was alright. due to file naming i didn't notice for most of it that i was listening to it in a wrong order. feels a little fitting given Nash's schizophrenia and how disorienting the listening experience was.
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aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) finished reading Beautiful Mind John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) started reading Beautiful Mind John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) finished reading The Anti-Oedipus Papers by Félix Guattari
Wew, finished! I read this because I thought it would give more insight into Anti-Oedipus. I don't think it really did. It mostly felt like gibberish that wasn't polished in the way that Anti-Oedipus or A Thousand Plateaus were so I didn't really feel like trying a lot of times. It is notes and journal entries and such so I think it is reasonable that it's less polished though.
The main part of the book that I like were Guattari's journal entries talking about his relationships, feelings about Anti-Oedipus, etc.
I'm just glad it's done and that I'm free.
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) finished reading The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Started today, finished today. Only gripe I have is the frontmatter of the book. I listened to the audiobook and 2 hours of it are frontmatter by other people. That's about 30%!
I really like the book though. More than I expected. The main thing that I wish is that it were longer. Dorian's decline could be more fleshed out.
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) set a goal to read 128 books in 2024
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) finished reading Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave
Content warning nsfw, sex
I nodded nervously. His knee was pressing against mine. We didn’t say much until we pulled into Brighton Beach, then he asked, ‘Do you know where we can go?’
‘There’s a footy oval across the road.’
‘You lead the way.’
And I did. On this cold autumn Sunday night there was not a soul around. He grabbed my hand, indicating the door to the change-rooms, which had a brick screen in front of it. He leant against the door, reached down and grabbed my crutch. I took his lead and did the same to him. He started to unzip me and I did likewise. We stood in the cold with our pants around our knees, tugging at each other’s cocks. I wanted more, wanted to feel him against me. My hands went up under his shirt and jumper and into the warm protection of his back and I pressed my cock and balls against his. He was probably only a couple of years older than me but his cock was so much bigger than mine. I rubbed up against him, like I was fucking the T-shirt in my bed, and before I knew it I’d come on his leg. He grabbed my hand and put it on his balls, spat into his own hand and pulled himself off holding my still-hard dick. As he came his whole body nearly collapsed. He groaned, his eyes shut, and spoofed over the ground. We let go of each other. He reached into his parka pocket, pulled out a handkerchief and wiped off his leg. He offered to walk me part of the way home.
‘How do you think your school mates would react if they knew you were bi?’ He had opened a floodgate. At last, here was someone to whom I could blurt out all the feelings that had been trapped in my head for three years. I asked if his family knew he was gay. He didn’t live at home anymore.
i like books that are graphic
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) started reading Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave
aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) finished reading Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
Welp, finally done. ereader told me it took me like 40 days to read, which is surprising. I think it's a brilliant book filled with a lot of different insights when it comes to cybernetic/systemic/ecological thinking.
The main problem I had with the book was that some of it was a serious slog. Like there was so much redundancy in certain parts (3 and 4 specifically), that made it really hard to get through/want to read sometimes.
I am very glad that I did though. At some point in the future I want to read his "Mind and Nature" which is a later work that's shorter and probably more streamlined.