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John Dishwasher’s 2025 Year in Books
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John Dishwasher
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The Would-Be President: An American Farce
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The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground
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Why We Hurt
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meet me at The Spring Arts Tower Takeover
On Saturday, June 13, 2026, The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles is taking over a 12-storey building and filling it's empty office spaces and corridors with art and literature vendors. I will be there with $10 copies of The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground, $5 copies of Why We Hurt, and my street art zine "Street Gallery," among other resistance publications. I've never heard o
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| Your redemption is this, according to Kraus: Find that for which you would willingly sacrifice yourself, and then live for it. Such a purpose makes one impervious to the world, insulating one from its moral, spiritual and physical gore. Rescue your p ...more | |
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| All of the characters in this are trying to break free of the limitations that their environments have imposed upon them. Card seems to be saying that the most effective path out of these limitations is engaging with uncomfortable truths. I read this ...more | |
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| Often society tricks us away from personal fulfillment. In this novel we have a light-hearted rendering of the machinations we have to go through to recover that personal fulfillment. On one level this story is a shared spiritual quest, on another it ...more | |
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| Essentially each of us is alone, without real help, and constantly beset by danger and death. Martel shows us managing our predicament, but suggests that at some point it is necessary to not just survive the ordeal, but indeed to confront it, control ...more | |
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| There is something to do here with the self-righteous, self-absorbed elements of religion defiling and killing the human spirit. Or maybe it is the self-delusional and falsely modest human mind quashing and corrupting the human spirit. I can’t quite ...more | |
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| Selfishness is inescapable, according to Poole, and not altogether evil; it is even natural. When we live for ourselves we are selfish. But when we live for others we are being selfish, too, since, when we live for others, we are doing so because it ...more | |
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| How we see our world is our world. This book is a different world. Trías gives us insight into a primordial way of seeing. This story is what it would be like for a sensitive, intuitive, even genius personality to interact with the world if it had ne ...more | |
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| This was an unexpectedly compelling read as it blends memoir, biography and an introduction to Hakim Bey’s idiosyncratic thought. I had never been exposed to this kind of hedonistic transcendental esoterica. Bey blends reality with what he calls ‘the ...more | |
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| In this play the master is actually the slave. The most free character here is the gladiator Spartacus – free because even as a slave he is motivated by and willing to die for love and liberty and a very simple idyllic life. Crassus, the principal ch ...more | |
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| The paradox of human endeavor, according to Soseki, is that to be inactive is to damage yourself, but to be active is to damage others. Throughout this book we see the temptation to stay static out of trepidation or laziness or a feeling of security ...more | |
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“Good fortune makes men blind.”
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“Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.”
― Die schwarze Spinne
― Die schwarze Spinne
“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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