What are you currently reading?

[Bizet]

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

This book exposes how the U.S. has historically exploited developing nations through strategic loans.

It's a interesting and easy read, just watch out for the 2023 revised edition of this book - it’s got an anti-Russia/Putin bias that sours the taste a bit.

 

[Aboulia]

Just finished A History of the Island - Eugene Vodalazkin

It's the third book I've read from him. IMHO, I didn't enjoy it as much as "The Aviator" which deals with the topic of alienation. That book's premise is what would happen if you froze someone from a miserable time (under early Soviet persecutions), and moved them a few generations in the future.

This novel is something similar but from a different angle. It deals more with a people's alienation from God through history, from the medieval to the modern, he does a good job of bringing the reality of time to the forefront by putting a royal couple with an lifespan a few centuries long who lives through all of this.

 

[Bizet]

I remember reading Roosh’s American Pilgrim years ago and feeling an overwhelming urge to quit my job, give notice on my apartment, and embark on a road trip across the country. But it was 2020, and I was stuck in the most locked-down city in the world, tethered to my apartment. Still, I vividly remember that longing for adventure and the open road.

Now, I’m reading Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. I know I’m late to the party, as it’s been around for ages, but it’s reigniting that same call for adventure. This time, I have no excuses. It’s really pushing me to consider making some radical changes in my life.

 

[Gazza]

I remember reading Roosh’s American Pilgrim years ago and feeling an overwhelming urge to quit my job, give notice on my apartment, and embark on a road trip across the country. But it was 2020, and I was stuck in the most locked-down city in the world, tethered to my apartment. Still, I vividly remember that longing for adventure and the open road.

Now, I’m reading Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. I know I’m late to the party, as it’s been around for ages, but it’s reigniting that same call for adventure. This time, I have no excuses. It’s really pushing me to consider making some radical changes in my life.

I consider it daily. The more i think about it though the more I’m convinced that I shouldn’t do anything TOO radical. I’ve very nearly invested a lot of money into buying a campervan a couple of times, but something just didn’t feel right. I think I need to cool my heals a bit and maybe have a couple of trial runs with a rental van first.

 

[Unending Powerhouse Match]

I consider it daily. The more i think about it though the more I’m convinced that I shouldn’t do anything TOO radical. I’ve very nearly invested a lot of money into buying a campervan a couple of times, but something just didn’t feel right. I think I need to cool my heals a bit and maybe have a couple of trial runs with a rental van first.

Absolutely. Today's world is so fake and gay, so viscerally disgusting, that it's easy to get these types of reckless ideas into your head at times. "I want to throw it all away and go live in a van/cabin/cave/boat" is a common one. Roosh did this once it was a pretty terrible idea, he ended up inadvertently living in a demon-infested crackhouse for a bit. It's important to be sober about such things.