fyodoralekseyev's reviews
176 reviews

Puts forward criticisms of parliamentary democracy, trade unionism, and Bolshevism in a readable manner and suggests council-based democracy as an alternative. Good book. 

Seems to be a good introduction to the topic. I find Daoism especially interesting now.

I genuinely really like how this book is non linear. Good book. Read it. 

What I find most interesting is that Wheem is presented as being comically unethical, with almost exclusively evil traits, with the exception of liking baseball. I am so curious on Richards' thought process there.

I read some Plato and didn't really get it too well. I think this book is accurate and is very readable.

Good introduction to the history and function of suburbs. 

This is a strange book. It is more of a metanalysis of what other authors have to say about the subject than any original ideas. Many authors/ideas are brought up for a sentence and then never mentioned again: the one which sticks in my mind being, during a chapter about Hitler's Viennese days, the quotation of some random author who says that opera is inherently homosexual, and interlaced with the culture. This idea is not touched on after the sentence. I can confirm that opera is not inherently homosexual.

Anderson spends most of the book debunking another book, "The Spear of Destiny", by Terry Ravenscroft, who I have not read but from the snippets provided seems highly untrustworthy. The second half is mostly about astrology and how many dates happened to line up with astrological things. I don't know anything about astrology so I cannot confirm whether these analyses are accurate.

I probably wouldn't read this book.

Less interesting than I'd thought it'd be, but still informative, and a good look into the inner workings of Nazi propaganda, especially pre-WWII.

I won't rate this because I think I am too stupid for this. The writing was absolutely beautiful, and vivid images were made in my mind without even noticing, and every character felt real. The only wrinkle is that the plots were all nonsense; nothing happened in any of them. We drop into some random family's life, some people talk, and we get a flashback: story over! I suppose it is a bit too realistic for life to actually be highly mundane. Maybe after reading more literature like this the stories will click better. 

On a more whimsical note, has Munro ever met an old couple whose been together through the ages? Everyone is separated/divorced in these stories. Wild.

Funny as hell. I hated everyone and it made it better. So funny to have a proto redditor 40 years before it's invention!

Accounting is confusing. Or maybe just this book is. Either way, I am happy that it is not my profession.