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I have finished Brett Anderson's 'Afternoons with the blinds drawn' which was excellent and honest. Brett Anderson has been a prat in his life, but I love how grown up he is these days. You can tell how clean he is by the way he looks. 52 years old and he looks amazing. I love his candor such as admitting that he is a simplistic musician and needs the technical brilliance of a Butler or an Oakes. Don't get me wrong, he is very talented in that his way with melody in the vocal line is tremendous. He has written many excellent songs, but he says he gets what people mean by that missing Suede chord. The little extra that a Butler or Oakes, can add with the dram and tension. I am so glad he made it through his addiction and became a stronger person.
Stick to books read @Beanz. What are you reading these days asides from The Canary?
Leviathan by Eric Jay Dolin, it's about whaling in the Americas. Been fairly interesting.
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I started this thread ffs and so could certainly do without you demanding the right to censor what i choose to post in it. In fact all i was asking was that Alpha expand on what he had told us and give us the full title of what he is re-reading. Judaism Discovered by Michael Hoffman is a bit different when you self censor and leave out the actual full title which is Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit
This is a book in which Hoffman wants to normalize things like Holocaust denial and elevate Christianity to a point which delegitimizes Judaism. I get how appealing it is to hide from honesty for you guys, but the full title is kind of relevant hereGood luck to you if you want to poison your mind re-reading a book that claims that Jews are a Satanic cult and that the Talmud is written by Satan then fill your boots, but don't hide the truth about an authors agenda in obfuscation You want the freedom to incite hatred then go join a Neo Nazi website and hang out with your racist Morrisey mates and Suede fans there.
The last four books i read were Stephen Fry's 'Mythos' which was a gift and terribly written but educational i guess ( Try Gaimans 'Norse Mythology' for an example of how to retell the classics).' The Cambridge dictionary of Philosophy' and David Olusoga's amazing 'Black and British: A Forgotten History' which I would urge anyone interested in British history to read if you want an example of a modern scholarly but readable masterpiece and Priya Hemenway's 'The Secret Code' all about the Golden Section which has often come up when I have been talking to people professionally about art.
I don't read the Canary and don't even read the Guardian much despite having family write for it. I used to read Unherd because it carries articles from people i respect like Roger Scruton, my friend Giles Fraser and even knobs you love like Douglas Murray, but it became an echo chamber for the perpetually offended new right so i no longer subscribe.
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I appreciate the 3rd paragraph. Thank you. I find that kind of thing more interesting.
I am currently working through Kerouac and Bukowski. Seem to be into drunks at the moment.
What Alpha is into is his business IMO. I am going to re read a biography of Hitler soon, but please don't take it as a signing up act. 😤
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Once you find the actual truth, the bread crumb trail of books to read, to follow, you are a researcher. I'd say it took me about 60 books to do this, before I started threading together the right books to read, 1 book leads into the next book and they all supplement each other in a synthesised whole. This is the true quest of the actual researcher, the man seeking the real historical truth, what actually happened, what actually is, objective truth, which is concrete and knowable. Something actually happened in the past, that past is called history and you have to thread these books together and connect the bread crumbs and synthesize it in your own consciousness and mind, that my friend is a researcher.
I read roughly 500 words per minute when concentrating. I would recommend Evelyn Wood’s 7-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program, How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and PhotoReading by Paul Scheele. These can be found for free online.
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I have noticed that it's virtually impossible to in good taste "critique" Judaism which strikes me as a little odd...I mean I'm not dying to go after Jews and list of this whole big old pile of grievances against them, because I don't really have all that many. I mean I think it's odd that some of them have their own special police force in New York, I find that out of the ordinary. But hey I'm not going to delve into that because I already get called enough names and people already take me out of context and don't understand what I am asking about or questioning.
Anywho.... yeah my next book, I'm not so certain what that will be. Leviathan has been very informative thus far, but it started very slowly. Apparently the Dutch were master whalemen, but hey is that Anti-Dutch to notice? The English sucked at whaling and the early Americans were even better than the Dutch by the late 18th century. The figured out which whales had the most baleen and oil and they also ate whale meat which I can only assume tasted pretty fucking fishy due to their diets. The guys who hunted sperm whales had to have some fucking brass balls, they are a strong and fierce animal and also the artwork of their exploits is incredible, so much detail and action.
I would also recommend the following for any researcher:
The Controversy of Zionism by Douglas Reed.
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.
And although E. Michael Jones is a Catholic, his books are really good:
Libido Dominandi.
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit.
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The speed of my own reading depends on what I am reading. When reading an 800 page precise of 2000 years of British history,I had to slow down due to overwhelming data within. If you power read it I find something like that goes wrong. Too much dats. For an autobigraphy covering familiar material the speed goes up.
Even the British history book made my eyes open with how the Jews in Britain during the crusades would charge significant interest as the landed classes needed funding to fight for the Jewish 'homeland'. It didn't work well and those warriors came back furious at the debts and would sometimes hang Jews from trees. Even our old friend Jesus hated that kind of corruption, but he was more moderate than the Crusader types.
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Welcome to Saddo book reviews, the dog whistling teenage safe fake rebels gateway for Stormfront.. (:
Check out some of those books I mentioned on increasing your reading speed. There are some really good techniques. A friend of mine reads around 8/9 hundred words a minute. But you are right about being familiar with the writing. Which is why I re-read things many times.
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I only read 37 books last year, I'm extremely pissed off with myself because I set a target of 38 (I've read 40+ for the last few years)
This year I have set a target of 30, I think I'm struggling mentally with things I can't really describe which is keeping me from indulging in my reading, I dunno, I think that for the last 3 or 4 months I've been low key depressed for no reason, I just don't have any desire to engage my brain, I've been far happier spending countless hours watching youtubes recommended videos, fucking horrible headspace to be in, I'm trying to drag myself out of it though.
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