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Started by Thurnez Isa, December 03, 2006, 04:11:35 PM

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Cain

#1155
September 28, 2009, 08:37:22 AM
Oh, I forgot to add: Honor Harrington is basically Horatio Hornblower IN SPACE!

Which explains quite a lot, actually.

LMNO

#1156
October 26, 2009, 07:04:50 PM
I'm reading Neal Stephenson's "Anathem", thanks to Cain.

It's another huge book of speculative (science-ish) fiction, but I feel it's much better written than "Quicksilver".  Maybe I just like the subject matter better.


Anyway, I'd reccomend it.

The Good Reverend Roger

#1157
October 26, 2009, 07:06:11 PM
Nothing at the moment.

But I just spent $320 buying everything ever done by Warren Ellis that I don't already have.  Amazon better get on the fucking stick, too.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#1158
October 26, 2009, 07:07:04 PM
Feel free to skim "Crooked Little Vein".  Interesting descriptions, but not much guts behind it.

The Good Reverend Roger

#1159
October 26, 2009, 07:07:18 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 28, 2009, 08:37:22 AM
Oh, I forgot to add: Honor Harrington is basically Horatio Hornblower IN SPACE!

Which explains quite a lot, actually.

I tried that series, but it involves a telepathic cat, so it gets the TGRR Dented Wall Award.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#1160
October 26, 2009, 07:09:08 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 26, 2009, 07:07:04 PM
Feel free to skim "Crooked Little Vein".  Interesting descriptions, but not much guts behind it.

Already read it.  You're right...the word play is amazing, but the story is as thin as Karen Carpenter.

But again, the writing style buys a lot.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Eater of Clowns

#1161
October 26, 2009, 08:26:00 PM
Read recently:

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Thud! by Terry Pratchett

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Now reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

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EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Cain

#1162
October 27, 2009, 09:12:41 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 26, 2009, 07:07:18 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 28, 2009, 08:37:22 AM
Oh, I forgot to add: Honor Harrington is basically Horatio Hornblower IN SPACE!

Which explains quite a lot, actually.

I tried that series, but it involves a telepathic cat, so it gets the TGRR Dented Wall Award.

I'm surprised the political strawmen didn't do you in first.  David Weber really, really, REALLY likes centrists.  And really hates liberals, progressives, conservatives, republicans and any sort of welfare state.

Cain

#1163
October 27, 2009, 09:14:15 AM
Oh, forgot to add, reading:

The Invisible Hook: Economics of Piracy
A Very Short Introduction to Dada and Surrealism
The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion

rygD

#1164
October 27, 2009, 10:42:38 AM
Cain, are those last two worthwhile for someone already familiar with the material covered?  Looking at amazon  says The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion is not out, but seems I may enjoy it, however for that price There are some other books I have wanted that are in very limited supply.
:rbtg:

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...nuke Iraq and give it to the Jews...

Cain

#1165
October 27, 2009, 10:58:24 AM
The VSI series always makes good introductory material, but if you're already familiar with the subject it is covering, then chances are it will be merely enjoyable reading.

Are you sure it's not out yet, the Religion and Psychology Encyclopedia?  It's the Springer version.  I'm only a little way through, but it seems interesting enough, contrasting religious themes like the sacrafice of Abraham, or Adam and Eve, with psychoanalytic, Jungian and (sometimes) other psychological explanations.  I'm not entirely convinced by those particular schools as bodies of thought, but when thinking about religious symbology and themes I suppose they are useful enough.  It's also fairly lengthy, with over a thousand pages.

Cain

#1166
October 27, 2009, 10:14:56 PM
Oops, dropping everything.  Slavoj Zizek has a new book out called "First As Tragedy, Then As Farce".  And its about the economic crisis, too.  Should be good, if a little pretentious (but then, that goes with the territory.  I mean, he even approvingly uses the New Republic quote about him being the most dangerous philospher in the west on the book cover).

Iason Ouabache

#1167
October 28, 2009, 12:22:05 AM
I'm about halfway through Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution is True". It's mostly stuff I already knew but he goes into good detail on everything. The sections on biogeography and natural selection are particularly good.
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#1168
October 28, 2009, 12:46:45 AM
I'm about halfway through PKD' The Martian Time-Slip, and I think I'm catching onto the foreshadowing.


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Cain

#1169
October 28, 2009, 02:58:34 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 27, 2009, 10:14:56 PM
Oops, dropping everything.  Slavoj Zizek has a new book out called "First As Tragedy, Then As Farce".  And its about the economic crisis, too.  Should be good, if a little pretentious (but then, that goes with the territory.  I mean, he even approvingly uses the New Republic quote about him being the most dangerous philospher in the west on the book cover).

This was good.  I need to read it again.  It also reminded me that we need to saint Chairman Mao.
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