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Any good books you’ve read lately? Like, anything with even the veil of being politically agnostic (hexbear.net)

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I love books recommended on here but unless I specify you mfs will recommend theory. You all read anything captivating without overt political themes?

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"You can win a girl with a poem, but you can't keep a girl with a poem. Not even a poetry movement."

Even your small town library ought to have Baudelaire, which counts as getting started on 2666 since one of his lines (idiosyncratically translated?) is the epigraph for that one. "An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom." From The Voyage.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I second Baudelaire, he was a friend of Monet and has some interesting stuff!