As a great fan and follower of Linkola (in my thoughts, less in my actions, hah) I’m very intrigued by this book. Thanks!
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This will be the third time I’ve read these.
Feels like a timely reminder of what happens when people surrender their will to the organs of the state machine.
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Reading Frank Herbert’s Dune saga at the moment. Lovely stuff for any psychonaut and scifi fan.
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I re-read the first book and it was just as good as I remembered. Great quasi-philosophical scifi, kind of like Hermann Hesse but for geeks, hah. Then I tried the second part with the intention of reading all of the books that Frank wrote himself, but I could only read half of it because holy shit what a lore dump. I had no idea what they were talking about! The first part was a quite small story in a way and the fantastical elements never got in the way of the prose. In the second part it’s the complete opposite! There’s so much lore, scifi concepts, made up words etc. that I found it extremely tiring. And I mean for example I love Gene Wolfe, but while he’s just as bad with the made up words and fantastical concepts I think his style of prose is a lot more interesting, and he definitely doesn’t do lore dumps. Herbert was passable writer, but not really a great writer of prose. So when it’s all exposition with made up terms and a thousand odd names, I lost interest.
Eh, I still love the first book and will likely finish the whole series some day.
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I just finished Dune Messiah last night…at times felt like I really had to work through it, but in the end I was glad I did, was worth it — I thought the ending was golden 
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Are you familiar with Gene Wolfe? I feel like he’s like the grown up version of Herbert in a way. Very skillful prose and a grand, mystical scifi world. The Nabokov of scifi and fantasy, hah!
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No I’m not, will add to my reading list, thank you!
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Amia Srinivasan - The Right to Sex.
Best modern feminist philosopher out there atm.
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I’m currently working through a collection of Roald Dahls short stories, his adult fiction. It is some really dark stuff.
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I was gifted and am reading Jeff Buckley’s “How To Write One Song,” and I’m doing the exercises to write this one song.
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In 1996 I bought Moby’s Everything Is Wrong and it had a huge impact on me. Loved the music but loved the message even more. I went vegetarian because of that album.
A few years later the guy made Play and sold every single track from that album to a Nissan commercial or some other questionable entity. I was appalled. I felt that he had sold not only his music but his principles too. Lost my interest in Moby for many many years.
All is forgiven and I like most of Moby’s new output. He’s one of the most reasonable and nice dudes on social media and is back on track on animal rights etc.
This book tells the story of how a tee total, vegan, christian made a hit record and a bucketload of money and became a coke-fiend asshole in the process. And what happened after that. I’ve been wanting to read this for a long time. Yesterday a guy brought it in to my shop. That’s one of the perks of owning a second hand book store. I never run out of interesting books to read.
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Reading lots of inventories of medieval diplomatic sources of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily for my bachelor thesis about socioeconomic structures of the Mediterranean area in XII century. Seems boring but I do like 
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Great one tho; I am reading all the series too and actually I am stuck in the 4th book but I won’t spoiler anything 
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Sounds interesting! Thanks for mentioning this book.
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I read this when I was 20 and it really opened my eyes for the brutality of communism and other totalitarian systems.
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I was turned on to it when I was a teenager by my best friend’s dad. It’s what convinced me to study Politics. You can imagine my disappointment when I turned up at University and all that was on offer regarding any sort of critique of the Soviet system was a light appraisal of the Communist Manifesto and a completely uncritical celebration of Fukuyama’s “end of history” nonsense.
You would think that attending university 10 years after the fall of the Soviet Union to study Politics would have at least had some measure of study about it, but it was just like, as soon as it collapsed, everyone in the west just seemed to want to forget it ever existed, it’s really odd.
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I like quite a bit of Moby’s stuff, especially the earlier releases. I read both of his autobiographical works and they were pretty entertaining, but I got the impression he was a little bit desperate, needy and seedy. Still interesting to read nonetheless.
I just started reading Electroshock by Laurent Garnier (I think I was mentioned earlier in the thread). Enjoying it so far.
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I get that feeling looking at him too.
I’m pretty good at spotting a wrongun, and he gives off a seedy vibe for sure.
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There are many people who admire or relativise socialist regimes because they think, it’s for the “right” thing. The book perfectly shows the nasty system that turns ordinary people into accomplices. Big brother is your neighbour, professor or colleague.
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