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jae

jae@wyrms.de

Joined 1 year, 4 months ago

Lover of #SciFi and #fantasy. Big fan of #UrsulaKLeGuin.

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Four Thousand Weeks (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you …

So refreshing reading this, when all the books I’ve been recommended recently have been about min-maxing your productive potential, and this book flips the question: what are you doing all of this min-maxing for? Why is this important? What IS important to you? How would we all approach life differently after really contemplating (and I mean REALLY) the finality of our lives? Will be thinking about this book for a long time.

reviewed She comes first by Ian Kerner

She comes first (2004, ReganBooks) 3 stars

As women everywhere will attest, when it comes to understanding female sexuality, most guys know …

This guy fucks.

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Should probably be recommended reading for penis-havers. Kerner lays forth in his book that PIV intercourse shouldn’t be the be-all and end-all, and that cunnilingus should be an integral part of sex, which he calls “coreplay.” Standing ovation from women everywhere! Something women obviously know, but many men are still unfortunately in the dark about.

“QUESTION: ‘Sometimes when I’m in the middle of going down on a woman, I feel like it’s never going to end. Is there any rule of thumb as to how long a cunnilingus session should last?’ (Jack, 32) ANSWER: Yes, there’s a very precise answer as to how long a cunnilingus session should last—as long as it takes to bring her to orgasm.”

And the crowd goes wild!!!

Enjoy a couple more highlights from this book that had me dying of laughter:

“Take one small lick for man, one giant lick for mankind. Cunnilinguists of …

The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback, 2018, Vintage) 5 stars

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The Myth of Sisyphus by  (Page 123)

It touches me every time reading this passage, no matter how many times I’ve read it.

Waypoints (2022, Little Brown & Company) No rating

Content warning Spoilers

Flowers for Algernon (Paperback, 2004, Harvest / Harcourt Inc.) 4 stars

From the Publisher: With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the …

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

Flowers for Algernon by