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FTF Free Talk Friday - October 02, 2026

Welcome to the Free Talk Friday post. This is a place where you can talk about dumb off-topic (or on-topic) bullshit with other Zaibatsu fans.

There's going to be a new post every week, and the newest one will be pinned in the announcement bar for quick access. So feel free to visit these posts during the rest of the week.

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u/JoaquinHawkins 4d ago

I try to read at least one fiction and one nonfiction book every month and my choices for October are kinda on the opposing ends:

In the blue corner, Deeper Ground Darker Shadows: The Making of a Mindanao Rebel by Eddie Quitoriano, a memoir of a man who joined the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army at the height of the Ferdinand Marcos' Martial Law in the 70's, went globetrotting to sympathetic countries and cells abroad in the 80's and came home in the 90's intact.

Disco Elysium talks about how much of communism is about failure and I started this curious about how someone in the NPA must have felt during People Power and the end of the Marcos regime, to watch all those people come out for change in their country, only to have rich oligarchs take the reigns of power again. That must have sucked and I want to see if there was anything in the book about that.

In the red corner, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I want to read Patrick Bateman's droning, vapid inner monologues about clothes and music.