“The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear”
It’s a fictional book.
Damn, that was the first thing I thought of before clicking on this thread as well.
Great book. Great series.
Oh wow, I didn’t even know they exist in other languages until I had to google it for this thread in english :D
The Dutch translation is great. One of the few books I prefer to read in Dutch over English.
Moers wrote many great books in his Zamonia setting, but bluebear is head and shoulders above the rest.
The books have great art too. Done by the author, as he’s a cartoonist.
Cooking with Coolio
What’s your favorite recipe from coolio
Kicking the ladder
It tells how rich countries got rich by breaking the rules they ask/demand poor countries to follow.
History of economics
The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I’ve ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.
I abstract everything to such an extent that what I’ve read is almost like a part of me I have trouble separating like this.
There are many things I’ve read but never talk about. I mean, I was a Jehovah’s Witness growing up, and quite an active one. I’ve read the bible many times, along with most of the numerous publications. I know more than most witnesses; enough that no witnesses want to talk to me about it because there is nothing they could say that I am unaware of on the subject. I’m smart enough to know that objective reasoning with a belief system is completely counter productive and pointless. I have never spoken out against it publicly or been labeled apostate or anything like that. I was to the point of reading various direct transcriptions of Aramaic texts and looking for deeper contextual meanings. It is not something I really care to talk about, and I’m a bit rusty with a lot of other stuff on my mind since, but I can spar on the subject if something got me motivated enough to try. I simply talk about the things that are a part of me, and that part of me was a dead end I left behind when I found the end of the road.
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You’re a beast, Viskowitz! By Alessandro Boffa.
Got that book on sale at a supermarket ages ago and it turned out to be freaking hilarious. Each chapter is a short glimpse into the life of Visko (Viskowitz) as he reincarnates as a different animal and with no previous knowledge of any other past life. His main love interest, Ljuba, as well as other secondary characters also reincarnate along. Visko is usually just a regular guy, rarely on top of things and often a loser.
It’s a light read which can sometimes be quite thought provoking. Recommended
Bear Head. The antagonist is very… contemporary.
Adrian Tchaikovsky?
I had the exact same thought reading it.
This series of books about an English author who wrote about the lives of the various Siamese cats she had living in the idyllic English countryside, as well as a donkey for a time. It was relaxing in ways I cannot articulate.
