Assuming she meant Aryans, not Mongols. Still stupid.

Hello everyone! Am looking for specific books online for research purposes but unfortunately can't find them and at the same time would love to learn about such similar books that you know of. The books am looking for are 3 books:

1. Rotating Structures: Dynamics, Design and Control by K. C. Gupta and Shakti S. Gupta
2. Rotating Buildings : Dynamic Architecture by David Parker
3. Moving Architecture : A History of Rotating Building Technology by Chad Randl

Just that, when Genghis Khan was born, Rome had already been dead for 700 years.

Late to the party but I think this reddit and booktok are quite similar. I think booktok is viewed in a different light do to the medium conversations are shared through. It's all video so it can come across as Vayne because everyone's always got their face in the video and seems they're trying to push an "aesthetic" but most of the discussions are the same here!

Will definitely check him out!

You're a good person ❤️

Doing something physically while reading or listening might help you stay focused! Sometimes with reading I need my mind and body to be activated to be able to focus. So I’ll usually fidget with something that doesn’t take much like the pop socket on the back of my phone or if I’m at my desk I’ll draw swirls on paper while reading. This doesn’t work for everyone and some will just tune into the physical task they’re doing instead but it could be worth a shot!

Can I put this bluntly and be harsh? The first step is realising that Booktok / Booktube is full of grown-ups stuck in immature literature that is pushed on self-proclaimed bookworms, sponsored by publishers. They all read the same books, and they don't develop their own taste. I know this sounds insulting to some people but it's true. It isn't a productive environment for people who suffer from mental problems.

The only reading competition I have is with myself. There are hundreds of books on my reading list, every week it becomes longer, and I know I can never read them all.

Get off social media and look for friends who share your interest in reading. Read the same book for example, at a slow pace, talk about it, discuss it. Meet up for a coffee and to talk about the books.

Edit: I know that it is to be extremely depressed, I've been there (maybe I still am...). Get off those social media sites and try connect with people about reading in different ways. Read a book in the library, maybe someone will start a conversation.

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If you're this anxious about it, that might be what's distracting you in the first place. Just go back if you want to and don't if you don't. It's easy to miss things even if you catch every word in some books, just like a movie or TV show. Don't sweat it, just enjoy it. It's for you and no one else.

If you want to go back and re-read some sections because other people pointed out things you may have missed, go for it. That's all perfectly normal.

I knew what you meant.

If you love Russian literature, don’t forget Pushkin!

FSL speaker: I've read it in English and at the time found it a change from more morally upright 19th century English novels. Tried to read it in French a decade later, couldn't buy into anyone's characterisation (look at female writers' characterisation of women who are more on the sensitive or romantic side, vs. Flaubert's) or the descriptions of Emma's fingernails, got bored, read (also in French) the blingtastic D&D campaign that is Salammbô instead, and now incapable of ever taking Flaubert seriously as a writer. Hard to believe he'd ever really met people, especially women.

I don’t know about Aron’s work but judging by the 1996 release date, I’m assuming it wasn’t written with the most even-handed care when it came to stereotypes like this.

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I agree 100% . I thought it was a sign of those time but as I read it became needlessly cruel. Even Hella's dependency feels dramatic and male identified. I get what you're saying 100%

I do wonder whether it invented every teenage boy's favorite fantasy - "I scorn all society and therefore women want to fuck me" - or whether that was already a thing.

Never. Give up and read something else.

I think this is a case of a book that hit the culture very hard at the time but its attitude has become so integrated that it is now a tired cliche.

This is pretty common: a work (fiction, painting, dance, music etc) takes the world by storm which changes the world so that it comes to seem obvious and predictable. Who is shocked by Stavinsky's Rite of Spring any more?

Interesting to study in terms of cultural trends at the time in central Europe, perhaps - not interesting to read.

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100% overrated. Harry Haller is a teenager that never grew up. He read the first paragraph of a few wikipedia philosophy articles and decided he was a genius.

Just realized I said literature above when I meant to say Russian literature. I have not but it will most like be my next Dostoyevsky book!

I've encountered it only twice in my lifetime, once as an ebook where when I bought book 3 it was actually book 2, and once in a bookstore where what had the cover of a novel had the "guts" of a nonfiction book about child development. I think it's incredibly rare.

Then its unconstitutional and therefore illegal in the US.

thats true, the mystery is very interesting