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John Dishwasher’s 2025 Year in Books
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John Dishwasher
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June 2015
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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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The Answer to Everything
My long essay Why We Hurt will be available for order February 1. Possibly I'm the only person you know that spent 14 years working on a 20,000 word essay. The back cover explains: "Across eons our ancestors evolved to behave in one way. But through recent millennia we humans have been trained to behave in a different way. The disconnect between how we evolved to behave and how we are now trained
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| Storytelling cliches get reused so often because they work. This is a mash up of gothic, fairies, witches, eternal love, destiny, a struggle against evil, photography and fucking. Roberts covers a lot of ground in just 81 pages without it feeling for ...more | |
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The Wind Will Burn = "Arderá el viento" Passion is so indiscriminate and promiscuous and everpresent that we don’t even realize it is our central motivator. Saccomanno creates a world in which passion is embodied in his protagonist and we watch how th ...more |
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| Ondaatje portrays the capacity of the human mind for genius, what it might feel like to have such genius, and how precarious it is to be burdened with it. I interpret his recipe for genius as a transcendent fusion of body, mind and soul through a per ...more | |
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| This portrays the power of cultural mores – including their constraints, the liberties they allow, and the behaviors of their adherents (which bind the extremes together). We see the lengths to which one must go to circumvent such mores, and the dang ...more | |
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| One of the constants in this transient world we inhabit is the resilience of the human soul. Maalouf shows this metaphorically through the endurance of the work of Omar Khayyam. We see Khayyam’s Rubaiyyat survive the turmoil of its own time, includin ...more | |
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| A glimpse into the struggles and sensibilities of the earliest modern humans. | |
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| Essentially we humans are incurably solitary. At the same time, we never stop trying to bridge the gap between our own souls and those of others. This novel meditates on this eternal separation of ours. It is about wanting to be close to someone in t ...more | |
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| Our humanly traits are so strongly rooted in us that essentially we cannot reform ourselves in any fundamental way, according to Hawthorne. So, despite our noble aspirations at both the personal and societal level, we rarely bring those aspirations t ...more | |
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| A counter-narrative that reconsiders and rebuts the glories of civilization. I have been officially disabused of my starry-eyed wonder for the likes of ancient Egypt and Sumer. I’m glad I was not a citizen thereof. | |
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| We are obsessed with the mysterious and the unknown, especially when it involves the uncanny or the forbidden. Even when told that the results behind full understanding may be dangerous still we seek out the answer. This theme is repeated throughout ...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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