Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan BrownFlint Dibble 🍖🏺@MattBrookes3 Nah Dan Brown at least has dialog, action, & unique phrasing Disliked most of the historical details on each page, but I did keep turning those pages for the da Vinci code back in the day AI written stuff. No way. I tried to read an AI novel on Atlantis, and it was BORING
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Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
Ignatius DonnellyFlint Dibble 🍖🏺Contemplating a "lost" civilization of this sort requires disavowing the racist history of the ideas Over 100 yrs ago, Ignatius Donnelly wrote a bestseller arguing for an "advanced" pre-flood Atlantis that taught Indigenous people technology. His arguments were explicitly racist https://t.co/pNGb1pfqz1
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The New Atlantis
Francis BaconFlint Dibble 🍖🏺But this idea of an advanced, global civilization from before the flood doesn’t come from Plato’s #Atlantis It comes from a half-finished fictional novel by Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis /30 (thread continues, click “show replies”) https://t.co/8fZWNKgPjO
Paperback, 2010
$5.97$2.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
New Atlantis
Francis BaconFlint Dibble 🍖🏺But this idea of an advanced, global civilization from before the flood doesn’t come from Plato’s #Atlantis It comes from a half-finished fictional novel by Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis /30 (thread continues, click “show replies”) https://t.co/8fZWNKgPjO
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Real
Katy EvansFlint Dibble 🍖🏺Glad Katy Evans and @IFLScience didn't do that Atlantis ain't real, and entertaining that idea is harmful and leads people down a misguided conspiratual path tinged with eugenics and white supremacy https://t.co/rGLXEE9Igy
Paperback, 2013
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
Chip ColwellFlint Dibble 🍖🏺@ProfThibodeau Not sure about fiction, and there are plentiful academic texts (avoid the horrible anti repatriation one by Weiss & Springer) A good non academic book on this topic is Chip Colwell's 'Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture'
Paperback, 2019
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Light Fantastic
Terry PratchettFlint Dibble 🍖🏺Terry Pratchett debunking pseudoarchaeology pyramid facts way back in 1986 (from The Light Fantastic) https://t.co/NpqSG4R1Ay
Hardcover, 1986
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World ... Illustrated. - Scholar's Choice Edition
Ignatius DonnellyFlint Dibble 🍖🏺(CW: racism) Ignatius Donnelly’s hypotheses from 1882 about Atlantis are filled with white supremacy He was obsessed with skin color (it is brought up dozens of times), and while his facts are wrong, his racism is clear /40 https://t.co/M0QTHBaDjY
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The Golden Ass
ApuleiusFlint Dibble 🍖🏺@erikcats Unclear. Could be a working animal. In the golden ass by Apuleius the donkey turns the grind stones But certainly enslaved people or wage laborers are also possible labor sources for the grueling job that is grinding grain
Paperback, 2008
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Atlantis
Francis BaconFlint Dibble 🍖🏺But this idea of an advanced, global civilization from before the flood doesn’t come from Plato’s #Atlantis It comes from a half-finished fictional novel by Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis /30 (thread continues, click “show replies”) https://t.co/8fZWNKgPjO
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