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cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/9693955

cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/9693586

Quick author note before reading: i made this book free for everyone using ai. I planned out the entire book, came up with the concept and plot. However to give you this book in its entirety for free without killing too much of my personal time, i let my writing engine draft it. That being said, i hope you enjoy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 System Foundations

Chapter 2 Structural Rules

Chapter 3 Ordered Hierarchy

Chapter 4 Classification Systems

Chapter 5 Domain Separation

Chapter 6 Functional Assignment

Chapter 7 Angelic Structure

Chapter 8 Celestial Hierarchy

Chapter 9 Enforcement Systems

Chapter 10 Infernal Classification

Chapter 11 Entity Types

Chapter 12 Environmental Conditions

Chapter 13 Domain Interaction

Chapter 14 Summoning Systems

Chapter 15 Sacred Authority

Chapter 16 Ritual Geometry

Chapter 17 Binding and Banishing

Chapter 18 Rise of Grimoires

Chapter 19 The Lesser Key of Solomon

Chapter 20 Ars Goetia

Chapter 21 Infernal Functions

Chapter 22 Infernal Structure

Chapter 23 The 72 Demons

Chapter 24 Demon Knowledge

Chapter 25 Hidden Information

Chapter 26 Scrying and Perception

Chapter 27 Thin Places

Chapter 28 Boundary Zones

Chapter 29 Herbs and Plants

Chapter 30 Metals and Stones

Chapter 31 Smoke and Fire

Chapter 32 Ritual Objects

Chapter 33 The Chakra System

Chapter 34 Consciousness and Perception

Chapter 35 The System Circuit

This isn’t a traditional demonology book because it’s not mainly about demons.

A normal demonology book focuses on demons themselves. It explains who they are, what they do, their stories, and their meanings. The attention stays on the beings.

This book does something different. It focuses on how interaction works.

Instead of centering on demons, it explains the structure behind interaction—things like setup, environment, authority, perception, and internal processing. Demons are included, but only as one part inside that system, not the main focus.

You can think of it like this. A traditional demonology book describes the “characters.” This book explains the “rules of the system” those characters exist within.

Because of that, it reads more like a manual than a story or a collection of lore. It shows how different parts connect, what conditions are required, and how the whole process works from start to finish.

So in simple terms:

A demonology book tells you about demons. This book explains how the system of interaction works, where demons are just one piece of it.

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I'm bored out of my mind. Suggest me a book and I'll read it cover to cover.

Two conditions

1. I can aquire a digital copy.
2. Some ovious filters like no dictionary or phone book kind.
3. Most people agreening on the book will be selected.
4. Any book works.

Thanks.

Update: 21st march

Thank you all for your time and input.

Looks like it's a tie between.

1. Project hail mary
2. The count of monte cristo

As kind of promised I'll read these two cover by cover.

And bonus rules(5,6) that i kept for later

5. I'll make a list of every book(other than selected) and will give it fair shot by reading at least 25%.
6. I'll post here after finishing each book.

I think I am set for a year. I am not a reader although I have 3 e-readers + a m5paper for which ill write a e reader firmware/app. I love the e-reader tech and books. (Still not a reader but id like to be one and this is my second attempt to become one.)

I'll update the list of books here mentioned tomorrow.

Thanks again for putting out your suggetions and favs. Happy Reading.

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These two have such a great buddy dynamic we just get to see the beginnings of. I think a sequel about them getting established in the US would be a lot of fun. They're fish-out-of-water characters both figuring out a fresh start (and maybe some redemption from their involvement in the criminal enterprises their life circumstances led them to).

Csongor reconnecting with his brother, Marlon probably starting some kind of business (trying to make it a legitimate one this time while having to navigate the challenges of his checkered past and awkward legal status), some kind of threat from unresolved Russian mob / Chinese intelligence complications, and Csongor navigating trying to start a relationship with Zula who needs safety and stability to recover from everything in Reamde, while helping the friend who saved his life start a new one without getting entangled in more shady dealings).

I doubt Neal would ever write it, but I just thought I'd share and see if it resonated with anyone else who enjoyed Reamde, or likes the idea of a Neal Stephenson "buddy story" in general?

We don't enjoy being overly critical of books but this is one of the worst books I've ever read - I actually couldn't finish it, it was that bad and this review included our first (and hopefully last) 0 scores.

I haven't the heart to go through why its so bad again - just listen to the podcast episode if you want to.

So I have 'just started reading'. After a lifetime of being dyslexic and thinking I disliked books, I've realised that if I find something in my wheel house and with a little perseverance of getting over the inital hump, I'm really enjoying it. However a few months after reading a book, I've kind of forgotten the finer points and details I enjoyed. Does anyone write up books they've read and what tips have you got/do you have any templates?

At the end of Drabinski’s essay, she provides an account of a trip she took across the country to visit and document American librarians doing the work of keeping books on their shelves. “Everywhere I went,” she writes, “I met people fighting together for a world where all of us can be free.” The “us” here is particular: she’s referring to the marginalized voices most often attacked by book banners. But it’s also universal. If we want to keep American minds free from harmful moral prejudices, narrow and bland aesthetic standards, the invasion of tech oligarchs and profit-driven curricula in our classrooms—from everything, in other words, that book banners of all forms promote—then we must commit, together, to defending books and their readers.

The Golden Notebook is a blueprint, a dazzling experiment, and its flaws are life’s flaws – there to be interrogated and worked though. That is the take-it-or-leave-it dichotomy that Lessing explores. Looking back on the book’s initial reception, in her preface to the 2007 edition, Lessing acknowledged: ‘Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.’ However, she repeatedly distanced herself from any claim on the novel as a foundational feminist text; as she told The Guardian in 2007: ‘I’m not interested in being a feminist icon. If you are a woman and you think at all, you are going to have to write about it, otherwise you aren’t writing about the time you are living in.’

If you know what NAMI is you can imagine the hard time my wife and I are having with our youngest, who turns out has BPD. They are med non compliant as is their partner the best we can tell.

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, and I Hate You - Don't Leave Me would all have made the top list if I didn't have an arbitrary limit of only two top books a month.

That said most of the books I read in February I loved. For the complete list:

Top:

• Rules of Estrangement by Joshua Coleman PhD
• Stop Walking on Eggshells for Parents by Randi Kreger and Christine Adamec

Great:

• Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason MS, Randi Kreger
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• The Skeptics Guide to the Universe by Steve Novella, Bob Novella
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
• The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide by David J. Miklowitz
• I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help! by Xavier Amador
• How To Become CTO by Aleks Kudic (Recommended by: Aleks Kudic (Asked to read for review purposes by the author)
• Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey
• I Hate You - Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus
• Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey

Good:

• Notes on a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• Spook by Mary Roach

Okay:

• Traction by Gino Wickman

At least, that’s what I assumed happened. It’s a first edition copy from 1999 as well.

I just finished book 6 of the expanse. I live this series so much! I love great hard magic systems which this is, and the author is a bit Frederick Backman esk with how well his writing gets me to feel the emotions and moments of the characters.

I've tried to watch the TV show and quit after the first season. I was just so confused. Once I finish the books later this year I'm gonna watch the series to the end of it.

Bluntly, I can spend my days sorting “book club” spam, or I can write books. One pays me money. The otherff does not. So until further notice, I’m not entertaining book club invitations from anyone, and I likely won’t respond to your invitation at all. I’m sorry but this is the reality of the moment.

The best argument I can make for why I like reading fiction in translation is because it facilitates the psychedelic experience of encountering someone else's subjectivity twice over. The translator must act as a prismatic filter, faithfully attempting the impossible task of replicating someone else's experiences and ideas. To read in translation is to read two stories in harmony with each other: The one the author wants to tell and the one the translator has brought into your linguistic world.

The second-best argument is that I can't read Yoko Tawada in the original. Tawada is among the finest and most singular authors working today. Over the past four decades, she has published nearly two-dozen books, the majority of which have been translated into English by Margaret Mitsutani or Susan Bernofsky and published by New Directions. She's won enough major literary awards that experienced Nobel Prize-watchers consider her a near-future contender.

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So while it's possible to constellate Tawada within both the German and Japanese literary scenes, her bilingualism is what truly distinguishes her, especially to an English-reading audience for whom all this work is necesarily going to be read in translation. Tawada has spoken about how the practice of swapping from one language to another allows her to see each language from the outside, and "prevent her from taking things for granted." She insists upon the ecstatic sense of possibility that comes with feeling foreign. Being thrust into an unfamiliar language or country can be scary, but in Tawada's hands, that very disjointedness is a source of profound art, striking beauty, and novel connections invisible to native speakers. "I feel more as though I am between two languages," she told the Paris Review in 2018. "To study that in-between space has given me so much poetry."

We did a bonus podcast episode discussing three of the stories from Susanna Clarke's short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu - the stories are all set in the Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell universe but its not vital you've read the novel before reading these stories.

As ever, no ads, no subscriptions, no sponsors or any of that type of shit. Available wherever you get your podcasts from.

Hey guys I explore this book "A Celebration of Vulva Diversity" on every platform i know. But didn't find. If anyone can provide it, that's helpful for me. Thanks advance.

From sci-fi thrillers to LitRPG and progression fantasy – these are books we could not put down!

We’ve got 15 books and series here, so there should be something to love for almost every reader (although we need some traditional fantasy page turners – send us some recommendations in the comments please)! Plus, at the end of the episode we each rank our personal top 3.

We intentionally excluded YA and military sci-fi books, although those are often also page-turners - look out for episodes about each of those soon!

Brent’s brother, Alex, joined us for this episode, and brought us a whole new batch of books (and frankly a couple new subgenres) to enjoy. LitRPG / progression fantasy just keep getting more popular, and we can see why – the books we’ve picked up have all been so, so fun to read (although it probably helps we’ve been reading Alex’s recommendations so far, the best of the best from the hundreds of LitRPG books he’s read).

No spoilers anywhere in this episode.

Join the book club on discord:   / discord  
To listen on the go search 'Hugonauts' on your podcast app of choice  

This episode is sponsored by Quinto’s Challenge by Peter McChesney: https://www.amazon.com/Quintos-Challe...

Timestamps 00:00 Intro
02:48 Sponsor – Quinto’s Challenge by Peter McChesney
03:26 Silo by Hugh Howey
5:06 Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic
7:19 Murderbot by Martha Wells
9:10 Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer
12:26 Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
14:49 Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke
18:18 Project Hail Mary and The Martian by Andy Weir
19:40 Iron Prince by Bryce O'Connor
22:33 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
24:04 He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon
28:47 Daemon by Daniel Suarez
31:07 The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand
33:39 The Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor
36:24 Eight by Samer Rabadi
38:37 Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
46:18 Rankings: Top 3 page turners