Most recent books you bought.

[Scearoth]

I recently got Mistborn and The Poppy War which I'm reading.

 

[Jackarandajam]

Saving Beauty - Byung-Hul Chan
Transformative Experience - L. A. Paul
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics - Hegel

 

[Gurkhal]

More books for me. This time two classics: "The Proud Tower" by Barbara W. Tuckman and the first book in the "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser.

 

[Phantasy]

Sanderson's Wind and Truth. I was disappointed with it, if I'm completely honest, and don't recommend the series anymore to people looking for a new series to read.

Really? I'm just starting to read The Stormlight Archive with The Way of Kings.

 

[Karlin]

I downloaded The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, by Nyanaponika Thera

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[Rexenm]

I’m awaiting The Floating World - Axie Oh.

 

[The Dark One]

More books for me. This time two classics: "The Proud Tower" by Barbara W. Tuckman and the first book in the "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser.

I loved the Flashman books (have reread them several times) but sincerely doubt they'd be published these days.

 

[Gurkhal]

I loved the Flashman books (have reread them several times) but sincerely doubt they'd be published these days.

I haven't read it but from reviews it does not sound very PC. Still I had it recommended and given its reviews I hope it will be a good read and I'll read the rest of the series as well.

 

[The Dark One]

It is masterfully written but very, very far from PC. Flashman was a cad and a bully (as depicted in Tom Brown's Schooldays), but also funny and urbane. He's a faithful representation of a C19 English gentleman: privileged, snobbish, a deceitful womaniser, racist, both bully and coward and just thoroughly appalling.

I suppose that's how such people were in the 1840s but some will put it down in disgust. It was written in 1966 when the world was significantly different from today and, despite being brilliantly researched and an absolute masterpiece of storytelling, I doubt any publisher would touch it now without some very fundamental revisions.

 

[Gurkhal]

It is masterfully written but very, very far from PC. Flashman was a cad and a bully (as depicted in Tom Brown's Schooldays), but also funny and urbane. He's a faithful representation of a C19 English gentleman: privileged, snobbish, a deceitful womaniser, racist, both bully and coward and just thoroughly appalling.

I suppose that's how such people were in the 1840s but some will put it down in disgust. It was written in 1966 when the world was significantly different from today and, despite being brilliantly researched and an absolute masterpiece of storytelling, I doubt any publisher would touch it now without some very fundamental revisions.

I'll make sure to brace myself before I get into it.