[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, and of course the superficial stuff is easy to grasp, like one character is lazy, or the other more of a dreamer who achieves nothing. But you feel like there are things going over your head.

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

At the moment I'm reading Dead Souls by Gogol. I've been at it for a while. It's a bit heavy for a summer read, but I'm enjoying it somewhat. It's fun to see all the colorful characters that come across, but I have the idea a lot is going over my head as I'm not that familiar with the Russia of that time. It's sad quite a bit is missing of the second part.

Only about 70 pages left. The next book will definitely be something lighter...

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

Eh, anything that melts I'd suppose. Most of the times I used gouda, because that's what was in the fridge

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

They are pretty versatile, especially if they are homemade. But my go-to's are a smokey bbq sauce or sriracha mayo

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

I do it with ublock origin. It prevents the paywall from loading.

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Just turn off javascript for the domain.

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Nah, went off on the "bigger and uglier".

And surely the Chinese did it fine, but Yugoslav Brutalism is just something else ;)

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Is this still a boring dystopia? This is pretty neat. Dystopian, yes, but neat.

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, this is my 3rd Japanese novel I'm reading, so I'm only just getting started. But I'll be sure to keep posting here.

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

I wanted to dive deeper in specific topics this year, rather than jumping from one topic to the next. The coming months I want to read mostly contemporary Japanese literature, which is still a very broad topic of course. Right now I'm reading No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, a short novel about a troubled man who fails to connect to others. Currently halfway and ian incredibly bleak view on human relationships and interaction.

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

What would be the financial angle here?

[-] Roggebrood@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I've just watched Brazil, a dystopian scifi from the 80s. The visuals were great, and I love the genre, but I wasn't really feeling it. I just couldn't really care about the characters.

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