Just finished Red Plenty (8 total in April) Taking ?s (CharlesXII)
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Date: April 26th, 2018 5:07 PM Author: Nighttime hilarious box office
Took a week to finish this book, which wasn't a great pace, but I was distracted by a short vacation last weekend, an unfortunate medical issue, and Krampusnacht driving me into the unpleasant world of online dating bullshit.
SSC has a pretty good review/summary/exhaustively long rant about Red Plenty here:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/
Overall, it was a pretty good book, and highly unusual. It's basically a book about why the USSR economy failed, but instead of being a work of nonfiction, it's a short story collection, mixing up real events with a few fully fictional stories that attempt to illustrate the failed incentives of the Soviet regime. Some reviewers, like SSC above, interpret the book as a look at how Communism might have succeeded with slightly braver leadership, but I didn't get that impression. Instead, the main takeaway was the sheer impossibility of having a centrally-controlled command economy quickly meat the millions of small variables, incentives, and exchanges of information that allow a free economy to function and grow.
Also because of the short story function there's totally a subplot where a hot Komsomol teen gets seduced by a law Chad, not flame.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960792&forum_id=2#35926672) |
Date: April 26th, 2018 5:38 PM Author: Hateful theatre weed whacker
Also because of the short story function there's totally a subplot where a hot Komsomol teen gets seduced by a law Chad, not flame.
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but enough about your life
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