/lit/ - Literature

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Last book:
Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki

talks about trees as being more complex than often portrayed, because they perform many of the functions and behaviors usually only attributed to higher organisms, just in subtle ways.

Not as tongue and cheek as I expected for the biography of a douglas-fir. Dude has a real reverence for nature and it shows. A lot of interesting stuff as he goes off on tangents on the formation of science as a method, the introduction of reductionism, macro and micro ecology, and so on. Book becomes a real downer in the final chapter as he basically asserts that we may have already gone too far in regards to deforestation and climate change. How, like a tree that's been invested with a fungus or parasites, it may take 100 years to die, but it will die. There is no coming back.

Current book:
After a lot of non-fiction, I'm in a fiction break, so: Perdido Street Station

Basically about an artist who's wrapped up doing a commission for a dangerous crime boss, and a rogue scientist who is doing sketchy as fuck research for whoever will foot the bill. A lot of weird world building, but I'm enjoying it so far. My third book from Mieville and I enjoy how whacky all the settings are.

Next Book:
I dunno, was gonna actually make a thread on this. Might be pic related?