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#BooksThatInfluencedYou

Day 8

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...#SagradaFamília of the Catalan #AntoniGaudí (to be completed in 2033.)

That wasn't the only disappointment. I had expected something like Pillars of the Earth, but architecture is pretty much absent and construction work is chiefly just a background story.
That said, as it was one of my first novels in...

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Day 8

@VeroniqueB99

Aaaaaaa
so good
I want to read that one...

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Day 9:

Let's start with the 1st digitized book.

I am sure you all agree that this book , IF it had influenced all our lives decades earlier, the world would be a better place.

Failed education. Humankind's calamity

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So true...

So, (book) party people in the house, I still owe yesterday's installment of the #BooksThatInfluencedYou.
Day 10:
I read #RayBradbury's #dystopian #Fahrenheit451--the temperature at which books burn--as a high school senior. Never would I have thought that one day it could become true. Actually, we already live in the kind of #SurveillanceState envisioned, in many countries.
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#Fahrenheit 451, however, it is but one of the #SciFi #dystopias that seem to be becoming reality in many countries. Here are some:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110432256287101216

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For now, we're looking in awe at what is happening in the US, especially in the Bible Belt, but there is no room for complacency: If we don't push against it, we will get the same.

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Day11:

I have been looking with increasing dismay at the political situation in the #US: they are a #DemocracyInChains, a book by historian #NancyMcLean.

(To be fair, I'm cheating a bit here, as I've so far only read a detailed but excellent article on the book so far:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143

It is on the top of my reading list, though.)
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#USpol

As we were talking about it yesterday, this sums up the precarious #political situation in the US quite ftittingly:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112644064233277399

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