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Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy [Abridged] by Karl Marx
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
Couldn’t care reading through. Maybe later.
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
Too artistic to listen as an audiobook
Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity by James Walvin
Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.
Read like ten pages and understood i could not give less a zjit
The Power of Not Thinking: How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them by Simon Roberts
Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
Horrible horrible book. Too much unrelated history anecodotes, very little actual substance.
Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann
I don’t what were Mann’s intentions when he wrote the novel. My suspision is that he intended for Unrat to be a VERY unlikable character, a disgusting one even, along with Rosa. And maybe that’s how the story was percieved at the time, but now… Now it reads as 60% a romance story and 40% as a subversion, a deconstruction of “love redeems” trope. For the first part of the novel I genuenly loved Unrat’s progressing realtionship with Rosa. If it was a normal romance story, he would have been changed by his love towards that woman and he would have become an actually good person. But Mann subverts that. Unrat does not change. He stays the same bad person, and that lack of change is what leads to his downfall. A great, a very intersting subversion!
Although, i think the second half, or at least the last 25% of the book are pretty bad. The story switches from showing us events to just narrating about Unrat and Rosa’s life as they terrorize the town. There’s barely any dialouge!!!
I think the story could have been MUCH stronger, if that ending portion were written better.
And, a contriversial opinion, I would’ve loved for at least a HINT of Unrat’s arc. Just put it on the last page, how he regrets his choices and doubts his way of life, as he is being arrested!
That would’ve been so much better!!
Well, despite all that, this is a pretty good story.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Although, i think the second half, or at least the last 25% of the book are pretty bad. The story switches from showing us events to just narrating about Unrat and Rosa’s life as they terrorize the town. There’s barely any dialouge!!!
I think the story could have been MUCH stronger, if that ending portion were written better.
And, a contriversial opinion, I would’ve loved for at least a HINT of Unrat’s arc. Just put it on the last page, how he regrets his choices and doubts his way of life, as he is being arrested!
That would’ve been so much better!!
Well, despite all that, this is a pretty good story.
Ready: How to Know When to Go and When to Stay by David Richo, David Richo
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
Very basic, NOT useful at all, very annoying.
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept by Robert Spalding
fast-paced
3.0
Nothing deep or profound, but an decent introduction in the whole China debacle. Throws a billion things at you, leaving you to dig at them yourself. Pretty cool. Solutions, offered by the author, are not the best though...