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22-04-2020, 11:45 PM
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23-04-2020, 12:16 AM
Obviously not the most desirable of missions but still gotta give it to him, he threw himself into hell for what he considered to be a greater overall purpose. Very few individuals would do something like that.
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08-05-2020, 10:23 AM
The Diary of Anne Frank
This has been one of the most moving, important and meaningful pieces of work I've read yet. Up there with The Gulag Archipelago and Ordinary Men.
To think she wrote it between the ages of 13 - 15 is astonishing. For a girl of that age to write so eloquently isn't like anything you'll see, especially not in this day and age. She was intelligent and mature way beyond her years and should have been given more respect from the adults in her life.
Her dream was to become a journalist, and eventually a famous writer. Well, although she sadly didn't live to see it, she got her wish, because this was unintentional literary genius.
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08-05-2020, 11:02 AM
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The Diary of Anne Frank
This has been one of the most moving, important and meaningful pieces of work I've read yet. Up there with The Gulag Archipelago and Ordinary Men.
To think she wrote it between the ages of 13 - 15 is astonishing. For a girl of that age to write so eloquently isn't like anything you'll see, especially not in this day and age. She was intelligent and mature way beyond her years and should have been given more respect from the adults in her life.
Her dream was to become a journalist, and eventually a famous writer. Well, although she sadly didn't live to see it, she got her wish, because this was unintentional literary genius.
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Some say her dad wrote it, or at least heavily edited it.
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08-05-2020, 11:34 AM
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Some say her dad wrote it, or at least heavily edited it.
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He did have some editorial input on what was originally published, but he didn't re-write anything.
Anne had decided that when the war was over she would publish a book based on her diary. So she began re-writing and editing and improving the text, deleting stuff she didn't think was interesting enough and adding stuff from memory. The original diary was still kept though.
After the war her dad was given back the diaries, and he decided to fulfil her wish and have them published. However, at the time it was taboo to discuss sex related topics, and Anne had expressed sexual intrigue and impulses, so originally he omitted those parts, as well as stuff he didn't like about himself and his wife.
When her dad died in 1980 he willed all versions to the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation. And being aware that the diary had been challenged over the years, done a thorough investigation and essentially published the entire correct text.
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18-05-2020, 11:01 PM
Hitlers Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
This book is a study a similar to Ordinary Men. Of all the extensive reading and research I've done about The Holocaust, it seems like the women involved in the crimes of this era are largely overlooked in terms of culpability, but many of these bitches were even more sadistic and depraved than some of the top Nazis.
So we of course have the ones who were able to easily claim plausible deniability for their actions such as nurses administering lethal injections because their superiors told them to. But there were others who carried out unspeakable acts just because they could.
When I read about the actions of Johanna Altvater, I was so gobsmacked I had to first of all pause in order to process it, then go over it again to make sure I wasn't mistaken in some way. She walked into a Jewish ghetto one day, beckoned a toddler towards her with a treat, picked the toddler up, held her by the legs and proceeded to bash the child's head off a wall until she was dead, then flung the child's lifeless body at her fathers feet... Another day she entered a children's ward, picked up a child, walked to the balcony and flung the child off on to the pavement below, then later that day rounded up the older children at the balcony and pushed them off one by one... Apparently one of her favourite party tricks was to beckon young toddlers towards her with a treat, and when the child got close enough to get the sweet and opened their mouth to receive it, instead she'd pull out a pistol and shoot the kid in the mouth.
Another SS mans wife, Erna Petri, one day found 6 boys aged 8 - 12 years old. They were at the side of the road freezing, hungry, barely clothed and terrified. The lads had managed to escape from a train destined for a death camp. She took the boys in her carriage to her villa, to await her husbands return that evening, so that he could decide what to do with them. Whilst there she fed and cared for the the boys, in essence providing the young lads with a tiny shred of hope in this living nightmare. When her husband failed to return, she took the boys into the woods, lined them up by a ditch, and shot them all in the back of the head. She's one of the very few who rightly did do a very long time in prison for her deeds, whilst the other psycho bitch pretty much got away with everything she done.
And there obviously were many, many more nasty Nazi bitches doing horrendous things. Those are just a few examples.
I remember a while back that I had to take a break from reading about his kind of inhumane shit, but I think I'm completely desensitised to it all now. I don't imagine there being much that could shock me at this point.
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20-05-2020, 08:49 AM
Night, by Elie Wiesel... Nobel peace prize winner.
True life account of a teenage boys experience, having been evacuated to Auschwitz aged 15 with his mum, dad and little sister.
Upon arrival of course, they were separated from his mum and sister, who likely died immediately, having been pointed in the direction of a crematorium.
The story itself is then heavily based on his and his dads struggle to survive the horrors of the camps they were forced to endure. It's enlightening to read first-hand accounts and details from those who were there, and who just about managed to survive. He was incarcerated for a year, and his dad made it almost all the way before giving up not long before liberation, much to the dismay of his son who tried his best to motivate and keep him alive.
Something that made me smile was when he was writing about the cattle car journey to Auschwitz. He said that at night, under the cover of dark, some of the younger folk "caressed" each other. Obviously he's using soft language, but I take it to mean they consoled each other with sex or sexual activity. In my opinion, fair play, because if I happened to find myself in a similar position, where I was in transit to an uncertain future which could simply mean death on arrival, I'd be doing the exact same thing with willing females.
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09-06-2020, 09:20 PM
Now that I've started back to work full time, I've quickly been making adjustments to my time outside work. As much as possible I'm doing what Jordan Peterson preaches and "making a damn schedule". I've deleted social media, so my evenings are now mostly freed up aside from eating and other necessary shit.
I have so many books that it causes me a bit of a headache trying to decide what to read next. So I decided to remove this minor annoyance and put together a list I can follow without having to worry about what's next, which looks like this..
1. We Yevgeny Zamyatin
2. Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and mass Killing James Waller
3. Beyond Good and Evil Fredrich Nietzsche
4. Operation Paperclip Annie Jacobsen
5. The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt
6. Notes from The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. 1984 George Orwell
8. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
9. The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell
10. South: The Endurance Expedition Ernest Shackleton
11. Island Aldous Huxley
12. Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of Jews Peter Longerich
13. The Art of Seduction _ Robert Greene
14. Lord of the Flies William Golding
15. The Choice: Embrace the Impossible Dr. Edith Eger
16. The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
17. Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and The Holocaust Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
18. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage David E. Hoffman
19. The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky
20. The Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene
21. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
22. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: William Shirer
23. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
24. Area 51: An Uncensored History of Americas Top Secret Military Base Annie Jacobsen
25. Shantaram Gregory David Roberts
26. Auschwitz: A Doctors Eyewitness Account Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
27. Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
28. Papillon Henri Charriere
29. Children Who Kill Carol Anne Davis
30. Discourses of Epictetus George Long
31. Games People Play Psychology of Human Relationships Eric Berne
32. Hitlers Table Talk Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens
33. Gangsters and Goodfellas Henry Hill
34. The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy
35. Mastery Robert Greene
36. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
37. The Stone Crusher Jeremy Ironfield
38. The Sixteenth Round Robin Hurricane Carter
39. An Island hell A Soviet Prison in the Far North S. A. Malsagoff
40. A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
41. The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
42. The Art of Betrayal: The secret History of MI6 Gordon Corera
43. The Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - - Tom Reiss
44. Meditations Marcus Aurelius
45. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Timothy Snyder
46. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Matt Ridley
47. Made in America Sam Walton
48. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoew
49. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
50. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Nikolaus Wachsmann
This started as a list of 100 but I settled on 50. It's going to be interesting to see how long it takes to get through these, but I do think it'll be quicker than it would without having them set out in a structured way.
*Dan reserves the right to edit and/or add to this list*
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10-06-2020, 08:15 PM
Today I added downloaded another 7 books. In line with those listed above in the tyranny and totalitarianism genre, they are all to do with North Korea, mostly the stories of people who escaped the country..
Escape from Camp 14
The Girl with Seven Names
Every Falling Star
A Thousand Miles To Freedom
Under the Same Sky
..and 2 that aren't escape stories..
Dear Leader
Escape From Freedom
Since I'm deeply engrossed in this topic, I should also be looking into this active, modern day totalitarian state.
And so this is the problem I have, I keep seeing awesome stories and immediately downloading them, building and building this continually overwhelming collection of reading material. I need to stop the habit of searching for more stuff when I already have years worth of reading.
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28-06-2020, 07:30 PM
Since creating that reading list 19 days ago I've read 5 books..
We Yevgeny Zamyatin
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and mass Killing James Waller
A Thousand Miles To Freedom
Escape from Camp 14
...and one that's not on the list..
Influence - Rob Yeung
That's good going when compared to the measly 10 or so books I'd read since the start of the year up until the 9th of June.
So in 161 days I read 10 books, and in 19 days I read 5. That's roughly 4 times the pace I was reading before, and I think I could even do a bit better than that.
Making a reading schedule was a solid game changer.
Next up I'm trying Nietzsches work for the first time.
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