SuperSpreader Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Some more on The Accommodation Quote Schutze contends that until 1990, when 14-1 permitted the city’s separate neighborhoods to elect their own council members — including Black and Latino candidates — Dallas never really functioned as a democracy. It operated more like a 15th-century Italian city-state run by a handful of wealthy families, with real power shared and traded amongst family members. Six Big Things You Can Learn About Dallas Racial History In “The Accommodation” | Art&Seek ARTANDSEEK.ORG Watch the conversation between John Wiley Price and Jim Schutze Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. Jim Schutze's The Accommodation has been called "the most dangerous book in Dallas" by D Magazine. That's because, written in 1986, it viewed the city entirely through the history of race -- from slavery to the "accommodation" of the title. That's Schutze's term for the under-the-table relationship that started in the '50s between the city's white business... Here's an old ass article from the NYTimes about how Dallas was run Group of Businessmen Rules Dallas Without a Mandate From the Voters - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM article on how group of businessmen, Dallas Citizens Council, rules city though unelected; council history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 8 hours ago, SuperSpreader said: Sorry! Something went wrong! A.CO Amazing Just letting you know that Amazon links don't embed with our plug-in like other sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 8 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Just letting you know that Amazon links don't embed with our plug-in like other sites. I noticed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 On 3/14/2023 at 9:40 PM, gamer.tv said: Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks. I’ve somehow acquired 4 books by Faulks and read one of them. So far, it’s been great, just teeny weeny writing so reading 80 pages feels more like 150. I’ve been working my way through this and now have about 140 pages to go. It’s been pretty engaging with the usual (I say this after only reading Birdsong) weird, overly sexualised stuff that appears in Faulks’ work. I think I’ll buy something a bit lighter after this as I was going to read Wuthering Heights, but I think I’d rather have a ‘rest’ book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Finished Desperation and The Black Mouth over the last two nights. Both really good reads. Now starting Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Gotta get some of my BOTM backlog whittled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 I'm reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep fame) for a book club. It's holding my interest, but it's definitely grating how sexist some of the language is. A product of the time, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 "The Night Agent" after watching the show, I of course had to check out the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 I’m listening to the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemison. I had read the books 4-5 years ago (whenever the third one was coming out), but I had some Audible credits building up and thought these would be worth the revisit. It’s shocking just how poorly I retain anything I read, apparently. I’m a few chapters into the second book, and already there’s been major characters/plot lines I had completely forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 just finished listening to The Onset by Boris something or other It's an apocalyptic LitRPG that was so bad and yet I couldn't stop listening...just to see how insanely bad it could get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Finished all three of the books I'd been reading a few days ago, so I started fresh yesterday. Fiction: The Shadows We Hide by Allen Eskens Nonfiction: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 On 3/9/2023 at 9:40 AM, thewhyteboar said: I just finished Warlock, by Oakley Hall. This is truly a masterpiece of American literature. It's a fictionalized, quasi retelling of the Gunfight at the the OK Corral. But really, it's about the poisonous fallout of violence, and how using violence to achieve safety and justice will result in neither. Now I gotta track down the movie with Henry Fonda. Haven't updated in awhile. I read 100 Years of Solitude, now I'm reading Lonesome Dove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Ended up starting Frankenstein which I haven’t read since high school. It certainly makes a few leaps in its opening to the point of Adam being made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Finishing up Valkyrie Rising by Peter Gibbons tonight. It's the 5th in his Viking Blood and Blade series. These books are just fun reads for me. Wish they'd gone through a more rigorous proofreading, though. I hate finding silly mistakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Fiction: True Biz by Sara Novic Nonfiction: Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard Kindle(fiction): Bone White by Ronald Malfi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Finished "The Night Agent." Definitely a case of the show writers going in their own direction with the material. The book is considerably different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Just started City on Fire by Don Winslow. @Commissar SFLUFAN, you read this, right? I forget which other user here likes Winslow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Just started City on Fire by Don Winslow. @Commissar SFLUFAN, you read this, right? I forget which other user here likes Winslow. That's correct, I believe @thewhyteboar read it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 That’s who I was thinking of, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 I also decided to start reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Wasn’t in my radar, but I was looking at my TBR shelf this morning and this one seemed to be calling to me. I am entertained thus far. I read Slaughterhouse Five some years back and always meant to read more of his works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 12 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: That's correct, I believe @thewhyteboar read it as well. Yup that’s me. The Savages is my favorite, the Border trilogy is fantastic as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 13 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: Yup that’s me. The Savages is my favorite, the Border trilogy is fantastic as well. What are you thinking of the new trilogy? You read the sequel that just released? Also, Savages was great, but that ending fucking depressed me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 I liked the first one! Haven’t read the second yet. But I think it’s cool it’s set in Hollywood. Aeneas rules, so I’ll get to it at some point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 5 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I also decided to start reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Wasn’t in my radar, but I was looking at my TBR shelf this morning and this one seemed to be calling to me. I am entertained thus far. I read Slaughterhouse Five some years back and always meant to read more of his works. I love Vonnegut, or at least I did the last time I read him (5+ years ago). Did you ever read Sirens of Titan? I remember that being one of my favorites of his, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 23 minutes ago, Nokra said: I love Vonnegut, or at least I did the last time I read him (5+ years ago). Did you ever read Sirens of Titan? I remember that being one of my favorites of his, too. Nope, this is only my second. Not far in, but I love his style. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 City on Fire was awesome. Ill be reading the sequel in the near future. I think I'm gonna start Sign Here by Claudia Lux next. I'm always behind with my BOTM stack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Phew, Sign Here was pretty awful. Time for a palate cleanser. Starting The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. I think my new nonfiction will be Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M Scott. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 9 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Phew, Sign Here was pretty awful. Time for a palate cleanser. Starting The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. I think my new nonfiction will be Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M Scott. I've only read Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men, but absolutely loved all of them. Will be really curious to know what you think of The Moon Is Down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 5 hours ago, Nokra said: I've only read Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men, but absolutely loved all of them. Will be really curious to know what you think of The Moon Is Down. I’ll post my thoughts. I read 20 pages last night and it’s only 112 pages. I love Steinbeck. I’ve read the three you mentioned, and they were excellent. EoE is one of my all time favorite books. Only other one I’ve read so far is The Pearl. It was a short read, but I don’t recall it doing much for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 I finished The Moon is Down, @Nokra. 8/10. It’s a quick read, but I see why it was so powerful for the time it was written. It’s a fable, but it’s clear it’s about the invasion of Norway by the nazis. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 I'm also about halfway through Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor. He's an Arkansas writer and he's written two crime novels so far. This is the first and it's pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Finished Don't Know Tough. Now onto The Last Word by Taylor Adams. Just got it in from BOTM and a quick thriller sounds appealing right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Starting my Dark Tower journey with The Gunslinger by Stephen King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 So I just literally blew through Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden here at work tonight. I’d never heard of this book before and god, I wish I’d known about it as a teenager. It gave me all the feels. Now to go down the rabbit hole of sapphic romance. And I’ve never been a romance reader. Fuck it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 I've literally blown through two more sapphic romances this weekend. Now reading Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur. This is more of a rom-com. And I'm getting back to The Gunslinger and Black Snow. I kinda abandoned them this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 On 4/17/2023 at 10:09 AM, thewhyteboar said: Haven't updated in awhile. I read 100 Years of Solitude, now I'm reading Lonesome Dove. Finished that, I had planned on reading something else but Lonesome Dove was so good that I immediately started the sequel, Streets of Laredo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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