Not op but I looked it up. It's a type of self-help/self-development framework. Never been much for self help books but it seemed at least interesting.
It's a psychological framework for working with your shadow, which is a psychological term for personality traits we have rejected, ignored or suppressed.
Wondering how it took so long to read them, I find so much scific crushingly boring like I am reading the script for a movie that must be literally filmed and thus has all of the stage directions laid out along with a dissecting all knowing narrator that just directly hands me the described emotional intentions and desires of characters as if human beings were conscious of that kind of thing most of the time... ugh....
Annihilation avoids this pitfall beautifully but I think I never checked it out because people focused on the environmental aspects of it, which are incredible, but far more important is the way in which Annihilation demolishes 99% of scifi as childishly amateur men sitting in comfy rooms thinking about war in space trying to futiley deny the future from growing organically out from under them.
I like Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Italo Calvino... weird shit that pushes the boundaries of what a novel can do... what words can do. I despise authors that think they know what their characters were truly thinking when they did something and will assert it directly in the text and even as Annihilation narrates the internal thoughts of characters it still somehow respects that magic space between us and what we are observing, and thus the novels have a very intense peculiar life to them.
The Annihilation series more than any other fiction I have discovered in years actually feels relevant and forward looking to the process of annihilation, extinction and radical letting go of our past selves that the catastrophic acceleration of climate change has locked us into.
It feels like a necessary compliment to Braiding Sweetgrass in describing the sickness of this time.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
I'll start since I'm the only one here now, hopefully not forever it literally took one minute for someone else to get here.
I started the audiobook of James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods this past weekend and I'm really enjoying it. I was a huge fan of the Expanse novels and especially the performance by Jefferson Mayes on the audiobooks that I picked their new book up almost on reflex.
Unfortunately it looks like all the copies of the book and audiobook on Libby are waitlisted so put a hold on now!
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dotslashme@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y
Currently reading/listening to
sprite0@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Not op but I looked it up. It's a type of self-help/self-development framework. Never been much for self help books but it seemed at least interesting.
sprite0@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
dotslashme@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y
It's a psychological framework for working with your shadow, which is a psychological term for personality traits we have rejected, ignored or suppressed.
sprite0@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
this post
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
😄
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
For real though, I am listening to the Annihilation series with my partner.
https://www.jeffvandermeer.com/book/annihilation
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
I hear they're an absolute trip. How're you liking them?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Wondering how it took so long to read them, I find so much scific crushingly boring like I am reading the script for a movie that must be literally filmed and thus has all of the stage directions laid out along with a dissecting all knowing narrator that just directly hands me the described emotional intentions and desires of characters as if human beings were conscious of that kind of thing most of the time... ugh....
Annihilation avoids this pitfall beautifully but I think I never checked it out because people focused on the environmental aspects of it, which are incredible, but far more important is the way in which Annihilation demolishes 99% of scifi as childishly amateur men sitting in comfy rooms thinking about war in space trying to futiley deny the future from growing organically out from under them.
I like Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Italo Calvino... weird shit that pushes the boundaries of what a novel can do... what words can do. I despise authors that think they know what their characters were truly thinking when they did something and will assert it directly in the text and even as Annihilation narrates the internal thoughts of characters it still somehow respects that magic space between us and what we are observing, and thus the novels have a very intense peculiar life to them.
The Annihilation series more than any other fiction I have discovered in years actually feels relevant and forward looking to the process of annihilation, extinction and radical letting go of our past selves that the catastrophic acceleration of climate change has locked us into.
It feels like a necessary compliment to Braiding Sweetgrass in describing the sickness of this time.
sprite0@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
A bona fide classic
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
I'll start
since I'm the only one here now, hopefully not foreverit literally took one minute for someone else to get here.I started the audiobook of James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods this past weekend and I'm really enjoying it. I was a huge fan of the Expanse novels and especially the performance by Jefferson Mayes on the audiobooks that I picked their new book up almost on reflex.
Unfortunately it looks like all the copies of the book and audiobook on Libby are waitlisted so put a hold on now!
The Mercy of Gods - James S.A. Corey
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Just finished reading a bunch of Dean Koontz for the first time. Now I'm reading Project Hail Mary.