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2026-03-08 03:51 UTC
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@tsupasat@infosec.exchange 2026-03-08 05:26
@royal@theres.life @leerayl@infosec.exchange I think it depends as he's an essayist, poet, and novelist. I'm not really into poetry, so can't speak to that. The book he's most famous for is The Unsettling of America, which I enjoyed but it's a longish non-fiction book that explains the problems with industrial agriculture. I personally really enjoyed his Port William novels. His only fiction focused on this single rural community over the span of 4-5 generations from the Civil War to the 1990s. It's pretty impressive when taken together, but it's very much a particular taste. I think a good book to see if you like that world or not is a collection of 20 short stories called A Place in Time. You get introduced to different characters and families, and get a feeling of what the rest of the books would be like if you choose to continue. Another small book, a collection of five short stories, is called Fidelity. If your "people" come from a rural background, you might like these stories. I learned a lot about what life was like on the farm.