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Tagging those that were in the previous threads.

I’m currently reading a non-fiction, The Blank Slate (2002) by Steven Pinker, which addresses the nature-nurture debate. While the premise of the book isn’t invalid per se, there was so much unnecessary distortion to theories that the author dislikes. I might post a critique once I finish it. Overall, I could’ve gone my whole life without reading it but I’m too deep in to DNF.

I prefer non-fiction. I read to primarily gain knowledge and not for amusement. Though I still read informative fiction from time to time.

Regarding the question of the week: neither, I pirate everything :p

For non-fiction I’ve been recommended “The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man” by Engels, although I’ve been slow in gonig through it due to work things.

For fiction, I’ve been softening my brain with some Warhammer 30/40k junk, largely short stories because I just can’t be arsed with the writers attempting to be epic anymore.

As for the question on obtaining the books… I enjoy the Carribean breeze, shall we say.

I recently finished V for vendetta (decent, a bit too anarchist) and the Hunger games (for school). I’m currently reading Anti-Duhring by Engels, which is great, the Fault In Our Stars, which is meh and for school, and I’m reading To Kill A Nation by Parenti which is really interesting, it’s crazy all the parallels to the Russo-Ukraine war going on now, and how the vast majority of people here probably haven’t even heard of the NATO invasion of Yugoslavia. On the weekly question, most of my books were gifts so idk, but I try to check thrift books or Barnes and nobles before I buy from Amazon. I do have some Amazon gift cards that I’ll probably buy books with though. I haven’t bought anything from publisher websites, but I have my eye on some stuff from ‘Peace, Land, Bread’, midwestern marx, and new outlook publishers.

I finally finished reading the Song of Ice and Fire series recently. I read the first four books in high school and never finished A Dance of Dragons, so I read them again to catch up to the story before I read the last book. After that I read Fire & Blood, which is a history book about one of the families in the story. The main series was great, and Fire & Blood was pretty enjoyable too. So now I guess I’m waiting for Winds of Winter. 🙃

As for what I’m reading now, I needed a change of pace after reading several thousand pages of fantasy over the last few months so I’m reading some sci-fi. I got Foundation, Neuromancer, and Starship Troopers the other day and I’m currently reading Starship Troopers. I’m only a few chapters in and it’s OK so far, but the military lingo makes it a bit hard to follow at times.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten any books other than textbooks for school from Amazon. I get most of my books from book stores. I also pirate a lot of ebooks, but never read them.

I’m reading Look to Windward right now, and taking a bit of a break from non fiction.

I tend to mix getting books from Amazon, publishers, and libgen.

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