A really strongly argued expression of the need to abandon GDP. Similar in nature to “Slow Down” by Kohei Saito but with a less academic framing (making it more approachable to people who aren’t Marxist scholars).
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secondperson rated Extinction of Experience: 2 stars
secondperson rated Extinction of Experience: 3 stars
secondperson rated The City and Its Uncertain Walls: 4 stars
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
Looking forward to November when this will be released!
secondperson rated Less Is More: 5 stars
Less Is More by Jason Hickel
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
secondperson finished reading Less Is More by Jason Hickel
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …
secondperson rated Will and Testament: 5 stars
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
When a bitter dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family …
secondperson rated Land of Milk and Honey: 5 stars
Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a …
secondperson rated Lonesome Dove: 2 stars
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, #3)
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the …
secondperson finished reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, #3)
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— …
It starts out like an old-timey "King of the Hill." You've got your Hank (Call) your Dale (Gus) your Bill (Pea Eye) and Boomhauer (Jake). It's a lot of trash talking and joking around and cows. Then it gets pretty racist pretty fast (more than you might expect since it isn't actually of the period). It stays pretty racist for the remaining 75% of the book.
secondperson finished reading Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous …
it feels—at times—like an almost lovecraft adjacent romance that uses descriptions of food as the vehicle for all things horror, lust, hope, and despair.
secondperson rated Slow Down: 4 stars
Slow Down by Brian Bergstrom, Kohei Saito
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
secondperson rated Real Americans: 3 stars
secondperson rated Users: A Novel: 4 stars
secondperson finished reading Users: A Novel by Colin Winnette
Seeing a lot of dislike for this book after having devoured it in 2 days. I thought it was creative, surreal, and unnerving. Really replicating the unreliability and uncanny-valley-like nature of the premise.