Grand unified books thread

[Octavian]

Currently reading a book about Vegas and the mob. It's mostly a collection of various stories and anecdotes but still interesting. I especially like the story of the two dumb Tony's who, while driving to Los Angeles in order to work for Mickey Cohen, decided to stop by Vegas and rob the Flamingo. This at a time when it was controlled by Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello among others.

The two dumb Tony's got away with 3000 $. And were later found in Los Angeles shot several times in the face.

[Gaijin de Moscu]

If anyone's into Historical Fantasy / Aztecs, drop me a pm with your email and I'll be happy to gift you my book on Amazon for free.

It's cheap now, but I'll increase the price soon.

[Capetan Mihali]

Read most of the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom."  Goodness me. 

My favorite passage was from the editors' foreword, though, and one I find very moving: "... as a judge, and to his mortal peril, [the Marquis de Sade] declined to sentence members of the opposition to death, explaining that while one might commit crimes for the sake of pleasure, it was not among his principles to murder in the name of justice."   

[The Brain]

Haven't read any Sade. Like reading about taking a dump.

[Capetan Mihali]

Haven't read any Sade. Like reading about taking a dump into a kidnapped child's mouth.

FYPFY, but that is basically it.  Kind of mesmerizing in its own way, though.

[CountDeMoney]

Kind of mesmerizing in its own way, though.

Yeah, he's kind of trippy.  I find it difficult to believe the argument that he was a political philosopher, though.

Sorta hard to see a daughter's dildoing her mother and sewing up her labia as a compelling argument of natural law as a counterweight to church doctrine.

[Capetan Mihali]

Sorta hard to see a daughter's dildoing her mother and sewing up her labia as a compelling argument of natural law as a counterweight to church doctrine.

[Zoupa]

My parent's house in France looks out on Sade's castle.  Sad to say it's a crumbled pile nowadays.

[Razgovory]

Kind of mesmerizing in its own way, though.

Yeah, he's kind of trippy.  I find it difficult to believe the argument that he was a political philosopher, though.

Sorta hard to see a daughter's dildoing her mother and sewing up her labia as a compelling argument of natural law as a counterweight to church doctrine.

Yeah, since he was known to have torture and raped his own servants, I don't think he was writing to test the limits of acceptable human behavior.  He just wrote about the kind of things he liked to do.  Since he also wrote about murder, and considering that he acted or tried to act on his other fantasies I think there's a strong possibility that he was also a serial killer.  I don't think there's any direct evidence of that, but serial killers are hard to find, and if a prostitute was found strangled in a ditch somewhere nobody would have cared much in those days.  The Guy was the 18th century version of the BTK serial killer.

[Lettow77]

 The Makioka Sisters. Getting my literary dose of Ara Ara~

Then it's on to Crysanthemum and the Sword, which is my favourite kind of book.

I haven't read in awhile because i've been ingesting culture through alternative means. Excited to be back into it.

[The Brain]

I'm reading a brand new Swedish book about the 1,000+ year history of Swedes east of the Baltic. Obviously it's not news to me that it existed but it's interesting to read details about for instance the history of the city of Viborg. Founded by Sweden in the 13th century, within the borders of Sweden until 1710 (officially 1721), and with a big and important Swedish community until WW2. After WW2 obviously all Swedes and Finns had left. I came through Viborg in 1991 and it sure was a sorry sight. Russians cannot into good.

If anyone's interested it's Den glömda historien by John Chrispinsson.

[Malthus]

My parent's house in France looks out on Sade's castle.  Sad to say it's a crumbled pile nowadays.

Too bad, it would make an excellent site for an upscale hotel.

"I'm staying in the Sade's castle tonight ... ". 

[Sheilbh]

Going on a Le Carre binge before the release of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (). 

It's a good binge.

[Ed Anger]

My parent's house in France looks out on Sade's castle.  Sad to say it's a crumbled pile nowadays.

Too bad, it would make an excellent site for an upscale hotel.

"I'm staying in the Sade's castle tonight ... ". 

I'd go. 

[11B4V]

Going to tackle Zamulin's Prokhorovka tome.