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Nodaisho:
I've got a book on nuclear physics that used to belong to my grandfather, it was some sort of government report released around '47. I still can't understand most of it, but I have had a few interesting moments when looking something up in a more modern source and there will be something extremely different. Not surprising, considering that it had been only two or three years since the first successful nuclear experiment, but interesting to see a historical point of view.

I also have a cheesy sci-fi book from the '70s, it used to be my father's and spent a couple of decades in a box full of his old books. It is called Earthblood, and one of the things that consistently put me off is how little regard for alien life there is in the book. Even though they are presented as relatively major characters, aliens are written as not at all mattering, even though only the villains espouse space racism. I suppose that is what it is like when someone thoroughly inundated in an openly racist culture tries to be egalitarian.

JD:
I discovered north korean tourist book from 1988 in a old box downstairs. Kim Jong Il looks so young.

valley_parade:
Been reading Sherlock Holmes stories lately. Some of it is just making me go "huh, whazzat?"

benji:
Somewhere I have a workbook for pastoral marriage counseling from the 1940s or 50s. It includes an exercise where a woman comes to meet with you because her husband is cheating on her, and you're supposed to figure out what to say to convince her that the reason he's cheating is because she's not "cooking enough meals at home."

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