Nota
Labai paprasta informacija ir kuri tikrai pasens(ir manau jau pasenusi), labai paprasti receptai ir nėra viskas ant taip tiksliai išnagrinėta. Daug gali rasti savaime neknygoje ieškodamas. Bet manau yra daug vertės kad mes Lietuvoje turime paprastą įvadą prieiti prie veganizmo ir tokią knygą turintis žmogus gal prieis prie veganizmo jeigu jau nepriėjo.
Ji labai paprastutė, bet dabar galvoju nejaugi veganišką knygą mažiau ratinsiu negu fikcines istorijas kai ypatingai veganiškų knygų tiek mažai? Tai 10/10, tikiuosi obuolys daugiau tokių išleis.
Juokingiau negu tikėjausi. Klasikinės Lietuvių knygos visados būna tokios kokių nesitikiu, rodos kad jos būtų niūrios ar kokios nepaskaitamos, bet čia buvo ant tiek daug komedijos! Dramos!
Labai patiko Uršulė, reiktų knygos vien iš jos perspektyvos ir gyvenimo.
Man nelabai patinka stilius ar senesni lietuvių terminai, sudaro įspūdi kad mes kaimiečiai, pagonys, laukiniai (tokie ir esame). Iš tikro savo rašimę dar baisesnę kalbą naudoju, bet grrrrr.
Labai patiko kad šioje istorijoje panaudojamas velnias, nes bandau tas istorijas su velniais perskaityti ir jo gal ir yra daugiau lietuviškų knygų su velniais, nes mes turime tą mitologinį vaibą daug kur.
Pabaiga buvo labai gera.
Man labai patinka kai autoriai atsižvelgia į vietinias vietoves ir joms sukuria legendų. Gali tada kokius veikėjua priskirti prie realių vietų, juos aplankyti ir yay turizmas.
The author made interesting life choices, but I don't think they effected the book negatively, I think it stands strongly regardless of the author's life and how she tricked young women, girls.
An amazing exploration of how the world can convince you that you are not worthy of yourself and others.
This book explores outdated biology, psychology, but in a way that's interest and thoughful, reveals what a person might have thought about these subjects at that time. It takes you through experiences of french women from birth to old age. Offers some limited understanding around race and homosexuality. Discusses religion, relationships, marriage and how they disempowered women at the time and in history. Women writers, women in men's literature, prostitution, “the mother”, birthcontrol. How women were encouraged to give up, try less, stayed passive, and devoting themselves to nothing.
Learned that religious saints were something I did not think they were. I felt called out even thought I was not born as a woman, but a lot of passive behaviors I definely adapted because of odd life experiences. I feel this book helped me to envision another path for myself and now I want to dream a little bigger and be a little more harsh to myself. There were lot of thoughts I had before that were recontextualized and found new strength with this book. I feel like my views around love are naive and incomplete and this crushed my odd convictions considerably which I feel is good. This book is full of love went wrong scenarios.
The conclusion is good, but there aren't many soliutions proposed as to how exactly it might get achieved.
I loved this as an experience and the first feminist work I have read. I now realise I read so little philosophy which is sad and must change, this is so nourishing. I think this is the first “harder” philosophical work I read. There must be a ton of less accessible works, oh boy, can't wait to tackle those.
Marina has lived a very full life, she reversed all the suffering in the past and made it the point. To overcome is to live.
She is a person who actually progresses and challenges herself more through the years, it is not hard to see why people idolize her even if she is against the concept. We just don't have many people who would do that and our spiritual experience is so drained today. For example we use popstars to get religion and concerts to get our needs met.
The love stories were very relatable, probably for a lot of people, but Marina found states that are just as powerful and perhaps do not require the same dangerous vulnarability which is so hard to find - two consenting parties who would give themselves their lives.
There is a lot of comedy around tragedy, at the beggining her life is painted very bleak which it was. But the suffering itself is not described in detail which probably makes it way more readable for a wider audience.
There are a lot of healing methods and cultures discussed. She travelled quite a lot. From her earlier notes it seems she did not have the respect to do this, but it evolved into total appreaciation and she dedicates a lot of herself to aboriginals, later monks. She found herself in very interest, different states because of those people.
If you want to hear a story of genuine love, hardship, pain and to overcome this is something you should read.
The fact that performance art or art as a concept doesn't make it to general public is tragic, and creates so much misery that doesn't evolve or go anywhere. We get birthed into a tragedy porn instead of all the posibilities of what we could be and then accept that it can only be a tragedy porn after even learning that fact. We do not experience what is given to us and simply pollute and destroy which is so boring and droll when life can be so much fuller and complex. We choose to surrender to most simple emotions, talk about the most mundane things when such a complex, scary and fullfilling existance is before us. We cannot make perfect decisions with so many wrong ones already in place, but we need to try, to not despise the ones attempting them, and to be inspired.
Her exercises are very interesting and I have attempted some of them after learning of their existence. Ate an onion that was offered on Brothers Karamazov, I feel it as a powerful symbol because I am vegan now for 7 years and it really isn't so difficult as eating an onion. Once I found one on a bench when I was depressed and now I would eat it (not really, it sounds dangerous to eat a random onion left behind someone). It's interesting how onions are becoming a motif for me.
It is comforting to know that there are such hearts and individuals walking around and I will continue looking for them. Thank you Marina for writing the book.
A very hopeful and motivating message for writers to discover the truth and beauty, everthing given to us in the chosen form of word. The language we create is a glimpse of the shadow which brought us all here. The true esssence of symbols gets lost, writing is the exercise to bring them all back and discover the new, yet the old, the universe that has always been here since it's beggining.
The constant character switching leaves the book with a lot of unused page space. The mythology excerpts could have contributed to the story more. All the characters are dislikable and don't exactly get the consequences for their actions, none of their horrible traits really get explored or discussed in an interesting way. There is no actual ending. The main character being attracted to a young fictional animal is a weird tabboo concect, not sure why it was included.
1/4 of the work is unedited, what is supposed to be 3/4 of it is an outline. The language is not artful, it's repetitive, reads like a laundry list of everything horrible that you may do to someone and in the outline literally so. The characters are given superficial characteristics, they are with no personality whatsoever. The philosophy in this is minimal and if its meant to be a commentary it is only showing one side of the topic. The characters assume that they can only get off with the acts they perform in this experiment, propose that virtue is suffering and makes the pp cold even tho what they do in it can equally do that. This scroll explores the biggest depravities as it claims at the start, but it's executed in a way that it encourages you to take joy in them, the author even recommends to try some stuff out. It is a bit hard to tell whether he was a criminal since he was arrested in 1700s and the stuff he was accused of was “sodomy”, he could have been falsely accused, but the way this book was written makes me think he did, in fact, do a lot of those acts in the scroll and that he was in fact a criminal.
I don't know, but he might not like church :DDD Justine seems the main anti-church book tho.
The penguin introduction explains interesting origins of the work and the impact this writer had. It sets it up not as something to be taken literally, but rather as a study of cruelty, tho pretty sure that for the author it was wank matterial while only other authors applied it to study what we now know as sadism. Thanks Sade? I started reading “The Second Sex” before reading it, and I wasn't suprised Simone defended this book, of course she did. I learned about libertines from researching about her and then somehow got to reading “this”.
For some reason this haunted me and I read it quite quickly. Why. My mood was ruined and I think I need to reevaluate as to why I get drawn to horrific things or horror in general. I think this work will make me more careful and rightfully distrustful of certain kinds of people. I definetely got a shock that was described in the introduction, hope it leads to something.
I viewed Sodom and Gomorrah as these cool towns slain by God for no reason, but now whenever I look at the word Sodom I will probably remember this scroll at least a little. Not sure what to make of that.
Žiauriai primena Manga skaitymą. Pradžioje viskas buvo niūriausia - kraujo vakarėliai prostitučių žudimas. Pagaiboje viskas ant taip pasikeitė kad įtariu antra knyga turės visiškai kitokį toną.
Pagrindinė pora yra gan neemociškai stabili ne vien iš tos pusės kad jie vampyrai, bet labai linksma apie juos skaityti nors žinai kad jie vėl susipyks neužilgo.
Labai platus laiko etapas gan atgaivino kūrinį, daug elementų nustebino. Buvo žiaurumo, šiek tiek sekso, bet jis toks idyliškas, neperžengiantis ribų.
Labai smagu kad toks kūrinys iš Lietuvos ir kad jį galima lietuviškai skaityti, dar iš Klaipėdos.
Mano viena draugė labai mėgo apie vampyrūs skaityti, bet lietuviškai neperskaitytų, neskaičiau jokio kūrinio su lgbt pora kuri nėra tik subtekstas, reiktų paieškot tokių
Sissy, sussy, sick (my brain why)
This book is a bit worn by time because the author's intentions were pacifistic, but he still included some good old murder for good measure and the standarts of the market. It's a very fun book that sometimes forgets it's logic, Woodman in particular is written inconsistently. I really liked the moral, psychological message it had, but the slaying was hillarious and out of place.
There were some neat concepts, the ending was kinda fire. Mostly I felt unconnected and disinterested, I feel like the style and the simple language took me out, a lot of useless words. Satan is very oddly characterized, but whatever, this is a powerless human Satan who falls in love very easily, is very clueless about humanity. I feel like this novel is a bit of a punchline expanded into a larger thing, but I guess its a comedy so... I haven't read a ton of comedy.
Jung's approach to exploring dreams and using active imagination to solve conflicts layed down in simple language.
They seem to believe that there is a collective unconsious which connects us all invisible kinda like Jung, but we do not really have proof that thinking about people in real life will cause magic and effect them in ways do we?
This book seemed to argue that all paths are valid and that we have a lot of unlived ones as human beings, but that there is also a human moral compass that can put us down a better path? I think there is compartmentalization in there somewhere. We shouldn't head in absolute directions of the archetypes, but at the same time no matter what we do we are acting in the bigger picture of the grand archetype? There is something missing in these discussions and I guess I will find out what through going on my journeys.
This book definetely demonstrated how easy it is to connect to your imagination and symbols that live there, I could do it only occasionally and did not know why, now I feel like it wont be difficult, it opened a new pathway of experiencing this world and I am thankful for it.
It's so needlesly wordy, but also very fascinating, needlesly convoliuted, but also expresses something singular. There are ideas and images that I will continue to think about and debate. I wonder if the black books are more convoliuted than this, I guess I will have to read more Jung in the future. I dont like the christian symbols, but I guess symbols of other religions get used too, so can I complain there? Some stuff sounds offensive, but when you consider the wider context in a lot of cases it makes sense.
This inspires me to look at the world with a different lense, see literally everything with a downside.
Not sure how well it would represent an antisocial person, but it was very entertaining to read. Some people might call it things like “woke” which is a good thing. Jane knows that she has to get away so that things can stay fun which makes her quite functional.
The main objective is quite pointless in all ways, but its a path that a lot of people would like to see as a hypothetical. It happened to be a hypothetical I wanted.
I found it useful as some information in it helped me to have a really elaborate lucid dream. There is a religious perspective and some religious dreams, I don't believe in God, but I did not find any problems with that in this context, it was interesting. It is for the general reader and it has some simplified Carl Gustav Jung concepts thrown in. It is quite old, but it mostly just describes the dreams the writer and some other people had, things people dream about don't have an expiration date unlike science I guess.
I believe in many way it's overwritten, but I am also a fan of overwritten emotions, they feel very specific and precise that way. The characters are very rounded and feel alive. There are a ton of ramblings from side-characters that I do not appreaciate even if they pull you more into the age this was written.
There are a ton of perspectives that are given weight that directly contradict themselves and that is the beauty of this book. Something you can't quite pin down, something haunting.
I heard about this book a lot, did not look at the reviews, but I am suprised by the general vibe of them of them. Dictating what is or isn't poetry without any reasoning is interesting. Some of them hate women, but try to make it look like the hate the poems. I guess it's so popular that you don't have to explain your rating.
I will try to look at what this poetry collection is doing. It is very quick and to the point with its message, it is extremely accessible. It has a good message, simple drawings. It says nothing bad which I feel like is a challenge for many books regardless of how many words they have cough cough the bible cough cough.
I feel like I need to read more books similar to this one to rate it.
This book promotes a bunch of cool ideas, but also relies on the church of satan book, which from my understanding is not that great book as a moral compass. I have yet to read that one tho. This is a very simple read made out of very short essays. There are parts of the author's life in it, it sounds very fascinating, and it's very cool how much progress they have made since addiction, homelessness, clinical insanity. It's cool how satanism can provide tools for outcasted people to have a voice.
A history of how new kind of Satanism has started around 2012, the old one is also not what you would think tho.
Their type of protest against religious majorities abusing their numbers, and lack of religious freedom speaks to me. They portray themselves as the ultimate protestor, a symbol that few religious people would view as something worth discussing. The way I create art is very similar. I am glad that it's now possible to create such an anti-religion.
Satanism is not supernatural, it's newly founded, it's tenets speak of compassion and emphathy. This book takes you through organizations they established and discussions they created. Their way of doing things is radical and creative as an anti-religion they are capable of doing things in a way that nobody else can.
I think our modern world is missing values of these people, we are failing to listen and hear people without an audience. I hope this just the start of me reading about Satanism. They are the religious side of left-leaning politics, people who fight for lgbt, abortion rights, education, and more.
Outdated, overwritten, I would expect that from an older book, but tbh I found no other book that looked promising on this topic. The author is quite confident in some claims that can be denied by a quick google search.
While I was reading, in a stroke of luck, I had the most horrible back pain so I could test self-hypnosis, but I didn't really manage to anesthetize myself. Whatever the effect should be I think it does work as a form of quick meditation to help me focus.
Hypnosis does seem like a real practice, but it's not as magical as this book claims - with a way too high success rate and as a tool that can retrieve memories (patients invent fake ones). I hope I can find newer book on this or smh.
I read Kindred before and I am glad that the second book I read by her was also really good. Instead of slavery this one tackles consequences of climate change, drugs, politics. It's a survival book, the author's mother was a green thumb, the author researched religions, guns to write it.
It feels so real and there's barely anything magical in it, the “magic” here would be diseases anyway.
The world is brutal. The religion which is supposed to bring relief to people is realistic and practical, it's more like community guidelines.
Loved it, there's nothing to complain about.
