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Yeah. He's still sanctimoniously and hypocritically prattling on, as feminazis are so wont to.
Right, yeah. That guy. I hate that guy.
You bothered to destroy him yet?
Nah, he's plugging his ears and going 'lalalalala' whenever anyone pokes holes in his not-even-opinions.
I used to argue with him. Then I stopped. Blood pressure dropped six points. He's had be blocked for about a year now. I love the solitude.
Meanwhile, outside the boundaries of schoolyard politics...
Ike's Bluff was an amazing book, and I highly recommend it to anyone in the slight bit interested in politics and history.
I'm rereading volume 2 of the Gulag Archipelago. Oh, dear sweet Solzhenitsyn, I shall never tire of you.
I need Cancer Ward.
Has anyone read The Brothers Karamazov? I've been wanting to find something a bit heavy while still fictional so I can still feel challenged as a reader without getting a headache from gratuitous jargon and such (Ulysses, for instance, is a clusterfuck even with footnotes and an understanding of what the plot is before going in). Any particular translation anyone who's read would recommend? I've heard the Penguin Classics one is the most accurate to the original culture it was written in, but any other opinions are welcome.
Yeah, I bought it on sale one day. I wanted to force myself to be a bit more concerned with individual thoughts and emotions. Never could make the switch since I prefer larger scope problems (like in science fiction or cyberpunk) and it's still on my backlog. One day maybe ....
I hear its one of the works of fiction though.
Edit: Oops! Wrong thread!
That's why I'm interested. I've gone through some of the sci-fi classics, and they're good. It'd be nice to read something realistic without it being non-fiction, for once. Realistic fiction is a rarity this day. It's all urban fantasy to a degree when it resembles real-life at all. That said, I'm probably not looking near as hard as I should.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEconomist
EDIT: I know this isn't standard reading-fare, but it's just so beautiful. As one website described this news article, '[w]hen a crazed gunman went on a rampage in Ottawa, and came within ten meters of over 200 members of Parliament as well as the Prime Minister and both Opposition Leaders, Stephen Harper—the Prime Minister—hid in a closet. By contrast, the Members of Parliament grabbed flagpoles, transformed them into spears, and held them at the ready within their offices; waiting for the gunman to show up so they could impale him like Ancient Greeks in a phalanx formation. We are dead serious.'
Side note on this: I used to work on the hill but I was off that day. My colleagues took some pretty cool pictures of the events though(snipers on the roofs and everything). In any case, this description is accurate according to what I heard in the office the following day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Muspelli
Timothy Zahn is going to be writing StarCraft books? But, he's like, a real science fiction writer. Hmmmmm ... +1 for the future?
Timothy Zahn will be exploring the aftermath of the Legacy of the Void campaign.
SO much HYPE.
I've heard about this Timothy Zahn. I eagerly await his work.
Wonder what happened to heir of Adun or the other books they were working on.
He's done some decent work in the Star Wars and military scifi genres, from what I hear. Either way, he's better than what we've had. Even if for no other reason that it's better to have an established, respectable military scifi author in a universe like StarCraft than the romance and epic fantasy secondhands we've had.
I've read Zahn's Star Wars books and others. While he's a good writer, his delivery tends to be clinical and reserved, while the more human aspects of his characters feel forced, and romance is practically non-existent (which, for those Raynor/Kerrigan haters, might be a good thing).
Basically, he's not the guy to go to for nonsenset, but he's good enough for conflicts and battles. Hallelujah!
Yup. You'll also be glad to know he rarely, if ever, uses Cartoon Villains, but rather intelligent opponents in varying shades of grey. His plots frequently unfold like a chess game. I'll admit, his Green and the Grey wasn't the best, but his Conqueror's Trilogy was pretty good.
So, for some reason, I feel the need to talk to myself again. Welcome to TheEconomist's Reading Blog!
I just finished Blindsight. Also known as quite possibly the greatest science fiction novel of the 21st century. This book explores consciousness and the meaning(lessness) of life more thoroughly and thought-provokingly than anything I've encountered before. I don't really know how to explain it, but this is the book I've been looking for for long time. I've read a lot of the sci fi greats which explore these concepts, but they also seemed to be a bit lacking in some way or another, not really capturing the complexities of the topic. However, I think Peter Watt's Blindsight comes about as close as can be done in a fictional, non-holy text. I could continue to write, but no one will read this, so I'll just post a review by a top science fiction writer who appears to be as impressed by the book as I was.
http://www.tor.com/2011/03/03/best-s...of-blindsight/
I highly recommend this book for science fiction fans, thinkers, void observers, and consciousness contemplators, and even Lovecraftian worshippers.
I loved Blindsight! I read it several times, and was stolen by a chick I dated two months ago who wound up being crazy. Good times.
Currently on The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. So far, so good.
I probably won't read it several times, but I'll be thinking about it years into the future, I'm sure.
That's another I've been running into a lot. Let me know how it goes.Quote:
Currently on The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. So far, so good.
I'm just readin' a Solzhenitsyn biography. The author seems to have absolutely zero literary understanding, but at least he's good at finding sources.
No one will read this. But I'll say it anyways. The Expanse is pretty damn good. It's a new show on Syfy. Check it out.
will check it out
Oh, seriously? It's out?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEconomist
*splurge
Remind me to finish the books at some point.
I've read some of The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel De Unamuno and Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton. Both of these books promote the idea that rationality is not the key function of success in life, and that irrational passion or love is more constructive than pure reason. They also both emphasize the weakness of our own thoughts about the universe, and how all of science is really just us trying to make a vast, almost-but-not-quite logical universe systematic and reasonable.
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
It's been out for a while now, at least the first four episodes. They're available for free on YouTube and the like so you don't even have to be sneaky about downloading them :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gradius
I couldn't have reasonably hoped for a better series. Definitely impressed.
@Nissa: Sounds like an interesting book with some interest debates to be had. Unfortunately, my brain is so fried, I had a lot of difficulty even finishing the LotV campaign, haha.
Well, you did mention elsewhere that you're studying, so you have an excuse.
I was studying. Well, I was doing research which is similar. I'm so damn brain tired I might be, *gulp* average!
The Martian by Andy Weir.
Fuck this is a good book.
Tell me about it. I'm reading it right now. Once I'm done, I'll compare it to the film to see how much the film siphoned, and how much they skipped over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visions of Khas
I've heard good things. I even bought in on sale. Unfortunately, I've already read like four Mars books so I need a bit of breather to fully enjoy this book.
Did you like those 4 Mars books?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEconomist
Anyone bother to watch 'The Expanse' yet?
Also, anyone excited for 'The X-Files' reboot?
No. I found the original X files as such a disappointing experience, I don't want to get into it again. Don't get me wrong, the show was interesting, but the ending was so half-hearted and without real conclusion that it was hard to bear. That, and they killed the Lone Gunmen. Honestly, it's like a Lost ending before Lost even existed.
Uh, erm, yeah, about that...Quote:
That, and they killed the Lone Gunmen.
That smells of retconning. Next!
I just got the following three from the library yesterday:
War Dogs, by Greg Bear.
Tuf Voyaging, by George R R Martin.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology, by Robert Smith, PhD., and Nathan Brown.
I'm also looking for copies of The Golden Compass, and Moby's Dick.
Sorry, Econ, but they didn't have any more Matthew Stover books. :(
Greg Bear makes some interesting books, even if not executed all that well. Looks like an interesting book. That rating though ....
It's always entertaining in its own right to check out GRRM's older books. I'll have to look into that one. I bought his 'vampire' novel set in the 'racist' industrialization era america. I need to get to that one.
Bastards.Quote:
Sorry, Econ, but they didn't have any more Matthew Stover books.