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Very quick and practical guide. I've been investing for 3.5 years but I'd like to rearrange my investing habits with more knowledge and this book definitely helped, especially with considering interest, dividends, and how spending changes over a lifetime. I know, super simple aspects, but now I'm figuring out changing my asset allocation. I'd like to eventually be able to sit in a room of bullion and Benjamins and swim through them like Scrooge McDuck, that I would.
ALSO: In the context of these days, obviously public spending will be crucial to get everyone out of the global recession. To do my part to humanity and capitalism or whatever, I buy video games, Italian food, and fried chicken sandwiches.
ALSO: In the context of these days, obviously public spending will be crucial to get everyone out of the global recession. To do my part to humanity and capitalism or whatever, I buy video games, Italian food, and fried chicken sandwiches.
I was planning on double majoring in English and History. Then in the winter quarter, I got back from a trip from the Middle East and an hour after leaving the airport found myself sitting in one of the core introduction courses for English. The professor, who had too much energy for my jet-lagged haze, went deep and enthusiastically about transportation in "A Tale of Two Cities." Which I did not understand.
This kind of inadaptability to academia made me become an English minor in an instant. It's the same kind of inadaptability that lets me appreciate House of Leaves so much more. I hate citations too (I'm a law student and scored 50% on them, so maybe that's a sore point to my lack of diligence though). I found it both fascinating and incredulous how people try to dredge so much meaning and analysis (from their lens) into something. But it's what we want to do naturally, with Freudian, critical theory, and so on. But I don't think I was a good English student since a lot of the time I did not know what I was writing about. :000
Someone on the internet called HoL an "essay about writing books." Yes, in the physical- Zamano had lots of ideas behind creating materials- and also in the responsive- its fans remain debating the last page, for example, 23 years after release. Even if it was "not for you."
I'm not sure what to make of the "meaning" of the book so far. So many layers, of mythology, and pop culture embedded. I really enjoyed it even with the deliberate frusrations. Johnny's story was the most interesting part for me but also the most frustrating!
This kind of inadaptability to academia made me become an English minor in an instant. It's the same kind of inadaptability that lets me appreciate House of Leaves so much more. I hate citations too (I'm a law student and scored 50% on them, so maybe that's a sore point to my lack of diligence though). I found it both fascinating and incredulous how people try to dredge so much meaning and analysis (from their lens) into something. But it's what we want to do naturally, with Freudian, critical theory, and so on. But I don't think I was a good English student since a lot of the time I did not know what I was writing about. :000
Someone on the internet called HoL an "essay about writing books." Yes, in the physical- Zamano had lots of ideas behind creating materials- and also in the responsive- its fans remain debating the last page, for example, 23 years after release. Even if it was "not for you."
I'm not sure what to make of the "meaning" of the book so far. So many layers, of mythology, and pop culture embedded. I really enjoyed it even with the deliberate frusrations. Johnny's story was the most interesting part for me but also the most frustrating!
Barnes is a fantastic, incisive writer. Enjoyed this thoroughly (including the Dream, which has its real meat in the latter half. And then the book’s over.)
I don’t read romances often but this was quite compelling. le Guin is truly like no other
Imagine as a kid watching Jaws, a PG movie, then reading a book that's 50% about an explicit sex affair with a board cop's housewife and a scientist.
that's the only thing I remember hahaha
that's the only thing I remember hahaha
Really informative history of why modern China came to be. I definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to understand more!
There are decent parts worth reading if you want to follow the end of the main characters - but yeah, the focus falls apart for some flabbergasting decisions to follow a thousand perspectives. Maybe we aren't meant to care for all these new people, and instead engage with the author's commentary on war, history, politics, intolerance, and the ultimate recognition that good beating evil doesn't mean systematic change . . . but I want to know what happens to the heroes. And understandably it ends sadly and in a bittersweet tone. At least in the English translation, I'm sure I am missing out a lot not being able to read Polish.
also holy crud, what season 1 of the netflix show did to Cahir's portrayal!
That's end the end of my read, but I will probably get into the games next . . . yes I haven't played them yet.
also holy crud, what season 1 of the netflix show did to Cahir's portrayal!
That's end the end of my read, but I will probably get into the games next . . . yes I haven't played them yet.
