What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I'm currently re-reading various science fiction stories by James H Schmitz.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
The Medici Guns by Martin Woodhouse & Robert Ross.
http://www.susanhatedliterature.net/200 ... dici-guns/
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Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird. Liked it lots, even though I was little confused at times.
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
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Solitude:Seeking Wisdom In Extremes.
Chap spends a year alone on an island in Patagonia. Bit hippyish and spiritual in places but I like the journal entries that start, "Cat is being an asshole again".
Chap spends a year alone on an island in Patagonia. Bit hippyish and spiritual in places but I like the journal entries that start, "Cat is being an asshole again".
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Re-reading various Andre Norton fantasy books...
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Just read a Stephen(?) Baxter sci-fi book about a manned mission to Titan. It was fucking ridiculous. And it reminded me of a thread around here a while ago discussing the fatalistic trend in scifi. In this book, all of humanity is destroyed by an asteroid (slammed into the planet by the Chinese.. ) and the only people left are the 5 or so humans on a one way mission to Titan. They all die one by one quick smart, as you'd assume given the ridiculous premise of the Titan trip. Goodbye humans. There is a twist at the end, which I won't give away in case any one wants to read the book, but it's idiotic. Apparently this author is one of UK's greatest scifi writers. Poor UK.
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Of Mice and Men. It was kinda boring at first because it was very descriptive of the countryside. I didn't really give a shit about the sycamore trees and such. But then I got to the dialogue, which is very funny and surprisingly vulgar for an old book. Shouldn't take too long to read this book; it's only a hundred pages long.
Also got The Portable Atheist by Hitchens. Turns out he didn't write it. It's just a collection of atheist writings he collected and compiled. I tried to read some of it but got bored very quickly. There's not really anything I'm interested in hearing about atheism, I suppose. Heard it all before.
Also got The Portable Atheist by Hitchens. Turns out he didn't write it. It's just a collection of atheist writings he collected and compiled. I tried to read some of it but got bored very quickly. There's not really anything I'm interested in hearing about atheism, I suppose. Heard it all before.
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An ancient introduction to game theory.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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To you young whippersnappers that probably means published 10 years ago!Sean Hayden wrote:An ancient introduction to game theory.
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Game theory has only been around for 50 odd years, hasn't it?
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yar, I'm guilty of exaggerating, the absolute worst crime.
...and now lame irony too
...and now lame irony too
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens, in which he unravels the myth that is Mother Teresa. Enjoyable but much too short. Read it in one sitting, FFS
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The Rocks Remain by Gavin Maxwell. Terry Nutkins has just had a couple of fingers bitten off by an otter.
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I started reading Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death as well as China Meiville's Perdido Street Station and Robert M. Pirsig's Lila: A Study in Morals.
Not really making much progress in any of them though, my reading has crawled to almost nothing in the past year.
Not really making much progress in any of them though, my reading has crawled to almost nothing in the past year.
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Just picking up John Lanchester's Capital again. Also started on Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. It's just too, too sick-making.
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