Justin Harlton

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This is pretty awesome. Thank you. I am looking to purchase The Scythian Empire by Christopher Beckwith.

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Haha. Do some research.

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I’m halfway through Children of Dune, which like Dune Messiah is not on the same level as the first book. I keep going because so many people say God Emperor is the best book in the series.

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Yes, it was farfetched. But this is how Herbert wrote it. I like the books, but don’t love them. Too many moments like this that make you think, “how?” The subsequent books also focus on characters who are impossible to identify with. They’re either math geniuses, robots, or omniscient children.

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And that they charge through the remnants of a shield wall that was just blown apart by atomics. I hope those stillsuits filter out radiation.

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Looking forward to seeing it tomorrow!

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I love this line from Herbert’s Dune Messiah (1969): “The universe is unfinished, you know” (53).

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My spoiler-free preview of Joseph Conrad’s “Youth: A Narrative” (1898). https://www.arapaper.com/issue011_conrad_youth_a_narrative/

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The Misfits on managing intergenerational wealth: “Buy, borrow, die, die, die my darling.”

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Yesterday’s cast links to the spoiler-free preview. Today’s links to my essay on Joseph Conrad’s “The N***** of the ‘Narcissus.’” https://www.arapaper.com/issue008_effort_and_merit_aboard_conrads_narcissus/

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For those of you who like Heart of Darkness, here is my spoiler-free preview of Joseph Conrad’s “The N***** of the ‘Narcissus.’” https://www.arapaper.com/issue006_conrad_the_narcissus/

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Nice to see that you enjoyed it.

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Hope you like it! Ishiguro is a gem. He won the Nobel recently. And thank you for the tokens.

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant (2015). In Ishiguro’s signature elliptic style, the novel, which follows the main characters’ quest to kill a dragon, is about recapturing lost memories, even if those memories pose a greater problem than the dragon itself. Thanks hosting this.

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My review of Ian Shapiro’s The Moral Foundations of Politics. https://www.arapaper.com/issue003_shapiro_the_moral_foundations_of_politics/

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How could you let Duncan Idaho fight all those Sardaukar alone, Frank?

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Continuing with the back issues, here is my review of Antonio Damasio’s popular neuroscience book Descartes’ Error. https://www.arapaper.com/issue002_damasio_descartes_error/

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You’d probably like Aaron Gwyn (@AmericanGwyn) on X. He’s a prof specializing in McCarthy. Maybe you can convince him to jump over to Warpcast.

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Hope you enjoy it!

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Definitely. This will be my first read of it. Have you read it previously?

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