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Start here => Games => Topic started by: maldoror on August 27, 2007, 11:08:40 PM
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I'm just about to finish the Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo, and I'm about to start on Shiviti by Yehiel De-Nur. Gotta read about the plight of my people, homes. What aboot yalls.
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I'm towards the end of Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince.
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Helliconia Summer - Brian Aldiss
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Noir - Olivier Pauvert
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A hypnosis book.
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The six wives of Henry VIII, by Alison Weir- a guilty pleasure interest of mine :-[
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Greed - Chris Ryan.
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My brain is utterly fried lately, so I'm taking it easy. Slogging through Bill Clinton's autobiography (still and forever...) and re-reading Gone With the Wind for about the millionth time.
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Dawkins - God Delusion, up next Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander , tonight my Sociology book.
Actually I am and will be listening to the first two books... I listen to audio books at work.
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My brain is utterly fried lately, so I'm taking it easy. Slogging through Bill Clinton's autobiography (still and forever...) and re-reading Gone With the Wind for about the millionth time.
Gone with the wind is one of my 'comfort' books- something I read when I need cheering up.
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Running with scissors.
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Kwaidan. (graphic novel)
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Helliconia Summer - Brian Aldiss
Oh! Brilliant!
I'm amazed you were even able to find that, unless you've had it on your bookshelves for a couple of decades- or they've made a film of it. Aldiss and all the other old masters have been totally elbowed off the shelves by Terry Pratchett, so far as I can see.
Umm...I'm supposed to say what I'm reading now. Errr...nothing much, unless you count surfing the web, and dipping into my poetry collection at random intervals (e.e. cummings "selected poems " is my perennial favourite)
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I look for books in charity shops. I have the rest of the Helliconia trilogy and shitloads of old Michael Moorcock books. 8)
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Starting The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman. I have read it before but I forgot it so I am reading it again.
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I look for books in charity shops. I have the rest of the Helliconia trilogy and shitloads of old Michael Moorcock books. 8)
heh heh, I read al the elric books after you told me about him!
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Elric is very cool. Definitely my favourite of Moorcock's anti-heroes. 8)
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Oooh, I got an article about AS from the New Yorker from my penpal.
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Running with scissors.
Still reading it, but had to comment on the chapter "he was raised without a proper diagnosis":
Well, that was obvious.
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Woman From Another Planet- Jean Kearns Miller
It's a book about Aspie woman my mom just bought it for me recently in the book she wrote:
"To my precious Marlys Who's not a Like-Like Girl, Love mom July 2007"
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and Asperger Syndrome in the Family.
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Heheh, I read that fast as "Harry Potter and Asperger Syndrome in the Family". :laugh:
I am reading Star Trek TNG, The Dominion War. Will finish it tonight, I am hoping to get The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman tomorrow so I can finish that trilogy.
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I'm reading a pop-up book on impotence.
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I'm reading a pop-up book on impotence.
lol +
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and Asperger Syndrome in the Family.
You have no idea how much I wish that was all part of one title.
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The Unkown Shore - Patrick O'Brian
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Finishing "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. My brain's everywhere right now, though, so I'll probably be finishing it for quite some time. :P
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as opposed to "neverwhere"? :laugh:
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as opposed to "neverwhere"? :laugh:
:laugh:
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I went into the local book shop and asked the assistant "I'm looking for a book called 'How To Handle Disappointment Without Killing'. Do you have it?"
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:oneliner: very good :laugh:
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Moorcock. :LMAO:
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"stardust", by neil gaiman; "the ode less travelled", by stephen fry; "and our faces, my heart, brief as photos", by john berger; "after the hole", guy burt. need some more non-fiction, next - either "genome", by matt ridley, or "vital lies, simple truths", by daniel goleman, i reckon.
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i'm reading Survivor.
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Im reading Divergence by Tony Ballantyne. It is in the balance wether i will finish it.
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i can barely read a page or two.
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About to start Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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I gave up on the other.
Going to have a try at Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith. See if i can make it past chapter 2.
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The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis.
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. So starved for fiction
that I made my dad leave it for me.
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I went into the local book shop and asked the assistant "I'm looking for a book called 'How To Handle Disappointment Without Killing'. Do you have it?"
:plus:
/me starts thinking of friends she'd like to tell that joke to.
"stardust", by neil gaiman; "the ode less travelled", by stephen fry; "and our faces, my heart, brief as photos", by john berger; "after the hole", guy burt. need some more non-fiction, next - either "genome", by matt ridley, or "vital lies, simple truths", by daniel goleman, i reckon.
Is that the stardust the movie was based on?
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yes, that's the one.
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I gave up on the other.
Going to have a try at Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith. See if i can make it past chapter 2.
have you read "the talented mr ripley"? by highsmith? if so, what did you think of it? (i'll reserve my opinion until you've expounded... ;) ).
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I gave up on the other.
Going to have a try at Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith. See if i can make it past chapter 2.
have you read "the talented mr ripley"? by highsmith? if so, what did you think of it? (i'll reserve my opinion until you've expounded... ;) ).
No, ive not read any of hers before. I fancied a change.
I like the movie, probably the only film ive seen where Jude Law is watchable without thinking how the fuck do he get that part.
The other ripley film is okay too - both have issues of identity, guilt, alienation, that sort of thing, so i thought i would give her a try.
That's all i will expound for now.
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fair comment. :thumbup:
i loathed the book. i had absolutely no syympathy for the mian character, and wanted him to die from about page three, emo whingeing little knob. ::) the only reason i finished it was cos it was on one of my reading lists for the M.A.
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The post above.
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Moorcock. :LMAO:
What book?
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i was laughing at the name.
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Oh, so you're not reading him?
He's right up there with Dick for
SF authors with good names.
Still, Baseball's Randy Johnson has
them all beat.
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i read Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk and David Gerrold... among others.
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Gerrold wrote "The Trouble with Tribbles," no?
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yes. i think i have that book somewhere. should read it.
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Book? No, the old Star Trek episode.
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i must be confusing it with some Trib...blah blah book i have. some old scifi book.
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I lurves that episode. It's probably my favorite, even better than that one that Ellison wrote.
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Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian.
Second in the Aubrey/Maturin series. 2nd of 21 in the series. I've got a long way to go. :laugh:
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Was reading the psych book. All about the ears and shit.
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I started Possible side effects by Augusten Burroughs, It was very much like a bland David Sedaris, I couldn't handle it, so I moved onto Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani.
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Was reading the psych book. All about the ears and shit.
Sounds like an interesting psych book..
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I never made it past chapter two of the Patricia Highsmith thing.
Trying some non-fiction:
Guy Grieve - Call Of The Wild, My Escape To Alaska
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told you it was irritating bollocks. :laugh:
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told you it was irritating bollocks. :laugh:
yes, it was like cardboard.
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told you it was irritating bollocks. :laugh:
yes, it was like cardboard.
:LMAO:
:plus:
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Songmaster by Orson Scott Card. That's some fucked-up shit, but it's engrossing as hell. Finished the first two sections.
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Finished the book. Took longer than I wanted it to, but technically on time.
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Born on a blue day. Daniel Tammet.
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Stephen King Song of Susannah
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Stephen King Song of Susannah
Not one of his proudest moments. At that point the DT had already jumped the shark.
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Stephen King Song of Susannah
Not one of his proudest moments. At that point the DT had already jumped the shark.
Yes, but I have to finish it even if it's bad too many years waiting I did not even know it was out until recently
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Stephen King Song of Susannah
Not one of his proudest moments. At that point the DT had already jumped the shark.
Yes, but I have to finish it even if it's bad too many years waiting I did not even know it was out until recently
I know; I felt the same compulsion. :/
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Songmaster by Orson Scott Card. That's some fucked-up shit, but it's engrossing as hell.
;D Yeah, I love how he manages to pull that kind of thing off.
Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock
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Dragon Half scanlations.
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Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock
8)
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Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock
8)
:thumbup:
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i have about a dozen Stephen King books half read. :( one day when i can concentrate...
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Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock
8)
:thumbup:
I read the Stormbringer series do I get cool points for that??
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Born on a blue day. Daniel Tammet.
i heard the serialisation on Radio 4, and really enjoyed it. what's the book like?
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Heretics of Dune. Found it for 25 cents,
so I figured I'd try it.
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Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock
8)
:thumbup:
I read the Stormbringer series do I get cool points for that??
You mean the Elric saga? Yes you do. *dishes out coolness points* 8)
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Does Jerry Cornelius count? :laugh:
That shit was fucked up.
The best thing that I remember
reading of his, was outside the
whole Eternal Champion series,
the book that "The Great Sun
Jester" was based on. Can't
remember the title though.
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Hmmm. Doesn't ring a bell, but I haven't read everything he's published. Jerry Cornelius counts though. trippy shit. :laugh:
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I've been doing all the Dick, again, as in Philip K.
I found a two volume book club set of his short stories at Goodwill last week. It claims to be complete and unedited. I know his novels, well, but I'm not sure If I had read all his short stories.
If I seem more dark and sarcastic than usual, that's probably why.
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I've been doing all the Dick, again, as in Philip K.
"as in philip k."? yeah, right... :evillaugh:
you dirty ol' git, DD. more power to your, er, elbow. ;)
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I've been doing all the Dick, again, as in Philip K.
"as in philip k."? yeah, right... :evillaugh:
you dirty ol' git, DD. more power to your, er, elbow. ;)
Your fantasies grow ever more intriguing by the hour.
Anything else to share?
:angel:
(I really do like the Dick.)
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I've been doing all the Dick, again, as in Philip K.
"as in philip k."? yeah, right... :evillaugh:
you dirty ol' git, DD. more power to your, er, elbow. ;)
Your fantasies grow ever more intriguing by the hour.
Anything else to share?
:angel:
i'm afraid that would be the deluxe package, and you only forked out for the economy package, you skinflint. :P
:rofl:
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I've been doing all the Dick, again, as in Philip K.
"as in philip k."? yeah, right... :evillaugh:
you dirty ol' git, DD. more power to your, er, elbow. ;)
Your fantasies grow ever more intriguing by the hour.
Anything else to share?
:angel:
i'm afraid that would be the deluxe package, and you only forked out for the economy package, you skinflint. :P
:rofl:
OH! I see.
Now, I find out there's a Deluxe Package to be had.
Should have saved a throw or two, I suppose.
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Hmmm. Doesn't ring a bell, but I haven't read everything he's published. Jerry Cornelius counts though. trippy shit. :laugh:
# The Fireclown (1965)
* Variant Title: The Winds of Limbo (1965)
I also forgot about Gloriana, which was probably
even better. Been a good 20 years since I've read
that though.
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The Winds of Limbo! thats the fucker. I have read it, but I cant remember it, I was probably about 15 at the time.
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Yeah. It's been a while for me
too. Like most of my collection
of books, I ended up giving it to
my wife. Really remembered liking
it though.
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Finished reading The Godfather. Who taught Mario Puzo grammar? I noticed quite a large number of grammar mistakes from that novel.
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The Winds of Limbo! thats the fucker. I have read it, but I cant remember it, I was probably about 15 at the time.
Isn't it great getting old? Everything becomes new, again.
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Actually it is kind of cool revisiting all the stuff I used to like and had forgotten about. There has to be some compensation for losing your metabolic advantage and turning grey. :eyebrows:
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there is - you get to entice innocent creatures into your den of wild sex by offering to show them your silver pubes.
well, it worked for me. :eyelash:
anyone read "genome", by matt ridley? sorry if this sounds pretentious, but someone who knows about scientific writing (even though it's only a popular science book). i want to hear someone else's opinion before i start sighing on here. :laugh:
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I always got pleasure rereading favorites.
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Finished reading The Godfather. Who taught Mario Puzo grammar? I noticed quite a large number of grammar mistakes from that novel.
I found three spelling mistakes in The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. I am not so good with grammar but I have noticed the misuse of a word in the book I am reading now; Deep Space Nine: The Left Hand of Destiny. It is about Klingons.
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The brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.
I like Dostoevsky. His characters remind me of lines in a painting, constantly colliding with each other and altering each other's courses and flying into the painting from all directions. Only thing that sucks is that he usually uses the patronymic when referring to each one so that you basically have to read each name twice to know who it is.
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I just got a copy of 'My Lobotomy' by Howard Dully. NPR has a brief article here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080)
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recently read "overtaken" by alexis sayle - had to finish it at one go, it was so good. the first few pages were a bit odd, but i persevered, and am i glad i did, or what? extremely well-written; great characters, plot, etc,; and even a touch of his surreal humour here and there. it's not in his comedic style, btw, so don't expect ranting. just fab.
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Michael Palin, Diaries 1969 - 1979 The Python years.
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oooh, i'd be interested in your take on that book. (i read it a while back). do report back when you've finished it, won't you?
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I just got a copy of 'My Lobotomy' by Howard Dully. NPR has a brief article here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080)
can someone who's had a lobotomy write a book?
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Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.
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I just got a copy of 'My Lobotomy' by Howard Dully. NPR has a brief article here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080)
can someone who's had a lobotomy write a book?
dan brown and jeffrey archer seem to have managed it.
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:laugh:
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Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.
Oh fucking joy.
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Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.
Salas and Hille's Calculus was my calculus book as well.
I think that it's a pretty good one.
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Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.
Salas and Hille's Calculus was my calculus book as well.
I think that it's a pretty good one.
It is a pretty good book, though it has an awful lot of stuff I dont need in it. Its a nuisence trying to find all the stuff I need in it, especially as my lecturer is a bit lousy, and calls things by different names.
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I was reading both my French Dictionary and English Grammar booklet last night. *groan*
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oooh, i'd be interested in your take on that book. (i read it a while back). do report back when you've finished it, won't you?
Sure thing, Lucifer.
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I'm currently re-reading "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky. For some reason, I feel a strong kinship with the naïve protagonist who always gets fooled by the constant lies of everyone around him. I can recommend the book if you've never read it, it's one of my favorites.
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Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.
Salas and Hille's Calculus was my calculus book as well.
I think that it's a pretty good one.
It is a pretty good book, though it has an awful lot of stuff I dont need in it. Its a nuisence trying to find all the stuff I need in it, especially as my lecturer is a bit lousy, and calls things by different names.
It's difficult for a freshman to judge the information in his calculus book that he will need later, though.
The stuff that you think you don't need may be the theory that explains the rest of it. It's important too.
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I'm currently re-reading "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky. For some reason, I feel a strong kinship with the naïve protagonist who always gets fooled by the constant lies of everyone around him. I can recommend the book if you've never read it, it's one of my favorites.
I love him. Ought to reread it myself.
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The stuff that you think you don't need may be the theory that explains the rest of it. It's important too.
The theory's the ONLY important thing.
For me, everything else fades almost immediately.
But, you're unlikely to need to use the rest IRL,
I'd guess.
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The stuff that you think you don't need may be the theory that explains the rest of it. It's important too.
The theory's the ONLY important thing.
For me, everything else fades almost immediately.
But, you're unlikely to need to use the rest IRL,
I'd guess.
That depends on whether you go into a technical field or not. You would be surprised how useful it can be later, but you can't always predict exactly what you will need.
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I've needed some, but calculators are
good enough to get an answer. It's
the odd situations where you need the
theory, which really try you.
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I've needed some, but calculators are
good enough to get an answer. It's
the odd situations where you need the
theory, which really try you.
I agree that in the long run it's more important to know the theory behind the formulas than it is to just know how to "plug and chug" to do the homework or get answers on a test.
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Hell, they let us use calculators for the
last calc class that I took. REALLY helped
me guess what methods of integration I
needed to use.
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Hell, they let us use calculators for the
last calc class that I took. REALLY helped
me guess what methods of integration I
needed to use.
My husband never let his students use calculators, but if the answer was pi / 2, he considered that a perfectly valid answer.
Calculators made it too easy for them to cheat.
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Well, all depends on what is considered cheating.
We had to have a pretty good idea of the how,
even though the calculator gave the exact answer
(i.e. it would give pi/2). For whatever reason, this
was tremendously helpful to me, though other students
had difficulty with the problems still.
Previously though, every calc class I took allowed at
best a scientific calc (and usually not even that). Totally
different, as it focused more on memorizing the methods
of integration, rather than asking more complex applied
problems. I'm not certain how much value there is in
the memorization side. Certainly not much, if you're going
to go on in mathematics. I mean, real analysis is the closest
you'll get to calculus in upper level classes, and it's all theory.
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My husband is a mathematician.
Many of the scientific calculators could be programmed to have the contents of a "cheat sheet" in them, so he just made problems with "nice" numbers and he did not require the students to simplify answers beyond that.
Except for one final exam where he had a class full of cheaters, so he made the social security number test, where there were nine problems with boxes in which the student was supposed to put the nine digits of his social security number.
They still did not have to simplify their answers.
He had a lot of complaints from the cheating students on that one.
They said, "What if we refuse to do it?"
He said that it was their choice, but if they didn't they would get no credit for the exam, since there was no place for their names on the exam.
:laugh:
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My husband is a mathematician.
I figured, if he was teaching calc. My father is,
as well, and doesn't allow them either. But, I've
noticed that the younger professors seem more
willing to head in this direction.
Many of the scientific calculators could be programmed to have the contents of a "cheat sheet" in them, so he just made problems with "nice" numbers and he did not require the students to simplify answers beyond that.
Right. One could put whatever they wanted
in a TI-92, what I used. Even has a Qwerty keyboard.
But, the tests were also open book, which I strongly
support, so a cheat sheet is pointless, really. It forces the
tests to be more conceptual, and less memorization. Being
a calc class, of course, there's still a lot of computation, but
the focus was much more on setting up the correct method
for solving the problem, and less on simply knowing the right
tactic.
There are definitely arguments both ways. But, I find that knowing
how to use resources that you will likely have in the real world effectively
is far more important than cramming the different mechanisms into your
head. Especially when you are very unlikely to need to just do these from
memory ever again.
Actually, at the extreme end of the spectrum, a former professor of mine,
many many years ago, was arguing that we shouldn't teach children the
multiplication tables, or more math than is needed to be able to just use
a calculator. I'd be pretty unhappy without being able to do simple arithmetic,
but his point was about a waste of resources. He too was a mathematician. :laugh:
Except for one final exam where he had a class full of cheaters, so he made the social security number test, where there were nine problems with boxes in which the student was supposed to put the nine digits of his social security number.
They still did not have to simplify their answers.
He had a lot of complaints from the cheating students on that one.
They said, "What if we refuse to do it?"
He said that it was their choice, but if they didn't they would get no credit for the exam, since there was no place for their names on the exam.
:laugh:
Cute. Especially the last part.
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Calculus: One and several variables, by Salas Hille and Etgen.
Salas and Hille's Calculus was my calculus book as well.
I think that it's a pretty good one.
It is a pretty good book, though it has an awful lot of stuff I dont need in it. Its a nuisence trying to find all the stuff I need in it, especially as my lecturer is a bit lousy, and calls things by different names.
The college freshman exhibits his extensive Calculus textbook expertise.
I'm currently re-reading "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky. For some reason, I feel a strong kinship with the naïve protagonist who always gets fooled by the constant lies of everyone around him. I can recommend the book if you've never read it, it's one of my favorites.
Myshkin is pretty aspie in a lot of ways. The Brothers Kamazarov is a better book overall, I think, and the main character pretty much parallels Myshkin. It covers a lot more subjects and uncovers a lot more psychology. Those are the only two I've read of Dostoevsky, though.
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RCA Receiving Tube Reference Manual from 1950
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"Prozac Backlash" by some MD
"Saturday" by Ian McEwan
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"Prozac Backlash" by some MD
"Saturday" by Ian McEwan
I take Prozac anything new?
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Myshkin is pretty aspie in a lot of ways. The Brothers Kamazarov is a better book overall, I think, and the main character pretty much parallels Myshkin. It covers a lot more subjects and uncovers a lot more psychology. Those are the only two I've read of Dostoevsky, though.
Yes he is. As I said; I think what I can relate to the most in his personality is the incredibly naïve, almost infantile, trust he places in all the other characters of the novel, all of which are fucking scum. But he just doesn't see it. He doesn't get that he's being fooled and taken advantage of over and over again. I can relate to that a lot.
One of my favorite parts is when Myshkin makes the mistake of mentioning to Keller (the boxer) that he's recently acquired lots of good champagne, all of which is stored in the basement of his summer home. Hence, when he returns home, he is surprised to find that Keller and all the other fucking scum of the novel have gathered on his porch. They have - under Keller's lead - broken into his house, stolen all his champagne, and are now busy consuming it on the porch of the Prince's own house. When they notice they've been caught red-handed, they act like they're in fact doing it in order to celebrate the Prince's birthday (which in reality doesn't take place until next day in the novel), so they "graciously" invite him to join "their" party and drink his own champagne. On his own porch. While they're ransacking his kitchen and eating all his food for a midnight snack to go with the champagne. Of course, they do the latter under the guise that they're preparing a "birthday meal" for him.
The Prince remains oblivious to their falsehoods. Dostoevsky: master of what human nature is truly like.
I can recommend "Crime and Punishment" if you haven't read that one already. "Notes from Underground" is very good, too. If "The Idiot" is a portrayal of what a horrible torments a truly naïve man would have suffered in Dostoevsky's Russia, "Notes from Underground" is a portrait of one of his tormentors; one of the men who in "The Idiot" are referred to as a "nihilist". Check it out and see; a wonderful insight into the mental processes of the worst scum humanity has to offer.
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"Prozac Backlash" by some MD
"Saturday" by Ian McEwan
I take Prozac anything new?
it's not new, exactly. the whole Prozac class of antidepressants (Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil...) is dangerous and unless you're severely depressed and nothing else works for you, you should consider coming off them. and even if you are severely depressed, it might not be worth the price. read the book.
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meh, its a catch 22. I want to come off Cipralex but if I do I'll get depressed again, so I'm stuck on headmeds now until the spring at least. :-\
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Calandale's crap... WHY?
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Calandale's crap... WHY?
Because it's THERE.
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Mine more to reduce anxiety which I am full of and a mess when I miss a few days sometimes to the point of not doing anything. Got benzos too but pefer not to take them daily
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there is a risk that the prozac class of antidepressants are neurotoxins, much like cocain or ecstasy are. on the whole, i'd rather be depressed than fuck up my brain permanently.
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it wouldn't shock me to discover that venlafaxine was neurotoxic. that stuff is just nasty.
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"inherited bowel levitation - reduced without any effort" !!!
:LMAO:
i do believe i want to write a novel with that title. what an utter delight!
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Innocents Abroad by Twain.
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i read the lobotomy article. :( it was horrible.
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i read the lobotomy article. :( it was horrible.
I have seen a picture of that procedure being done. Blech.
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there were pictures in the article. made me sick. what a loonie that so called "doctor". doctors are supposed to do no harm.
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there were pictures in the article. made me sick. what a loonie that so called "doctor". doctors are supposed to do no harm.
But the doctor thought he was doing good. What do you think of ECT?
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Is "Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill any good?
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I've re-read fourteen books from Anne McCaffrey in the past month.
Yes, I do masturbatory ceremonies to dragons.
Fuck off!
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Is "Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill any good?
It's not a fun read, if that's what you mean.
And, so much of it is built into modern ethics
that, unless you're looking at the historical value,
it's nothing exciting there, to the modern mind.
Kant is, and always will be, more interesting.
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Piano for Dummies
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I've re-read fourteen books from Anne McCaffrey in the past month.
Yes, I do masturbatory ceremonies to dragons.
Fuck off!
:laugh:
Do you like her newer stuff (like the Rowan series) as much as the Pern books?
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I've re-read fourteen books from Anne McCaffrey in the past month.
Yes, I do masturbatory ceremonies to dragons.
Fuck off!
:laugh:
Do you like her newer stuff (like the Rowan series) as much as the Pern books?
Yes, I do. I was traumatised a few years ago when I discovered that she was very old and most of her work is "completed."
Asimov also; he died before I was done with his mind.
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I've re-read fourteen books from Anne McCaffrey in the past month.
Yes, I do masturbatory ceremonies to dragons.
Fuck off!
:laugh:
Do you like her newer stuff (like the Rowan series) as much as the Pern books?
Yes, I do. I was traumatised a few years ago when I discovered that she was very old and most of her work is "completed."
Asimov also; he died before I was done with his mind.
I have read all the Pern books (I think) and I liked the Pegasus series. Now I am reading "Memory" by Lois McMaster Bujold - apparently this writer has won loads of awards. I hadn't heard of her until recently.
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Asimov also; he died before I was done with his mind.
His mind was done before HE was done with it.
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How so?
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No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark.
Good murder novel. I like her books. I should read more of hers.
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How so?
His later stuff just wasn't of the quality as
his earlier. Ah, he was better than Heinline, in
that respect, but it still wasn't too good.
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How so?
His later stuff just wasn't of the quality as
his earlier. Ah, he was better than Heinline, in
that respect, but it still wasn't too good.
I agree, to a degree, but I blame his co-authoring efforts for some of the decline. It seemed that his university duties were taking too much of his fun time, towards the end. Apparently his last textbook was well received, with some fanfare from his colleagues in biochemistry. Of course it's grossly out of date, now.
I thought you were saying he had Alzheimer's or something. He actually died of AIDs, about which his family revealed the truth a few years ago. His "heart failure" was supposedly a complication associated with AIDs. Sad, really.
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I'm actually looking for something fresh to read in Science Fiction.
Anyone have any recommendations?
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I'm actually looking for something fresh to read in Science Fiction.
Anyone have any recommendations?
I extremely strongly recommend Vernor Vinge's two books A Deepness in the Sky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky) and A Fire Upon the Deep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep). The first book is an amazingly well-written (and more than a little bit sad) account of the difficulties of sustaining planetary civilizations in a universe where the Speed of Light cannot be transcended, along with the difficulties of attempting to organize and sustain a interstellar trading company under such circumstances.
In the afforementioned second book, however, we find out that the reason why humanity could not travel faster than C was that Earth is located inside a special "Slow Zone" in the galaxy, where C is the topmost limit of velocity. However, it turns out there are other such "zones" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#The_zones_of_thought), in which C is no longer an absolute factor and in which interstellar trading civilizations are not only possible but common. In even higher "zones" still, superhuman intelligences abound and Dyson Spheres, Mind-machine meldings and Ringworlds are the order of the day. This is where the so-called "Powers" reside (see Wiki article).
This brilliant innovation is referred to as Vinge's "Zones of Thought" -Universe. Basically, what he did was to turn the Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity) sideways into a set of spatial boundaries from having originally been a temporal one. To quote from Wikipedia:
Vinge has often expressed an opinion that realistic fiction set after the development of superhuman intelligence — an event that he calls the Singularity and considers all but inevitable — would necessarily be too strange for a human reader to enjoy, if not impossible for a human writer to create. To sidestep the issue, he turns the Singularity sideways from time into space, postulating that the galaxy has been divided (possibly by some unknown super-technology in the distant past) into "zones of thought".
I really recommend these books. Some of the best science-fiction I've ever read, bar none. "The fact that the Forestry Department had partitioned the urban networks was a very bad sign for Triland's future."
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He actually died of AIDs, about which his family revealed the truth a few years ago. His "heart failure" was supposedly a complication associated with AIDs. Sad, really.
Wow. I never heard that. I've been out of the information loop
for some time now, I guess.
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I'm actually looking for something fresh to read in Science Fiction.
Anyone have any recommendations?
You mind old stuff?
I'd suggest Van Vogt, if you've not tried him yet.
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I'm actually looking for something fresh to read in Science Fiction.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Neal Stephenson is good. Look out for Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, if you haven't read em.
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I'm actually looking for something fresh to read in Science Fiction.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon ( the first in a series of 3)
Peter Watts - Blindsight ( he has others, not read them though)
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King Kong, The Island of the Skull, the "prequel" to the original story.
Actually it was an intriguing cheap paperback I found in the supermarket check outline. Buying it amused my daughter as she said, "Somehow Dad, I knew you were going to buy that". ::) 8 bucks wasted, ::) not the worst thing I ever read, but, certainly not the best. Being a bookaholic does have its downside! :P
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I stick to libraries, and used shops.
More the latter.
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I stick to libraries, and used shops.
More the latter.
I love second hand books, unless its an absolute favourite book of mine that I'm going to read again and again I find it very difficult to bring myself to part with the money they charge for brand new ones.
I'm currently reading Fanny Hill- I caught an episode of the TV adaptation of this on BBC4 the other night and that reminded me I'd never finished reading it.
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I browse whenever I get the chance, any second hand bookstore I come across! I never know what I'll find to add to my collections! ;D
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I stick to libraries, and used shops.
More the latter.
I love second hand books, unless its an absolute favourite book of mine that I'm going to read again and again I find it very difficult to bring myself to part with the money they charge for brand new ones.
Even with favorites. I'm cheap. But, I loved hunting for things,
knowing that we'd find them, eventually. Plus, most of my
favorites aren't in print anymore.
I'm currently reading Fanny Hill- I caught an episode of the TV adaptation of this on BBC4 the other night and that reminded me I'd never finished reading it.
Wanked many a time to it, when young. >:D
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Wanked many a time to it, when young. >:D
I must admit certain parts of it have made me go pounce on Dunc. :bananas:
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Pete Doherty My Prodigal Son by Jacqueline Doherty
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Thanks guys.
I will scour the library, on Monday, with a whole new plan..
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Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison.
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A star trek novel
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A star trek novel
Ooooh, which one?
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Ripley's believe it or not!
I read this part about a girl that keeps pulling shards of glass from her head. She never had a head injury or anything. She just has shards of glass coming out of her head and doctors don't know why. ???
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The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian.
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A star trek novel
Ooooh, which one?
The latest William Shatner novel, "Star Trek Academy, Collision Course". with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Published by Pocket Books
It's actually one of the better ones I'v read recently.
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According to one of his ghostwriters, William Shatner can't write at all.
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm enjoy it much more than I was expecting. Next up is Tony Attwood's Asperger's book, which I checked out today.
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I'm currently reading Miles, Mystery and Mayhem by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's an omnibus edition containing Cetaganda, Ethan Of Athos and "Labyrinth".
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Hunter's Moon by David Devereaux
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm enjoy it much more than I was expecting. Next up is Tony Attwood's Asperger's book, which I checked out today.
The Complete Guide on AS, his new(-ish) one? It's a good book.
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Gotta get around to that.
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Gotta get around to that.
LOL. You'd probably either like it or really really really hate it.
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm enjoy it much more than I was expecting. Next up is Tony Attwood's Asperger's book, which I checked out today.
The Complete Guide on AS, his new(-ish) one? It's a good book.
Yeah. I've heard it was the best and most objective general AS book.
I'm reading the Fountainhead mainly because I was planning on starting up a Libertarian club next semester and wanted to brush up on a bit of the philosophy.
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Cool. Maybe we should start a debate thread on it.
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According to one of his ghostwriters, William Shatner can't write at all.
Well, duuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, no shit. He's a "whore", he's in his 70's, and wasn't even asked to be on the next Star Trek Movie, while Leonard Nimoy is on the cast to reprise his Spock role. All Shatner can do is sell his name and what little fame he has for commercials and pseudo hit tv shows like, "Boston Legal". The bottom line is, his name will sell the book, but, he's lucky that veteran and GOOD Star Trek writers can do the "heavy lifting". He gets a nice "residual" or "check" to pave his way into the "Old Folks" home.!!! :laugh:
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According to one of his ghostwriters, William Shatner can't write at all.
Well, duuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, no shit. He's a "whore", he's in his 70's, and wasn't even asked to be on the next Star Trek Movie, while Leonard Nimoy is on the cast to reprise his Spock role. All Shatner can do is sell his name and what little fame he has for commercials and pseudo hit tv shows like, "Boston Legal". The bottom line is, his name will sell the book, but, he's lucky that veteran and GOOD Star Trek writers can do the "heavy lifting". He gets a nice "residual" or "check" to pave his way into the "Old Folks" home.!!! :laugh:
Not true, according to my sources. Shatner's people are talking to CBS/Paramount's people, but it looks like Shatner might not be interested.
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According to one of his ghostwriters, William Shatner can't write at all.
Well, duuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, no shit. He's a "whore", he's in his 70's, and wasn't even asked to be on the next Star Trek Movie, while Leonard Nimoy is on the cast to reprise his Spock role. All Shatner can do is sell his name and what little fame he has for commercials and pseudo hit tv shows like, "Boston Legal". The bottom line is, his name will sell the book, but, he's lucky that veteran and GOOD Star Trek writers can do the "heavy lifting". He gets a nice "residual" or "check" to pave his way into the "Old Folks" home.!!! :laugh:
Not true, according to my sources. Shatner's people are talking to CBS/Paramount's people, but it looks like Shatner might not be interested.
Possibly, but, why is he (according to what i read recently) complaining that he wasn't in the cast, but, Nimoy was! Then again, this may all be just a huge publicity ploy by both sides to generate interest in a movie franchise thats fading. And of the Star Trek books I'v read recently, most have been stuff that seems to have been written by ghost writers in their sleep. :yawn:
IMO There just seems to be too many contradictions for me to accept any one story!
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To each their own :)
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reading like music is very subjective. It only takes a few thousand readers or listeners for a book or tune to be a hit. And that, is a good thing, if we all liked the same thing this world would be one helluva boring place! :laugh:
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I met one of Shatner's ghost writers, Bill Quick, once. Funny guy and a good writer. He wrote most of Shatner's Tek novels, I think, and ghost wrote for many other celebrities as well. His personal tragedy was (and is) that he never managed to sell much of the books he wrote using his own name.
He did have an ego that was at least the size of Shatner's, but I think he told me the truth.
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I met one of Shatner's ghost writers, Bill Quick, once. Funny guy and a good writer. He wrote most of Shatner's Tek novels, I think, and ghost wrote for many other celebrities as well. His personal tragedy was (and is) that he never managed to sell much of the books he wrote using his own name.
He did have an ego that was at least the size of Shatner's, but I think he told me the truth.
The reality is, that he isn't the only one who has had difficulty selling under his own name. Which is sad really. As for ego, one probably has to have one to survive all the rejections one gets whether writing or auditioning. Seems to come with the territory!
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ABC Roofing an Siding catalog :eyebrows:
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Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari
I like him. Miserable old cunt, but he tells it like it is. Always interesting reading. 8)
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The latest AARP bulletin ::)
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I'm on the last 100 or so pages of the Fountainhead. The tone is so depressing I'm not sure if I can finish it. I feel like I could cry. :-\
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The Glass Bead Game
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Gotta get around to that.
LOL. You'd probably either like it or really really really hate it.
I liked Atlas Shrugged, though I didn't
particularly agree with it. I think she writes
well.
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The Glass Bead Game
My wife loved that.
I'm not a huge fan of Hesse though.
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The Glass Bead Game
My wife loved that.
I'm not a huge fan of Hesse though.
Yes, i loved it when i read it a long while ago. Piicked it up in a charity shop, been on my list of books to re-read for sometime.
Not a big fan either, although i think Sidhartha is great too.
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The local newspaper
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The Glass Bead Game
My wife loved that.
I'm not a huge fan of Hesse though.
Yes, i loved it when i read it a long while ago. Piicked it up in a charity shop, been on my list of books to re-read for sometime.
Not a big fan either, although i think Sidhartha is great too.
Great book. 8)
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I'm re-reading the Zelazny.
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I'm re-reading the Zelazny.
My favorite author. But, he's written a lot.
What are you reading?
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Bridges Their Art,Science,and Evolution
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Bridges Their Art,Science,and Evolution
Sounds like a good read. :)
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Bridges Their Art,Science,and Evolution
Sounds like a good read. :)
Just started interesting so far. If I wasn't so adverse to travel I'd like to see some of the ones they show from Europe
On a side note a bridge from my town to the next was rated one of the top ten new ones in the country this past week by some architecture magazine
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Bridges Their Art,Science,and Evolution
Sounds like a good read. :)
Just started interesting so far. If I wasn't so adverse to travel I'd like to see some of the ones they show from Europe
On a side note a bridge from my town to the next was rated one of the top ten new ones in the country this past week by some architecture magazine
Oh yeah, you got a picture of it?
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Here is the article it has no picture thou and I could find any good ones online. In the paper they had a nice aerial photo. Maybe I'll take one tomorrow
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19046524&BRD=1347&PAG=461&dept_id=432990&rfi=6
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Black Man by Richard Morgan
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A self-loathing one? :o Does McJ know?
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Trying to finish Saturday by Ian McEwan. This one really is in love with his own writing.
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I have too any books going, right now. I usually manage to keep it to about five or six, but I am reading on nine different books.
I am so disorganized.
(that includes a Photoshop manual, though, which may not count)
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Smithsonian Magazine
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Picked up a selection of tales from the arabian nights.
Never managed to get the complete one. :-\
Might be stuff I haven't read in this one though.
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Boo-yah, bitches!
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IT!
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Stephen King? That's a good book.
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i should read it. i'm nuts about the movie.
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One of his best i think.
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Would you believe I've never read an Stephen King novel...Nor a Michael Crichton (though I did start Jurassic Park)
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Yes. Not all people read Stephen King or Michael Crichton. Any particular reason why you haven't read a Stephen King book?
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Haven't had any in easy reach, never felt the need to, and generally not my genre of choice.
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Well, if you feel the need to read a good, non-horror, book by Stephen King, try The Dead Zone. Great writing.
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Anything like the TV series?
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Anything like the TV series?
Far better. Can't go into details without giving away story points, though.
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Just finished re-reading Up the Line, by Silverberg
Starting on a Poul Anderson, that I don't remember
liking.
My meager collection here is sorely taxed. :-\
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i love the TV series. but i love Stephen King books. i had like a dozen of them when i could read. i've given up on the idea now, for now. unless i can be fixed, i'm not reading anything. :( i used to read them halfway anyway. :laugh: then i thought wow, what a great book, how have i concentrated so well? and it was out of the window. then it was too good to read in peace.
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I read really slowly, and I have ADHD out the yang so it's really hard for me to concentrate. Think that's why I love the Russian writers. They kicked in so well with me that I was forced to pay attention. I read the Brothers Karamazov in 8 days, and I still can't believe I managed that.
Right now I'm reading The Fourth Way by P.D. Ouspensky, and Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk. I'll be reading these forever. :-[
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The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian.
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I *love* that cover.
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The Ionian mode is pretty cool, even though the full step parts are like the Pentatonic scale kinda.
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Trying to get my head around "Saturday" by Ian McEwan, once again. :laugh:
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Geotimes magazine
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I *love* that cover.
it gives me a tingly feeling and makes me want to hop in.
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Just got a book by Phil Lesh about his years with the Grateful Dead at the dollar store I will start it soon
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Still finishing "Saturday", Ian McEwan's curious piece about.... nothing, really. It's self-masturbatory to no end but it's very well written.
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Wildseed, by Octavia Butler.
Pretty much rereading what
little I have here. This was something
that my brother had been assigned.
Finished off a collection by Le Guin
recently.
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Science magazine
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been reading richard dawkins
he's been helping me deal with things, weirdly enough
just started reading white oleander a couple days ago nut haven't read any of it since because i've had headache pretty much non-stop
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omg nut again
but ffs not nut
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By Steven Pinker
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Supervolcano by Dr. John Savino and Marie D. Jones
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you have some great books. 8)
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you have some great books. 8)
Thanks. 8) Unfortunately, I may have to do some "culling" of the collection to make room for the new books. On the plus side, I have a few that are too earth science general or repeat things I have in other books, but, not as well. I'm getting into the area of picking Quality over quantity in my collection. The local library gets the castoffs.
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i'm reading what i'm typing
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i'm reading what i'm typing
I read what you typed
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"Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss.
A book which is based on today's standards of punctuation in English.
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I'm used to "eats bushes and leaves" :laugh:
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Another book about "SuperVolcanoes" except this one is specifically about Yellowstone Park and the last one was about the Toba Supervolcano in Indonesia 75,000 years ago. Good stuff to add to my collection and feed my voracious appetite for knowledge about volcanoes. <BLISS> :green:
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Prelude to Foundation.
Just did Neuromancer.
Going to have to get some more books.
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Another book about "SuperVolcanoes" except this one is specifically about Yellowstone Park and the last one was about the Toba Supervolcano in Indonesia 75,000 years ago. Good stuff to add to my collection and feed my voracious appetite for knowledge about volcanoes. <BLISS> :green:
I think volcanoes are exciting. I have had pictures of them for my desktop a few times.
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Another book about "SuperVolcanoes" except this one is specifically about Yellowstone Park and the last one was about the Toba Supervolcano in Indonesia 75,000 years ago. Good stuff to add to my collection and feed my voracious appetite for knowledge about volcanoes. <BLISS> :green:
I think volcanoes are exciting. I have had pictures of them for my desktop a few times.
I get a Volcano calendar every year and I save them in case I want to use the pictures to either decorate or use as a reference. 8) It's a childhood obssession thats never gone away!! ;D
And I was born in an area that hasn't seen vulcanism for 150 million years +/- a few millenia. :laugh:
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Prelude to Foundation.
One of the books he wrote while still alive, right? :P ;)
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One of the books he wrote while still alive, right? :P ;)
:laugh:
I THINK so. He mentions that he won't be able
to keep churning them out, since he'd eventually
die. Little did he know.
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"First Love, Last Rites" by Ian McEwan, and a very cool PhD thesis.
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The Sunday papers
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Buried Age
(telling Picard's story from when the Stargazer was lost to when he took command of the Enterprise)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Buried Age
(telling Picard's story from when the Stargazer was lost to when he took command of the Enterprise)
I read that last summer. Not bad!! :P
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I actually have several going most of the time, but I found one I had only heard of but never read by Asimov. Money has been tight, so I have not been to my favorite book store in a while. I used to go every few days. ::)
Came home with seven CDs, three DVDs and two Asimov books ...
The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, which includes a selection of his favorite limericks re-written, but mostly they are his. :D
Also enjoying Asimov's brain in The Annotated "Paradise Lost"
I am for some reason intrigued by Zelazny's work right now, also.
The only fascinating, serious book I have going at the moment is from the library:
The New Concise History of the Crusades, by Thomas F. Madden, A very clever volume!
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Wish I had some stuff I haven't read already. :-\
Or, at least in a long time.
Rereading a history of F.T. Ward,
founder of the Ever Victorious Army.
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I thought you were involved at a university. Are you saying that you have read out the entire university library?
Try a local state funded library. I don't know about your area, but our public libraries have gone apeshit with funding during the Bush Administration.
Aw, shit! I said something good about Bush.
:hide:
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I'm no longer a student, nor working there.
IF I had the energy to make it to the library (where
I'd need to get a card - and I plan on leaving soon),
I could just make it to the goodwill, and pick stuff up
there. Too apathetic.
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If you don't mind reading off the computer try here http://www.archive.org/details/texts
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Haven't fallen to that. I can't really read
off the screen well.
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Neither can I but some of the stuff is interesting enough to try
You can always read the shampoo bottles in the bathroom ;D
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I COULD buy the newspaper,
if I get desperate. :wanker:
Plus, there's always the yellow pages.
Been a long time since I've read them.
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I read the yellow pages too. It's even better now because I have an add in them :laugh:
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A couple of Jewish authors for some class I had to do since this school has one extra Literature class as a requirement than the other state schools (UF, FSU, UCF, etc.). The first one has a good deal of stories including demons and has mixed up demonology references. Hurmizah for example is referred to as a female demon in one story and then a male in the other. Still it is centered on Satan and the role of him and his demons in tempting humanity into giving in to their animalistic desires and thereby assuring their presence in hell. Some of the stories are hilarious and it won the Nobel Prize for Literature. That one is called The Collected Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It is better than the usual fare I read in LIT and ENG classes 10 years ago when I actually went to a school that had less English requirements. Kind of depressing. The Jewish poetry is written by a female and very love centered with a good deal of nostalgia thrown in, nothing special in my opinion.
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"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
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The Boston Globe newspaper
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
how's that going? his style less grating yet?
i'm just geting to the last knockings of "kafka on the beach" by muikami. nevr been sure whether i actually like him or not, but this one, and the last one of his i read ("south of the wind, west of the arse", or some such thing - i'm rubbish at titles, sometimes), i really enjoyed.
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"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
how's that going? his style less grating yet?
I certainly found him grating. Glad to hear I'm not alone. :-\ The book had some useful information, though.
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"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
how's that going? his style less grating yet?
He's a bit annoying, I must admit, but also interesting.
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"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
how's that going? his style less grating yet?
He's a bit annoying, I must admit, but also interesting.
Yeah, some things just didn't apply to me...but it gave me some much-needed insight into other people.
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"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
how's that going? his style less grating yet?
I certainly found him grating. Glad to hear I'm not alone. :-\ The book had some useful information, though.
He's something of a preacher. Knows that he's right, acts like it, but without actually proving it. Not that he is necessarily wrong (I'm certainly not the right person to judge that) but something about his attitude bothers me.
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that's so interesting: i haven't read the book itself, but listened to it as an audiobook. i think it was someone else reading it, and i actually found it very easy to listen to.
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Still haven't read my book I bought in November
I need to at some point though
I want to read it soon
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I'm sure the reader's voice affects the content, for good or ill. I wonder if you'd notice his tone if you went back and read the book. He writes in a whiny and preachy style, that is for sure. I'm always envious of people like that, people who are so sure they're right. Smug, that's the word.
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Still haven't read my book I bought in November
I need to at some point though
I want to read it soon
Which one??
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White Oleander
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White Oleander
I saw the movie of that. I thought that it was good.
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White Oleander
I saw the movie of that. I thought that it was good.
I might buy the dvd after I've read the book
It was Starbuline's favourite book
She read it a lot
nd she said before she died that one of the characters in it reminded her of me
She said that about a lot of people in books/movies lol, but she said it a lot about this one
I dunno if it's a good thing or a bad thing yet :D but she said it was a good thing
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I'm sure the reader's voice affects the content, for good or ill. I wonder if you'd notice his tone if you went back and read the book. He writes in a whiny and preachy style, that is for sure. I'm always envious of people like that, people who are so sure they're right. Smug, that's the word.
Smug is exactly right, yes.
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Woman from another Planet.
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White Oleander
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-53
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-53
blimey. given their novels, that should be steamy. bet it ain't, though.
i'm giving my brain a rest for a couple of days, so back on "silence of the lambs".
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msn chatlogs
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-53
blimey. given their novels, that should be steamy. bet it ain't, though.
It kind of is, believe it or not. I think those two had a hard time not being steamy. :laugh:
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Henry Miller creeped me out a bit :D
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u all read wuts ur problem dont u no theres stuff on tv and shit god dammm ....faggots
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i might read The Perks of Being a Wallflower again now
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i might read The Perks of Being a Wallflower again now
Did you finish reading White Oleander?
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i did
i was a bit scared to read it at first
i liked it a lot though
i understand now why sophie told me i reminded her of one of the people
maybe she knew i would read it, i don't know
i liked the book a lot though
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i did
i was a bit scared to read it at first
i liked it a lot though
i understand now why sophie told me i reminded her of one of the people
maybe she knew i would read it, i don't know
i liked the book a lot though
Who did you remind her of, Astrid?
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yeah Astrid
at first i didn't see why, but then i could work it out
she knew me too well i think, its scary lol
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finished murakami, shot through "the woman and the ape" by peter hoeg (that was odd, but great), now on "the great gatsby" by f. scott fitzgerald, cos i've never read it.
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OK, wasn't concentrating and read the thread title as 'What are you banging'.... :cheer:
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shouldn't that have been "who are you banging?" :P
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shouldn't that have been "who are you banging?" :P
Objectifying people perhaps....but that is the exact way I read it!
Or in the case of some people, they might bang things....as opposed to people. ;)
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"In days of old when knights were bold...and women weren't invented
Knights drilled holes in telephone poles......and stood there quite contented"
Doesn't make much sense I know. :thumbup:
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shouldn't that have been "who are you banging?" :P
Objectifying people perhaps....but that is the exact way I read it!
Or in the case of some people, they might bang things....as opposed to people. ;)
percussionists certainly do (speaking as a percussionist myself...)
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bbc history magazine
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
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Art Spiegelman's Maus :heart:
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
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i did
i was a bit scared to read it at first
i liked it a lot though
i understand now why sophie told me i reminded her of one of the people
maybe she knew i would read it, i don't know
i liked the book a lot though
I will put White Oleander on my list of books to buy. People here seem able to read books that are really difficult for me to get into. I just haven't got the attention span :P
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yay :D
I am like that too
I find it hard to get into books when I'm depressed even more
That might be why I read the first chapter or so, and then stopped for a couple months lol
When I started reading it again the other day though, I read the rest in a couple days, it is good
Once you get into it though, it's a really good book
I think you will like it if you can keep your attention :laugh:
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I like sci-fi books, Elizabeth Moon is a good writer. But I haven't read much lately either.
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i didn't read much at all last year
i think i read 2 books
i'm trying to read more now though, in the hope that it will help me stop being depressed
maybe i should stop reading depressing books :P
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Didn't Elizabeth Moon have an autistic protagonist in one of her books?
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Didn't Elizabeth Moon have an autistic protagonist in one of her books?
The Speed of Dark had a few autistic characters in it.
It addressed the curebie question, worth reading I suppose. :-\
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Didn't Elizabeth Moon have an autistic protagonist in one of her books?
The Speed of Dark had a few autistic characters in it.
It addressed the curebie question, worth reading I suppose.
I quite enjoyed the book but it had many faults :-\
this was meant to be a modification of the previous post, pressed the wrong button. :orly:
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
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i didn't read much at all last year
i think i read 2 books
i'm trying to read more now though, in the hope that it will help me stop being depressed
maybe i should stop reading depressing books :P
Depressing books actually cheer me up! :laugh:
I'm reading By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept, by Paulo Coelho
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They make me feel better in some ways
But they make me think too much
And the more I think, the more depressed I get :P
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Paolo Coelho is good.
Although I think I'm like the only person who does not like The Alchemist :zoinks:
My favourites are The Zahir and Eleven Minutes.
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Paolo Coelho is good.
Although I think I'm like the only person who does not like The Alchemist :zoinks:
Probably because there's been so much hype over it. I haven't even read it yet because of this. I loved Veronika Decides to Die.
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I picked up this really cool book at the library, yesterday. I'm am almost done with it after last night.
It's about teaching a dyslexic child to read better.
I am married to a dyslexic woman who wants better for her children than she had. We are up against a bureaucracy trying to make the school board understand that we DO KNOW WTF we are talking about. Our daughter IS dyslexic.
But her scores are so high that they see no reason to address this. She IS WELL ABOVE THE AVERAGE (FFS!!) and this fact is hindering her educastion
We are constasntly put off with our requests for some assistance in this area.
She is a genius, but dyslexic as hell. why can't they accept this. Why won't they try to help her?Average is good enough for them. FUCKKING Bastards!!
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Things like that piss me off
As if as long as the kid isn't failing, it's ok
It doesn't matter to them that, even though she's doing average, she's still not fulfilling her potential
It's fucked up
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DD, what are your daughter's symptoms - what does she have trouble with when she's reading? I sometimes wonder if I have some mild form of dyslexia, but everything I read about it doesn't seem to fit.
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DD, what are your daughter's symptoms - what does she have trouble with when she's reading? I sometimes wonder if I have some mild form of dyslexia, but everything I read about it doesn't seem to fit.
I used to think that too
About me I mean, not you :P
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Still reading Maus.
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My 1st college's Alumni magazine ::)
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot. :P
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot :P
:yikes:
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot :P
:yikes:
Yes, I know. And yet I finished "Saturday" with pleasure.
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot :P
:yikes:
Yes, I know. And yet I finished "Saturday" with pleasure.
i can imagine: the pleasure at not having to read it any more.
:smarty:
:laugh:
i'm persevering, just for you. :-*
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot :P
:yikes:
Yes, I know. And yet I finished "Saturday" with pleasure.
i can imagine: the pleasure at not having to read it any more.
:smarty:
:laugh:
i'm persevering, just for you. :-*
It's brilliant. I'm so thankful. :laugh:
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Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.
oh dear. i suppose this means i'll have to read it now... /sigh...
It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.
that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. :laugh:
It's very seductive, though.
just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. ::)
yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me. four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.
Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot :P
:yikes:
Yes, I know. And yet I finished "Saturday" with pleasure.
i can imagine: the pleasure at not having to read it any more.
:smarty:
:laugh:
i'm persevering, just for you. :-*
It's brilliant. I'm so thankful. :laugh:
i can recommend a book to you, if you like. something about an angel...
;)
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Heavier Than Heaven - Charles Cross ( biography of Kurt Cobain)
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i read In Watermelon Sugar today
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On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
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Finally got the load of plays I ordered.
Started on Edward Bond's Saved.
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Ian Banks - Matter
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ooooh, is it good? haven't read that one yet, and luuuuuuurve his others.
just finished "Mr. Candid" by jules hardy (for the second time). it's fucking brilliant, and i know jules, and she's a top bananananana, real person. read it, read it, read it!
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I'm still studying symmetry, but Ive also begun a romp through some celebrity autobiographies.
Right now, I'm reading George Burns.
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So many books, so little time...
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ooooh, is it good? haven't read that one yet, and luuuuuuurve his others.
just finished "Mr. Candid" by jules hardy (for the second time). it's fucking brilliant, and i know jules, and she's a top bananananana, real person. read it, read it, read it!
It's seems okay from the first 200 pages - nothing special.
A bit too much like fantasy than SciFi at the moment: set on kind of a medieval world.
I think his SciFi is patchy, he has some brilliant stuff and some shite too. I thought his last one was a return to form, I'm a bit disappointed with this new one; although it may buck-up. :-\
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i struggle with his sci-fi, to be honest. "state of the art" confused the fuck out of me, and "feersum enjin" was a complete non-starter.
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So many books, so little time...
He's fucking hilarious in an innocent, yet "knowing," kind of way.
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So many books, so little time...
I have a sweat shirt that says that! 8)
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cool! :thumbup:
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So many books, so little time...
I have a sweat shirt that says that! 8)
I want a t-shirt like that. :o
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So many books, so little time...
I have a sweat shirt that says that! 8)
I want a t-shirt like that. :o
If I see one like it, I'll get it for you! 8)
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:thumbup: ta
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The Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus
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I keep on ordering new books.
Haven't got a clue how I'm going to read them all.
Pretty soon I'll have a book tower :toporly:
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I keep on ordering new books.
Haven't got a clue how I'm going to read them all.
Pretty soon I'll have a book tower :toporly:
i have one of those! and a book pile, and a book heap, and, and...
/me :heart: books!
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I've given up on the Ian Banks bollocks.
I'm going to start reading "The Language of Others" by Clare Morrall
and "Hunting Humans" by Elliott Leyton.
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I've given up on the Ian Banks bollocks.
I'm going to start reading "The Language of Others" by Clare Morrall
and "Hunting Humans" by Elliott Leyton.
:laugh:
i've read two by morrall - off beat, definitely, but great.
no idea about the leyton - let me know what you think?
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About to start "Kafka on the Shore", by Haruki Murakami. :)
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Good book ;)
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yay!
yes it is. whoever recommended it to you has stunning taste, O Man.
and probably doesn't like ian mcewan. :LMAO:
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yay!
yes it is. whoever recommended it to you has stunning taste, O Man.
and probably doesn't like ian mcewan. :LMAO:
:laugh: She's got great taste!
I finished McEwan's latest before starting on the Murakami. Beautifully written, weak on story.
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yay!
yes it is. whoever recommended it to you has stunning taste, O Man.
and probably doesn't like ian mcewan. :LMAO:
:laugh: She's got great taste!
I finished McEwan's latest before starting on the Murakami. Beautifully written, weak on story.
plus ca change, then. ::)
:smarty:
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Imagine what he could do with an actual plot. :laugh:
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capture my interest? make his books readable? emerge from his own rectum?
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capture my interest? make his books readable? emerge from his own rectum?
They are readable. Very much so. That's what bothers me the most. I'm fascinated enough to keep on reading his books.
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you've more patience with, and less incoherent rage re: him than me, then. :laugh:
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you've more patience with, and less incoherent rage re: him than me, then. :laugh:
Yup, that about sums it up. Plus, I like the way he writes.
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you really must read jules hardy, then. her writing is exquisite, AND she has plots. (and no male mid-life crisis to vomit over everyone).
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I'll see if I can get hold of something by her, then.
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get "mister candid". not so sure "altered lands" is the first one you should read by her.
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Definitely a visit to the bookstore tomorrow, then.
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/is soooooo jealous... :(
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...because? :-\
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because you're going to a bookshop. :drool:
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Going to several, actually, if I can be arsed. It's been snowing so it's no fun trying to drive into town.
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best stay in bed, then, and snuggle. :angel:
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true. I think I need a visit to the bookstore, tho.
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A very interesting book :zoinks:
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Natural History magazine and a new Volcano book
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch
i just tried to read another by him, but his rambling all over the place instead of getting on with the story does my head in. beautiful prose, though.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch
i just tried to read another by him, but his rambling all over the place instead of getting on with the story does my head in. beautiful prose, though.
Yeah, I like his style a lot - it makes me push my mental and emotional limits. For me, that's the main reason to read.
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i love allende and the women who wrote "like water for chocolate" (name?), though. if you haven't read "aphrodite" by allende, i highly recommend it - sex + food. what's not to like? :drool:
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Fundamentals of Physical Volcanology. 8)
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i love allende and the women who wrote "like water for chocolate" (name?), though. if you haven't read "aphrodite" by allende, i highly recommend it - sex + food. what's not to like? :drool:
Yeah, I read that! :laugh: Pretty hot stuff. Isabelle Allende is a good writer. I loved Paula, the book she wrote to her daughter, who died of porphyria. That was incredibly sad.
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National Geographic magazine
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i love allende and the women who wrote "like water for chocolate" (name?), though. if you haven't read "aphrodite" by allende, i highly recommend it - sex + food. what's not to like? :drool:
Yeah, I read that! :laugh: Pretty hot stuff. Isabelle Allende is a good writer. I loved Paula, the book she wrote to her daughter, who died of porphyria. That was incredibly sad.
haven't read "paula", but then i don't like sad books. i'm a miserable enough cow as it is. :laugh:
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i love allende and the women who wrote "like water for chocolate" (name?), though. if you haven't read "aphrodite" by allende, i highly recommend it - sex + food. what's not to like? :drool:
Yeah, I read that! :laugh: Pretty hot stuff. Isabelle Allende is a good writer. I loved Paula, the book she wrote to her daughter, who died of porphyria. That was incredibly sad.
haven't read "paula", but then i don't like sad books. i'm a miserable enough cow as it is. :laugh:
Miserable books always cheer me up, for some reason. I guess because they help me put my own shit in perspective.
No, you would not like Paula. It's pretty rough. Porphyria doesn't sound like the easiest way to go. :( She did an amazing job writing about the experience though. Blending magical realism with such harsh reality couldn't have been easy.
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National Geographic magazine
Your just looking for the nudie pics I'm sure :laugh:
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National Geographic magazine
Your just looking for the nudie pics I'm sure :laugh:
I thought that, too! :laugh: That poor magazine will never lose its bad rep!
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??? i thought it was about science
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??? i thought it was about science
Not for perverted kids, it's not! It's about looking at droopy boobs! :laugh:
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oh i see :laugh:
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when i was younger we used to go down and play on a tree that had been struck by lightening and was all fucked up. we found some lesbian porn there once. loads of it, all over the place :laugh:
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I've given up on the Ian Banks bollocks.
I'm going to start reading "The Language of Others" by Clare Morrall
and "Hunting Humans" by Elliott Leyton.
:laugh:
i've read two by morrall - off beat, definitely, but great.
no idea about the leyton - let me know what you think?
The narator in 'The Language Of Others' was an asspie; she realizes she has the syndrome later in her life ( I think in her thirties-ish).
If I knew the book was about autism, then I wouldn't have bothered with it - I just liked the cover and the blurb on the back.
It was good but I got a bit bored with it; she's a good writer though. I will see if there are anymore of hers in the library.
Reading about serial killers is my new hobby. I've read the first few chapters of this leyton book - I find a lot of the psychological discussion to be bullshit psychobabble. However, some of these serial killers are hilarious.
There is a good chapter about Edmund Kemper:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_kemper
I think he took the piss with some of these psychologists, eg.
He was once quoted in an interview: "What do you think, now, when you see a pretty girl walking down the street?" and answering himself: "One side of me says, 'Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, 'I wonder how her head would look on a stick.'"
:laugh:
I think I will get a book about Ed Gein next and maybe read some Kafka short stories.
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He was once quoted in an interview: "What do you think, now, when you see a pretty girl walking down the street?" and answering himself: "One side of me says, 'Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, 'I wonder how her head would look on a stick.'"
Priceless. :laugh:
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National Geographic magazine
Your just looking for the nudie pics I'm sure :laugh:
I thought that, too! :laugh: That poor magazine will never lose its bad rep!
Hey, those Zulu women are HAWT!!!! :eyebrows:
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Soon I'll have Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys.
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Q and A
A Star Trek book.
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Lessons learned in software testing. :-\
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song lyrics
i should read something
i got my motivation back the other day
it's going now and i can't be arsed stopping it
oh well... look at my cool triangular posting style
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ok it's not triangular
don't kill me
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Cloudy and 47F.
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Cloudy and 47F.
er, wrong thread, kevv?
:LMAO:
;)
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Lots of stuff on energy conservation for work
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I'm reading this thread. :P
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i'm reading your post about reading this thread
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actually, that's a lie; i was reading what i was typing
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I'm reading (and typing) my response to your response to my post.
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im not reading ajtrgibfn bwxUAW IM RTUBF IRG MT WYWA XKIAWS
^ translation: i'm not reading anything because i'm typing with my eyes closed
i can't type very well :'(
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"night watch" by terry pratchett. listening to the serialisation on R4 reminded me of how good it is.
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A thread, on a forum called I2, titled: Topic: what... are... you... READING.
Looks really interesting. Oh wait looks like someone else has added a post about what they are reading
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Pixar's online library of CG techniques and SIGGRAPH papers. (http://graphics.pixar.com/)
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just finished a thriller/crime affair, now wondering what to start next. a trip to the library is tempting, while i'm waiting for amazon to provide me with goodies. ;D
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Kafka on the Shore. Terrific book.
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told you! ;D
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So you did. :)
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Trying to read three books at the same time ::)
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Chalker - some Wellworld book.
Figured I'd see if I could deal with him.
Plus, it was free (stolen).
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Trying to read three books at the same time ::)
i do that all the time. :laugh:
now reading a non-fiction account of a woman who bought an old stone house on a hillside in Liguria and renovated it. she had to learn how to live with the local customs, etc., and about olive farming, etc. fascinating. i wish...
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...need... books... must... buy... :P
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...need... books... must... buy... :P
be. patient.
;)
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My eBay auction ends tonight so I hope to acquire at least one today. ;D
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About the Black Dahlia.
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Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories
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this...site...om...g...
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Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories
i was going to get that castleden book - it's part of a series, yes?
now reading "wineburg, ohio" by sherwood anderson. it was recommended by one of my students, and i'm gripped already: it's really a collection of interrelated short stories, and utterly compelling. each story/chapter concerns one of the inhabitants of winesburg, and they are all (inthe author's own words) grotesques. amazing stuff.
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Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories
i was going to get that castleden book - it's part of a series, yes?
I'm not sure actually. I think he has a few others of the same nature out: "Cannibals", "Assassins" that sort of thing.
Don't know if it's any good, I've just started it.
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Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories
i was going to get that castleden book - it's part of a series, yes?
I'm not sure actually. I think he has a few others of the same nature out: "Cannibals", "Assassins" that sort of thing.
Don't know if it's any good, I've just started it.
I only like fictional serial killers - reading about the real ones freaks me out. :(
Cats!!! I'm so excited for Kosmo!! :cheer:
A good friend of mine started writing a screenplay for Winesburg, Ohio several years ago. I don't think he ever finished it, because he fell in love and got married. :laugh: I need to catch up with him and ask him how far he ever got with it. It was a good book.
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I love reading about serial killers.
Wanted to be a criminal psychologist once.
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I did a presentation on serial killers a few years ago
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It was meant to be on 'Lord of the Flies'
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We watched the film when we were studying the book. Hilarious. They had such high pitched voices. Especially when they're pushing/pulling a rock or something and all of them go "Heeeeave!" Or maybe I'm just immature. Felt sorry for Piggy though.
I did a presentation on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints :zoinks:
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A web comic.
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I made the boss print out my studies. I can only access them when I am on the clock, but I convinced him that I need a better way, like over the toilet, to really relax with the program.
I had him print out a whole folder full of pdf documents off the ftp site. It's almost a ream. I wasn't really expecting the whole thing, (expected him to edit) but he's an overachiever, go-getter, earning the nickname, Tiger or Sport or similar.
Maybe it's a test.
:-\
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Deviant by Harold Schechter
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"Roadside Geology books of Arizona and Texas." :green:
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took a break from !winesburg, ohio" - it's great, but i wanted something to get my teeth into, and all those short vignettes left me a bit unsettled, if you know what i mean.
so...
read "gods in alabama" by joshilyn (stupid name) jackson, which was fab; then "a quiet belief in angels" by r.j. ellory (good, but not sure it's not a third too long). am now reading "unforgiven" by jules hardy, which is as brilliant as she usually is. i :heart: jules, and i reckon i should email her to tell her. :laugh:
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
fascinating, i'm sure. :eyelash:
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
fascinating, i'm sure. :eyelash:
Want a private reading session? :eyelash:
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
fascinating, i'm sure. :eyelash:
Want a private reading session? :eyelash:
yes please. perhaps we could see how many cuntiseconds you can continue reading your technical manuals at me...? :tongue:
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Beyond Good and Evil -- Nietszche.
:P
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oh, just some light reading, then. :laugh:
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
fascinating, i'm sure. :eyelash:
Want a private reading session? :eyelash:
yes please. perhaps we could see how many cuntiseconds you can continue reading your technical manuals at me...? :tongue:
/me has lots of willpower. :P
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
fascinating, i'm sure. :eyelash:
Want a private reading session? :eyelash:
yes please. perhaps we could see how many cuntiseconds you can continue reading your technical manuals at me...? :tongue:
/me has lots of willpower. :P
oh aye? i'd better not mention the shower, then, eh? :tongue:
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oh, just some light reading, then. :laugh:
With a dictionary in tow.
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:laugh:
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:laugh:
I spend more trips reading the dictionary than I do with the fucking book.
"Cumulative"? Wait a sec... Oh, right!
The problem with these books is that they use "high-level" adjectives/adverbs/whatever that aren't common in most forms of communication.
Fuck it. I'm getting some quotes and rip on this book.
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Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
fascinating, i'm sure. :eyelash:
You have no idea, I'm sure.
:D
Mine's boring as fuck, because I know most of it, but now I will have a chance to prove it in a way that will bring me more money.
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:laugh:
I spend more trips reading the dictionary than I do with the fucking book.
"Cumulative"? Wait a sec... Oh, right!
The problem with these books is that they use "high-level" adjectives/adverbs/whatever that aren't common in most forms of communication.
Fuck it. I'm getting some quotes and rip on this book.
I have this saved to my favorites! I never made it through any of his stuff, either. :laugh:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/friedrich_nietzsche.html
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Mad Magazine and Playstation magazine.
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nothing
I might read a book Starbuline liked tomorrow
I bought it ages ago, but haven't read it yet
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Science News
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finished "unforgiven", by jules hardy - brilliant. and now, just finished "if nobody speaks of remarkable things" by jon mcgregor, also brilliant, although difficult to keep track of all the characters, as he doesn't name them. it's like a long prose poem, sort of - the language is very poetic, anyway. but it was a joy to read, and actually has a plot.
not sure what's going to be next, to be honest. i need to start writing again soon, so better not fill up my head with rubbish. :laugh:
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What, doesn't it inspire you not to stoop to writing the same kind of drivel yourself? :P
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What, doesn't it inspire you not to stoop to writing the same kind of drivel yourself? :P
it has to be relatively well-written rubbish, otherwise i can't cope with it. :laugh: i mean, i might've been able to manage the claptrap of "the da vinci code", if it weren't for the fact his writing is utterly abysmal.
but i know what you mean. that's how i teach writing - i use ghastly examples to show people what NOT to do, cos if you're reading good stuff, you just glide through it, as it were. the best example is an "erotic fiction" site i found, which is so bad, it's painful. the students all fall about laughing at the atrocious writing, but it really illustrates what i drone on about, with regard to using appropriate imagery, visualising what you write, how to write dialogue, etc.
also, i'm trying to develop a more literary style at the mo, so i'm hoping that, if i read more "literary" works, i'll absorb it by osmosis. :laugh:
reading "the piano tuner" by daniel mason, at the mo. stunning.
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:laugh: You'd be fun to have as a professor.
I do it more with computer games than horrible books. Even the better RPG's have the stilted dialog and painful plot twists that make me want to call up and strangle every developer that won't give me a job.
More literary? What do you think your stuff is missing?
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:laugh: You'd be fun to have as a professor.
thank you - i take that a really big compliment. :)
I do it more with computer games than horrible books. Even the better RPG's have the stilted dialog and painful plot twists that make me want to call up and strangle every developer that won't give me a job.
More literary? What do you think your stuff is missing?
a publisher. :laugh:
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More literary? What do you think your stuff is missing?
a publisher. :laugh:
:laugh:
You'll get there.
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The recipe for the final details of the Meaty Meat Loaf. :green:
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What is Meat Loaf?
A meaty bread?
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More literary? What do you think your stuff is missing?
a publisher. :laugh:
:laugh:
You'll get there.
sigh...
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More literary? What do you think your stuff is missing?
a publisher. :laugh:
:laugh:
You'll get there.
sigh...
:hug: I know you will.
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I could send you my copy of Writers' and Artists' Yearbook for good luck :laugh:
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More literary? What do you think your stuff is missing?
a publisher. :laugh:
:laugh:
You'll get there.
sigh...
:hug: I know you will.
:hug:
thanks, my love. :-*
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I could send you my copy of Writers' and Artists' Yearbook for good luck :laugh:
aww, you're are just a sweetie. :hug:
actually, i haven't got this year's one yet. they never change that much, and they're so expensive. ::) i can always use the uni's copy.
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They do change, some. It's really embarrassing to send a novel to an editor who's moved to a competitor.
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i always check on the intergeek, and/or phone them first, anyway. phew!
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That's probably wise.
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What is Meat Loaf?
A meaty bread?
Tell me who the fuck you really are and I'll answer your question. I hate sockpuppets! :grrr:
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A spazzy Gus :zoinks:
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A spazzy Gus :zoinks:
Well then, make up your mind! ::) Are you in or are you out here! ::)
I make a MEATY meat loaf with the emphasis on MEAT and not bread crumbs. :green:
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IN!
Meat loaf makes me think of a huge chunk of bread with meat in the middle for some reason, nvmd.
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IN!
Meat loaf makes me think of a huge chunk of bread with meat in the middle for some reason, nvmd.
True, but, it's a strange concept of a meal. Probably concocted by people on tight budgets stretching meat out on a menu.
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a publisher. :laugh:
:P
I thought you'd mentioned something about your thesis getting published. Or somebody helping you to look for one. Or something.
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one of my examiners has endorsed the novel, and i've sent it to the publisher she suggested with her recommendation, but i still haven't heard back from them yet. (she's A Big Name in the literary world, so that should carry some weight).
it's all so subjective. i mean, i know i'm not a towering literary genius, but i can write, and when i see the likes of dan brown and jeffrey "cunt" archer earning millions from their utterly abysmal writing... grrrrr.
oh well. there's still time before i die, i suppose. ;)
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It's weird that The da Vinci Code is one of the best-selling novels of all time. IMO, it's not as bad as you claim it to be, but I don't get the hype, either. :-\
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It's weird that The da Vinci Code is one of the best-selling novels of all time. IMO, it's not as bad as you claim it to be, but I don't get the hype, either. :-\
it's the abysmally clunky writing, and the completely hilarious, histrionics all the way through which make it so bad. i nearly choked on my beverage at some of it. :laugh:
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Dan Brown's writing is like a sports writer's--it gets the message across, but if you stop to think about the fine points, it all falls apart. I've read far worse.
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Hannibal. Have fininshed red dragon and silence of the lambs.
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one of my examiners has endorsed the novel, and i've sent it to the publisher she suggested with her recommendation, but i still haven't heard back from them yet. (she's A Big Name in the literary world, so that should carry some weight).
it's all so subjective. i mean, i know i'm not a towering literary genius, but i can write, and when i see the likes of dan brown and jeffrey "cunt" archer earning millions from their utterly abysmal writing... grrrrr.
oh well. there's still time before i die, i suppose. ;)
You write well, Lucifer. :)
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the House of the Dead
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the House of the Dead
Dostoyevsky!! :headbang2: :cheer:
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The best Russian author is Zamyatin 8)
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Hannibal. Have fininshed red dragon and silence of the lambs.
cool. what do you think? i reckon harris is a really excellent writer. :thumbup:
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one of my examiners has endorsed the novel, and i've sent it to the publisher she suggested with her recommendation, but i still haven't heard back from them yet. (she's A Big Name in the literary world, so that should carry some weight).
it's all so subjective. i mean, i know i'm not a towering literary genius, but i can write, and when i see the likes of dan brown and jeffrey "cunt" archer earning millions from their utterly abysmal writing... grrrrr.
oh well. there's still time before i die, i suppose. ;)
You write well, Lucifer. :)
:-* 'k you. :-[
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The latest issue of National Geographic Magazine
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
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I got from the library today:
Unpeople - Mark Curtis
Kung Fu High School - Ryan Gattis
Deranged - Harold Schelchter.
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i like the sound of "unpeople" - great title.
let us know what it's like, pleeeease? :eyelash: :-*
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Unpeople is a seriously cool title. 8)
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
i wondered if my effusiveness might make people think i was over-egging the cake a little. :laugh:
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
i wondered if my effusiveness might make people think i was over-egging the cake a little. :laugh:
Dunno. Was I the other way? :-\
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
i wondered if my effusiveness might make people think i was over-egging the cake a little. :laugh:
Dunno. Was I the other way? :-\
:LMAO:
in the UK, "the other way" means gay. and i can state categorically that you're definitely not gay.
:LMAO:
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
i wondered if my effusiveness might make people think i was over-egging the cake a little. :laugh:
Dunno. Was I the other way? :-\
:LMAO:
in the UK, "the other way" means gay. and i can state categorically that you're definitely not gay.
:LMAO:
So0 what was my question, now again? :P
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
i wondered if my effusiveness might make people think i was over-egging the cake a little. :laugh:
Dunno. Was I the other way? :-\
:LMAO:
in the UK, "the other way" means gay. and i can state categorically that you're definitely not gay.
:LMAO:
So0 what was my question, now again? :P
dunno, but i have a new question: how many beers have you had, oh spelly boy? :laugh:
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i love national geographic. :pinkbeat:
just finished "the piano tuner". bloody fantastic book - go and read it everyone, immediately!
(O Man, seriously. it's gorgeous).
Didn't say anything. :o
i wondered if my effusiveness might make people think i was over-egging the cake a little. :laugh:
Dunno. Was I the other way? :-\
:LMAO:
in the UK, "the other way" means gay. and i can state categorically that you're definitely not gay.
:LMAO:
So0 what was my question, now again? :P
dunno, but i have a new question: how many beers have you had, oh spelly boy? :laugh:
Four. I think.
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ohhhh, so you're completely wazzocked, then? :laugh:
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ohhhh, so you're completely wazzocked, then? :laugh:
Pretty much. :toporly:
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:laugh:
i'll just start the broomstick, shall i? :eyelash:
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:laugh:
i'll just start the broomstick, shall i? :eyelash:
You have to start those these days?
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:laugh:
i'll just start the broomstick, shall i? :eyelash:
You have to start those these days?
of course. if i left it running the whole time, it'd be zooming all round the house and breaking things. :laugh:
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:LMAO:
There's an image.
:rofl:
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:laugh:
i'll just start the broomstick, shall i? :eyelash:
You have to start those these days?
of course. if i left it running the whole time, it'd be zooming all round the house and breaking things. :laugh:
I thought you did that enough, running and writhing all over the house with odeon anyway?? ???
:P
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not at all. it wasn't ME who broke the sodding bed. ::)
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:laugh:
Reading work-related stuff.
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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys.
Had an urge to re-read it.
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Archeology Magazine
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(http://img156.echo.cx/img156/7263/sstbannerfade5mx.jpg)
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got a pile of books from charity shops (for pennies), and am getting through them.
first off was "we need to talk about kevin" by lionel shriver. it started badly - i thought she was an emo whiner - but got going, and was an uncomfortable, if fascinating, read.
then tired "the thought gang" by tibor fischer, but really can't get into it - it's too self reflective for its own good, and the author seems to be saying "look how clever i am!" at least four times a page.
am now on a barbara vine (i.e. ruth rendell) cos i've never read any of heres. it's brain candy, so easy to read.
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am now on a barbara vine (i.e. ruth rendell) cos i've never read any of heres. it's brain candy, so easy to read.
Which one? I just googled her and a couple sound interesting.
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am now on a barbara vine (i.e. ruth rendell) cos i've never read any of heres. it's brain candy, so easy to read.
Which one? I just googled her and a couple sound interesting.
"the minotaur". it's a bit psychological, so i'm hooked. read a bit more, and am still interested so far. it's a little clichéd in some respects (characters, relationships, etc.) but as i said, it's brain candy, so i don't care. ;D
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"XML Schemas". Well, leafing through it. Job-related.
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doesn't count!
:laugh:
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Why not? There are words in it.
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Why not? There are words in it.
::)
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Why not? There are words in it.
::)
And sometimes they even form sentences. but not always. :P
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Good Morning, Midnight.
Love, love, love that book.
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Scientific American Magazine
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am now on a barbara vine (i.e. ruth rendell) cos i've never read any of heres. it's brain candy, so easy to read.
Which one? I just googled her and a couple sound interesting.
hmmm. not sure i'd recommend "the minotaur". it was readable, but i bet you'd feel as patronised (and more than slightly cross) as i did at some of it. i won't say more, in case you intend to read it.
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I saw enough online to realize it was probably unenlightened. Though that could be made up for if her writing style was good enough. It was The House of Stairs that caught my eye, if only because it had the same title as a William Sleator book I loved as a kid, and Gallowglass that made me wonder.
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i have a recommendation for you: i thought of it in the bath last night, while i was reading A.S.Byatt's "the djinn in the nightingale's eye."
read her "babel tower" - it's pretty odd in places, and it's more or less fantasy, and very dark. it's also a bloody huge book. youmay well like it - there's plenty of weirdness around power, relationships and general people-ness.
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Hm. Looked it up, don't know if I'll like it or not, but can try.
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Understanding the Bordeline Mother, Helping her children transcend the Intense, unpredictable and volatile relationship. by Christine Ann Lawson
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A Peter Hamilton Scifi book, Make Magazine and the 2008 Time Almanac
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"how mumbo jumbo conquered the world", by francis wheen; "sudden fiction", a collection of very short, short stories; "dead air", iain banks (for the thrid time - i need a brain break).
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The latest Star Trek paperback "Terok Nor".
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"Mr Candid" by Jules Hardy
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"Mr Candid" by Jules Hardy
:heart:
whadya think, whadya think?!
/bounces.
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It's well written, but I'm only 60 or so pages into it.
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you just wait.
i really hope you like it lots. :hide:
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The first few pages were weird but I like the pacing now. I have a feeling it will get even better.
I have the first Inspector Rebus novel handy, after "Mr Candid".
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i am making you read all my favourites, through insidious means. :evillaugh:
;)
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Mind control. :tinfoil:
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nah - sexual ensorcellment.
:laugh:
;)
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A biography on Brown by Tom Bower
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Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
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The other side of time, Essays by "The Catskill Geologist" Robert Titus An Interesting read by a Geologist who does what I do a lot. Looks at a rock formation and imagines what the scene would have looked like eons ago. Sort of like a "dream time". 8)
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Just finished the nine hundred page PDF file used as a primer to the further Geek Studies at work.
(took me an excruciating four weeks, because I could only do it on the clock, at work, on their intradork system, with all the distractions inherent to a normal day in a BBy store. No SHIT!)
... but, even though I feel all "smarty pants and stuff," right now, I won't have to fucking dare them to test me. That's the next step.
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Honestly, on the second day, I had no confidence that I would ever get through this.
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What's in the Geek Studies document?
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It's mostly the basics of the various systems that work all the toys we sell.
Nothing really heavy. It was the multitude of distractions that made it tiresome.
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"the sacred art of stealing", by christopher brookmyre. brilliant.
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So, can you repair my crashed HDD? :'(
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So, can you repair my crashed HDD? :'(
why, of course. hang on - i'll just get my technowand sparked up.
:-*
:witch1:
;)
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;D
I tried to ask DD, though--didn't see your post until now. :laugh:
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;D
I tried to ask DD, though--didn't see your post until now. :laugh:
i thought as much. ;)
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But if you want to try repairing that drive, be my guest. ;)
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okey dokes - i'll just get my sledgehammer...
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:yikes:
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:yikes:
When all else fails, Luddite technology will save the day! :evillaugh:
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:yikes:
When all else fails, Luddite technology will save the day! :evillaugh:
it's very intricate micro-electronic engineering, if you don't mind. anyway, using a sledgehammer is posh - usually, a well-placed kick does the trick. :angel:
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Not in this case. It's beyond repair, my poor HDD.
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Not in this case. It's beyond repair, my poor HDD.
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:(
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Not in this case. It's beyond repair, my poor HDD.
:(
I decided to get a new one so I placed the order today. I'll make sure to buy an extra HDD.
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The Collector by John Fowles
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"Knots & Crosses", Ian Rankin.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg
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M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry by Doris Schattschneider
I found it for six bucks at HPB today! It is respected as one of the more refined and complete analyses on Escher's tessellations.
Cool
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"Hide & Seek", Ian Rankin
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Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry, by Ian Stewart
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Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
http://www.warpedpassages.com/ (http://www.warpedpassages.com/)
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Harry Potter and the OotP.
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Magazines from the 1930's I found in a box of junk
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Guiliver's Travels....
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Harry Potter and the OotP.
That was really good. I have reread it too. Where are you in the story?
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I'm reading a book about epilepsy in children.
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The Third Testament By Thea Postles Jnr
Thats the one where Jesus travels to Texas to be a used car dealer..
"Come on down to New Bethlehem Motors for LOW LOW prices on used rentals and display models and I can SAVE SAVE SAVE you ..money!"
Jesus Hank Christ.
>:D
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A collection of the works of Dr. Earl Geddes on audio distortion and psycho-acoustical perception.
(actually re-reading for the severalth time)
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Just finished Treason's Harbor, and have started on "The Far Side of the World" by Patrick O'Brian.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/Far_side_of_the_World_cover.jpg/200px-Far_side_of_the_World_cover.jpg)
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A blog article (http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/2008/07/psychiatric-drugs-not-just-for-humans.html) on psychiatric drugs for animals. How (pet) dogs are getting the same mental illnesses people are, and being overmedicated the same damn way.
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I'm doing it again.
I have seven books in the works
I try to fininsh three before I start four more but I am
distracted or ...
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:lol:
Look! Over there! Shiny!
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:lol:
Look! Over there! Shiny!
ADHD-ish? ME?!?
'Kay, next!
*enters a plea of guilty, in order to facilitate expediency*
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"Strip Jack", Ian Rankin
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I received a paperback, pre-sale copy of this book and it is a very interesting read.
13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
He has opened a forum (http://www.13thingsthatdontmakesense.com/) to discuss .....
I don't think of him as a scientist, but more of a reporter, yet he has done some possibly valid research and collected quite a bit of other's work in one volume.
Lost mass theory has always bothered me.
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Fascinating. I just checked out the site.
BTW, Pea -
11. FREE WILL
EVERY day, we live under the spell of an illusion: that our conscious mind is autonomous, and in control of our bodies and decisions. We think we have free will, yet as neuroscience digs ever deeper into the mystery of the human brain, that delusion becomes harder to justify. We are, as one neuroscientist told me as he used a powerful magnet to take control of my body’s movements, brain-machines.
This runs contrary to our every impulse. Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. Is science wrong when it says free will is a delusion? If not, what does it mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
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"The Black Book", Ian Rankin
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Kafka - Collected Stories
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(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x28/kp600/manic.jpg)
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rankin. might as well, so odeon's got someone to talk to about them, lol. :D
going to the library tomorrow, though, so could be anything...
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The sunday papers
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"The Black Book", still.
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GeoTimes Magazine
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"Mortal Causes", Ian Rankin
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2003 IECC building codes :yawn:
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The Silmarillion
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posts
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Brilliant observations.
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Fascinating. I just checked out the site.
BTW, Pea -
11. FREE WILL
EVERY day, we live under the spell of an illusion: that our conscious mind is autonomous, and in control of our bodies and decisions. We think we have free will, yet as neuroscience digs ever deeper into the mystery of the human brain, that delusion becomes harder to justify. We are, as one neuroscientist told me as he used a powerful magnet to take control of my body’s movements, brain-machines.
This runs contrary to our every impulse. Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. Is science wrong when it says free will is a delusion? If not, what does it mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
this is fascinating. i'd chuck jungian theories about collective unconscious into the mix as well. (but then, you know i'd say that ;) ).
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'Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer' by Stewart Evans.
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this is fascinating. i'd chuck jungian theories about collective unconscious into the mix as well. (but then, you know i'd say that ;) ).
I'm not convinced that free will isn't a red herring dilemma, like nature vs nurture (some of both, morons!), or demanding the existence of god be proven (don't hammer a nail with a screwdriver). So I don't think it actually has a place on a list of mysteries that will be answered in the near future. But evidently there are people who think otherwise.
My guess is free will vs determinism will turn out to be a "some of both" answer.
I do think that what Jung calls a collective unconscious will be found to have a proven scientific basis, though. It's like the firmware of the human brain.
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this is fascinating. i'd chuck jungian theories about collective unconscious into the mix as well. (but then, you know i'd say that ;) ).
I'm not convinced that free will isn't a red herring dilemma, like nature vs nurture (some of both, morons!), or demanding the existence of god be proven (don't hammer a nail with a screwdriver). So I don't think it actually has a place on a list of mysteries that will be answered in the near future. But evidently there are people who think otherwise.
:agreed: some people like getting involved in such non-subjects cos they can gas on about it forever, without being forced to demonstrate that they know what they're talking about. :laugh:
My guess is free will vs determinism will turn out to be a "some of both" answer.
absolutely agree: as you said above, completely congruent with the nature/nuture debate.
I do think that what Jung calls a collective unconscious will be found to have a proven scientific basis, though. It's like the firmware of the human brain.
i like that analogy. :thumbup:
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I'm reading The Electric Church by Jeff Somers - probably the best scifi book I have read for a long time. I'm up to page 100, but I can't be bothered reading it at the moment - I don't have the patience. Fucking good book though.
Also Murder.com by Chirstopher Berry-Dee and Steven Morris - a book about some of the sick fucks you may find on the internets. :zoinks:
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Mixed in some John Irving. (Still studying symmetry and now Vista [I need to]) I had forgotten how clever he can be.
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"Black & Blue" by Ian Rankin
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"A Pirates Daughter", about a child of Errol Flynn's, who grew up in Jamaca...
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Just started "Legacy Of The Force: Betrayal" by Aaron Allston.
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"A Pirates Daughter", about a child of Errol Flynn's, who grew up in Jamaca...
Still reading A pirates daughter, and I am already looking forward to reading it again!...
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Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
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just bought a book by gavin cologne-brookes (whom i know, starfucker that i am), called "if i'm ever back this way" which is a fictionalised story about a trip round the states. i got half a page in and had to stop reading and walking (yes, i was reading on the way from the uni library to my office - i AM that bookworm!) to laugh out loud and frighten a student. :laugh:
it's brilliant! can't wait to read more - i got a couple of pages further in, but steeled myself to abandon it so i can finish what i started reading yesterday (a rankin).
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Probably going to finish the rest of the current John Irving library, today.
go ahead - raise hell, critics. I like his work!
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have been too busy playing Futurama on the Xbox to read. So other than news sites and dodgy forums, not a lot. :P
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have been too busy playing Futurama on the Xbox to read. So other than news sites and dodgy forums, not a lot. :P
So, if I was going to buy some gaming hardware to bring my kids into the twenty first century, do I want an Xbox?
(Leaning towards the Wii)
We sell Xbox, Playstation, NDS and Wii, but only Sony allows employees a low price (just below half of retail pricing) and year of free internet gaming as an accommodation. The others only allow a twenty percent discount.
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Its on the 'old' Xbox, we don't have a next-gen console yet (waiting until they come down in price enough), but I think we'll probably go for a PS3. I'm probably biased, I'm not a Nintendo person, and I don't want an Xbox 360 since they have a reputation for fucking up. :-\
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About to start reading "The Hanging Garden".
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Anais Nin - Cities of the Interior
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"The Hanging Garden" by Ian Rankin
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Homer - The Odyssey
Goddam Classics.
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Classics, indeed. I have three different translations of Odyssey and Iliad, two of Homeric Hymns and Phocais, one each of Thebaid, Nostoi, and Epigone.
Another one of my personal heroes, Homer! I keep him near my toilet, just in case.
(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
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I feel your pain :P My mum always moans that I buy too many books. I have to keep them in several stacks around my room because there is no space for them :laugh:
I have the Rieu translation, do you know it?
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Classics, indeed. I have three different translations of Odyssey and Iliad, two of Homeric Hymns and Phocais, one each of Thebaid, Nostoi, and Epigone.
Another one of my personal heroes, Homer! I keep him near my toilet, just in case.
(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
that is a capital offence, at least! :grrr:
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(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.
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i'm reading "a question of blood" by ian rankin. ;)
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I'm reading "The Tenant" by Javier Cercas.
The prose is very sparse with hardly any metaphors or similes.
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The Boston Globe newspaper!
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(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.
I get to choose who and which ones. I have given many books away to special people, but just the right book, if I can.
I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.
:D
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Classics, indeed. I have three different translations of Odyssey and Iliad, two of Homeric Hymns and Phocais, one each of Thebaid, Nostoi, and Epigone.
Another one of my personal heroes, Homer! I keep him near my toilet, just in case.
(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
that is a capital offence, at least! :grrr:
It's a physical space "lack-of" thing. I must choose between music I have heard and books I have read.
It sucks, but I can't stop buying books or music. I just don't have any place to keep them forever.
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I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.
:D
I'd do the same thing, I know it! :laugh:
Don't think I could donate many books. I always scribble so many notes in most of mine.
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I feel your pain :P My mum always moans that I buy too many books. I have to keep them in several stacks around my room because there is no space for them :laugh:
I have the Rieu translation, do you know it?
Yes, quite. I found a reciting of that one on CD for my son. I don't know how much of it he actually absorbed, but the narrator's accent intrigued him and he finished the collection.
I ripped it. I'll have to look and see if I noted the voice talent.**
**Ian McKlellan.
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I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.
:D
I'd do the same thing, I know it! :laugh:
Don't think I could donate many books. I always scribble so many notes in most of mine.
That's cool. Why not?
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(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.
I get to choose who and which ones. I have given many books away to special people, but just the right book, if I can.
I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.
:D
I hear you, but I have given away more books than I can count for the following reasons:
A) No space
B) I'll never read them again.
C) Lost interest in the subject
D) I have read it so many times that I have the plot memorized.
E) I am so tired of carting them around from place to place to place
F) It frees up more space to buy more books! THAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON! :evillaugh:
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(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)
I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.
I get to choose who and which ones. I have given many books away to special people, but just the right book, if I can.
I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.
:D
I hear you, but I have given away more books than I can count for the following reasons:
A) No space
B) I'll never read them again.
C) Lost interest in the subject
D) I have read it so many times that I have the plot memorized.
E) I am so tired of carting them around from place to place to place
F) It frees up more space to buy more books! THAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON! :evillaugh:
Saw right through me, eh?
:headbang2:
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A technical book on oil burners
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"what you make it" (short stories) by michael marshall smith; "the intruders" by michael marshall (yes, it's the same person); "the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
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"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.
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"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.
i'll let you know, shall i?
the problem for me is that it's by an american psychologist, so some of it isn't pertinent to brit crime and stuff. :(
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"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.
i'll let you know, shall i?
Yes please :green:
Question: why is it different in England... is it the phraseology. Surely we have similar crimes in the UK as in the US... I thought it was only the English language and the NHS that separated the two nations.
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"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.
i'll let you know, shall i?
Yes please :green:
Question: why is it different in England... is it the phraseology. Surely we have similar crimes in the UK as in the US... I thought it was only the English language and the NHS that separated the two nations.
police procedures are different, plus diagnosis and treatment, generally.
it hasn't been a problem so far, but i'm sort of being a cassandra about it. i'm not terribly good at optimism. :(
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"what you make it" (short stories) by michael marshall smith; "the intruders" by michael marshall (yes, it's the same person); "the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That Katherine Ramsland? Anne Rice's #1 fan? :o
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"Beggar's Banquet" by Ian Rankin, and "The Tony Blair Years" by Alastair Campbell.
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"what you make it" (short stories) by michael marshall smith; "the intruders" by michael marshall (yes, it's the same person); "the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That Katherine Ramsland? Anne Rice's #1 fan? :o
having just looked her up, it would appear so. ::)
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Tim Moore - Frost On My Moustache, Andrew Bibby - South Pennines and the Bronte Moors (Ramblers Association book of suggested moorland hikes), OS map. ;D
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"what you make it" (short stories) by michael marshall smith; "the intruders" by michael marshall (yes, it's the same person); "the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That Katherine Ramsland? Anne Rice's #1 fan? :o
having just looked her up, it would appear so. ::)
She's a good writer, IMO, but afaik she started her career being a fan. Didn't know she was a forensic psychologist, though.
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"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.
That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.
i'll let you know, shall i?
Yes please :green:
Question: why is it different in England... is it the phraseology. Surely we have similar crimes in the UK as in the US... I thought it was only the English language and the NHS that separated the two nations.
police procedures are different, plus diagnosis and treatment, generally.
it hasn't been a problem so far, but i'm sort of being a cassandra about it. i'm not terribly good at optimism. :(
Even if the police procedures are different, wouldn't the forensic psychology be the same? We are not that different culturally, I think.
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yes the psychology is the same, but for writing - especially crime writing - one needs to know procedures too. and forensic psychology is all about crime and the law, etc.
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Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide. (http://www.amazon.com/Seizures-Epilepsy-Childhood-Hopkins-Health/dp/0801870518)
The mother of the little girl who rides the bus with me loaned it to me because her daughter has seizures fairly often even though she is taking medication and has a vagus nerve stimulator implanted.
I think I saw her have one the other day on the bus. I was not sure at first whether or not it was a seizure, but I'm pretty sure now that it was.
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Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
i want to read that, and it's on my amazon wishlist - he was talking about it on R4 a while ago. any good?
btw, nocti, "the criminal mind" isn't terribly good - it focusses mainly on legal stuff and procedure, and should really be called "the froensic psychologist", cos it's mostly about the role of the FP, which is practically meaningless if you're not in the US. ::)
it's an okay read, but a bit patchy and hoppy-about for my liking, too. i should get a more technical/academic book, i think.
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Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
i want to read that, and it's on my amazon wishlist - he was talking about it on R4 a while ago. any good?
It's promising judging by the first chapter.
I wouldn't rate him as a writer, but the subject matter is interesting and I've seen at least one documentary with Oliver Sacks and he seems like a good guy.
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i found "the man who mistook..." more or less unreadable, myself. gave up after a couple of chapters. a shame, cos i'm really interested in his ideas and research.
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I'd like to read his book about music, "Musicophilia".
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Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
I'd like to read his book about music, "Musicophilia".
er, hello? what do you think we were talking about?
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Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
I'd like to read his book about music, "Musicophilia".
er, hello? what do you think we were talking about?
I missed that post completely, for some reason. :-\
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I'm halfway through Musicopholia.
It seems to be a collection of anecdotes about people with extreme ways of perceiving music interspersed with some semi-technical jargon about neurology which may as well be written in Greek as far as I'm concerned.
It's readable, but I think a close-call whether I will finish it or not.
I have The Divine Comedy, Rimbauld's "A Season In Hell" and Ovid's Metamorpheses on the menu next.
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ovid's meta-oojits is something i've been "going-to-read" for ever, too.
i don't like the way sacks sets out his books either, btw.
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Paul Theroux - The Great Railway Bazaar
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The Art of Loving--Erich Fromm
The Myth of the Hyperactive Child--Peter Schrag/Diane Divoky
E Pluribus Unicorn--Theodore Sturgeon
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An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Anonymous
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Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin. A Spanish grammar. A biography of Julius Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
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Posts
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Journey To A Revolution by Michael Korda. Going to star The Gospel Of Judas Second Edition if I ever get off my ass.
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Jerry Sohl--Night Slaves. Best known to ST:TOS fans as the writer of the TOS episodes "The Corbomite Manuever" and "Whom Gods Destroy" as well as the OL: OTS episode "Counterweight." Died 2006.
James Tiptree Jr.--Up The Walls Of The World. Her real name was Allie Sheldon, she left this earth 23 years ago, and she could write like a dream. I still remember hearing the report of her death on WRC-TV in 1986.
Ted Sturgeon--Sturgeon Is Alive and Well. I wish that were true. If you ever feel like killing yourself, please read the short story "Suicide" in this volume first. Died 1985.
Henry Miller--Tropic of Cancer. A perennial favorite. "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago...I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. "
Robert Goodman--Maintaining and Repairing VCRs. Because I still use them. If I can understand 1 word in 5, I'll consider myself lucky.
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
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I haven't started it yet but I bought the direct sequel to Enders Game which covers the time between Enders Game and Xenocide in Enders life. I bought in hardcover because I don't have the patience to wait a year for paperback.
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My notes on women of Ancient Rome and Greece. Exam is in a week :-\
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I haven't started it yet but I bought the direct sequel to Enders Game which covers the time between Enders Game and Xenocide in Enders life. I bought in hardcover because I don't have the patience to wait a year for paperback.
I'm curious to know if it's any good.
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I'll let you know if I can remember to when I finish it Pyraxis.
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He should have stopped after Speaker for the Dead.
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*shrug* They're not great novels anymore, but I still think they have some decent action and political intrigue.
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Skinner ...
LoL!!
... some of this crap is so laughable. I had read it in the nineties, but with what we all know today, I can haardly contain myself.
(many cunty quotes from Skinner coming ...)
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:laugh:
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'Star Wars - Legacy of the Force Book 9: Invincible' by Troy Denning
:vader:
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People's tweets on Twitter.
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The Naming of the Dead, Ian Rankin
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Berlin Soldier
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1962 Chitons Car manual
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Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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The book of the dead, translated from ancient egyptian into english. Its quite fascinating.
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The book of the dead, translated from ancient egyptian into english. Its quite fascinating.
I have that in Middle Egyptian, written in hieroglyphs.
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The book of the dead, translated from ancient egyptian into english. Its quite fascinating.
I have that in Middle Egyptian, written in hieroglyphs.
Nice. Is it worth anything?
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The book of the dead, translated from ancient egyptian into english. Its quite fascinating.
I have that in Middle Egyptian, written in hieroglyphs.
Nice. Is it worth anything?
No, nothing. It's available through Amazon.
Hieroglyphs and Middle Egyptian used to be an obsession of mine so I have quite a few books on the topic.
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The book of the dead, translated from ancient egyptian into english. Its quite fascinating.
I have that in Middle Egyptian, written in hieroglyphs.
Nice. Is it worth anything?
No, nothing. It's available through Amazon.
Hieroglyphs and Middle Egyptian used to be an obsession of mine so I have quite a few books on the topic.
Oh I see. Well my main intense intrest is everything I don't know yet. ;)
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The book of the dead, translated from ancient egyptian into english. Its quite fascinating.
I have that in Middle Egyptian, written in hieroglyphs.
Nice. Is it worth anything?
No, nothing. It's available through Amazon.
Hieroglyphs and Middle Egyptian used to be an obsession of mine so I have quite a few books on the topic.
Oh I see. Well my main intense intrest is everything I don't know yet. ;)
Good enough. :)
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One of the treasures I brought home from the ""half priced book"" store earlier this week was, ""Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers"" by Robert Gross and Avner Ash.
Elemental, but it is written well and some of what I have sought is right here, in layman's terms.
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Jennie's Potty Training.
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"how to hack the sat"
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This board. Teh Internets.
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800 Days On The Eastern Front 8)
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Loads and loads here.
Trying to catch up ::)
Hopeless. ;D
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I have eight from the Ray Bradbury library going, right now. I plan to re-read it all in the coming week.
I encountered a reference that I did not remember - it pissed me off, massively, that I did not remember the reference. I'll have it all done by Saturday and I will know wtf she was talking about.
I've been :pwned:
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War Without Garlands
v good so far :indeed:
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"How to talk to cats"
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Good read.
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Programming Perl by Larry Wall. A classic.
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Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin :nerdy:
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Too lazy to read lately. I'm a lazy slug.
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Books on stamps
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Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
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Steppenwolf was BRAVE! :arrr:
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A friend read it and thought Steppenwolf was like me and said I should read it.
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Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
You may also want to read Siddhartha by Hesse.
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Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
You may also want to read Siddhartha by Hesse.
I will check it out :)
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!" (Peter's fault!)
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The social contract. Printed in 1776. 8)
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War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Megargee)
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War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Megargee)
Wow whered you get it? Is it an original?
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The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism
Temple Grandin and Sean Barron
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War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Megargee)
Wow whered you get it? Is it an original?
No it was published in 2006 - the 1941 is part of the title :laugh:
I do have some original stuff from the war, but no books unfortunately
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War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Megargee)
Wow whered you get it? Is it an original?
No it was published in 2006 - the 1941 is part of the title :laugh:
I do have some original stuff from the war, but no books unfortunately
Oh I see. I'm a vintage book collector. So I almost jizzed in my pants. :lol:
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Deitsche Soldaten :headbang2:
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakban, with my daughter.
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Rereading Carlos Castenada's A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!" (Peter's fault!)
The social contract. Printed in 1776. 8)
Good catch Rage, I would have never gotten that one. :thumbup:
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Stalingrad 1942
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:arrr:
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Soviet Rifleman 1941-45
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The board.
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Urban Dictionary definition of Dutch Rudder.
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Krakatoa The Day The World Exploded : August 27, 1883
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The London phone book of 1912
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Halo: Contact Harvest
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Berlin 1945: The End of the Thousand Year Reich :pwned:
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The book for the new GI Joe movie
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Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics by Mark Ronan
It's a tiny little book, but very entertaining to me.
I also found this one recently at my favorite bookstore:
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry by M. Du Sautoy
(my latest obsession, aside from my audio pursuits)
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Berlin - the final battle of Anthony Beavor. Them damned Ivans win. :thumbdn:
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Anthony Beevor is awesome :laugh: Although he did a shit job with The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War
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But I still don't like that the Russkies win. :-\
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Yeah Anthony Beevor is pretty good
He also edited a book of some of Vasily Grossman's writings from his notebooks
And his Stalingrad book is very popular
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Soph have you read Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate?
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One thing I'll never understand is why Hitler didn't redraw the Germans troops from Norway and Kurland to defend Berlin. There were 300000 Germans occupying Norway and 200000 occupying Kurland while only 80000 something (and half of them were Volkssturm) defended Berlin. ???
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I have read Life and Fate, yeah. Have you? A lot of characters :laugh:
I am currently reading Weapons of WW2 :headbang2:
Nice big book I found reduced in Waterstones
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I have it but I still need to read it :laugh: I've read War and Peace though 8)
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I am reading Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution
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Poor Germans. Not fair. Especially not fair for the people in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia. :(
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Carlos Castenada--Journey to Ixtlan
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Nothing atm but thinking about reading Stephen King's The Duma Key.
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Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
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I read that a few months ago ^
I am reading Nuremberg - Evil on Trial
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Barbarossa: Ther German Campaign in Russia: Planning and Operations 1941-42
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Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa - Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941
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Count Zero, William Gibson
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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
been meaning to read this for about a year and only just got round to it
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Military and Civilian Pyrotechniques (http://www.freepyroinfo.com/Pyrotechnic/Pyrotechnic_Books/Military_and_Civilian_Pyrotechniques_by_Herbet_Ellern.pdf) 8)
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"En handbok i spanska" (a Spanish "manual" of sorts)
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Sketch of the mode of manufactoring gunpowder (http://www.freepyroinfo.com/Pyrotechnic/Black_Powder/Sketch_of_the_mode_of_manufacturing_gunp.pdf) :book:
From 1862. :thumbup:
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(http://www.chipsbooks.com/intlogs3.jpg)
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(http://www.ipresents.co.uk/i/stuff/john-peel-biography.jpg)
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452270073.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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(http://rgr-static1.tangentlabs.co.uk/media/9780393337457/telling-lies-clues-to-deceit-in-the-marketplace-politics-and-marriage.jpg)
dry but informative, required reading for many law enforcement agencys
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http://www.garderoben.se/files/M1804-skyddsmask-90-instruktionsbok.pdf :toporly:
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1812 Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
:moon:
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Stalin
can't remember the title of the book :facepalm:
summat about stalin though
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Good book.
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Chemistry and Technology of Explosives, vol. 2, Tadeusz Urbanski, Warsaw 1965. :book:
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Yay a Polski! :green:
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Reading articles about Superconductivity and Cooper Pairs
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Too fucking lazy to read anything lately.
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robert roberts - the classic slum
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The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
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hitler's empire - nazi rule in occuppied europe
today i read a book printed in 1913 about not giving women the vote. i can't remember the title. i think it was The Unexpurgated Case against Woman Suffrage or something. :lol:
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today i read a book printed in 1913 about not giving women the vote. i can't remember the title. i think it was The Unexpurgated Case against Woman Suffrage or something. :lol:
Gonna be writing coursework on that this year :facepalm2:
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for history? is that the one where you can choose the title of the coursework yourself? if so, i did mine on the same thing :zombiefuck:
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:lol:
Yeah there are two questions:
1) Assess the significance of popular pressure in bringing about improved representation and greater democracy in Britain in the period 1830-1931
2) What in your view was the short term significance of ....... in bringing about improved representatio and greater democracy in Britain
We're also doing Nazi Germany :laugh: I wish we did somethign else though, I did Nazis for my GCSEs. Then again, this is way better than the Arab and Israeli conflict last year :aff:
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you're well copying me with your A levels :laugh:
we did nazi germany a bit too, which actually annoyed me a bit for the same reason - it was interesting and all that, but it was really no different to what we did at GCSE level. i took a unit last year on nazism and WW2 though and that was a million times better because they actually do it properly at university i think. Alevels are really too similar to GCSEs i think.
we also did the Cold War and Civil Rights in America. Cold War i liked but i'm not really into american history. i prefer european stuff
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Can't help it, my History/Politics teachers are the only ones who like me in college :P
For History last year we also had Franco and Britain 1945-1970. I did so shit on Franco/Arab-Israeli conflict :lol: Got a D. I did get an A for Britain though :zoinks:
We're doing a bit of Civil Rights and racial equality in the US for Politics right now. I wish we could have done America last year though, we could have followed the election.
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World Maps and Asian Maps.
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Maps are brave. :agreed:
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i have a 1945 map of the soviet union on my bedroom wall
i also have a few late 19th century maps of manchester
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i have a 1945 map of the soviet union on my bedroom wall
i also have a few late 19th century maps of manchester
By the time you get to Parts age you will have an equally impressive collection of esoterica.
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(http://vulpeslibris.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/gmm.jpg)
I love Jean Rhys.
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Utopia
also today I got a copy of a book printed in 1948 (?) called Invert, about homosexuals and how they need to be fixed. Goes well with my book about why we should never give women the vote :laugh:
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Women, by Richard Curle
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Kwaidan. (graphic novel)
I rented that movie from netflix a couple weeks ago. It was one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. I'm not sure how I'd feel about a graphic novel, because the strength of the movie was most the sets and direction than the plot.
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Gunsmithing manuals
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Harpy Time by Piers Antony, book 17 in his Xanth trilogy!
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the legends of king arthur and his knights
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Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals
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new worlds, lost worlds
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What I Know Now: Letters To My Younger Self by Ellyn Spragins. I highly reccommend it to the women on the board.
"If you could send a letter back through time to your younger self, what would the letter say?
In this moving collection, forty-one famous women write letters to the women they once were, filled with advice and insights they wish they had had when they were younger.
Today show correspondent Ann Curry writes to herself as a rookie reporter in her first job, telling herself not to change so much to fit in, urging her young self, "It is time to be bold about who you really are." Country music superstar Lee Ann Womack reflects on the stressed-out year spent recording her first album and encourages her younger self to enjoy the moment, not just the end result. And Maya Angelou, leaving home at seventeen with a newborn baby in her arms, assures herself she will succeed on her own, even if she does return home every now and then.
These remarkable women are joined by Madeleine Albright, Queen Noor of Jordan, Cokie Roberts, Naomi Wolf, Eileen Fisher, Jane Kaczmarek, Olympia Dukakis, Macy Gray, and many others. Their letters contain rare glimpses into the personal lives of extraordinary women and powerful wisdom that readers will treasure.
Wisdom from What I Know Now
"Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised." -Maya Angelou
"Try more things. Cross more lines." -Breena Clarke
"Learn how to celebrate." -Olympia Dukakis
"You don't have to be afraid of living alone." -Eileen Fisher
"Please yourself first . . . everything else follows." -Macy Gray
"Don't be so quick to dismiss another human being." -Barbara Boxer
"Work should not be work." -Mary Matalin
"You can leave the work world-and come back on your own terms." -Cokie
Roberts
"Laundry will wait very patiently." -Nora Roberts
"Your hair matters far, far less than you think" -Lisa Scottoline
"Speak the truth but ride a fast horse." -Kitty Kelley"
It's a very quick read, only 200 pages. But it's one of those books that will change your life and really make you think. It's from powerful women who have struggled and every lesson they address has an impact. Definitely something you share with your girlfriends. ~CG
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(http://images.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/ebooks/product/400/000/000/000/000/060/519/400000000000000060519_s4.jpg&usg=AFQjCNH4z7ElH1Awcr5JlNZcEi0p-Ta0sQ)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir
I :pinkbeat: Charlie Brooker. Met him too 8)
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i'm reading a 1942 copy of war and peace
it'll probably take a while :P
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Tolstoy repeats himself too much :thumbdn: He keeps going on and on and ON about how history is not just due to a single individual but a whole load of people and circumstances. I bet if someone was to cut out all those bits and just leave one, it wouldn't be such a big book at all :laugh:
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Tolstoy stopped repeating himself long ago.
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A book about the Tudors by Phillippa Gregory.
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Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson.
I'm trying to be a kid again ::)
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^This saved my arse today on the train :lol:
Had a child's travelcard and the ticket checker just glanced at it, my face and the book before walking off :laugh:
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the holocausst in history by marrus
very good summary of the historiography, although first published before the fall of the SU
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Larely only maps.
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The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
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After Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
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Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
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Nothing, atm. Can't seem to focus enough. :-\
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Other maps.
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This board. Dur.
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Just starting to read George Orwell's "Keep the Aspidistra Flying".
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(http://journeyofathousandwords.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/mother_nightlarge.jpg)
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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Work related technical product sheets :yawn:
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GA got some Star Trek comics from the library and I have been reading those. :)
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The Korg TR Parameter Guide.
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Prince of Tides by Pat Conway. Started it a few months ago but couldn't stay focused so I put it away. Just started again.
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bartov - hitler's army: soldiers, nazis and war in the third reich
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The Wehrmacht - History, Myth, Reality and Victory: 100 Great Military Commanders
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Materials for my Neural Systems class...
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The MIDI Manual
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Technical info on some new products I am selling :yawn:
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Still Neural Systems... got through another chapter avec notes.
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Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse 8)
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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.
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war on the eastern front - the german soldier in russia (1980)
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The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman.
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A collection of short stories about dragons. :green:
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My old book about Ass Burgers. Apparently I have had to revisit the reasons for my naughty behaviours, such as controlling situations, meltdowns, blaming other people for my shortcomings, running away when I can't deal with a situation....just all those delightful things :laugh:
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Any particular reason you had reason to do this?
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forgotten voices from ww1 and ww2
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A book on locks
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Pyrotechnics, from George Washington Weingart, 1947, one of the most famous American (but born in Germany, of course ;)) pyrotechnicians.
This Green Bengal was invented by him. It consists of 90 grams of barium chlorate and 10 grams of shellack. I think you might have seen it before, but it's so beautiful that it can't be seen too often. 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeUaRGuWvk
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war on the eastern front - the german soldier in russia (1980)
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Watchmen.
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A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes.
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What I Saw : reports from berlin 1920-33
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a post by soph
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I've just finished reading, one after the other, the books in the Dark Heavens series by Kylie Chan. First couple chapters I was thinking, "Eh, Twilight in Hong Kong, who needs it." Then the story just kept getting better and better, to the point where I was going, "Never mind that it's 2 in the morning, I've gotta read one more chapter and see what happens next." Book 4 has been published, Book 5 is coming out later this year, and apparently the whole opus will consist of nine volumes. Yesssss....
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i am considering revisiting the book: where the red fern grows.
i loved that book as a child.
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I'm reading I2. I2 is a book. :orly:
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Nothing but posts
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Teh internets
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the Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by ian mortimer
good book
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A Hitler biography
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The Plague by Albert Camus.
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I'm reading I2. I2 is a book. :orly:
I2 is actually a VAST LIBRARY of incomparable internet treasures! :snowman:
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Earth to Hell by Kylie Chan.
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The board.
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4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane.
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I´m reading a history of the Spanish Civil war by Anthony Beever because I´m traveling in Seville right now. It´s boring as hell. I wish I had just looked up the Spanish Civil War article on wikipedia.
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1939: countdown to war - richard overy
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Rising '44 by Norman Davies.
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I´m reading a history of the Spanish Civil war by Anthony Beever because I´m traveling in Seville right now. It´s boring as hell. I wish I had just looked up the Spanish Civil War article on wikipedia.
That book sucks. He does good battles but can't write about politics to save his life. Trudged though that book 2 tears ago :thumbdn:
Read Stalingrad instead.
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I´m reading a history of the Spanish Civil war by Anthony Beever because I´m traveling in Seville right now. It´s boring as hell. I wish I had just looked up the Spanish Civil War article on wikipedia.
That book sucks. He does good battles but can't write about politics to save his life. Trudged though that book 2 tears ago :thumbdn:
Read Stalingrad instead.
I know it's just a typo but I love it. :laugh:
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I´m reading a history of the Spanish Civil war by Anthony Beever because I´m traveling in Seville right now. It´s boring as hell. I wish I had just looked up the Spanish Civil War article on wikipedia.
That book sucks. He does good battles but can't write about politics to save his life. Trudged though that book 2 tears ago :thumbdn:
Read Stalingrad instead.
or Berlin
right now i just finished reading Favoiurite Greek Myths, printed 1906
now i'm starting War Letters of Fallen Englishmen printed 1930
going through some of my old books as i can't buy new ones till i fix my bank account :P
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4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E3ZY3R6BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Reading posts and plotting my replies! >:D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E3ZY3R6BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Intriguing cover. Is it good?
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A History if Prostitution by W Sanger, printed in 1913
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E3ZY3R6BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Intriguing cover. Is it good?
Yes, I'm enjoying it! It's entertaining, erudite, global in scope, and (dare I say)... colourful. :zoinks:
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The 4th edition of Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44 :arrr:
finally got myself a copy
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Some current event magazines from during WW1 I should scan some of the cartoons
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WWI=BRAVE! :arrr:
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WWI=BRAVE! :arrr:
One of my Grandfathers was in the artillery in in France for a year after he lied about his age and joined the army. My great uncle was gravely disappointing in being a young officer in command of a "black" brigade and having the war end before he got to go to France. I still have his officer's manual
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WWI=BRAVE! :arrr:
One of my Grandfathers was in the artillery in in France for a year after he lied about his age and joined the army. My great uncle was gravely disappointing in being a young officer in command of a "black" brigade and having the war end before he got to go to France. I still have his officer's manual
My Grandfather saw Rotterdam burning, as a soldier from a bed in hospital. For him seeing that town burn was the worst war experience of WWII.
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Dawn of the Dumb.
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Every couple of minutes I refresh the "Show unread posts" list. :zoinks:
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If this is a man , by primo levi
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A car magazine...Ford vs Holden vs Cobra vs Camaro.
Australia vs USA.
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The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker.
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the truce
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cross of iron
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Blandings Castle - PG Wodehouse
Gomorrah - Roberto Saviano
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The origin of evil and psychology of the evil mind.
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nothng :(
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Some book on body language. A Nokia manual. A book on XQuery.
In other words, my mind is all over the place.
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oliver twist
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POSTS, duh! :zoinks:
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Some book on body language. A Nokia manual. A book on XQuery.
In other words, my mind is all over the place.
I'm the worlds worst for crazy books on the go combinations. Don't feel ashamed or alone :P
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Some book on body language. A Nokia manual. A book on XQuery.
In other words, my mind is all over the place.
I'm the worlds worst for crazy books on the go combinations. Don't feel ashamed or alone :P
See, odeon, we really are a support site, awwwww! :grouphug:
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Some book on body language. A Nokia manual. A book on XQuery.
In other words, my mind is all over the place.
I'm the worlds worst for crazy books on the go combinations. Don't feel ashamed or alone :P
See, odeon, we really are a support site, awwwww! :grouphug:
:grouphug:
:puke:
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this... this is such an awesome song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRklZatZjg
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From Kaiser to Fuhrer.
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Crave by Sarah Kane.
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I'm reading posts, duh! :zoinks:
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The star wars series that explains what happened after luke whipped his dad's ass and his dad threw the emperor into a reactor.
Its p cool in my opinion. :)
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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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pompeii by robert harris
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hagakure
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sex in elizabethan england
all this marriage business is confusing as hell if you're doing tudor history - fuckers getting married here there and everywhere :laugh:
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Reaping the whirlwind: the german and japanese experience of ww2
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Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone... again. :pie:
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i have been reading Voices From the World of Samel Pepys all week. slow reading lately for some reason. can't focus.
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storm of steel
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Some book I got called "The Number Of The Beast" It's this huge sci-fi mash up. I don't mean to judge a book by its cover but the cover looked totally awesome so when I was it for a dollar in the thrift store I had to get it.
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This board. Dur.
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Moralność pani Dulskiej.
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Timothy Zahn.
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About to start one of Stephen Fry's novels.
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It's rather involved to describe the things I am reading.
I will do this later.
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voices from dickens' london
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Liar, Stephen Fry
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today i finished reading Alone in Berlin by hans fallada
- anyone else read it? i thought it was really good
now i'm reading Tank Men by robert kershaw - got it for just £2 in tesco 8) - i thought his book on the invasion of the soviet union was great so hopefully this will be good too
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I'm reading Antony Beevor's D-Day book. it's a good book
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The Essential Python Reference
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Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
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World War Z and the DK Eyewitness Travel book on France.
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Teletext.
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Teletext.
Any good? :laugh:
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Teletext.
Any good? :laugh:
It's certainly not great literature.
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Teletext.
Any good? :laugh:
It's certainly not great literature.
Used to read it a lot in a period of extraordinary insomnia.
There was a chance that it would make me sleepy after a while.
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Teletext.
Any good? :laugh:
It's certainly not great literature.
Used to read it a lot in a period of extraordinary insomnia.
There was a chance that it would make me sleepy after a while.
Haven't really used it like that. Must try it.
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World War Z and the DK Eyewitness Travel book on France.
I love anything by DK Eyewitness. :thumbup:
I've really got to finish this Labryinth book. :laugh:
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World War Z and the DK Eyewitness Travel book on France.
I love anything by DK Eyewitness. :thumbup:
I've really got to finish this Labryinth book. :laugh:
:lol: Yes she is a great writer.
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I have begun to move on past the math of Symmetry and begun to focus more on the "Core of the Earth" math.
I have acquired thirteen books related to the subject, but I am only just popping open six or seven of them. Once I get them going, I will post titles.
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World War Z sucks balls so I am putting it down for good. Now I am rereading A Tale of Two Cities to get the taste of World War Z out of my mind.
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The Queen's Fool
The Belles of Solace Glenn
The Faith Club
The Goblet of Fire
2 Redwall books
Several cookbooks
for starters. I have books everywhere and never have less than 5 or 6 going at one time.
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2 Redwall books
Several cookbooks
for starters. I have books everywhere and never have less than 5 or 6 going at one time.
Redwall is with the mouse isn't it? I read three or four of those.
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wow teletext. I haven't used that for ages :laugh:
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Schindler's Ark. brilliant book. I might watch the film again soon
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A book on vacuum tubes and a scfi novel by Peter Hamilton the name of which escapes me
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wow teletext. I haven't used that for ages :laugh:
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Schindler's Ark. brilliant book. I might watch the film again soon
Better than the film?
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I'll tell you after I've watched the film again - haven't seen it for years.
Definitely a good book if you're interested in the holocaust/poland etc
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Yes, I want to read that book once my OCD allows it.
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How does your OCD stopyou reading it?
Unless talking about it triggers the OCD - then just ignore this post :laugh:
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How does your OCD stopyou reading it?
Unless talking about it triggers the OCD - then just ignore this post :laugh:
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,2039.msg613291.html#msg613291
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I pulled out an old book about Laura Ashley, which talks about different eras in interior design and has wonderful pictures to distract me when I get tired of reading.
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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This board.
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To Kill A Mockingbird
:zoinks:
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The XProc (http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xproc-20100511/) Specification.
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Discovery of Cosmic Fractals, Yurij Barysheiv and Pekka Teerikorpi
Some of the equations cause me pause, mainly due to fairly advanced mathematical brevity in use for this treatise, but most of it is well within the understanding of an educated layman.
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Dead Man Walking
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Old posts on here. :zoinks:
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Linux man pages.
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The Kite Runner. I am on page 68 and the book is excellent so far. I hope it does not go to shit.
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An Illustrated Biography of me, How to Cut Your Bills in Half, 100 Malicious Murder Mysteries, Deathly Hallows, Book of the Dead, several cooking magazines, Healing ADHD - off the top of my head. I always have a book nearby.
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"Moab Is My Washpot", Stephen Fry
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Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth.
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The Kite Runner. I am on page 68 and the book is excellent so far. I hope it does not go to shit.
Good to know! It's on my booklist.
Currently reading Elizabeth & Leicester by Sarah Gristwood. Yet another biography about the Tudors. :thumbup:
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Reading a book on Lennon.
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (modified to the correct title)
A novel about Catherine Parr
Midlife Irish
The Selfish Gene
At least 3 or 4 other books scattered around
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The Kite Runner. I am on page 68 and the book is excellent so far. I hope it does not go to shit.
Good to know! It's on my booklist.
Currently reading Elizabeth & Leicester by Sarah Gristwood. Yet another biography about the Tudors. :thumbup:
Have you read any books by Antonia Fraser? If not, then I highly recommend her :)
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The Kite Runner. I am on page 68 and the book is excellent so far. I hope it does not go to shit.
Good to know! It's on my booklist.
Currently reading Elizabeth & Leicester by Sarah Gristwood. Yet another biography about the Tudors. :thumbup:
Have you read any books by Antonia Fraser? If not, then I highly recommend her :)
No I haven't. Adding her to the list :)
Tried starting Paradise last night by Toni Morrison (it's about reverse segregation) but it was too intense. Might shelf that one for awhile.
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"Star Wars Allegiance" by Timothy Zahn
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this board
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I started The Last Wife of Henry VIII. I always felt sorry for Catherine Parr, but at least she survived Henry, although she died way too young.
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Finishing the last two books of St Augustine's The Confessions, even despite I am reading the abridged version it is a lot of wank to be honest.
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Marie Antoinette biography.
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I started The Last Wife of Henry VIII. I always felt sorry for Catherine Parr, but at least she survived Henry, although she died way too young.
:agreed:
I'm reading The Time Travellers Wife (for the second time). Love that book.
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This board.
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I havent been reading for nearly two months. dunno why. I am thinking about reading Utopia again when I feel like it
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An article on BPD.
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Lots of articles on Jaguars.
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Lots of articles on Jaguars.
The animal or the car?
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Lots of articles on Jaguars.
The animal or the car?
The car. :headbang2:
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Lots of articles on Jaguars.
The animal or the car?
The car. :headbang2:
Sweet. :plus:
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nowt
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This board.
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http://questionablecontent.net/spacewizards.html
Ginny and Hermione go gay :zoinks:
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You do not want to know!
(I am obsessing over fractal math again. It is too involved to describe what all I am reading these days.)
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This board.
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Journals of Sylvia Plath.
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This board. And some Internet newspaper editions.
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pretending to read the board. :violin:
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The Velveteen Rabbit.
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This board. Dur.
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Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffery, George Burns, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart, Ethan Winer and Roger Zelazny.
Yes, it is Mostly fiction and light science for a change, but HELL - it is the holidays - FFS!
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A Denver Junior League cookbook, Rodale's book on herbs, Abundance (fiction about Marie Antoinette), The History of the English Language (old PBS show), a mystery about a papal election (sorry Soph the old pope died of old age and the new one is alive at the end), and some others I don't recall.
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Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffery, George Burns, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart, Ethan Winer and Roger Zelazny.
Yes, it is Mostly fiction and light science for a change, but HELL - it is the holidays - FFS!
It's been decades since I last read anything by Zelazny. I remember liking Creatures of Light and Darkness.
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Some work-related documents. A book about Spanish idioms. Rereading Stephen Fry's autobiography.
Every single one of them word by word, trying very hard not to look back, to battle my OCD.
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Glancing through the Jaguar S-Type 2004 Electrical Guide.
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Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffery, George Burns, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart, Ethan Winer and Roger Zelazny.
Yes, it is Mostly fiction and light science for a change, but HELL - it is the holidays - FFS!
It's been decades since I last read anything by Zelazny. I remember liking Creatures of Light and Darkness.
Zelazney. The Amber novels, enjoyed the first one in the 1960's, but never could find any after that (little $ on hand, not at the library, few bookstores, pre-computer - all reasons I didn't read any others). Will have to read him again. Thanks for the idea Odeon.
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The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
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How to Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half - Steve Economides
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This thread ;D
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Stephen Fry - "The Fry Chronicles"
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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currently re-errading the hotel new hampshire. I forgot how much I love this book. I hope it doesnt end this time, and magically keeps on going.
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Touching from a Distance by Deborah Curtis.
The more I learn about Ian, the less I like him :(
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This board. Sherlock Holmes. Some manuals.
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... about twenty heavy law books about Indiana law, mostly focused on describing how a man can protect himself legally from a woman's wrath when she becomes nuts and the shit hits the fan.
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i am reading Jeremy Clarkson's book - he is actually quite funny considering he is a tory!
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Mel Bartholomew's New Square Foot Gardening. (the latest book I've gotten.)
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About to read Stephen King's Christine in German a bit later this evening. :viking:
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About to read Stephen King's Christine in German a bit later this evening. :viking:
But why? Why? :GA: :GA: :GA:
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Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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"The Sign of Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Some literature on new products for work
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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq.
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About to read Stephen King's Christine in German a bit later this evening. :viking:
But why? Why? :GA: :GA: :GA:
I bought a pocket version in Germany in 1990 or 1991.
Roland LeBay is :viking:
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... about twenty heavy law books about Indiana law, mostly focused on describing how a man can protect himself legally from a woman's wrath when she becomes nuts and the shit hits the fan.
Too bad it's that way. Hope things work out for you. About to read Stephen King's Christine in German a bit later this evening. :viking:
But why? Why? :GA: :GA: :GA:
I bought a pocket version in Germany in 1990 or 1991.
Roland LeBay is :viking:
Yeah, Rollie LeBay was a crazy fuck. The movie fucked it all up.
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all the numbers i have written on the kitchen wall :zoinks:
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all the numbers i have written on the kitchen wall :zoinks:
What numbers? Phone numbers? Lucky lottery numbers? :zoinks:
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all the numbers i have written on the kitchen wall :zoinks:
What numbers? Phone numbers? Lucky lottery numbers? :zoinks:
all sorts - phone numbers, passwords, pin numbers and yay lottery numbers but no winning no's :zoinks:
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The Artists Way. Picked it up today.
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About to read Stephen King's Christine in German a bit later this evening. :viking:
But why? Why? :GA: :GA: :GA:
I bought a pocket version in Germany in 1990 or 1991.
Roland LeBay is :viking:
Yes, but better without the German accent! :GA:
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"Mach den Tank voll, du Scheisser!" :viking:
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:rofl:
Remind me, I owe you one. I think I just plussed you and I'm an admin so ..
Awww, hell. I'll just plus you any way cos it's admin consiracahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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About to read Stephen King's Christine in German a bit later this evening. :viking:
But why? Why? :GA: :GA: :GA:
I bought a pocket version in Germany in 1990 or 1991.
Roland LeBay is :viking:
Yes, but better without the German accent! :GA:
Good point. He fought the Jerries in The War That Ended All Wars.
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Reading Sherlock Holmes.
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Miss Abernathys Concise Slave Training Manual
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Thinking Critically
Business Ethics as Rational Choice
Cracking the LSAT
The Forge of God
Some James Patterson book my dying Grandfather wants me to read
5 books at once is a lot for me as I usually keep it to three :(
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Beowulf
The Lost Daughter
Culinaria, Germany
Venter's autobiography
The Frugal Gourmet, vol. 1
Kissed A Sad Goodbye
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High Noon In Nimbin by Robert Barret.
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Daddy's Girl
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Nothing. Can't seem to focus. :-\
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I have several books going at the moment mostly dealing with work in one form or another
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The Seven Daughters of Eve is added to my list.
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(http://acespilotshop.com/images/products/jeppesen/jep-js314500-private-pilot-manual-b.jpg)
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(http://acespilotshop.com/images/products/jeppesen/jep-js314500-private-pilot-manual-b.jpg)
You need a book to tell you how to pilot your privates?
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It's not unheard of. Sex manuals can be fun.
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I was reading parts of romeo and juliet yesterday. I'm not trying to sound pretentious, there are just some parts of that I have always loved. I've read it, oh, 15 times ? And studied it in depth in college. This is one of the g retests quotes of all time.
ROMEO
Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
Just been thinking about that a lot lately.
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The White Queen by Philippa Gregory. Love it.
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The Bell Jar
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré
Good book. Worth rereading.
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Business Ethics as Rational Choice is just as exciting as you think it is :)
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Business Ethics as Rational Choice is just as exciting as you think it is :)
Isn't business ethics an oxymoron?
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Business Ethics as Rational Choice is just as exciting as you think it is :)
Isn't business ethics an oxymoron?
It doesn't have to be.
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I want to get into Jap novels like suspect X...anyone knows the genre would be cool to hear from.
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Killing Pablo.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré
Good book. Worth rereading.
Yes George Smiley is a credible protagonist.
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AC 43.13-2b
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Killing Pablo.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré
Good book. Worth rereading.
Yes George Smiley is a credible protagonist.
Oh yes. I'm planning to read the next one in the Smiley "trilogy" after finishing what I'm reading now.
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A post on a clan. chem. board titled 'scaling up the benzoquinone wacker oxidation'
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"Duma Key", Stephen King
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I like stephen king's books, never could get into that one at all. I can't think of many times I've returned a book to a library mostly unread before.
Currently reading a few articles on kappa opioid receptor agonists and antagonists.
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I like this one, I have to say.
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I prefer his older books. In his later books he has too many details and too much "supernatural" (he has "supernatural" in most books, but not with a zillion details) and some way he writes like a very old man, although he is just 65 years old.
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I'm still trying to finish The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. Normally I read really quickly but this was a slow read for me. Good storyline but I don't know...it drags on. Only 100 pages left.
I have 22 books on my "to read" list. Not sure what I'll read next. :apondering:
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Some interesting bedtime reading :)
Herkinorin looks very interesting indeed. Beta-arrestin 2 Doesn't appear to be the only mechanism in play in terms of opioid tolerance, conditioned place preference, dependence liability, there are other factors, such as cholestocystokinin receptors, ORL-1 (the nociceptin opioid-like receptorddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Herkinorin Analogues with Differential Beta-Arrestin-2 Interactions
J Med Chem. 2008 April 24; 51(8): 2421–2431.
doi: 10.1021/jm701162g
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2494883/?tool=pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2494883/?tool=pubmed)
http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/101/3/728.long (http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/101/3/728.long)
The Role of Opioid Receptor Internalization and β-Arrestins in the Development of Opioid Tolerance
doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000160588.32007.AD
A & A September 2005 vol. 101 no. 3 728-734
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15346705 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15346705)
Acta Anaesthesiol Taiwan. 2004 Jun;42(2):93-101.
Opioid tolerance: is there a dialogue between glutamate and beta-arrestin? (trying to find this one for free....Gah, the amount that some of these damn publishing house middlemen want to cream off the top when supplying papers is ridiculous.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16115983/ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16115983/)
Differential Mechanisms of Morphine Antinociceptive Tolerance Revealed in βArrestin-2 Knock-Out Mice
The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 December 2002, 22(23): 10494-10500;
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"Duma Key", Stephen King
7/10
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Nah, Duma Key isn't that good. I like Blaze better. It's an old story from the 70's that he hadn't published before. Just After Sunset is also good.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone (4th or 5th time).
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Some more articles in pubmed/medline about beta-arrestin2 in the development of opioid tolerance/maintenance. Although I think I am going to lie down and refresh my brain for a while first before I start working my way way them. I'm a fast reader, but I will process better when I am fully refreshed; not to mention retain the info and develop my own theories on the research more efficiently :apondering: :mischief:
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Translation of "The Century's Daughter", by Pat Barker.
Found it in the thrift-shop for €1
It's a good read.
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"Duma Key", Stephen King
7/10
Thereabouts, so far, yes.
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Acute Cannabinoids Impair Working
Memory through Astroglial CB1 Receptor
Modulation of Hippocampal LTD
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2012.01.037
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Acute Cannabinoids Impair Working
Memory through Astroglial CB1 Receptor
Modulation of Hippocampal LTD
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2012.01.037
Ah, those were the days. Cannabis and astroglide :zoinks:
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Some mystery about a murder on a "who dun it" fund raiser on a boat.
One of Peg Bracken's old books - forgot how good she is. Will post some of her stuff later
12 Steps and 12 Traditions
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I'm reading a pirated copy of a book on reduction techniques (chemistry that is), focusing on reduction of nitro compounds, as I have a certain beta-nitrostyrene that needs reducing to the corresponding amine. I just need to buy some solvents that are compatible with LAH to do it in.
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The Buddha In Your Mirror.
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Glossarium Latinum 8)
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Rereading The Stand.
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I decided to shelve all of my deep thought books and am reveling in mindless trashy stuff. Danielle Steele and Linda Collins. :green:
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Binding Promises
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Binding Promises
Can I make a suggestion?
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I have been reading a old book on oil fired burners for commercial and residential heating systems no reason other than curiosity
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Midnight Sun.
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The Coming Plague. A 600+ page book on the modern history of plague fighting.
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A series of short Star Trek stories.
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"Holy Cow" by Sarah MacDonald.
:asthing:
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Vaccae sunt :viking:
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Vaccae sunt :viking:
We don't even need a helmet, for the :viking: look.
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http://www.archive.org/stream/adventuresinradi01heve#page/98/mode/1up (http://www.archive.org/stream/adventuresinradi01heve#page/98/mode/1up)
Adventures in radioisotope research.
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Prom Dress by Lael Littke.
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The Cottage by Danielle Steele. Still in my trashy summer reading phase.
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The Litigators by Grisham. Summer trash :)
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XML-related papers.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying)
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^That's cheerful.
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And I'm reading "Exit Music" by Ian Rankin
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The Penny Tree by Holly Kennedy
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He's an asshole but the concept is interesting.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (again, about the 5th time)
The F-Plan Diet
The Low GI Diet
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Freer & Perdue, Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials & Questions (6th ed. 2012).
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (West, 2010-11 Educational ed.)
Glannon, Civil Procedure, Examples and Explanations (6th ed. Aspen, 2008).
Glannon, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure (2d ed. 2009).
Shreve & Raven-Hansen, Understanding Civil Procedure (4th ed. 2009).
Friedenthal, Kane & Miller, Hornbook on Civil Procedure (4th ed. 2005).
Knapp, Crystal & Prince, Contracts II (custom publishing) (2012).
Darby Dickerson, ALWD, Citation Manual (4th ed., Aspen Publishers 2010).
Helene S. Shapo, Marilyn R. Waler & Elizabeth Fajans, Writing and Analysis in the Law, (5th ed., Foundation Press 2008).
Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing, (3d ed., Aspen Publishers 2009).
Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff & Suzanne E. Rowe, Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press 2008).
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Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War (http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2012/11/fallout-shelter-designing-for.php#.UPR74GfheSo)
(http://we-make-money-not-art.com/wow/0imfalloutage.jpg)
I am getting the the last book in The Wheel Of Time series today or tomorrow also
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just flicking through the 'argos' book :headbang2:
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Picked up a book on music theory. Interesting.
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Academic journals about hate crimes, corporate market control methods, and terrorism. Mostly for a paper i'm writing, partially research for my buddies in the gun debate thread.
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Proofread a report written by a colleague.
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Watership Down
A Thomas Costain book on the three Edwards
A novel set before the War of the Roses
The Crimson Petal and the White
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Tightwad Gazette, Vol. 3
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^My mum read Watership Down. She said the characters called cars a funny name but I can't remember what it was.
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^My mum read Watership Down. She said the characters called cars a funny name but I can't remember what it was.
Hrududu
http://watershipdown.wikia.com/wiki/Lapine_Glossary (http://watershipdown.wikia.com/wiki/Lapine_Glossary)
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That's it! :)
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Aw, beat me to the punch. Hraka.
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Nothing, lately. Head not fit for it. It will come back.
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Crow Killer The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson on PPKs recommendation from a few weeks ago.
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A pirate ebook copy of the book 'the genus claviceps' by vladimir kren.
Secondhand, the book itself still costs over £100 usually, I can't afford to spend that to get the book when a free ebook copy is available.
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The Harry Potter series (again), Pioneer Women, some 12 step books and some cookbooks
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HP48 Insights, Part I
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Bounty
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'The Reason I Jump' Naoki Higashida
Written by a Japanese boy with autism. It was a Christmas present. The problem is I only started reading it this morning and I am nearly finished.
Dammit why don't people buy me longer lasting ppresents? :zoinks:
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It takes me about five six hours to read a 1000 pages novel :M
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'The Reason I Jump' Naoki Higashida
Written by a Japanese boy with autism. It was a Christmas present. The problem is I only started reading it this morning and I am nearly finished.
Dammit why don't people buy me longer lasting ppresents? :zoinks:
Perhaps someone will buy you a :vibe: next year. :zoinks:
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'The Reason I Jump' Naoki Higashida
Written by a Japanese boy with autism. It was a Christmas present. The problem is I only started reading it this morning and I am nearly finished.
Dammit why don't people buy me longer lasting ppresents? :zoinks:
Perhaps someone will buy you a :vibe: next year. :zoinks:
:vibe: are always a welcome gift.
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A book on the history of Springdale the area in Stamford where I grew up. So far I am only up to the American Revolution
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:viking:
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The 19th Wife
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Comprehensive organic functional group transformations II, vol. 5-amides. And something about electrolytic chemistry directed towards the formation of sodium and potassium metal. My yields of sodium via electrolysis have been poor thus far, so I am contemplating building a furnace, to heat retorts and using a carbothermic reduction process to produce Na from NaOH, distilling off the metal as it forms.
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Rereading "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
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Half Magic by Edward Eager
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
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"HTML5 - The Missing Manual"
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (for about the 12th time.)
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (for about the 12th time.)
You and my daughter both.
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Rereading Second Foundation.
Reading Linear Algebra - A Modern Introduction.
Going to read Classical Mechanics - The Theoretical Minimum.
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The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
Local library had a book sale, dropped this in the bag along with some Stephen King novels thinking I should become "enlightened" and try it.
I like it, a lot...yes, I know how it ends (actually I guessed as much before I cheated and peaked ahead)...but it's awesome.
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The Blue Girl by Charles deLint
Research Methods (two different books by different authors)
Child and Adolescent Development
My students force me to reread the textbooks by improperly citing the authors on spurious talking points.
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A truly bad Jeremy Clarkson biography I picked up at Heathrow. I was in a hurry and thought I was buying one of his Sunday Times collections.
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Articles about ADHD.
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Technical work stuff.
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Intensity Squared. It's this internet board I occasionally become obsessed with.
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Intensity Squared. It's this internet board I occasionally become obsessed with.
Good.
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So many posts. So little substance. :zoinks:
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Innocence by Dean Koontz
Statistics for People Who Hate Statistics (Class starts on Aug 4)
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"A Spy Among Friends" by Ben Macintyre, about Kim Philby.
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12 Drummers Drumming
The Proud Tower
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
B Is For Burglar
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Pam's HarvestCraft Wiki
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Add:
The Red Neck Guide to Trailer Park Life
C is for Corpse (finished B is for Burglar)
Enigma
How the Irish Saved Civilization (a re-read)
Finished 12 Drummers
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Add various work-related papers.
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The Foxfire Book, read bits and pieces before going straight through it this time
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This place. Some work stuff.
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Add to the list
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles
At 800+ pages it should give me a different viewpoint of the politics of the time and the Reformation. Most of what I've read has been about Elizabeth.
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Just finished "Al mijn vrienden zijn gek" by Sera Anstadt.
Started in both "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto and "The Island of the Colourblind" by Oliver Sacks.
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This place. Miscellaneous books.
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Just finished "Al mijn vrienden zijn gek" by Sera Anstadt.
Started in both "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto and "The Island of the Colourblind" by Oliver Sacks.
Kitchen is beautifully written.
The book "Al mijn vrienden zijn gek" (All my friends are crazy) still lingers. Not often that a book has an effect like that that long.
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Wouldn't mind reading that Oliver Sacks book. I like his writing.
Instead of a book I am reading articles on ADHD and internet addiction.
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Completely into spy stuff now, so "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John le Carré.
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The board.
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The board.
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LINGVA LATINA PARS 1.
Very funny. And I learned more in half an hour than I did in years in school.
Lit should come back. :blah: :blah:
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For only the second time in my life I gave up on a book. The first time was Joyce's Ulysses. This time it's The Enigma Code. Not all that interesting and I am virtually clueless about the technical matters as they are presented in the book.
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Programming Perl
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The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World
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Watching the English, by Kate Fox. I own the first edition of this book and just had to have the second when I spotted it at Waterstones today.
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His Dark Materials, by Pullman
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The Good Spy, by Kai Bird. Pretty good.
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The Wars of the Roosevelts
Fascinating, but every time I start to read something happens and I can only manage a few pages. Will definitely renew it if I don't finish it.
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The Stories of John Cheever.. one story at the time..
When I bought the book online I thought 'The Swimmer' (title of a story of his) would be in the book but.. it's not.
Shame..
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The Little House on the Prairie series with DD. A chapter a night.
The second book in the Outlander series for me on my own time.
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Alexander&Anne Shulgin's books TIHKAL and PIHKAL (tryptamines/phenethylamines I have known and loved' respectively. Also a PDF copy on the computer of the last book before Alexander 'sasha' shulgin died :(
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A History of the German Language
Thankfully, it's in English. It's the first book about a language I've found that isn't about English.
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There are lots of cool books about non-English languages but most bookstores don't carry them. You need to visit Foyles in London. Me, I can spend hours browsing their languages shelves. It's really dangerous, too. I always end up buying something.
I have this book about Standard Arabic that is on my to read list now. It didn't want to stay on the shelf when I left. :-[
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There are lots of cool books about non-English languages but most bookstores don't carry them. You need to visit Foyles in London. Me, I can spend hours browsing their languages shelves. It's really dangerous, too. I always end up buying something.
I have this book about Standard Arabic that is on my to read list now. It didn't want to stay on the shelf when I left. :-[
Don't get me started about Foyles. I went there once and almost hid out trying to be locked in overnight.
Surprisingly the book was from Goodwill Thrift. Also picked up a long book about campus newspaper humour published in 1955.
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Yeah, Foyles is the one place I visit every single time I'm in London. There are others--Waterstones at Piccadilly comes to mind--but I can't go back home without going there at least once.
Books are good for the soul.
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Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
wow. I read that years ago when I was looking for books set in Japan. It is poetic.
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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book
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The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack. It's a Deep Space Nine book but set in Cardassia.
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"So, Anyway" by John Cleese
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The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs
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Dangerous? it doesn't matter what KIND of book store. ALL book stores are spesh-traps.
Book stores are the autistic version of those UV-emitting electrically charged units mounted on walls to turn unwelcome, pestiferous winged arthropods into crispy critters. Only without the being electrically burnt alive and reduced to a smoking splodge of flash-broiled insect guts.
They lure you with their siren-song, they happily let you in alright, but once they have you in their scheming, malicious, machiavellian clutches, they don't let go again unless beaten senseless with a well-loaded cash card and a big sack full of heavy books.
Here's something you might like, or rather, will fucking LOVE.
Ever heard of library genesis? it's sort of like what sci-hub is for grabbing journal reference articles bypassing the paywalls used by the evil Big Publishing lot, a plague upon their houses be. For foul, moneygrubbing sleazy bastards like Elsevier (one of the really big journal publishing houses) employ such practices as to have drawn the absolute rage of not just end consumers who wish to read their hosted articles, but of universities, of the very scientists who have done the hard work, and then paid for their peer-reviewed articles to be published by these whore-born rat bastard slime.
They are so big and wealthy and powerful (the wealth coming from their ripping off everybody but themselves) that unis and other institutions more or less have no choice but to comply and subscribe to access to their journals, which costs them MASSIVE sums of money, more than the unis can afford, many can't afford to pay for them, but they've no choice, since to get recognition and scientists have their published papers, if it isn't in a prestigious, well known journal, probably hosted by these evil monstrous twats, and is instead, in some minor backwater journal from some tiny and better behaved, less unethical publishing house, it'll far less likely ever be read.
The unis pay for the subscription to the journal, the scientists themselves must pay a large amount per article, and even then, they are themselves, charged monkey money to merely view their end published article as it appears within the journal, quite possibly out of their own pocket.
As for end-users like myself, if I paid for journal access, not a subscription to an entire journal, I couldn't afford that if I WAS willing to put money in their pockets, it often costs upwards of $40-60 for a mere 24 hour access permission, more still, if one wishes to print a copy, for one, single, lonesome article.
And to put that into perspective, say I'm beginning a new project, not running a reaction I've run before, and have my own personal lab notes to go off, and experience to rely on, but entirely new, working out a synthesis from scratch, by picking a target molecule to start the very first step with, making or buying this, or extracting it from something I can either grow, or harvest in the wild, I'd then have to design each step in the reaction, likely as not look up exactly how to make certain reagents I both haven't got right then and there on my lab shelves/cupboards/fridge (I've a separate fridge for keeping chemicals, they don't go in the fridge that is for keeping foodstuffs cold), how to make the reagent or solvent, how to make the things I need to make it with, possibly how to make those, then to design each single step in what could be anything from 'add one to the other, heat for a while, filter and dry' to 15 steps or more, each requiring my making or buying the various reagents needed if there be any I haven't got, and that I need journal access to do so.
Meaning that could be between one or two articles, that'd each cost me $40-60 for just 24 hours permission to merely look at it, without being able to print it or save a copy, per article, per step in my synthesis from starting material(s) to final, cleaned, distilled, purified product, tested for purity and recrystallized, vacuum distilled, steam distilled, acid/base extraction or all of the above until it is clean to my standards.
If that's a 10 or even 20-step synthesis, requiring not hours, not days, not weeks but months of work, day in, day out, until my goal is reached and I have what I wished to make in a bottle, ready to be used for whatever it is created to be used for, that could mean 10+ papers PER STEP.
Just imagine how much that'd cost. I simply couldn't afford it if I WAS willing to put money into the coffers of those evil greedy shitbags............I don't HAVE that kind of income, and if I did, it'd all end up spent on reading journals, and then I'd have nothing left to buy and-or make the reagents, buy the solvents, any glassware needed I haven't got already, never mind money for food and drink.
Formerly I had to rely as did many people with no journal access through uni or other research institutions, on the good-will of those people within the private individual chemist communities, both clandestine chemist fora, and non-clandestine chemistry fora, to request the article, wait however long and just hope someone among us has access and can download a copy, upload to the forum for all to benefit from, and of course the various techniques developed by us private lab owners who practice chemistry and biology/biotech because we enjoy it.
Now there is sci-hub.tw and other sci hub addresses that, despite elsevier and their foul allies launching court action after court action, forcing domain names to be taken down, the creator, she's based in kazakhstan, and basically the courts can shut individual domain names down, but they can do nothing to her, personally, they cannot stop her just registering several more addresses for sci-hub the moment one gets shut down. Basically she can't be touched, and she knows it, and pretty much gives the big greedy corporate paywalling, closed-access moneygrubbing publisher bastards two fingers and a bag of flaming dog muck on their metaphorical doorstep, pissing through their letterbox and demanding they go measure how far it went across the carpet :D
A game of whackamole is being played, although now far, far more slowed down, addresses are taken down, rarely, I think by now the big greedy shits know that they might kill one address, but they know too that they cannot touch sci-hub's creator, that they'll take an address down, only for it to be replaced within a day or two, maybe even in hours. It's a game they cannot win. And even those WITH subscriptions through unis are using sci-hub out of principle to help force more open access (free access to full texts)
There is also library genesis. This is a library for books, of all kinds, not only scientific, but MILLIONS of books, scanned and uploaded by the people who own them, for free, so people can have open access to books too.
Some people might have to use TORbrowser, to bounce the connection through other countries to access the site, because there are court orders forcing ISPs to block access to libgen utterly. TOR bypasses this as easily as a flamethrower can bypass a wall of tissue paper.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ This is the address. If ISPs in your country block it due to court orders, then just use TORbrowser, connect via another country. Bingo, job done.
Literally millions of books, all free to DL.
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"Mindhunter" - the book that was the basis of the Netflix series. Pretty good.
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A long wad of pages culled from an online scan of an old, old chemistry text, annoyingly, lacking the last and first pages now, so I can't find the fucking title, it's on sulfur chlorides, bromides, and oxyhalides. Along with some stuff on phosphorus trichloride and tribromide.
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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. It's really good so far.
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Free Kindle books and Pinterest for the most part.
Started The Kitchen House paperback for reading while out the house.
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The alice network? sounds like some kind of sci-fi, ?
Whats it about? I like my scifi.
I'm reading a clandestine chemist's forum. And about to pose a couple of questions about a process I understand well enough, just want to know how a couple of other ones perform when they are each performed equally well by the operator performing the task, and stacked up against each other in a controlled comparison.
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The alice network? sounds like some kind of sci-fi, ?
Whats it about? I like my scifi.
It was so bloody good. 500 pages and I finished it in under 3 days. They need to make this one into a movie. It's a historical book about the women who were spies during the first and second world war. Some fact, some fiction. But the Alice Network was a real thing as were some of the characters in the book.
"In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.
1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose.
Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads."
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Finished The Alice Network and just started Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris
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Finished The Alice Network and just started Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris
Is this on a Kindle (or equivalent) or real books?
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Finished The Alice Network and just started Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris
Is this on a Kindle (or equivalent) or real books?
I'm reading them in paperback (from the library) but they would be available on Kindle too I would think.
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Finished Lands of Lost Borders and then Crazy Rich Asians after that. Now I'm reading Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan.
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Reading "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward. Scary.
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Reading "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward. Scary.
That has gotten really good reviews. But I won't read it because it's too scary :P
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And living in a country next door to the jaundiced jerkoff isn't?
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And living in a country next door to the jaundiced jerkoff isn't?
Indeed. That too.
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Reading "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward. Scary.
That has gotten really good reviews. But I won't read it because it's too scary :P
It's scary because it pretty much confirms what you already know instinctively by reading the news but also because it goes to a lot more detail and you end up thinking how on earth someone who's so utterly clueless and bigoted could be elected to begin with.
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Reading "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward. Scary.
That has gotten really good reviews. But I won't read it because it's too scary :P
It's scary because it pretty much confirms what you already know instinctively by reading the news but also because it goes to a lot more detail and you end up thinking how on earth someone who's so utterly clueless and bigoted could be elected to begin with.
Exactly. I can only take one scary at a time and I don't feel like inviting more in. lol
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Even dogs and cats typically pick somebody else's lawn to crap on. In Trump's case I've no such confidence.
And I wonder...am I the only one, who when he first heard 'ivanka', assumed it was Putin's behind-the-scenes personal opionion of Trump?
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:lol1:
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Just finished The Gold Bag, a murder mystery published in 1911. Wouldn't go out of my way to read more of her stuff, although she was popular.
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Just beginning a re-read of a book on DNA and it's discovery, emerging technologies (although somewhat before the CRISPr/CAS9 era admittedly, but still interesting), learning a few things about viral vectors and their construction (a facility I'd rather like to add to the lab, tailor-made replication-deficient virus engineering, basically viruses, of a species chosen for the cell lines one would wish to deliver genes to (when viral vectors are used, a process known as 'transfection'), the physical structure, capsid if present, proteins which allow binding to cell receptors are left intact, but the viral genome is surgically excised using the appropriate enzymes, and the DNA or RNA one wishes to introduce, spliced in, the replication ability of the virus is knocked out, so each single virion can only perform a single cycle of infection, essentially, tailor-made to act as syringes at the nanoscale, for work on transgenic organisms. I can think of quite a few such projects I'd love a crack at....start simple, say, simple psychedelic tryptamines, DMT, found in many plants, transfect the genes to produce it into a non-toxigenic lab workhorse strain of E.coli as used in genetics labs worldwide, or even Saccharhomyces, the same yeast used for brewing and baking, along with an antibiotic resistance gene and ideally, fluorescent reporter gene to allow culling the portion of a cell line not stably expressing the desired genes, by introducing the antibiotic the resistance gene allows survival of, which then wipes out the non-engineered, non-desired population, test for fluorescence to double-check, and of course, using antibiotics to which infectious pathogens are now commonly resistant to anyway, or long, long abandoned ones, or specialist types, etc. not usable or used in humans due to toxicity, then grow a colony of DMT-producing E.coli and just acid-base extract it from filtered fermentation tank broth.
Then more ambitious projects, like the genes coding for the assembly of the phenanthrene alkaloids from poppies, morphine, thebaine, oripavine which are of most synthetic use, and more complex still, ergot alkaloids in a stable expression system rather than working with the fiddly, uppity, capricious little wee bastards that are ergot fungi themselves (and they really, REALLY are that), that provide LSD precursors.
Not to mention research into novel antibiotics and such other good causes.
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Also part way through 'murderous contagion', by mary dobson, a historical and present-day analysis of humans (and our simian ancestors) relationship with plagues and Plagues (by the capitalization, I intend to denote not A plague but The Plague, bubonic/pneumonic/septicaemic plague, as caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, The Plague, the black plague)
Along with many others, from smallpox to cholera, it's proving a most interesting read.
(no, btw, if anyone was thinking along those lines, I've no desire to put both fields of interest together, to weaponize any organisms, although a HIGHLY selective, tailored organism that would infect ONLY the Trump family and cause them to produce huge quantities of beta-carotene, and turn them even more orange than the wotsit in chief already is would be hilarious. But no, my desired targets are nonpathogenic organisms which produce things man may desire in fermentation tanks, not new plagues and viral weapons like 'veepox' or 'ebolapox' such as were dreamed up by the russian biopreparat [veepox being a hybrid between smallpox virus and venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, ebolapox being something on a similar line, and is exactly what it sounds like it might be]
The kind of things I wish to be experimenting with either would only infect plant hosts, if they infect any organism at all, infect bacteria, using phages, (viruses which infect bacteria) or simply eat nutrient broth, rather than any degree of pathogenicity. E.coli might have a bad name among the public at large, but to a geneticist, it's bread and butter, since only certain specific serovars and strains have pathogenic potential, most E.coli can no more sicken you than the lettuce it might have snuck onto one's plate with)
Edit-and an interesting old paper regarding dinickel boride as a catalyst for borohydride reductions of phenylnitropropenes which APPEARS to suggest nickel boride can be employed for direct reduction of P2NPs to amphetamines, which seems to fly in the face of what the clandestine chemist brotherhood of Bees has been finding in the case of nickel boride. Although it's known to reduce ketoximes in such a system, and likely as not, going from the use of copper boride, Ni2B is AFAIK only able to reduce the phenylnitroalkAnes not phenylnitroalkEnes. Will have to experiment more since I've plenty nickel acetate, as well as borohydride, and more 1-phenyl-2-beta-nitropropene than I know what to do with.
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I finished Small Acts of Courage, and now I'm reading All We Ever Wanted by Emily Griffith.
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Reading a rather..well...unusual, to say the very least, if not outright WEIRD, paper..it's on modification of the reduction abilities as concern substrates, of sodium borohydride (NaBH4), NaBH4 is one of the most user-friendly hydride reducing agents around in chemistry. Metal hydrides of such nature tend to be..rather volatile, with a tendency towards extremely violent reactions (indeed often explosively so) with water, and have to be used, for the most of them, in apparatus which has been immediately flame-dried before it's used, to make absolutely CERTAIN that even the tiniest trace of atmospheric moisture has been removed from any surface that contacts the reagent, to avoid a fire, or worse, which is liable to be especially ugly considering many are used in either diethyl ether or THF (tetrahydrofuran, a cyclic ether type solvent, highly flammable, volatile, although unlike ether it will dissolve in water to form a solution), both VERY flammable solvents indeed; as in 'one spark and you've got yourself a huge fireball or explosion' kind of flammable.
Common ones like LAH (LiAlH4, or to chemists just 'LAH or 'lith-al', lithium aluminium hydride) for example, one must flame dry the glassware itself, at least baked out in a hot oven for a significant time and heat for quite some time before using suitable grease and putting them together hot, attaching drying tubes to prevent moisture suckback from the atmosphere during cooling or during the reaction, as well as sodium hydride, potassium hydride and others, as well as the solvents used all having to be first dried with conventional drying agents, sitting over them for a long time, then distilling them off fresh drying agent, THEN drying by boiling them with chips of sodium or potassium metal, for as long as two days (48 hour reflux over potassium is common), and finally third-stage desiccation using advanced tools like molecular sieves, engineered synthetic zeolite ceramics, which are REALLY neat for all kinds of uses, which have a nanoporous structure, the pore sizes being controlled to within single angstrom (atomic widths) increments, so as to be able to be 'tuned' to be able to selectively remove one liquid from another, sucking up anything smaller in molecular size than the pores, anything else, can't fit and is left behind. Even capable of removing methanol from water or from ethanol if the right kinds are used. They aren't quick but my god are they ever thorough. Iv'e got some 3A molecular sieves and they are wonderful-gentle, and being basically high-tech pottery, they can be made as beads, that can just be filtered out with great ease, like BB pellets made of ceramic pottery), and after the distillation after prolonged reflux over potassium, under an inert atmosphere for several days, then several days to a week over molecular sieves to abstract the last traces of water; with the hydrides themselves being handled in an inert gas-purged, dry, sealed glove-bag or glovebox to prevent them catching fire, whilst they are weighed out, etc. and the reductions conducted wholly under an atmosphere of helium or argon.
Borohydride isn't like that at all, it's really nice to work with. Not in the slightest pyrophoric, the solvents don't need to be dried to within the bounds of godly perfection, the glassware doesn't need to be anything but ordinarily dry, hell some reactions can actually be performed IN water or other protic polar solvents, or mixtures of them. NaBH4 can be used in water for some things, in methanol for others, although it does decompose at a moderate rate in MeOH, but not in ethanol or isopropanol which thus make excellent solvents for it, wonderful shelf life (YEARS, even in powder form, although the NaBH4 I have, came in the form of tablets, pressed just like pharmaceutical pills, each one conveniently containing exactly 1 gram of sodium borohydride so the decreased exposed surface area will make it last even longer)
It isn't as outright powerful as some of the other hydrides, but there are a multitude of other chemicals and catalysts that are usable alongside it, such as metal nanoparticles, nickel boride, cobalt boride, various Lewis acids, copper (II) chloride, molybdenum trioxide and others, forming other borohydride derivatives, altering the activity of the borohydride, or forming metal borides in-situ, or even really neat catalytic systems such as metallic copper or nickel crystals of between just 1-3 nanometers in size, surrounded by a permeable 'cage' complex of the metal boride with various surface alterations such as differing amounts of sodium borate on the surface of the cage material that are formed in-situ from borohydride and additives, and are used as co-reducing agents in hydrogen-donor solvents like isopropyl alcohol for catalytic transfer hydrogenation. A really neat lot of other borohydrides such as triethylborohydride, triacetoxyborohydride, cyanoborohydride with cyanides, etc. are also used and can be modified thus in similar sorts of tricks to alter what they can and cannot reduce.
There's been rather a clandestine chemistry revolution somewhat late this year, a bit of an early xmas gift from the gods of chemistry really, in-situ formation of a caged copper crystallite nanoparticle-copper boride system used alongside sodium borohydride as well as made with it, which allows one to eschew mercury salts and amalgam reductions, something I find nasty to use, and don't like to see because a lot of people don't know what to do rightly when getting rid of their mercury contaminated slops, but are still popular because of their simplistic chemical requirements, aluminium kitchen foil and mercuric chloride or other mercury (II) salts and substrate, solvent and acid, often GAA,.
I can see whats going on there, reduction of the copper salt, CuCl2 to form the boride complex nanostructured catalyst, by analogy with the same from nickel salts, although nickel (II) acetate is better than NiCl2, in that case as chloride ions can poison nickel catalysts of some kinds as lead or sulfur do to precious metal platinum group element based catalysts; and deactivate them.
But here I've been reading a paper which talks of reducing nitroalkenes to aminalkanes directly, using sodium borohydride and of all the damnably weird things, ammonium sulfate!. No metal there to form a boride, and even the researchers have no idea of a possible mechanism, but apparently they did it and it worked. There's a lot of people who want to reduce conjugated phenylnitroalkenes to phenylalkylamines, such as 1-phenyl-2-beta-nitropropene to amphetamine, previously often done using Al/Hg amalgam reduction, leading to more use of mercury by more people either not responsible with the wastes, not thorough enough in workup and purification of products to prevent mercury carryover into the final product.
This boon we had, it was addition of a solution of copper (II) chloride, cupric chloride, to NaBH4, and use of this to reduce not phenylnitroalkenes, but the corresponding phenylnitroalkanes, having reduced the double bond of the nitroalkenes first, using sodium borohydride alone, unmodified, then extraction and aqueous washing of the nitroalkane, followed by reduction of the nitro group to the amine, with the modified copper boride nanoparticle composite-NaBH4 system giving good yields of amphetamine, as well as some substituted amphetamines, although it also removes halogens from aromatic rings, meaning that certain precursor substrates are incompatible unless the halogenation is carried out AFTER forming the substituted amphetamine's close relative with hydrogen in place of the halogen and utilizing electronic and steric effects to serve as directing groups to make the halogen go where you want it to be in your end product.
This paper, its weird...ammonium sulfate? what the devil? I can't even begin to wonder...especially as it was confirmed explicitly that diborane was NOT being formed as an intermediate and reacting in-situ (diborane, B2H6, the boron analog of ethylene, where boron replaces carbon in ethylene gas, is a highly poisonous, violently pyrophoric gas with apparently, a truly heinous stench too. Never smelled it, luckily for me, although I have once encountered one of the pentaboranes, accidentally, in a trace quantity, and smelled it, making me panic and run like hell to don my mask in clean air. And it did indeed smell foul, absolutely STANK of rotting dairy produce, like rancid yoghurt or putrid milk. Vile, and poisonous as hell, and catches fire on contact with air too. They tested for its being an intermediate, as things could be reduced that diborane cannot reduce and thus it is known NOT to be the responsible ultimate intermediate reaction product of the borohydride when used with ammonium sulfate.
BUT....ammonium salts....what on earth is going on there. They claim it'll reduce conjugated nitroalkenes to aminoalkanes. Bears more research certainly given how cheap and easy to buy ammonium sulfate is, its used in the multi-megatons annually worldwide as fertilizer, dirt cheap, and totally unsuspicious, and of course, ammonia gas and sulfuric acid will make it, if one wished to do so with no difficulty)
As for what the bloody hell is going on though, I really can't even begin to guess, unless it HAD been diborane, but it has been proved that B2H6 is NOT the active reducing species in the sodium borohydride-ammonium sulfate combination. Unless some funky metathesis and weird ammonium borohydride type species is being generated with new and hitherto unexplored potentials....I really do not know. But the practical side warrants exploration and then some.
And I'm more than in a position to do so. I can get my hands on more P2NP than I know what to do with (well I sure know what can be done with it, vis a vis amphetamine, meth, N-ethylamphetamine etc. but I mean, as in 'practically got it coming out of my ears, swimming in the stuff', kilos wouldn't be a problem if I wished to make that much)
So I think some research is warranted there. I want to know if it works as described, and on nitroalkEnes as opposed to needing pre-reduction to the nitroalkanes (NaBH4 will reduce to the nitroalkane, but while it'll reduce the double bond it won't reduce the nitro group; not that it's difficult, once the double bond has been taken care of, the resulting 1-phenyl-2-beta-nitropropane can be reduced simply by using a slurry of fine iron dust in glacial acetic acid or strong hydrochloric acid with a catalytic quantity of ferric chloride)
Squirrelier and squirrelier it gets....ammonium sulfate, whatever next?
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Finished All We Ever Wanted.
Then I read The Last Girl by Nadia Murad (amazing book. She's Yazidi and she was captured by ISIS).
Finished that and now I'm reading From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon.
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Finished From Sand and Ash days ago. Currently Reading Keeping My Sisters Secret.
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My daughter bought me four "Dark Tower" books I had not yet read.
Going in to them over the coming weeks.
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My daughter bought me four "Dark Tower" books I had not yet read.
Going in to them over the coming weeks.
I love when I have a series I'm into.
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It has been a few years since I read any Stephen King. I have a great deal of catching up to do.
I used to sit on the edge of my seat, awaiting the next King book and I was all caught up. Then we had kids.
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It has been a few years since I read any Stephen King. I have a great deal of catching up to do.
I used to sit on the edge of my seat, awaiting the next King book and I was all caught up. Then we had kids.
It's my one thing I refuse to give up. Last year I read 53 books and I'm aiming for at least 50 this year. Reading is my happy place but I do that in place of tv and movies.
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"All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
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Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly was a good read. About concentration camp victims who were used for a medical experiment and their lives afterward. Not too shocking or sappy. A story about humans and humanity.
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Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly was a good read. About concentration camp victims who were used for a medical experiment and their lives afterward. Not too shocking or sappy. A story about humans and humanity.
I need to look that one up.
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Last night I finished I'm Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones.
Today I started My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Finished My Sister the Serial Killer and now I'm reading The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis. This will be my 50th book read this year. :nerdy:
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Stephen King, The Outsider
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Defining Autism by Emily and Manuel Casanova. Delves into the workings of the brain. I'm up to the description of conditions that can co-occur with autism.
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Nothing. My brain is hyper and I can't do more than a page at most.
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Nothing. My brain is hyper and I can't do more than a page at most.
Same. Normally I move through books very quickly but the last few days I can manage maybe 3 pages before my skin crawls. I can't focus on anything for long. It's annoying the crap out of me.
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Still have that problem and it's no fun. :(
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I was determined to finish the last 30 pages of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Took bloody well forever since i normally read so quickly. That makes my 50th book complete for the year. 50 is always my goal and anything beyond that is a bonus.
Just started Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. So far, I'm really liking it even if I can only read it in small portions right now.
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^I have that book but it's still on my to read list.
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^I have that book but it's still on my to read list.
I'm a few chapters in and I can already tell that it's going to be a favourite. You'll see a ton of yourself in her words
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So they say. I think I was recommended that book. Can't remember who, though.
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So they say. I think I was recommended that book. Can't remember who, though.
I'm finding I keep having to put it down because just reading about the level of extroversion that is required in some institutions (Harvard Business School for example) is making ME feel physically exhausted! I have no idea that at HBS you basically do everything in groups from sun up to sundown. Study groups early in the morning. All classes have 90 students, debates and constant interaction and you're judged constantly about classroom level participation and if you don't speak up enough and in a confident way you're docked. It's frowned upon to go back to your apartment for lunch because of course you have to go to the Spangler to have lunch with everyone else and don't forget that after classes you're expected to regularly go out until late at night to have drinks with your classmates. It's this constant rotation of socialization and networking over and over and over again and you're expected to perform well in all those areas because that's the kind of executives they want to turn out at graduation. I felt ill because I simply cannot imagine being "on" so much.
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Well, I'm peopled out after a week in the office.
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Natural History magazine.
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Still can't read more than a few pages, tops.
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The Scent of Darkness by Margot Berwin. Shelving the Quiet book for right now. It's too deep for me to be able to really absorb at the moment.
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A biography of Katherine Hepburn
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Dragon's Kin. It's a Pern novel by Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd. I'm already halfway through it and I started it yesterday afternoon. That's helped by trying to stay cool today in front of the fan.
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Dragon's Kin. It's a Pern novel by Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd. I'm already halfway through it and I started it yesterday afternoon. That's helped by trying to stay cool today in front of the fan.
I love, love, love when you can lose yourself in a good book
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I have been over (for the fifth time) one hundred seventeen PDFs which are related to my next JBL Studio Monitor build.
Most of that is graphic, so it not so much reading as "taking it all into your soul."
I hope to have this project begun by spring. Getting the proper lumber is a long process where I live. No Marine or Baltic plywood available to me, unless I order in advance, which I have already done, but the delivery time is absurdly long.
Late January for an order than went in in November.
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For real reading, I have kind of paused a bit, but I am in the midst of "The Andromeda Strain Evolution" which was published posthumously by the staff of Michael Crichton's publishing company.
I am kind of a Crichton fan.
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I've read a few Michael Chrichton books. Mostly his medical ones.
Now reading another Pern book; Red Star Rising.
I would like a dragon.
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Still trying to decide out of my book pile! :GA:
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I finished Scent of Darkness. Very dark and twisty. I really enjoyed it although I definitely had no idea of what I was getting into when I started reading it but I'd recommend it.
Just about to start True Crime Addict by James Renner
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The latest Smithsonian Magazine.
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I've read a few Michael Chrichton books. Mostly his medical ones.
Now reading another Pern book; Red Star Rising.
I would like a dragon.
McCaffery was the first "fantasy" author I ever got my wife to read. I had several Pern books lying around and usually kept an older one next to the bed. One day she asked about it and I gave her a half assed description. She got curious.
Before that, all she ever read was older classics. She absolutely despised my obsession with Shakespeare though, which went on for about three years. She was more interested in "To Kill A Mockingbird" and such as that. Things that I had read before I got to high school.
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Rock and Gem magazine
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Reading Harry Potter to the kid, age doesn't matter,readi g to and being read to can be great at any age.
Rereading Duncton Wood, after a very long time. It's still awesome.
Reading a book about a type of divination, the reading of ladypurses. It's intriguing. Lots of mayhaps, coincidences, asking of questions, cold reading, combined with ethics. I can see how this might work really well. Just like any open and honest conversation can be wholesome. But with the contents of the purse as metaphors or subjects to anchor the talk.
So far, I really like it.
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A book about New England Earthquakes in history.
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Been doing a lot of sciencey reading and just generally dodging where the tangents intersect points along the massive sphere of what I think of as my brain, but ...
I have begun a conscious effort to re-explore all the Larry Niven works.
I had only known about seven of "his laws."
I found this on wiki, yesterday, but shit!! Check it out. You might have to understand the universe in which he writes to get some of his rules.
His rules:
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Never throw shit at an armed man.
Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
Never fire a laser at a mirror.
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
F × S = k. The product of Freedom and Security is a constant. To gain more freedom of thought and/or action, you must give up some security, and vice versa.
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
It is easier to destroy than create.
Any damn fool can predict the past.
History never repeats itself.
Ethics change with technology.
There Ain't No Justice. (often abbreviated to TANJ)
Anarchy is the least stable of social structures. It falls apart at a touch.
There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.
The ways of being human are bounded but infinite.
The world's dullest subjects, in order:
Somebody else's diet.
How to make money for a worthy cause.
Special Interest Liberation.
The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently.
Niven's corollary: The gene-tampered turkey you're talking to isn't necessarily one of them.
Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law: Never waste calories.
There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
in variant form in Fallen Angels as "Niven's Law: No cause is so noble that it won't attract fuggheads."[5]
No technique works if it isn't used.
Not responsible for advice not taken.
Old age is not for sissies.
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Just started We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter last night.
"It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.
As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere."
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Reading this board.
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I think it is interesting how Niven co-wrote with some individuals who were not actual writers, but scientists in other fields, with wild ideas.
According to his website there are several works in varying stages still unfinished. Even some work begun with Jerry Pournelle before his death. Can not wait to re-read "Oath Of Fealty." I feel that one was one of his best, even if it was co-written.
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A biography of Carrie Fisher.
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A biography of Carrie Fisher.
Ha! I just started Wishful Drinking tonight (the book, not the act itself) :lol1:
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The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien. It's a true story and super creepy in the way she's controlled by her parents.
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A long way to go yet for me.
I have avoided reading in the order I discovered Niven. I have gone back to the beginning and I am reading forward, from his early career.
Discovering things I had missed.
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Roosevelt and the Royals.......about the history and friendship between FDR and the US and the British Royal family from post WWI until his death.
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Still nothing.
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Still nothing.
That makes me sad. I hope it passes for you sooner vs later
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Still nothing.
That makes me sad. I hope it passes for you sooner vs later
Thanks, I appreciate it.
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Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
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14 pages into Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson and I realized I need to take that on at another time. He's super wordy in a run on sentence kind of way and it takes him forever to get to the point and I don't have the patience for it right now. It's really deep and thought provoking. Will return it to the library for now.
Currently reading The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
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"Crime in Progress", about the origins of the so-called Steele dossier. Good read, so far.
And yes, I'm finally able to read more than a page again. :woohoo:
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"Crime in Progress", about the origins of the so-called Steele dossier. Good read, so far.
And yes, I'm finally able to read more than a page again. :woohoo:
:dance: It's a Christmas Miracle :santa:
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The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I've had it for years in hard cover but just never read it.
Odeon, I may understand your reading woes. After I finished uni, I was all read out. Sooooo much reading I did while I was there, my brain had had enough of it. It's only in recent months that I have started reading again and actually enjoying it. I'm not as quick as I once was though.
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The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I've had it for years in hard cover but just never read it.
Odeon, I may understand your reading woes. After I finished uni, I was all read out. Sooooo much reading I did while I was there, my brain had had enough of it. It's only in recent months that I have started reading again and actually enjoying it. I'm not as quick as I once was though.
Honestly I don't know. I sometimes think it's the ADD but it could be any number of things.
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Still going with the Niven works.
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"Agent Running in the Field" by John Le Carre.
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A biography of Lita Ford. She was in the and "The Runaways" back in the day.
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Taking a break from Niven, after finding a Tom Clancy at the local church sale I had not yet read. It was one of his final and somehow, I had not read it.
"Against All Enemies" will not take long. It is truly a page turner.
I also found a stash of old hand tools at that sale. Nothing spectacular, just some old craftsman's hard used tools. Lots of character!
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Just finished reading a biography of Jorma Kaukonen, a founder of the original Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Now I'm reading a Bio of Dusty Springfield.
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Reading and editing a whitepaper.
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Born To The Purple - historical fiction about Constantinople.
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Anton Chekov Short Stories
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Some REH S&S fantasy tales.....good escapist tales.
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Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Was 3/4 of the way through another book which I had borrowed electronically from the library and just as I was at the good part, the library yanked it back. I was reading far more slowly than usual because I was sick so I didn't realize that the due date was so close. Now I've got to wait until it's available again because it had a wait list. Bah.
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A book of short stories by Robert E. Howard.
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Born To The Purple - historical fiction about Constantinople.
Got about 1/3 of the way through it and deleted it. It read like a young adult novel.
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Back to finishing up all the Niven.
I can recommend all the Clancy works.
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Was 3/4 of the way through another book which I had borrowed electronically from the library and just as I was at the good part, the library yanked it back. I was reading far more slowly than usual because I was sick so I didn't realize that the due date was so close. Now I've got to wait until it's available again because it had a wait list. Bah.
The whole concept of a waitlist and restricted checkouts for a library ebook just seems bizarre. Big publishing needs to dream up a marketing model based on yearly royalties and/or charges per checkout.
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Was 3/4 of the way through another book which I had borrowed electronically from the library and just as I was at the good part, the library yanked it back. I was reading far more slowly than usual because I was sick so I didn't realize that the due date was so close. Now I've got to wait until it's available again because it had a wait list. Bah.
The whole concept of a waitlist and restricted checkouts for a library ebook just seems bizarre. Big publishing needs to dream up a marketing model based on yearly royalties and/or charges per checkout.
Agreed. I get that libraries only get access to X number of "copies", that they pay for, even if it's digital, but there's times when the wait list is months long on a digital copy which is ridiculous. I can understand a physical copy which takes time to be physically passed around and I don't want to see digital content obliterate physical content (I'm a purist at heart). But if I can't get a physical copy, I will resort to digital and they really need to make it more accessible.
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, by Rick Reilly. Hilarious.
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I get that libraries only get access to X number of "copies"
A digital book should not be counted in "copies".
:hitler:
I'm a purist of a different sort. :LOL:
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Reading this board.
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Still plugging away on The Autobiography of Henry VIII with Notes by his fool Will Somer. It got lost in the mess in the car. At least I only have 300 pages (out of 900) to go.
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The latest Rock and Gem magazine.
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Finished Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple and about to start a Nicholas Spark novel because I don't want anything deep. It's called Two By Two
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Just finished another Star Trek book.
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Back to reading Commander in Cheat. Was at a conference and had little time to read anything beyond the conference proceedings.
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Finished Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks (it made me cry) and now about 70% through The Invention of Wings by Susan Monk. The book the library yanked back digitally before I was done so I'm picking up where I left off.
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A biography of Ty Cobb, a hall of fame baseball player from the beginnings of baseball in the 20th century.
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Not sure. I just finished a book and have several options.
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Finished The Invention of Wings by Susan Monk Kidd and now reading the The Power of Kindness Piero Ferrucci. It's a psych book about the ways science has proven that our brains are naturally hardwired to be kind and what that looks like.
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The latest Smithsonian Magazine.
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A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carre.
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A biography of the WWE wrestler "Kane", who is now a "libertarian" mayor of Knox County Tennessee. It's an interesting light read, fascinating in reading about the behind the scenes stuff of pro wrestling theatricality.
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Just finished Faulty Wiring by Suzanne Robins. It's a memoir about a woman my age who was diagnosed with MS and it talks about how she doesn't have visible symptoms, hers are all cognitive, so doctors don't take her seriously or think she's not as disabled as other people with physical disabilities related to MS. It's basically my own experience nearly word for word. Even all the symptoms she had leading up to getting diagnosed and how it's progressing in her body. It was such a relief to read.
Now I'm starting City Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert because I love the way she writes. I've been on the wait list at the library since it was first released and finally I get a digital copy.
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The complete Sherlock Holmes.
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I've had an involuntary break from reading the last few days but started again last night. Le Carre for me.
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Three things at once, in bits -
The Old Ways - Robert Macfarlane
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (started reading this last month... seems apt) :hide:
Deadly Class - comic book series, dark, violent and quite funny)
I'm a sporadic and disorganised reader these days.
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Finished City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert yesterday and started The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood today.
I'm already 3 books behind on where I need to be to make my goal of 50 books this year. My brain isn't cooperating on holding onto plot lines like it usually does. So frustrating.
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Three things at once, in bits -
The Old Ways - Robert Macfarlane
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (started reading this last month... seems apt) :hide:
Deadly Class - comic book series, dark, violent and quite funny)
I'm a sporadic and disorganised reader these days.
I read the "I am legend" book long ago. Still remember it vividly. Especially the main character taking suicide as his route out of a world gone to hell.
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"I Am Legend" is a terrific book. It's been years.
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"I Am Legend" is a terrific book. It's been years.
The Vincent Price movie was the closest to the story except for the ending. The others were just dreck.
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Finished Quintland and just started Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott. It's about Boudicca. It's super long though. Might shelve it to read something easier to process.
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A comprehensive update on Custer and the battle of Little Big Horn. During the US Indian wars of the 1870's. Custer was a fucking prick glory hound!
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The Practice Manual, a book about golf training.
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Shelved the Boudicca book for now. It's too deep to take on at the moment.
Currently reading The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. I heard her interview on NPR and it was fantastic. Borrowed the book (digitally) from the library. Really interesting background to it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-beautiful-sound-of-a-_b_710413 (ftp://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-beautiful-sound-of-a-_b_710413)
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Finished the Bailey book (it was really interesting) and now I'm reading Theft by Finding by David Sedaris.
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I've had a hard tome focussing enough to read books the last couple of days.
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A historical account of the battles in the then western parts of the young US during the War of 1812. Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana.
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Got back into reading yesterday evening. Woot.
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Finished Untamed this morning and this afternoon I started From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle.
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My geology magazines.
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Unworthy, a Star Trek Voyager book.
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"The Night Manager", John le Carré
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King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
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This old post on here:
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18185.90.html
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This old post on here:
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18185.90.html
Was Blint someone different from Bint?
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This old post on here:
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18185.90.html
Was Blint someone different from Bint?
Yes. Very different.
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Some online newspapers.
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Back to King Leopold's Ghost.
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Nothing at the moment but I do have some choices.
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Back to King Leopold's Ghost.
I read that a few years back. Horrifying. :zombiefuck:
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Back to King Leopold's Ghost.
I read that a few years back. Horrifying. :zombiefuck:
I just started and it's already making me angry.
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The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
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Still trying to figure out what to read.
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The Wall - John Lanchester
Nothing like dystopic fiction in These Challenging TimesTM :tinfoil:
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Almost done King Leopolds Ghost, it is a truly horrific account of a forgotten genocide. >:(
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Reading has been paused again. Can't bloody focus.
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A relationship advice that turned into a little bit of banter.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=387195
Yes, I know.... It's on WankPlanet, but hey. Couldn't resist. :orly:
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1984 by George Orwell
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Natural History Magazine.
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The Wizard Heir
Beware The Hidden Things
Various and assorted cookbooks trying to develop a meal plan
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Finished The Henna Artist and now back to trying to finish From The Ashes
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A relationship advice that turned into a little bit of banter.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=387195
Yes, I know.... It's on WankPlanet, but hey. Couldn't resist. :orly:
Jesus the new layout makes my eyes bleed :sick:
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A relationship advice that turned into a little bit of banter.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=387195
Yes, I know.... It's on WankPlanet, but hey. Couldn't resist. :orly:
Jesus the new layout makes my eyes bleed :sick:
you looked too, eh? :laugh: I had the same thought.
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I had to look too! :zombiefuck:
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Swear everytime I look on this whole new WP, I kinda end up with a wee bit of a headache.
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The latest Rock and Gem magazine.
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There's no way I'm clicking the WP link.
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There's no way I'm clicking the WP link.
Trust me, it's SSDD.
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Sorry but I gotta ask: "SSDD"?
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Same Shit Different Day?
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Same Shit Different Day?
I had to Google that one, never heard of it before.
But yea, it pretty much is the same shit different day.
From my understanding, nothing much has changed, same old crazies and over zealous mods. They didn't like me very much during the times I was active over there.
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I thought it was something about Social Security Disability benefits in the US. :laugh:
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Yep SSDD means "same shit different day." 8)
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:thumbup:
Still not reading anything.
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:thumbup:
Still not reading anything.
I looked at the title page and thought....."Why bother to read more?" My days of being a forum junkie are long done. That is when I joined several forums at the same time. :yawn: FB provides me far more enjoyment and soaks up most of my computer time anyway.
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It's the opposite for me. I much prefer here vs FB because nobody needs anything from me here.
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It's the opposite for me. I much prefer here vs FB because nobody needs anything from me here.
Same.
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It's the opposite for me. I much prefer here vs FB because nobody needs anything from me here.
Nobody needs anything form me here or on FB. But, people know me there far better than here.
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Both have their uses.
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true
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I have people I care about in both places. Some I have in both.
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I have people I care about in both places. Some I have in both.
Same. People have better boundaries here though. lol
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I have people I care about in both places. Some I have in both.
Same. People have better boundaries here though. lol
Sometimes! I prefer them on FB. But, that's just me! 8)
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Finally catching up on some books I bought ages ago - just burned greedily through Half A War - Joe Abercrombie (final part of the Shattered Sea trilogy. Great, bloody pseudo Viking fantasy); now on Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson :thumbup:
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Just started Upstairs At The Whitehouse: My Life with the First Ladies by J.B. West. He was the head Usher for the White house for 28 years making him responsible for everything that happened in the Executive house. All the repairs, appointments, meals, dinners, special events etc. He talks about the routines of The Roosevelts, Truman's, Eisenhowers, Kennedys, Johnsons and Nixons before he retired. Really interesting.
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Devices and Desires, Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
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Browsing the news.
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Browsing the news.
Is it still plastered with Coronavirus?
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Browsing the news.
Is it still plastered with Coronavirus?
And Trump.
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Finished Upstairs At The White House (so good) and tonight I'm starting Naked In The Zendo by Grace Schireson. Uptight Zen, Wild-Ass Zen and Enlightenment Wherever You Are.
I kinda love that they said Wild-Ass on the cover of a Buddhist book. Makes me laugh every time. Some of the best Zen Masters really don't take themselves too seriously which I also love.
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Finished Snow Crash yesterday, moved on to The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
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Heirs of the Founders, The epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster. The second generation of American Giants by H.W. Brands.
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Finished Naked at the Zendo and now I'm reading In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park. So far, it's really good.
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This board.
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Finished In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park. It was excellent.
Now I'm reading More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys. Really bloody good. I'm about 60% done and I don't want it to end.
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6 frigates, a book about the birth of the American navy after the revolution.
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Tales of the Dominion War. A Star Trek book.
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A book about the assassination of Olof Palme.
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Finished The Blade Itself, now partway through the second in the The First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged. Also Neal Stephenson - The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., a sci-fi time travel tale mixing magic and quantum physics. :nerdy:
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Finished the Alicia Keys book and now need something that isn't so deep. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. It will be cheesy I'm sure but I'm here for it.
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Finishing the Palme book.
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Joe Abercrombie - Last Argument of Kings (last in The First Law trilogy)
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Didn't like the fluff novel. Now reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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An AARP magazine (American Assoc. of retired persons)...............BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING.
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:lol1:
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A bio of Hans Rosling I picked up from somewhere.
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Just finished guzzling Ready Player One. Gaming, eighties/nineties nostalgia, cyberpunk - what's not to like? :2thumbsup:
Haven't seen the film. I don't think I want to tbh
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^The film is actually quite good if you like Spielberg.
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Cool, might give it a shot then. :thumbup:
Started Fahrenheit 451, pretty sure I've read it before but I can't remember so it must have been a fair while ago.
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This board. Some technical stuff.
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The Keith Richards bio....a pretty good read. He doesn't sugarcoat a damn thing, which I find refreshing.
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Finished Fahrenheit 451 and the big Neal Stephenson one. Now starting The Peripheral - William Gibson and rereading Slaughterhouse Five.
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Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
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For the severalth time, "Fountainhead," by Ayn Rand.
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Some of the posts here and there.
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Ian Rankin, "Even Dogs in the Wild"
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Just finished guzzling Ready Player One. Gaming, eighties/nineties nostalgia, cyberpunk - what's not to like? :2thumbsup:
Haven't seen the film. I don't think I want to tbh
I agree with Odeon. I loved the booked and I was surprised that I loved the movie as well. The oldest and I saw it in theatre and it was worth it.
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Noted. :thumbup:
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Had to switch to audible for awhile because of side effects preventing me from doing much reading ( :roar: ) so I begrudgingly started one last night. Pleasantly surprised that it wasn't overstimulating. The Path Made Clear by Oprah. Clips of various interviews she's done based on various topics. I find her voice soothing so it was a good intro to an audible book. I miss reading though.
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I hope you get rid of the side effects soon.
Still Ian Rankin for me. My attention span isn't what it should be.
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I say side effects because I haven't gotten the actual diagnosis yet but if it turns out being what the Neuro suspects it is, it's permanent. :thumbdn:
Finished The Path Made Clear, last night and it was really good. Next up on Audible is Process: The Writing Lives by Great Authors by Sarah Stodola
"Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature’s most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world’s most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process. Unlike how-to books that preach writing techniques or rules, Process puts the true methods of writers on display in their most captivating incarnation: within the context of the lives from which they sprang. Drawn from both existing material and original research and interviews, Stodola brings to light the fascinating, unique, and illuminating techniques behind these literary behemoths."
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:(
Sorry to hear it.
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Black Count, Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
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A biography of John Enwhistle, the late bassist for The Who.
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Loserthink by Scott Adams.
God are a lot of people here guilty of it. :hahaha:
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The Three corners war, a history of the civil war in the desert Southwest US. Confederates vs. the Union, Native peoples vs. both sides. A fucking cluster fuck mess.
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Just starting This book is full of spiders
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:hide:
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I was actually able to read an entire book! I was so excited that I read it all in 24 hours. Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes. It was good.
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Just finished reading a biography of Marianne Faithfull, the singer and one time lover of Mick Jagger. Talk about sex, drugs and alcohol and hedonism. It's from 1994 and she is still alive after finally getting clean. Now, I'm reading about the archeological digging at the site of Megiddo, aka, the supposed site of Armageddon. In the 1920's and 30's leading up till WW2. A lot of Scholastic intrigue, back biting, skulldudgery, and assorted shenanigans from that era.
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Just finished The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark.
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Just finished Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis (singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers), man did that guy do a lot of drugs.
A friend of mine wants to borrow the book.
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Not reading anything at the moment. Too scatter-brained. :(
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Just finished Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage (twisted book) and now I'm reading Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
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A book about the Talking Heads band. By the drummer and bass player, husband and wife combo. Very interesting.
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Just started "In a House of Lies" by Ian Rankin.
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A book about the origins of the star spangled banner, how it became our national anthem and the politics of the time period that let up to that point.
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Nothing, can't focus.
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White Houses by Amy Bloom
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Leviathan Wakes by James Corey. The Expanse is based on his books.
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^It's a decent book.
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The latest Rock and Gem magazine. An article about columnar basalt outcrops.
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^It's a decent book.
I'm finding it good so far. I couldn't get into the tv show.
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^It's a decent book.
I'm finding it good so far. I couldn't get into the tv show.
The TV show is awesome. I'm totally addicted.
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Reading a standard spec. Not the most boring I've read but not a lot of fun either, and I think it's a fairly bad standard.
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The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
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This board. It's more fun than that spec from the other day. :P
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Still plowing through The Autobiography of Henry VIII, With Notes by his Fool, Will Somer. I'm on page 720 =/- out of 900 plus pages. It's a book I keep in the car for the odd moments of down time. I know the story and can pick up the thread where I left off quite easily.
Deleted a BDSM novel about gay lovers. I've read better BDSM.
Reading a Victorian historical romance, a biography of William the Conquerer, and a government issue pamphlet about World War I food rationing. At least I'm eclectic.
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Just finished reading "Sex with Presidents" by Eleanor Herman. A decent quick read, but, eventually got a little mind numbing when it reached the Clinton era up till the trumpolini era and then finished with a chapter about philandering of the french and italian PM's. OY
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About to start on Obama's 700-page tome. This could be interesting.
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Another history book!
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One of WolFish's early Nanowrimo projects from our shared world, that I managed to dredge up out of our archives. A Map of Karn. Sadly unfinished, because looking back at it now, it could have been Charles de Lint levels of awesome.
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Nothing at the moment!
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Calvin and Hobbes strips.
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Smithsonian Magazine. They are having a 250th anniversary of their founding by James Smithson!
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This site.
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The Queen Bio of Elizabeth II
The Pockes *mystery set in England concerning the introduction of syphilis into England Yeah, I know I'm weird but whoever would write this is weirder.
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"Erebus" a really good read, by Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame. It's about the early history of English exploration of the Arctic region and the quest to find the Northwest Passage. His post Python career has been busy doing explorations all over the world and hosting documentaries of his travels. He is also quite an Author in his own right. He was once president of the Royal Geographical Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI
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Calvin and Hobbes. :)
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Edge - Jeffery Deaver (5th time)
Worthington Hall - Maeve Binchey
Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
The Queen Elizabeth 2
A grad level textbook about the Middle Ages
Some mysteries and stuff on the Kindle
I hope to start the Learn to Read Latin and Trigonometry text books in the next month.
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Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, the novelisation by Quentin Tarantino. I was intrigued by the fact that he decided to do the book in the first place.
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Calvin and Hobbes
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A biography of Alfred Hitchcock
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, about the Theranos dramafest
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Neuromancer by: William Gibson
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God is not great
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Just finished a book about "Weird" Al Yankovic. Pretty interesting, he is an all round nice guy and smart and talented.
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"Guns, Germ & Steel by Jared Diamond"
It's not about guns so much as an entertaining account of just how ready Europe was to take advantage of the New World when they arrived here.
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How the Mountains grew.....A book about the formation of Americas mountains from the Rockies to the Appalachians. It also has a lot of easy to understand geology info about the related things, like the Great Lakes formation, interesting rock outcroppings like the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore, etc.
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"Putin's People" - pretty damned good.
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A book called 'Shield Maiden' by Sharon Emmerichs. I'm enjoying it so far.
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The Paksennarion trilogy by Elizabeth Moon. It's pretty much D&D with the serial numbers filed off, but with realistic depictions of military, PTSD and injuries. I'm enjoying it.
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The Paksennarion trilogy by Elizabeth Moon. It's pretty much D&D with the serial numbers filed off, but with realistic depictions of military, PTSD and injuries. I'm enjoying it.
I loved that series! Paks is awesome.
I know that there are 5 books set afterwards in that world, following characters that were in the Paks books. She's in them but she's not the only one.
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I might go for those too, we'll see.
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A Star Trek book
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Found this for $5 at Half Priced Books this morning. I went to shop for LPs, but I always browse the bargain bins for books.
After some research online I find it to not be revered by the academics as a valid documentary work, but a used paperback is offered for thirty bucks on Amazon. Mine is hardbound and in great shape.
All I knew at the time is after ten minutes of shuffling through it, I could not put it back into the bin.
Giving this a read.
The Tribe Of Witches, The Religion of the Dobunni and Hwicce
By Stephen J. Yeates
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All Dogs Great and Small - Graeme Hall
TV dog trainer, but a really good one.
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A book called "Hollow Kingdom", recommended by my wife.
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A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.
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I'm reading the first of The Silo trilogy, called Wool. It's very wordy but I'm finding it a good read. It helps that I've seen The Silo first season.
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Old intensity posts :P
I'm also periodicallly leafing through a spanish translation of Prince Caspian. I'm often surprised how much of it I understand; and yet so many passages refuse to imprint themselves on my consciousness
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I've read that - in English. You're pretty clever reading that in Spanish. :)
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I've read that - in English. You're pretty clever reading that in Spanish. :)
You are too kind. Truth is, while I studied a number of languages in school, I never became fluent in any of them. The book is just my latest haphazard attempt to remedy that. Spanish, German, and Latin are my three nearest successes, however. I'm quite fond of Spanish and I enjoy living in an area where I may very likely hear it spoken out loud on an ordinary day. Also hear a lot of Arabic spoken and have given thought to trying to pick some up, though I no longer have any illusions about my probable competence
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A biography of George Orwell.
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I've read that - in English. You're pretty clever reading that in Spanish. :)
You are too kind. Truth is, while I studied a number of languages in school, I never became fluent in any of them. The book is just my latest haphazard attempt to remedy that. Spanish, German, and Latin are my three nearest successes, however. I'm quite fond of Spanish and I enjoy living in an area where I may very likely hear it spoken out loud on an ordinary day. Also hear a lot of Arabic spoken and have given thought to trying to pick some up, though I no longer have any illusions about my probable competence
My partner at work is Chiléan (sp) and has a very strong Spanish accent. In conversation with her, she often searches for English words and I supply them. She doesn't mind me doing that.
I've always wanted to speak German or Japanese. They're my two favourite languages.
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The Apology by Jiman Han
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A volcano book by the British Vulcanologist, Clive Oppenheimer, he is a good writer for a scientist. It's not loaded with science jargon, but, full of information that is easy to read for a layman like me. But, doesn't "speak down" to me either. The chapter I am on is particularly fascinating since he is writing about his time at a super volcano site in North Korea along the border with China and like Yellowstone it is quivering and shaking and has the North Koreans AND chinese very worried. There has always so little info about it for obvious reasons politically that it is so fascinating for me to read. :book:
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A volcano book by the British Vulcanologist, Clive Oppenheimer, he is a good writer for a scientist. It's not loaded with science jargon, but, full of information that is easy to read for a layman like me. But, doesn't "speak down" to me either. The chapter I am on is particularly fascinating since he is writing about his time at a super volcano site in North Korea along the border with China and like Yellowstone it is quivering and shaking and has the North Koreans AND chinese very worried. There has always so little info about it for obvious reasons politically that it is so fascinating for me to read. :book:
^Yellowstone is quivering and shaking?
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A volcano book by the British Vulcanologist, Clive Oppenheimer, he is a good writer for a scientist. It's not loaded with science jargon, but, full of information that is easy to read for a layman like me. But, doesn't "speak down" to me either. The chapter I am on is particularly fascinating since he is writing about his time at a super volcano site in North Korea along the border with China and like Yellowstone it is quivering and shaking and has the North Koreans AND chinese very worried. There has always so little info about it for obvious reasons politically that it is so fascinating for me to read. :book:
^Yellowstone is quivering and shaking?
Yellowstone is always shaking as it's above a hot spot, but, the volcano in North Korea is puzzling as there is nothing to explain why it even exists where it is. At least as far as they know yet.
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The Gunslinger
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A volcano book by the British Vulcanologist, Clive Oppenheimer, he is a good writer for a scientist. It's not loaded with science jargon, but, full of information that is easy to read for a layman like me. But, doesn't "speak down" to me either. The chapter I am on is particularly fascinating since he is writing about his time at a super volcano site in North Korea along the border with China and like Yellowstone it is quivering and shaking and has the North Koreans AND chinese very worried. There has always so little info about it for obvious reasons politically that it is so fascinating for me to read. :book:
Is he the one who invented the Volcano bomb?
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No
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I've just started reading Shift, the second book in the Silo trilogy. It doesn't have anything about the silos in it so far. It's like a different story.
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Just got another huge encyclopedic historical book on Jazz Music history of the twentieth century.
I have only just popped it open so far, but I will have reading to do for fun for a while.
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I've just started reading Shift, the second book in the Silo trilogy. It doesn't have anything about the silos in it so far. It's like a different story.
What kind of silos? You tell me something is called "The Silo Trilogy" and I imagine it's about futuristic corn
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I am getting through all the literature they sent me from the audiologist.
I have an appointment coming up soon to help me possibly improve my 68 year old hearing. Troubles with which seem to have become more troubling in the past year.
There are "steps" to prepare for a proper hearing test to help them achieve the best, most accurate results.
I had no idea!
I am to avoid any tool use up close, avoid any extended travel of any kind, cars planes, etc. I can not attend any concerts - DUH! I should get three days of good restful sleep - like - what the fuck is that? I don't remember having any of those, ever.
Even says to shower the day before but not the day of the appointment, because the possibility of water retention inside the inner ears will skew the tests.
It's a huge fucking pamphlet!
There's a lot! Like shower before? Why the fuck would anyone want to do that. Who the fuck wants to get wet? Stupid!
Kidding! To me, it's not getting to shower the day of that pisses me off. I like to shower every morning.
Anyway, in a couple of weeks I will have my third hearing test.
Last two said they could not help me, because my other ear was too good and it would not ignore the bone conduction of the sound coming from the aid device in the bad ear.
FUCKing shenanigans, if you ask me!
Those puny lightweight, manbunned, pencil-neck, loafer wearing, no dick, wimpy bastards did not like my insurance if the truth came out.
:lol1:
I now have better "quality of life" benefits than we had before so maybe the insurance thing is a none issue.
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I've just started reading Shift, the second book in the Silo trilogy. It doesn't have anything about the silos in it so far. It's like a different story.
What kind of silos? You tell me something is called "The Silo Trilogy" and I imagine it's about futuristic corn
I just noticed the second book is called Shift, so now I'm thinking werewolves in Ohio. In the future
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A biography of George Orwell
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Okay, so there's two right now
1. Golden by Shannon Mayer. About a female werewolf who gets turned into a golden retriever then finds her true love. Apparently book 1 of a series :mischief:
2. Gryphon Rider Academy: Year 3 by Elise Hennessy. The name seems self explanatory. Lol.
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I've just started reading Shift, the second book in the Silo trilogy. It doesn't have anything about the silos in it so far. It's like a different story.
What kind of silos? You tell me something is called "The Silo Trilogy" and I imagine it's about futuristic corn
I just noticed the second book is called Shift, so now I'm thinking werewolves in Ohio. In the future
There's a tv series called Silo available on Apple. It's based on the Silo trilogy which are called Wool, Shift and Dust. The Silos themselves are built underground with 100+ levels. Everything required to live and work there is provided. There are screens on the top levels to show what happened to the world. Yes, it's post-apocalyptic. Anyone who ventures outside dies, even if they're wearing a protective suit. Except a woman called Juliette. She manages to disappear from sight of her silo's camera. What happens next is part of the Silo story.
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I've just started reading Shift, the second book in the Silo trilogy. It doesn't have anything about the silos in it so far. It's like a different story.
What kind of silos? You tell me something is called "The Silo Trilogy" and I imagine it's about futuristic corn
I just noticed the second book is called Shift, so now I'm thinking werewolves in Ohio. In the future
There's a tv series called Silo available on Apple. It's based on the Silo trilogy which are called Wool, Shift and Dust. The Silos themselves are built underground with 100+ levels. Everything required to live and work there is provided. There are screens on the top levels to show what happened to the world. Yes, it's post-apocalyptic. Anyone who ventures outside dies, even if they're wearing a protective suit. Except a woman called Juliette. She manages to disappear from sight of her silo's camera. What happens next is part of the Silo story.
Damn it, now you got me sucked in, hahaha
Do they still have corn? And if so, does it take place in what used to be Ohio? :autism:
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^Yep, they grow corn. They have food Growing levels.
The Silos are located in Georgia, in sight of Atlanta.
Each silo is different in their customs and traditions. Some have lifts/elevators while in others, there are only stairs.
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^Yep, they grow corn. They have food Growing levels.
The Silos are located in Georgia, in sight of Atlanta.
Each silo is different in their customs and traditions. Some have lifts/elevators while in others, there are only stairs.
A sillo with only stairs? Omg I would die lmao :GA:
I'm actually afraid of growing old in the house I live in now. I've stumbled and fallen on the stairs multiple times this year. They are quite narrow and not very stable. Imagine if I was twenty years older!
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No One Left to Lie To - Christopher Hitchens
Pretty damned good, so far.
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^Yep, they grow corn. They have food Growing levels.
The Silos are located in Georgia, in sight of Atlanta.
Each silo is different in their customs and traditions. Some have lifts/elevators while in others, there are only stairs.
A sillo with only stairs? Omg I would die lmao :GA:
I'm actually afraid of growing old in the house I live in now. I've stumbled and fallen on the stairs multiple times this year. They are quite narrow and not very stable. Imagine if I was twenty years older!
In the Silo with stairs, it took the mayor three days to reach the bottom level after starting at the top. And that's going downstairs.
I once lived in a small house with stairs in a C shape. I never fell down them but I fell up them plenty of times.
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^Yep, they grow corn. They have food Growing levels.
The Silos are located in Georgia, in sight of Atlanta.
Each silo is different in their customs and traditions. Some have lifts/elevators while in others, there are only stairs.
A sillo with only stairs? Omg I would die lmao :GA:
I'm actually afraid of growing old in the house I live in now. I've stumbled and fallen on the stairs multiple times this year. They are quite narrow and not very stable. Imagine if I was twenty years older!
In the Silo with stairs, it took the mayor three days to reach the bottom level after starting at the top. And that's going downstairs.
I once lived in a small house with stairs in a C shape. I never fell down them but I fell up them plenty of times.
That's so impractical. I love it! Lmao I need to know more
Do you have like an amazon link or something like that?`
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I used Amazon Australia...
If you look up Silo by Hugh Howey on Amazon America it should turn up.
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Read through an incredibly boring solution design document. Kill me now. And I wrote much of that one.
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Finished Griffin Academy Year 3; now the internal debate, whether to start year 4 or finish Golden first.
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Finished Griffin Academy Year 3; now the internal debate, whether to start year 4 or finish Golden first.
What's Griffin Academy about?
I've finished the Silo series, now wondering what to read.
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Just finished reading a biography of Madonna.
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Finished Griffin Academy Year 3; now the internal debate, whether to start year 4 or finish Golden first.
What's Griffin Academy about?
I've finished the Silo series, now wondering what to read.
A young girl saves the life of a veteran griffon (they are used as war mounts... but also sentient) by riding him to defend the city from attack. Otherwise he would have been euthanized for going blind. But he gets a reason to live after that, and the girl is allowed to join the academy for griffon riders even though it's generally against the rules. She has to survive hazing from the other students as well as political intrigue from the royal family to earn the respect of the other students and her fellow citizens. I'm describing it really badly lol and I don't want to spoil any of the cool surprises, but it's honestly a super fun series of books and I can't wait to read the fourth one
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^That sounds interesting, might give it a look on Amazon, see if they have it.
I'm reading a Star Wars book - Dark Disciple.
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^That sounds interesting, might give it a look on Amazon, see if they have it.
That's where I got it from. I don't know if they do region locking on books, but do give it a shot.
Since we're talking about recommendations, another author named Corinne Duyvis has written some fantastic YA fantasy and scifi. She's autistic :3
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A book on calculus that I stumbled upon. Made me remember how much I used to enjoy differential equations.
Made me want to look up other books on the subject. Lucky I'm going to London on Sunday. Foyles will have what I need.
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A biography of Walt Disney.
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A book called Dreadnought by April Daniels.
It's about a teen trans girl who is transformed into how she thinks she should be when a superhero (Dreadnought) falls from the sky, transfers his power onto her and then dies. So she has to deal with living in a body that fits her, her psycho dad, her best friend who now wants to date her and other superheroes who think she's too young to take over Dreadnought's powers.
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A book called Dreadnought by April Daniels.
It's about a teen trans girl who is transformed into how she thinks she should be when a superhero (Dreadnought) falls from the sky, transfers his power onto her and then dies. So she has to deal with living in a body that fits her, her psycho dad, her best friend who now wants to date her and other superheroes who think she's too young to take over Dreadnought's powers.
Welp. That's going on MY list for sure now
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A book called Dreadnought by April Daniels.
It's about a teen trans girl who is transformed into how she thinks she should be when a superhero (Dreadnought) falls from the sky, transfers his power onto her and then dies. So she has to deal with living in a body that fits her, her psycho dad, her best friend who now wants to date her and other superheroes who think she's too young to take over Dreadnought's powers.
Welp. That's going on MY list for sure now
There's a second book too but I don't have that (yet).
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A history of Motown!
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens
Read this one before but since Kissinger died a few weeks ago I felt like reading it again. As John Oliver put it when Kissinger died: [Kissinger] died at the ripe old age of not soon enough.
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A bio of Patrick Stewart, aka, Capt. Picard of Star Trek, TNG. Pretty good read!
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A bio of Patrick Stewart, aka, Capt. Picard of Star Trek, TNG. Pretty good read!
Is this the one he wrote?
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Reading Linear Algebra Done Right. Bought it at Waterstones university shop in London last month. For whatever reason I'm drawn into maths again.
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A bio of Patrick Stewart, aka, Capt. Picard of Star Trek, TNG. Pretty good read!
Is this the one he wrote?
Yes, and it is quite good and I felt quite honest! "Making it so" is the subtitle! I just finished and I would recommend it! :book:
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Adding that to my list, then.
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Reading "Trans" by Helen Joyce - I saw her being interviewed by Richard Dawkins and got interested. About two thirds through, and her argument so far is flawless. I'd be very interested in opposing views.
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A book about the Allied campaign against the axis in Italy during WW2.
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A book called Dreadnought by April Daniels.
It's about a teen trans girl who is transformed into how she thinks she should be when a superhero (Dreadnought) falls from the sky, transfers his power onto her and then dies. So she has to deal with living in a body that fits her, her psycho dad, her best friend who now wants to date her and other superheroes who think she's too young to take over Dreadnought's powers.
Welp. That's going on MY list for sure now
There's a second book too but I don't have that (yet).
I have it now and am a few chapters into it. It's called Sovereign and it's already a good read.
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Almost finished with "Trans" and still fascinated. It's a very good book. Well written, concise, practically requiring a response.
Also reading "The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide", a modern translation of Isaac Newton's famous book defining his laws of mechanics and gravitation. This one's been tweaked to use mathematics more closely resembling the mathematics of what I studied at the uni.
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The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.
Older book, but it includes many bio items regarding the early jazz influencers, a foundation that most of us music appreciation nuts are missing out on if we do not know the cells driving this new rage from a hundred years ago.
Re-reading mainly to refresh my own foundation and explore interesting references further.
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"In a House of Lies" by Ian Rankin
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An unedited and unabridged faithful translation of the "Count of Monte Cristo". 8)
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A book called Dreadnought by April Daniels.
It's about a teen trans girl who is transformed into how she thinks she should be when a superhero (Dreadnought) falls from the sky, transfers his power onto her and then dies. So she has to deal with living in a body that fits her, her psycho dad, her best friend who now wants to date her and other superheroes who think she's too young to take over Dreadnought's powers.
Welp. That's going on MY list for sure now
There's a second book too but I don't have that (yet).
I have it now and am a few chapters into it. It's called Sovereign and it's already a good read.
Stayed up late reading the rest of the second book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope there will be a third book.
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Bits and pieces from various Hitchens books. An aerospace specification for technical publications.
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I read Ikigai, a book about Japanese people's longevity. Not bad. My mum bought it for me because she knows I'm interested in all things Japanese.
Slowly making my way through the Star Trek Adventures Players Guide.
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I noticed that book 4 of Griffon academy was finally out, so I've started on that
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"Learning SPARQL" by Bob duCharme
Very, very good if you're interested in querying RDF data.
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Is SPARQL said like "sparkle"?
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Is SPARQL said like "sparkle"?
It is. It stands for "SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language" which is one of those recursive acronyms some devs love.
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Reading "Trans" by Helen Joyce - I saw her being interviewed by Richard Dawkins and got interested. About two thirds through, and her argument so far is flawless. I'd be very interested in opposing views.
Have not read it, aside from reading the Wikipedia summary five minutes ago, but suspect I would strongly disagree. If it boils down to "subjective reality exists!" vs. "No it doesn't!" I'm not sure what would be new or compelling about the argument.
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Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon. I'm reading it for the second time as I bought the rest of the series online with Christmas money. :)
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Reading "Trans" by Helen Joyce - I saw her being interviewed by Richard Dawkins and got interested. About two thirds through, and her argument so far is flawless. I'd be very interested in opposing views.
Have not read it, aside from reading the Wikipedia summary five minutes ago, but suspect I would strongly disagree. If it boils down to "subjective reality exists!" vs. "No it doesn't!" I'm not sure what would be new or compelling about the argument.
She presents a very strong, science-based argument. She's a voice of reason, IMHO, and hers are not polarising arguments if you care to listen to them.
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Reading another Rebus novel.
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Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon. I'm reading it for the second time as I bought the rest of the series online with Christmas money. :)
Kings of the North by Elizabeth Moon. The books are written densely - every sentence carries meaning so I have to be in the mood for concentration.
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Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon. I'm reading it for the second time as I bought the rest of the series online with Christmas money. :)
Kings of the North by Elizabeth Moon. The books are written densely - every sentence carries meaning so I have to be in the mood for concentration.
Now reading the third in the series - Echoes of Betrayal. Doesn't sound like a very positive title. :dunno:
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The Peripheral by: William Gibson
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Glancing through that Jordan Peterson book, 12 rules for whatever.
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I read the fourth Elizabeth Moon book, "Limits of Power". Now I'm onto the fifth and last, "Crown of Renewal". I'm enjoying it and wondering what to read after I've finished this series.
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A book about Elvis Presley and his manager, Col. Parker.