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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
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Japanese Literary Fiction 🇯🇵👤💭
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From the provocative and challenging to the emotional and quiet, Japanese literary fiction tends to be nuanced, introspective, and minimalistic. These books contain layered cultural commentary and may lean on psychological, surreal, or fantastical elements to convey their message.
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
António Damásio
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“What is happening to us now is, in fact, happening to a concept of self based on the past, including the past that was current only a moment ago. At each moment the state of self is constructed, from the ground up. It is an evanescent reference state, so continuously and consistently reconstructed that the owner never knows it is being remade unless something goes wrong with the remaking. The background feeling now, or the feeling of an emotion now, along with the non-body sensory signals now, happen to the concept of self as instantiated in the coordinated activity of multiple brain regions. But our self, or better even, our metaself, only “learns” about that “now” an instant later... ... Present continuously becomes past, and by the time we take stock of it we are in another present, consumed with planning the future, which we do on the stepping-stones of the past. The present is never here. We are hopelessly late for consciousness.”
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Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
Bhagat Singh
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Talk about a more resourceful man than Abbè Faria, esp for someone in his predicament! 🫡
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Talk about a more resourceful man than Abbè Faria, esp for someone in his predicament! 🫡
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I was expecting a bit more depth from this book, yes, it could be that I just didn’t understand it but even the plot of it felt very simple albeit with a needlessly convoluted narrative structure, yes, to the point that I thought there was a time traveling subplot, which reminded me of Tenet, what with the going back of it and all, but then turns out it wasn’t that complicated which left me wondering what the point of it all was, why even the stream of consciousness writing, yes maybe there isn’t a deeper meaning and it’s just supposed to be a short, whimsical story, no, nothing is wrong with that and I did enjoy reading it overall but I think it was Toby Jones’ mellifluous voice that made it even more enjoyable by elevating the language and humor, but yes, in the end I’m not really sure what to make of this book.
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Vaim
Jon Fosse
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"I’ve never come up with any explanation other than that everything was strange"
All was strange
I'm not sure what I just read/listened to, but it was fun. Jatgier reminded me of other characters like Jose from All the names by Saramago and Ove from A man called Ove by backman.
The alternative title could also be "Who the fuck did I marry?"
Also found out this is a trilogy, so excited to see how the story continues.
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Vaim
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