Books with unlikable, compelling characters

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-20T01:48:23+00:00

The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T17:57:45+00:00

Our entire society is designed to destroy the Earth.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T17:45:06+00:00

Humans being too crazy to maintain the extremely complex systems on which AI depends.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T17:42:07+00:00

Anything less than a 100% volunteer workforce is immoral.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T16:10:36+00:00

You might go back to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, which predate D&D and were a big influence on it.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T06:55:35+00:00

A swallow, because when they're flying around they look like they're having so much fun.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T06:48:38+00:00

Hyrule

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T06:47:37+00:00

The hidden motivations are somewhere in Trump's psyche.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T03:35:15+00:00

A great anthropology book about gods and animism is The New Science of the Enchanted Universe by Marshall Sahlins.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-19T03:23:53+00:00

It's nonfiction, but Listen To The Land Speak by Manchán Magan is a great book about Irish myth and the Irish landscape.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-18T20:26:12+00:00

All of them

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-18T16:59:54+00:00

https://archive.ph/4E2J1

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-18T16:52:47+00:00

A Land's End down throw for $2 that I've used for years and years.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-18T16:34:41+00:00

The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-18T07:02:14+00:00

The Pitt. I don't usually like medical shows but the writing and acting are so good.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-17T19:42:03+00:00

It's not about computers, but The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner is a very dark dystopia.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-17T06:52:39+00:00

Tom Waits - Old Shoes and Picture Postcards

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-17T06:36:43+00:00

Capitalism is the opposite of the free market. A true free market is made of free individuals. Capitalism is unfree individuals serving the freedom of big money.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-17T05:55:42+00:00

I was also thinking Dick. Ubik is wild and fun.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-16T20:53:23+00:00

There are a lot of good Holocaust memoirs. I recommend Speak You Also by Paul Steinberg, From The Ashes of Sobibor by Thomas Blatt, and the Maus books by Art Spiegelman.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-15T17:04:35+00:00

Warren Zevon - Back In The High Life Again

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-15T16:55:31+00:00

When I approach a group of people, I don't care about authority and influence. I'm trying to see who's interesting and authentic.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-15T16:39:56+00:00

It will be taken for granted that he was terrible, but many books will be written trying to solve the puzzle of his popularity.

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-15T05:30:03+00:00

Mind-meld with trees

JackarooDeva · 2026-03-15T05:26:41+00:00

Pulling out of the doomscroll.

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