The Books/Reading Thread
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Einherjar86
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I read somewhere that Garland said they were only working off the first book, but I'm not sure I really believe that. I personally liked the first book the most, but the entire trilogy was spectacular. One of the most exciting and chilling things I've read in a while.
I haven't gotten around to Borne yet, but of course I've heard amazing things. Looking forward to it.
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I mean, it's pragmatic and/or realistic in the sense that there's explicit recognition that there are at least three different general approaches ("Liberal", "Conservative", and "Libertarian") to politics, at least in the west anyway, and that these three approaches have different terms for similar things and place weight differently on different issues. The problem I have with the book is more meta, which is to say that it is most likely an exercise in preaching to the choir, eg most likely more libertarian leaning persons. I doubt staunch US Democrats or Republicans (that is to say, party hardliners and/or unthinking voters) are going to give two shits about understanding the differences or even themselves for that matter. It's not a lengthy read whatsoever, so getting people to read it wouldn't necessarily be difficulty due to density, but I wouldn't expect it to be helpful to the persons it would actually be potentially helpful for.
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Einherjar86
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Big holiday haul:
Last one's kinda nerdy, but it's possibly my favorite American novel and one seriously needs a guide in order to parse all the nuance and catch all the references. And even then, most scholars who study the novel admit that there's just too much to ever catalog in its entirety.
Last one's kinda nerdy, but it's possibly my favorite American novel and one seriously needs a guide in order to parse all the nuance and catch all the references. And even then, most scholars who study the novel admit that there's just too much to ever catalog in its entirety.
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Here's my list of the Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of 2017.
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Watched a little bit of the film about him but haven't finished that. Seems like a person worth reading all about, from his words
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This. You can pick up Notes of a Native Son pretty much anywhere, and it's a solid place to start. (The book the title references, Native Son by Richard Wright, is also worth reading). I always assign one or two of his essays every semester. His fiction is really good, too. Giovanni's Room is a good place to start
Did God Emperor of Dune and figured fuck it may as well just get them all out of the way. Half way through Heretics now. Part of me wants to go through Hunters and Sandworms when I'm done with the original 6 but I can't remember shit about them. I dunno how much of that is because I was drunk as fuck around '07 and how much is because they were boring. Can remember thinking that it should all have been condensed into a single book about the length of one of the books.
Einherjar86
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I’ve only read Go Tell it on the Mountain, which is a great novel.
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Einherjar86
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Got my advance e-copy of Peter Watts's new book today; I'm writing a review for Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. I'm fucking psyched:
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I only owned the first 7 books when I started but stopped at book 6 because life got chaotic for a second, anyways I'm finally catching up to where I was in the books which is great because I recently picked up books 8, 9, 10 and 11.
Got really lucky, old stock from my local hobby store. Like $5 each iirc.
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Got my advance e-copy of Peter Watts's new book today; I'm writing a review for Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. I'm fucking psyched:
Never read any of his books before, but ive been meaning to. Should I start with Blindsight seeing as it is his most popular? Good luck with the review, that's pretty cool.
Ive been sick over the x-mas/New Years holiday so ive just been reading through some books I bought but never read yet.
I actually somewhat enjoyed this book, even if I found LeGuin's portrayal of Capitalism to be a bit egregious in its negativity.
And this classic by H.G. Wells. I think my expectations were too high for this one. It was ok, but really nothing special.
Einherjar86
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Thanks man. I'd start with Blindsight, yes; and just know that while his other books are good, none of them quite live up to the insanity and intelligence that is Blindsight. The closest would be the second book of his Rifters trilogy, Maelstrom (in my opinion). I'm excited to see how Freeze-Frame stacks up.
Ive been sick over the x-mas/New Years holiday so ive just been reading through some books I bought but never read yet.
I actually somewhat enjoyed this book, even if I found LeGuin's portrayal of Capitalism to be a bit egregious in its negativity.
And this classic by H.G. Wells. I think my expectations were too high for this one. It was ok, but really nothing special.
Never read the Wells, but I'm a big Le Guin fan. Haven't read any of her Earthsea books, but the Hainish novels are very good, even if you're not fully on board with political sf.
