimized. I also find it funny that you mention anti-semitism, which is promoted and defended by not only social media, but establishment media, democrats in general, and the people running most universities. When anti-Semitic attacks are increasing by orders of magnitude across the west, it’s odd to call out the increase of leftist violent rhetoric on X when it was rarely suppressed there in the past and when the leftists are pushing it so strongly in all other areas of public discourse. On top of this, Netflix promotes child sexual exploitation, discrimination, and the dehumanization of the other, yet it is their advertisements on the only major social media company which fights against these things which makes someone want to stop subscribing?

It’s not Netflix’s support of child exploitation or the mutilation of children which drives you away, but the fact that they advertise on a company owned by Musk, who cracks down on sexual slavery and authoritarianism and is a staunch supporter of Israel against antisemitism, which makes you leave. I’m glad you’re leaving Netflix, but your priorities are disgusting.

Antony and Cleopatra

Yeah, you’re right, the Stewart one is abridged. I was wrong, I actually didn’t buy Stewart’s version for that reason. I ended up getting the Tim Curry version. I still haven’t listened, though.

I’ve started Heart of Darkness, and even though I find it fascinating I keep falling asleep. I just need to find time during the day to read it instead of starting when I’m already exhausted.

I got the Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol when audible was doing its ridiculous sale a few weeks ago but haven’t listened yet. I picked up A Christmas Karol (yes, with a “K”) for my daughter, who loved the original Dickens story.

You can read them separately. That Hideous Strength is bonkers in a good way, in a similar vein as 1984 and Brave New World, but with more of a focus on the philosophies which lead to those societies than the latter and more prescient than the former.

That Hideous Strength, book three in The Space Trilogy. Perelandra was not as interesting to me as Out of the Silent Planet. It has an interesting conceit, but the plot itself isn't complicated and is very drawn out. I enjoyed intellectual exercise, but I thought it could have been accomplished with 1/3 of the words. That Hideous Strength is a much longer book, and so far seems quite complicated, in comparison.

My son awaits your review; as do I.

They probably don't know it, nor would it mean too much to them. On average, they probably know about 5 or 6 Rush songs and recognize them from classic rock radio or by me introducing them to the music. It would be similar to them going to see Guns'n'Roses for name recognition, but not going to see Axel Rose and a bunch of other guys they've never heard of.

Many of my friends might see a Rush show. None of them would see a Lee/Lifeson show unless I organized it for them.

I've started the Prince Warriors with the my son. My daughter already read them herself and liked the series.