Rated The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces 4/10
Frightening.
High use of steroids in order to cope with the physical ordeal of training seems to be the entry door to heavier drugs.
Elite corps look like a bunch of macho, drug addicted and assassin gang.
On style, I didn't like the way the book is written...too much jumping around in time and episodes.
Rated River of Teeth 7/10
<div>I liked this more than Upright Women Wanted, and it's an interesting alternate history to explore. Maybe the audiobook narrator took something away from it from me, sorry. </div>
Rated Selections from the writings of Kierkegaard 5/10
<div>I am loosely trying a few reading challenges this year again (though they don't entirely dictate what I've been reading), and one of the categories in more than one of them was "A Favorite Writer's Favorite" or something along those lines. And even though I know plenty of writers and read interviews with plenty of others, of course I immediately blanked out on every book any of them had ever suggested (even though I've probably read some of those books!). So I decided to google what influenced Patricia Highsmith, and apparently (though not surprisingly), she liked a lot of existentialists and related writers, including Kierkegaard. You'd think I would've remembered this from reading a biography about her, but no! I have read a little of Kierkegaard in various classes way back when, and I knew he was readable enough, so off to Project Gutenberg I went to see what was available.<br><br>And this is... fine. Not the BEST thing you'd want to read sometimes before falling asleep, tbh, but that's on me. The man manages some breathtaking misogyny in one section, which, given that this was written over 100 years ago, makes it loop back around and is almost funny in how assertive it is? WOMAN UNSERIOUS CREATURE. MAN SO SO SERIOUS. etc.<br><br>The rest deals with Christian ethics, and he picks it apart in a way that I imagine drove some religious people up the wall, but also bolstered the arguments against organized religion among the atheists (which is perhaps what Highsmith got out of it, since she wasn't religious).<br><br>It's sort of ridiculous to give something like this a star rating because even though I wasn't overly into much of it (and the introduction written by someone else is VERY dry), I also see how other writers and thinkers took this and either said, "Yes, and..." or "This is some hot bullshit, and here's why." Existentialists! Your individual mileage often varies! Best of luck!</div>
This was really great. Smart, interesting, accessible, but not dumbed-down. Definitely recommend.
Rated Banned for Life 10/10
If anything, <i>Banned For Life</i> is about how one does not have to sacrifice a punk mentality with age, and that punk does not come at the expense of happiness. Yes, punk is a reaction, and often an anger against the perceived wrongs in the world, but it's also this: <i>If we weren't so hellbent on screwing each other over, if we were all able to do what we want, we might be happy.</i><br><br>(My full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/04/banned-for-life-by-dr-haney.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated Slow Horses 8/10
<div>Yeah, I will read more of these, more than likely. I enjoy the TV show, so I decided to check out the books, and I'm glad I did.</div>
Rated Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama 10/10
Rated Spare 8/10
<div>After reading the Britney memoir, I thought <em>May as well read the OTHER most talked about memoir from this year</em>, and I thought it might be similar to Britney's in that most of the WTF moments would have been covered already in the press. But no! TOO MUCH WTF TO BE HAD HERE.<br><br>Now, obviously, Harry is still going to have his blind spots, and therapy at this stage will have only unraveled so much (since there is SO, SO MUCH to unravel), but he does try to be fair about himself and the circumstances in which he was raised. It really does say a lot that him being sent to an active war zone during his military service felt like a welcome break from his usual life.<br><br>Anyway, I'm definitely no royalist, but I've often thought that the life must be strange to experience, no matter how close to wearing the crown you are, and this book confirmed that. It's definitely worth a library read.</div>
Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.
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Finished reading Fathomfolk
Network Science (2017) https://lobste.rs/s/gkip8r #book #math
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Finished reading A Master of Djinn
Rated Reaper Man 9/10
