 Since it's unlikely that I'll complete my current reading before the year's end. Here's this year's reading catalog, it was a fantastic year, read some of my favourite readings ever. My absolute highlight has also been the first reading of the year, Maurice Renard's The Blue Peril. 28 comments
@cblgh it's my second time reading it, it's excellent. Reading it now(first time was in school and I remembered almost nothing), I can't stop imagining the setting of Citees Obscures for the whole thing. I forgot how good the writing was.  @neauoire haha wow i somehow did not expect that. it's in my bookshelf and has moved with me since i received it for xmas as a teen who'd played too much bioshock and wondered what the source material was like @cblgh It's a bit different reading it as an adult than as a teen, it's worth a reread if you can make the time. @neauoire ah no, sorry, i got my rand books mixed up, i've got atlas shrugged! which i also have yet to read lol @levibeach @cblgh Which ideology in particular, Roark's? The modernism in Fountainhead is a form of optimism in human nature(and technology)that I find naive, and the author's all sorts of awful. I haven't read Atlas Shrugged, but in this one it's kind of a positive thing that drives the story well. There's a lot of books in my reading list that are for critically thinking adults, sometimes written by nasty authors, I am not endorsing these books by having them in my reading list. @neauoire @cblgh she was a huge advocate for egoism (which is in direct opposition to the ideas held in panpsychism) and was the founder of objectivism, which right-libertarians and conservatives were quick to embrace and expand on. I have no doubt her writing is wonderful though. At some point I would like to read her stuff, but I've struggled to have the stomach for it—knowing all that came after the seeds she sowed. @levibeach @cblgh There's plenty of better writing to read before reading that, I'm not sure if there's anything for you in Fountainhead, it's a bit like The Prince but with a focus on architecture in a sort of noir envelope, it pits modernism and a more conservative practice and drags it in the mud. If you like Citees Obscures, 13th Floor, Dark City, Ergo Proxy, Mornings Of The Magicians, it might appeal to you. It definitely has a anti-establishment thing going. @neauoire @levibeach @cblgh Fountainhead is her first book, and I guess her ideology (objectivism) is more prominent in Atlas Shrugged. But she was extremely racist and white supremacist, here are some quotes from wiki: @wim_v12e it was wonderful, I had heard good things, but Rek doing a reading of it over a few evenings was one of my fondest memory of 2023.  @wim_v12e I think I liked him instantly, he means well, I like the scene when he goes back to see his sister and doesn't want to confront his parents. @antharia We're not done yet, it's out current evening reading. But loving it so far! I've been meaning to read it for so long, and it lives up to its fame :) |
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@neauoire what did you think of the fountainhead? X)