Ah piss... And I used to read French (literally 25 years ago). Perhaps I can find a translation somewhere.. Thank you for the tip!

I’m a-readin’ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — praxis

Nice. I must have read it a dozen times over the years. I discovered this book at 10 and never looked back. Each time I re-read it (like The Great Gatsby) I find it sadder and more nuanced than the last. It's curious that for all the inadequate children's adaptations in movies and TV, no great director has ever tried to film this complex story from a more adult perspective.

One thing’s fer certain, ain’t no adaptation gonna have that n-word in it, no matter how grown-up it tries to be.

Why not?

I wonder what an adaptation might look like made by a black director/auteur.

Ah piss... And I used to read French (literally 25 years ago). Perhaps I can find a translation somewhere.. Thank you for the tip! — AmadeusD

I doubt anyone will translate to English (or any other language) a French translation from the Greek. Unfortunately, the book also only appears to be issued as a print edition. If a digital edition was available, then you could use a chatbot to translate Bodeüs' enlightening notes in English.

Why not? — AmadeusD

Well, reckon folks steer clear o’ usin’ that word in “Huck Finn” nowadays ‘cause it’s mighty hurtful. Back in Twain’s time, it was common talk, but now it stings somethin’ fierce, remindin’ folks of bad times and ugly ways. Some swap it out or leave it be altogether, figurin’ it ain’t worth keepin’ if it’s gonna hurt folks. Others use it for learnin’, talkin’ ‘bout how things used to be so folks don’t go forgettin’. Either way, it’s a tricky business tryin’ to honor the past without hurtin’ folks in the here and now.

LOL extremely enjoy this written southern patois.

Yes, fair. I agree - probably why it hasn't been done. I think if one were to adapt, and remove that word, one is not fit to adapt it.

I think if one were to adapt, and remove that word, one is not fit to adapt it. — AmadeusD

Ain’t nothin’ but a pile o’ words, not no holy book or such. I reckon ol’ Twain wouldn’t bat an eye ‘bout swappin’ one word for ‘nother.

fo' * surely.

I would humbly disagree. But neither of us are timebandits, i'd think :P :P

Thibault Prévost, Les Prophètes de l'IA - Pourquoi la Silicon Valley nous vend l’apocalypse.
Published in French only.
(The Prophets of AI - Why Silicon Valley sells us the Apocalypse)

This was recommended by a friend who supplied the first chapter. It was enlightening enough to motivate me to buy the book. The author may have some misconceptions regarding the nature of the technology (and its present capabilities) but has dug deeply into the historical, sociological, ideological and economic aspects and incentives that motivate(d) the main promoters and developers of AI.

The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
by Nikolai Gogol

I am enjoying my first-time reading of Gogol. Dead Souls is both funny and clever in many different ways. Nozdryov (in my edition, it appears written as "Nozdrev") is outstanding. I understand now why Dostoevsky referred to him in some of his tales and works. Sadly, I only have Dead Souls. However, I'm excited to purchase more Gogol's tales in 2025. :smile:

Lately my tastes in fiction have had a leaning to the fantastical, and Gogol definitely leans in that direction, melding the commonplace and the supernatural.

Boyhood Island. My Struggle 3, by Karl Ove Knausgård.

I started to read Knausgård's series two months ago; I remember and me sharing a common thought on the deep narrative of his novels. These are not easy to read because they are laden with much pain and drama, but I started to get engaged with this Norwegian author for a lot of reasons.

Since Knausgård himself said that we are free in order to read his series, I decided to skip the second part (it is about divorce and love failures and I am not ready to jump on it yet), and then start reading the third part. It is about when the author was just eight years old in his mother's family home, in a random small Norwegian fjord.
Memories, nostalgia, unanswered questions, childhood friends, etc.

I remember missing more presence by the mother in the first part, and I guess this third part will lead to what I was looking for a few months ago.

Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions: Evolutionary Perspectives
by Hauke Brunkhorst

C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite is deservedly a classic. All of the characteristics Mills describes of the worst types of abuses by the worst types of men can be seen in even starker relief against the backdrop of the tableau of modern politics.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
by William Barrett

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad — Maw

My favorite book. I've read it three times and listened to it once.

quite good

A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

Question.
Was it Jeremy Bentham who wrote one paragraph,one sentence, one page long style English?
Used to love that. A good primer for short term memory loss sufferers.

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Was it Jeremy Bentham who wrote one paragraph,one sentence, one page long style English? — kazan

No, it was actually me.

(Just kidding, Bentham was doing this also.)

@Pierre-Normand,

Hope your's was as grammatically correct as Bentham's generally was also.

wink & a smile.

Currently ruminating through:

Quine's Pursuit of Truth

Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Philosophical Discussions

Bernays' Propaganda

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and Birth of Tragedy

Foucault's Madness and Civilization

And an MITx Philosophy course on "Paradoxes and Infinities."

Might pick up some Godel.

I know that's weird, but I go through sections, stop move to another person and allow my thoughts to ruminate upon what I've read. After I get enough handling and understanding of the sections I'm on, I then revisit where I left off.

It's kinda like grade school, but with philosophy subjects as each topic.

Demons (sometimes also called The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Re-read:
A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich;
Of Mice and Men/Cannery Row;
The Crying of Lot 49; and
The Problems Of Philosophy (about 11 pages to go) this year.

Principles of International Law
by Jeremy Bentham

Blood Lines" by Nelson DeMille et al.

Apart from spellcheck not keeping up with the DeMille name, good thriller writing with consistently simple sentence structure, character complexity and nicely rejuvenated "mole in the spy agency" plot.
Minimal brain tax.

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Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944
by Franz L. Neumann

The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

re-reading....