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aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm)

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learning haskell & deleuze

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aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm)'s books

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53% complete! aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) has read 68 of 128 books.

Félix Guattari: The Anti-Oedipus Papers (2006) No rating

Notes and journal entries document Guattari and Deleuze's collaboration on their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus.

"The …

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.

Oscar Wilde: The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback, 2012, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) 4 stars

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication …

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.

Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man (Paperback, 2007, Cuttyhunk Books) 4 stars

Content warning nsfw, sex

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (2000) 4 stars

Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over …

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.