What Are You Reading?

[TheEconomist]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/u...tegy.html?_r=1

The New York Times just blew bathrobegate wide open. Apparently, Trump wears bathrobes in his home. Sickening. I mean, these reports are uncorroborated by a single anonymous source who gives the sneaking appearance of saying exactly what people want to hear, but, I mean, think to yourself, isn't Donald Trump the kind of person that would wear a bath robe in his house? Monstrous.

[Nissa]

New York Times has long since been a propagandic rag, intent on making people feel certain ways rather than simply reporting news. That's nothing surprising.

[sandwich_bird]

Still better than HuffingtonPost

[TheEconomist]

Still better than HuffingtonPost

Everything is better than the Huffington Post. Except for BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed is everything that is wrong with humanity at the moment.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

"Except for BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed is everything that is wrong with humanity at the moment."

Never has a truer statement been made.

[powercord]

Just started reading Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey - it's the space opera book series that The Expanse show is based off I think, so I want to read the books first before I watch the show (since the show looks good)

[TheEconomist]

Books are much, much, much better than the show. Or, at least, the story is geared towards a novel presentation. Most of the story can't be shown in exchanges between characters as well as with exposition about the overall happenings of the solar system.

[powercord]

Books are much, much, much better than the show. Or, at least, the story is geared towards a novel presentation. Most of the story can't be shown in exchanges between characters as well as with exposition about the overall happenings of the solar system.

Good to know - I always prefer the books to the movie/show anyway, so I figured this would be better!

On a side note, who here has read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson? Book of the century - if you haven't read this one, pick it up NOW. Amazing.

[TheEconomist]

I own it and started it. Was excited for it. But I have Neal Stephenson fatigue after reading Reamde (massive), Snow Crash, and Diamond Age in the same year.

[Nissa]

Just got done reading Why Does He Do That?, a book on men who are controlling/abusive. It's got some good things to day, like how abuse comes from false values rather than mental disorders, but it has some weird problems. Like, it states that the Little Mermaid is about abuse-creating values (a woman throwing her life away for a man) when it's really about the dumb choices of teenage girls (Disney) or gaining a soul (original). It also claims that it's sexist for a boy to have an all-boy birthday party. Um, not really. Little boys aren't motivated like that. They just want to hang out with people who like the same things they do, and usually that's going to be other boys.

Not that I've known any boys to be insistent on that point.