!thenightfeeling@lemmy.world

Babel, by R. F. Kuang

By the way, there are also book communities here on Lemmy. Check out

!books@lemmy.world

Will do! Its pretty interesting so far.

I read as always several books at once.

One of them is Babel by R. F. Kuang. I was blown away at first, but after the first third of the book I’m not as as enthusiastic anymore. Everything to do with languages and translation is awesome, the characters are well defined but a bit one-dimensional so far, but I think the plot is nothing to write home about and has some „young adult“ vibes to me. It’s still good though, and I’m far from finished yet.

Another one is „the notebook a history of thinking on paper“ I just got it today, but it looks very promising.

Yeah, never could get into the baroque cycle von Stephenson. And he wrote at least 2 of my favourite books, Snow Crash and cryptonomicon. Reamde is also very good. But Quicksilver is just not as interesting as the premise suggests.

Yes! Brother, we might be few but we are here. Fuck Wintertime, summertime all along.

Yes, and sad. Eastern Germany is really beautiful, it could be such a nice part of the country.

Funny. I encountered exact the same thing a few hours ago in post where somebody called South Korea occupied.

Of course I was first downvoted and then banned after I was pointing out some things. They really don’t like the word „tankie“ on Lemmy.ml…

I don’t mind being banned, I wear it as a badge of honour. But they are cowards and hypocrites, which is rather sad.

Well the topic was about North Korea. Then you basically said „What about ISRAEL???“

No, not really. When I first encountered you guys, I was disappointed. Now I’m actually mocking you a bit.

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You thought?

Good one, but you can go outside anytime you want and proclaim that sleepy joe is an asshat.

Now do that in North Korea about dear leader.

But no worries, as soon as Trump gets elected, it will be eerily similar to North Korea.

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Sorry, what’s occupied Korea?

Sigh, I miss the 2000s.