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Day 8:
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I guess, some of knew what was coming when I placed my comment on Day 7 regarding Day 6 (Pillars of the Earth). Well, here's the thing, I did like "La catedral del mar" (#CathedralOfTheSea) by #IldefonsoFalcones. It is about the uring the construction of a cathedral. But it is the lesser known Santa Maria del Mar, not the...
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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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Aaaaaaa
so good
I want to read that one...
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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
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, (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:
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so SF authors are dangerous. Got it !
Actually, yes.
#SciFi authors are dangerous--for (would-be) totalitarian rulers like Putin or Trump, because they show what can (or has already) happened.
Oh, and sometimes the authors are a think-tank collective writing non-fiction, such as the #HeritageFoundation with the takeover agenda of #Project2025:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111700111654540893
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One think that still eludes my poor brain is how books like 1984 or the matrix showed us dystopias that will all agreed upon were dystopias yet we kinda walked toward something not too different
This is a complete mystery. We have been warned over and over, and yet, we still go in full throttle!
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