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[SuperSpreader]

Some more on The Accommodation 

 

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Schutze contends that until 1990, when 14-1 permitted the city’s separate neighborhoods to elect their own council members — including Black and Latino candidates — Dallas never really functioned as a democracy. It operated more like a 15th-century Italian city-state run by a handful of wealthy families, with real power shared and traded amongst family members.

 

Six Big Things You Can Learn About Dallas Racial History In “The Accommodation” | Art&Seek

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Watch the conversation between John Wiley Price and Jim Schutze Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. Jim Schutze's The Accommodation has been called "the most dangerous book in Dallas" by D Magazine. That's because, written in 1986, it viewed the city entirely through the history of race -- from slavery to the "accommodation" of the title. That's Schutze's term for the under-the-table relationship that started in the '50s between the city's white business...

 

Here's an old ass article from the NYTimes about how Dallas was run 

 

Group of Businessmen Rules Dallas Without a Mandate From the Voters - The New York Times

WWW.NYTIMES.COM

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article on how group of businessmen, Dallas Citizens Council, rules city though unelected; council history

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

8 hours ago, SuperSpreader said:

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Amazing 

 

 

Just letting you know that Amazon links don't embed with our plug-in like other sites.

[SuperSpreader]

8 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

 

Just letting you know that Amazon links don't embed with our plug-in like other sites.

I noticed! 

[gamer.tv]

On 3/14/2023 at 9:40 PM, gamer.tv said:

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks.

 

I’ve somehow acquired 4 books by Faulks and read one of them. So far, it’s been great, just teeny weeny writing so reading 80 pages feels more like 150.

I’ve been working my way through this and now have about 140 pages to go. It’s been pretty engaging with the usual (I say this after only reading Birdsong) weird, overly sexualised stuff that appears in Faulks’ work.

 

I think I’ll buy something a bit lighter after this as I was going to read Wuthering Heights, but I think I’d rather have a ‘rest’ book.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Finished Desperation and The Black Mouth over the last two nights. Both really good reads.

 

Now starting Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Gotta get some of my BOTM backlog whittled.

[Nokra]

I'm reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep fame) for a book club. It's holding my interest, but it's definitely grating how sexist some of the language is.   A product of the time, I guess.  

[Dre801]

"The Night Agent"  after watching the show, I of course had to check out the book.

[TheLeon]

I’m listening to the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemison. I had read the books 4-5 years ago (whenever the third one was coming out), but I had some Audible credits building up and thought these would be worth the revisit. It’s shocking just how poorly I retain anything I read, apparently. I’m a few chapters into the second book, and already there’s been major characters/plot lines I had completely forgotten. 

[EternallDarkness]

just finished listening to The Onset by Boris something or other It's an apocalyptic LitRPG that was so bad and yet I couldn't stop listening...just to see how insanely bad it could get.  

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Finished all three of the books I'd been reading a few days ago, so I started fresh yesterday.

 

Fiction: The Shadows We Hide by Allen Eskens

Nonfiction: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

[thewhyteboar]

On 3/9/2023 at 9:40 AM, thewhyteboar said:

I just finished Warlock, by Oakley Hall. This is truly a masterpiece of American literature. It's a fictionalized, quasi retelling of the Gunfight at the the OK Corral. But really, it's about the poisonous fallout of violence, and how using violence to achieve safety and justice will result in neither. Now I gotta track down the movie with Henry Fonda. 

Haven't updated in awhile. I read 100 Years of Solitude, now I'm reading Lonesome Dove.

[gamer.tv]

Ended up starting Frankenstein which I haven’t read since high school. It certainly makes a few leaps in its opening to the point of Adam being made. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Finishing up Valkyrie Rising by Peter Gibbons tonight. It's the 5th in his Viking Blood and Blade series. These books are just fun reads for me. Wish they'd gone through a more rigorous proofreading, though. I hate finding silly mistakes.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Fiction: True Biz by Sara Novic

Nonfiction: Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard

Kindle(fiction): Bone White by Ronald Malfi 

[Dre801]

Finished "The Night Agent."  Definitely a case of the show writers going in their own direction with the material.   The book is considerably different.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Just started City on Fire by Don Winslow. 
 

@Commissar SFLUFAN, you read this, right? I forget which other user here likes Winslow. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Just started City on Fire by Don Winslow. 
 

@Commissar SFLUFAN, you read this, right? I forget which other user here likes Winslow. 

 

 

That's correct, I believe @thewhyteboar read it as well.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

That’s who I was thinking of, thanks. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I also decided to start reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Wasn’t in my radar, but I was looking at my TBR shelf this morning and this one seemed to be calling to me. I am entertained thus far. I read Slaughterhouse Five some years back and always meant to read more of his works. 

[thewhyteboar]

12 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

 

That's correct, I believe @thewhyteboar read it as well.

Yup that’s me. The Savages is my favorite, the Border trilogy is fantastic as well. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

13 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

Yup that’s me. The Savages is my favorite, the Border trilogy is fantastic as well. 

What are you thinking of the new trilogy? You read the sequel that just released?

 

Also, Savages was great, but that ending fucking depressed me. 

[thewhyteboar]

I liked the first one! Haven’t read the second yet. But I think it’s cool it’s set in Hollywood. Aeneas rules, so I’ll get to it at some point. 

[Nokra]

5 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I also decided to start reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Wasn’t in my radar, but I was looking at my TBR shelf this morning and this one seemed to be calling to me. I am entertained thus far. I read Slaughterhouse Five some years back and always meant to read more of his works. 

I love Vonnegut, or at least I did the last time I read him (5+ years ago). Did you ever read Sirens of Titan? I remember that being one of my favorites of his, too. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

23 minutes ago, Nokra said:

I love Vonnegut, or at least I did the last time I read him (5+ years ago). Did you ever read Sirens of Titan? I remember that being one of my favorites of his, too. 

Nope, this is only my second. Not far in, but I love his style. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

City on Fire was awesome. Ill be reading the sequel in the near future.

 

I think I'm gonna start Sign Here by Claudia Lux next. I'm always behind with my BOTM stack.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Phew, Sign Here was pretty awful. 
 

Time for a palate cleanser. Starting The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. 
 

I think my new nonfiction will be Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M Scott. 

[Nokra]

9 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Phew, Sign Here was pretty awful. 
 

Time for a palate cleanser. Starting The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. 
 

I think my new nonfiction will be Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M Scott. 

I've only read Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men, but absolutely loved all of them. Will be really curious to know what you think of The Moon Is Down. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

5 hours ago, Nokra said:

I've only read Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men, but absolutely loved all of them. Will be really curious to know what you think of The Moon Is Down. 

I’ll post my thoughts. I read 20 pages last night and it’s only 112 pages. 
 

I love Steinbeck. I’ve read the three you mentioned, and they were excellent. EoE is one of my all time favorite books. Only other one I’ve read so far is The Pearl. It was a short read, but I don’t recall it doing much for me. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I finished The Moon is Down, @Nokra.

8/10. It’s a quick read, but I see why it was so powerful for the time it was written. It’s a fable, but it’s clear it’s about the invasion of Norway by the nazis. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I'm also about halfway through Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor. He's an Arkansas writer and he's written two crime novels so far. This is the first and it's pretty good.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Finished Don't Know Tough. Now onto The Last Word by Taylor Adams. Just got it in from BOTM and a quick thriller sounds appealing right now.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Starting my Dark Tower journey with The Gunslinger by Stephen King

[CastlevaniaNut18]

So I just literally blew through Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden here at work tonight. I’d never heard of this book before and god, I wish I’d known about it as a teenager. It gave me all the feels. 
 

Now to go down the rabbit hole of sapphic romance. And I’ve never been a romance reader. Fuck it. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I've literally blown through two more sapphic romances this weekend. Now reading Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur. This is more of a rom-com.

 

And I'm getting back to The Gunslinger and Black Snow. I kinda abandoned them this weekend.

[thewhyteboar]

On 4/17/2023 at 10:09 AM, thewhyteboar said:

Haven't updated in awhile. I read 100 Years of Solitude, now I'm reading Lonesome Dove.

Finished that, I had planned on reading something else but Lonesome Dove was so good that I immediately started the sequel, Streets of Laredo.