I definitely saw “fake” books regularly when I lived in SEA. Especially in Vietnam, street sellers catering to backpackers. They’ve often been wonky copies, out of low-grade paper with often blurry covers. Easy to spot the difference to a genuine edition.
But I’ve never seen this in europe, online or offline. I guess police and costumes are much more strict about copyright and fake products in general. Can’t speak for the US or other places, thought.
I did the popsugar reading challenge and the goodreads “Around the year in 52 books” for a while.
Popsugar.co.uk will post a challenge with 40 book prompts plus 10 advanced prompts for the upcoming year normally late Nov/early Dec.
You’ll find a goodreads group dedicated to the challenge here
The “Around the Year in 52 books” (ATY) originated on goodreads and the group members vote together for 52 book prompts. One for every week. This is the group https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/174195-around-the-year-in-52-books
A little life.
Do I really have to explain why?
A book by Thich Nhat Hanh because it would mean we go spiritually in the same direction.
A book by Tiziano Terzani because he is my favourite non-fiction author, and barely anyone I meet knows him. I would really enjoy having a conversation with someone who likes his book(s) too. Would definitely be worth a date.
With your distorted worldview, please never come visit Germany or Europe for that matter.
And for your information, there are not more neo nazis in Germany than in the rest of the world. If at all there is more spotlight shone on them and they are more ostracised here than anywhere else.
We are not the ones who elected a far right fascist in the last years, who states publicly that white supremacist and violent fascists are “very fine people”.
You seem oblivious that those proud boys and other organisations running around Heil Hitlering themselves are exactly the ones who have genuine copies of Mein Kampf at home because they do agree with him. But sure, tell yourself there are no Neo Nazis in the US. You just call them Imperial Wizard or whatever instead.
The most part of your ramblings have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand. That you’ve been in the navy and shit, has nothing to do with your naive views on the world being nazi free (except Germany of course) and 100% agreeing on a view on Hitler.
I wish I was as naive as you. There are plenty of people around that don’t see him as the monster he is. The far right and fascist ideologies are on the rise worldwide. Neo Nazis who agree, praise him, and hold his message up, have always existed. People all over the world using symbols and phrases that praise Hitler all the fucking time. 88, HH, Hel Htler, the SS runes in many shapes and forms… these are only the most common ones.
Antisemitism and white supremacy are still very much real. An otherwise very average person once told me, “Hitler was a GOOD guy. MAYBE he went around it the wrong way, but he did have the RIGHT idea.” And this is something way too many people agree with.
If you have never met such a person, congratulations. Protect your sheltered life. But that doesn’t mean the evils of the world don’t exist.
Again, my comment was regarding the special situation around this book in Germany.
The question was who I would swipe left on, not who I would judge worldwide for their book shelf.
And? Did you rate them 5/5 Stars if you didn’t agree with them?
The “owning” part was specifically toward Mein Kampf and the special situation that it has in Germany.
I really don’t understand why I have to justify this to so many people who just disregard the fact that I was speaking especially about Germany and said so several times in my post.
I doubt that was in Germany. Which was an important part of my point.
There are plenty of books available in Germany that deal with Mein Kampf in a historical context. You can read all its contents, but not without historical criticism and comment.
Why would it be so important to someone to get a genuine copy of the book unless you disagree with the general commentary on it?
Owning Mein Kampf would be enough for me, seeing that it wasn’t published in Germany until the copyright ran out a few years ago. And even since then it’s only published as a heavily annotated version here in Germany. If you have a copy, besides the annotated one, it means you went way out of your way to get it.
Besides that, any book by Andrew Tate and anyone else catering to the “Manosphere”.
Any “Holy Book” like the Bible, the Koran, the Tora and any others. Its okay to be a religious person and to read these books, but I expect from people that are close to me to also see them with a healthy criticism and with the understanding that they were products of their time and the humans who wrote them down. I feel like only a fundamentalist would rate any kind of religious “Holy Book” 5*.
I’m more annoyed about bad accents. For God’s sake, if you can’t do an accent well, don’t do it. And if it’s a non English accent, you most likely just sound racist (looking at you “Garden of Evening Mists” narrator)
I DNF’d aufiobooks and given 1* reviews over this and will do it again.
First, Stephen King. I like him, but the sheer quantity puts him on the top of my list because re-reading the same 3 books some author wrote for the rest of my life doesn’t sound fun.
Imagine someone chooses Harper Lee and only has “To kill a mockingbird” and “Go set a Watchman” to read til the end of time…
Second, Terry Prachett. I think this is self-explanatory.
Third, Isabell Alende. Because she his a fantastic writer. She does scratch the romance itch (but less sappy and more feminist) but also provides adventure and magical realism and family and history and personal drama.
YA is just very popular at the moment. I am not a young adult anymore and still like to read them sometimes. It’s a genre like any other, and I don’t always specify all genres in a book suggestion either.
The normal thing to do is to look up a boo a stranger recommended to you, to see if that’s what you want to read. Goodreads and other pages normally lable YA books reliably.
If it does bother you, YOU should specify in your request that you don’t want YA recommendations. People can not read your mind. It’s not on them to label recommendations like YA is a trigger warning.
YA is just very popular at the moment. I am not a young adult anymore and still like to read them sometimes. It’s a genre like any other, and I don’t always specify all genres in a book suggestion either.
The normal thing to do is to look up a boo a stranger recommended to you, to see if that’s what you want to read. Goodreads and other pages normally lable YA books reliably.
If it does bother you, YOU should specify in your request that you don’t want YA recommendations. People can not read your mind. It’s not on them to label recommendations like YA is a trigger warning.
I tried to read it years ago when I was a teenager. I couldn’t get into it either. But the movie is really good.
James Baldwins Collected Essays. 869p.
Absolutely beautiful to read. But I need all my concentration and a certain mindset to appreciate it.
I’m reading it on and off for over a year, and I’m halfway through by now.
Unpopular opinion, but Salman Rushdie. He’s controversial. That’s all.
I’m glad that I saw the movie before reading the books. I could ravel in the fact, how good they are, especially compared to the movie, instead of getting frustrated and angry.