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kleinbl00  ·  2835 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: July 18th is a good day for a book thread

About 2/3rds of the way through the third book. As audio. Then I got hit by a car and I seriously lost interest.

Shit be dry. And mostly you learn that every civilization you've ever heard of, every culture you've ever studied, every people you've ever seen a class presentation on,

A) hated women

B) tortured the lower class

C) is memorable primarily for being incredibly evil.

Also, the Stoics were dicks. So was Confucius. But fuckin' Schliemann was a badass.