Really enjoyed re-reading this. The Gospel According to Mark was my favorite story in here but I liked them all.
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astralstreeting finished reading Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics
astralstreeting finished reading Ranx à New-York by Tanino Liberatore
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astralstreeting reviewed Brodie's report by Jorge Luis Borges
I think it is his best work
5 stars
astralstreeting rated Brodie's report: 5 stars
astralstreeting finished reading Brodie's report by Jorge Luis Borges
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I trudged on. The material on the Assyrians is the best I have encountered. He got on the soap box a few more times but not enough to put the book down.
astralstreeting finished reading Abrahamic Religions by Charles L. Cohen
astralstreeting finished reading Innocent 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto
Innocent 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto
En el siglo XVIII estalló en Francia, motivada por el anhelo de “libertad e igualdad”, la revolución que representaría el …
astralstreeting started reading Innocent 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto
Innocent 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto
En el siglo XVIII estalló en Francia, motivada por el anhelo de “libertad e igualdad”, la revolución que representaría el …
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astralstreeting finished reading Babylon by Paul Kriwaczek
Babylon by Paul Kriwaczek
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astralstreeting commented on Babylon by Paul Kriwaczek
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This is getting hard to read.
The book starts off with this quote: ““History which does not inform present-day concerns amounts to little more than self-indulgent antiquarianism”
Of course, what this really means is that the author is going to use his vanity pop history book to rant about something he doesn’t like from modern times.
It starts with a whole thing about Saddam Hussein. It chills out, spends many chapters actually being useful and informative about day-to-day life and mythology. Now he’s driving hard that Uruk 3 was like the Soviet Union and comparing ziggurats to some skyscrapers Stalin built after the war. Let’s see if I can squeeze a little more useful info out of this before I give up…