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« Reply #1400 on: September 03, 2012, 11:23:56 PM » |
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« Reply #1401 on: September 04, 2012, 12:45:46 PM » |
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@Inanimate Thanks, looks like I figured it out then  Also long dark tea time of the soul is on my reading list now. Probably will start it soon. Today I started "Selfish gene" from Dawkins. |
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« Reply #1402 on: September 05, 2012, 02:02:36 AM » |
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Makes up for all those crappy history classes Thanks for the tip! I've recently began eyeing this one:  |
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« Reply #1403 on: September 05, 2012, 07:33:26 PM » |
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Anyone else here reading the "Ender" Series? I'm just through the Xenophobe
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« Reply #1404 on: September 15, 2012, 06:41:45 PM » |
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Thanks for the tip!
I've recently began eyeing this one:
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You might like Upside Down, There was a chapter of it in Tell Me No Lies and it looks like it's along the same lines. It's weirdly poetic, too, like a kind of slam poetry vibe. |
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« Reply #1405 on: September 17, 2012, 08:02:33 AM » |
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
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« Reply #1406 on: September 17, 2012, 07:33:50 PM » |
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
It's ok. Kind of bland though.
Good to hear, I was debating between that or this other Stallman book, "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman" His GNU Manifesto is great, fascinating dude. |
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« Reply #1407 on: September 18, 2012, 03:45:20 AM » |
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Anyone else here reading the "Ender" Series? I'm just through the Xenophobe
I thought they were terrible Mary-Sue schlock -- I don't really understand why people like them. What is the appeal, exactly? |
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« Reply #1408 on: September 18, 2012, 03:58:04 AM » |
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I thought they were terrible Mary-Sue schlock -- I don't really understand why people like them. What is the appeal, exactly?
Well, I enjoyed the original enough to consider checking out the sequel (with some trepidation, I must admit) and just found myself drawn into them. If I had to pick out what was appealing, I'd probably say that I liked the characters more than the actual plot or setting. I wanted to know more about them and what happens to them. I wouldn't necessarily recommend them or say they were great books - but I enjoyed them, so I kept reading them. I'm fully aware that they were cheesy and often a thinly-veiled attempt to advocate Mormon values, but I found it entirely possible to enjoy them anyway. I don't know whether to love or hate that feeling when you get to the end of a book and you think, "Yaay! Next story, please! Tell me what happens next!" and then there are no more books. I'm currently reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and next on my list will be some Cordwainer Smith. Never read any, I've been told I'm in for a treat. |
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« Reply #1409 on: September 18, 2012, 10:31:07 AM » |
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I found the first one predictable and very overrated and the sequels terrible.
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« Reply #1410 on: September 18, 2012, 12:18:12 PM » |
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I found the first one predictable and very overrated and the sequels terrible.
Yeah, that's about right. I liked the first one when I was 12, because it is written to directly appeal to 12 year old boys who are smart (or think they are smart) and are (at least slightly) misunderstood. But it's a shitty book that is completely Mary Sue (or Gary Stu, rather) wish fulfillment. Sort of like Ayn Rand, but more realistic, better written, and deeper. Oryx and Crake is decent, but definitely not Atwood's best work. I would recommend The Blind Assassin, as I personally think it's her best work. But whatever you do, don't read The Year of the Flood (the prequel, coquel [contemporaneous], and sequel to Oryx and Crake). It reads like someone's bad Oryx and Crake fanfiction. I'm rereading The Magicians. I'm picking up a lot of hints that I missed the first time through. Not the best book in the world, but it's fun. |
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« Reply #1411 on: September 24, 2012, 11:06:52 AM » |
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I'm rereading The Magicians. I'm picking up a lot of hints that I missed the first time through. Not the best book in the world, but it's fun.
It is definitely that. I still can't decide whether or not I liked it more than The Magician King. The Magician King felt like a ...larger story, somehow. Anyone know if Grossman's Codex is worth reading? I need to read something awesome when I'm done with Shrodinger's Cat (again). I have a couple of collections of Lovecraft that I never seem to be able to get into. Maybe I'll try that again. |
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« Reply #1412 on: October 02, 2012, 04:58:16 AM » |
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Just finished "A Game of Thrones."
I also just finished this book. little over halfway thru Clash of Kings now. Trying to get to the 3rd book. the tv show is what got me into it. i've always loved reading but never discovered george rr martin before. knew who he was, just never picked up anything of his. when i finished watching season 2, i just had to know what happened next and knew i couldn't wait a whole year for the show to come back on, so i picked up game of thrones and am furiously trying to get to book 3. |
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« Reply #1413 on: October 03, 2012, 10:28:44 AM » |
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A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. I haven't read much scifi before but this seems interesting.
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« Reply #1414 on: October 03, 2012, 03:09:52 PM » |
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Ultimate History of Videogames. Great read  |
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« Reply #1415 on: October 03, 2012, 09:16:21 PM » |
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plato's republic cuz of skooooooool
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« Reply #1416 on: October 04, 2012, 05:46:04 AM » |
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I'd definitely recommend "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vinge, if you like "A Fire Upon the Deep" even a little. It's a much better, more interesting book. |
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« Reply #1417 on: October 04, 2012, 06:15:57 AM » |
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well both stories are part of the same arc, aren't they?
And yeah vinge is the best author I've read in a long time.
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« Reply #1418 on: October 04, 2012, 09:40:34 AM » |
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Much Ado About Nothing for Intro to Shakespeare. It's pretty funny.
Also, ANSI Common Lisp by Graham for a CS class. Lisp is pretty fuckin' cool.
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« Reply #1419 on: October 04, 2012, 12:48:41 PM » |
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Castro by Reinhard Kleist
Collected ghost stories of M.R. James
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