Member Ruskoley

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Groups: Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Reading Through Time, Science Fiction Fans, The Weird Tradition
Joined: Apr 14, 2020

About My Library: Areas of Interest

Ancient Greece and Rome
Upanishads, Vedanta
"Gorgias," "The Art of Rhetoric," and Cicero
Scripture: Genesis and Romans
Zen, Dzogchen, Chan
Roman Britain
Normandy, Burgundy, Valois, Capetian dynasties
Erasmus, Luther, More
Descartes and Montaigne
French Revolution
F. Nietzsche
Rudyard Kipling
Wagner, Bach, Chopin
1848 Revolutions/Culture
Weimar Republic
WWI
M. Heidegger
Crime & Noir fiction
Frankfurt School, Critical Theory
Foucault, Barthes, Blanchot
Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Sloterdijk, Zizek, Byung-Chul Han
Borges, Aira, Enrique Vila-Matas, Llosa, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Saramago
Philosophy of Conciousness, A.I., Computer History, Data
Post-Modern Fiction: Bolano, Pynchon, Delillo, Gass, Gaddis, Kurkov
About Me: books 😄, baseball, hockey, kung fu, chess, cats
Homepage: https://aqsreviews.wordpress.com/
Currently Reading: The Terror by Dan Simmons
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
And Fire Poured Forth: 6 Tales of Military Horror by Alan Baxter
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Secrets of Chinese Meditation: Self-Cultivation by Mind Control As Taught in the Ch'An, Mahayana and Taoist Schools in China by Lu K'uan Yu (Charles Luk)
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by José Saramago
Domestication (Battle Mage Farmer, Book 1) by Seth Ring
Favorite Authors: César Aira, Armand Rosamilia
Favorite Lists: Favorite Caribbean Books

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