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#1127
Posté 12 août 2013 - 08:09
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Just finished War Master's Gate, which is book 9 of the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
I'm rather fond of this one chapter it has that featured a big air battle between steampunk-style aircraft on one side, and giant killer hornets on the other. Good times.
Gonna start reading Time of Contempt next for some hot Geralt of Rivia action.
Also got the premium reprint from earlier this year of the ADnD 2nd edition Monstrous Manual on my nightstand.
I'm rather fond of this one chapter it has that featured a big air battle between steampunk-style aircraft on one side, and giant killer hornets on the other. Good times.
Gonna start reading Time of Contempt next for some hot Geralt of Rivia action.
Also got the premium reprint from earlier this year of the ADnD 2nd edition Monstrous Manual on my nightstand.
#1128
Posté 12 août 2013 - 08:11
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Great North Road - Peter F. Hamilton. I've had this sci-fi novel a while, and I'm finally getting around to it after whittling my reading list down a fair bit - lol.
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Posté 15 août 2013 - 01:54
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It's funny and not in any way academic. It's glorious, I would happily recommend to anyone.
#1132
Posté 15 août 2013 - 02:53
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I am finally getting around to reading Atlas Shrugged. I have doubts I'll finish the whole thing. It's massive.
#1134
Posté 19 août 2013 - 06:52
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Iain M. Banks, RIP. One of the greatest SciFi writers of the last 25 years.
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Posté 19 août 2013 - 07:55
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The Second Foundation. By Mr.Asmiov himself. I prefer this one to the Foundation and Empire book.
#1137
Posté 20 août 2013 - 10:39
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Addai67 wrote...
I am finally getting around to reading Atlas Shrugged. I have doubts I'll finish the whole thing. It's massive.
I wish you well in your endeavour. Get used to graphic negative ad hominem descriptions of the silly socialists who believe in things like collaboration and not slaughtering people who cannot contribute in nonfinancial ways to society.
The Fountainhead is shorter and less brutal.
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#1138
Posté 20 août 2013 - 10:52
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Fiddles dee dee wrote...
Addai67 wrote...
I am finally getting around to reading Atlas Shrugged. I have doubts I'll finish the whole thing. It's massive.
I wish you well in your endeavour. Get used to graphic negative ad hominem descriptions of the silly socialists who believe in things like collaboration and not slaughtering people who cannot contribute in nonfinancial ways to society.
The Fountainhead is shorter and less brutal.
Indeed. Ayn Rand and her objectivist movement....
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Posté 20 août 2013 - 10:57
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Fiddles dee dee wrote...
Unfortunately, I don't read a lot of books like this anymore. They're good reads, but when I have a combination of other interests and pursuits taking up my time (like the BSN
) and the internet being able to tell me everything I need to know about it, I just never get myself to pick up the book anymore.I'm reading a 'A Marine Diary: My Experiences On Guadalcanal' currently.
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#1142
Posté 20 août 2013 - 11:36
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#1143
Posté 20 août 2013 - 11:40
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Fiddles dee dee wrote...
It's funny and not in any way academic. It's glorious, I would happily recommend to anyone.
Jimmy Carr is awesome.
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Posté 20 août 2013 - 11:50
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The Psychopath Test by Ron Jonson
#1145
Posté 20 août 2013 - 11:50
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mavqt wrote...
Fiddles dee dee wrote...
It's funny and not in any way academic. It's glorious, I would happily recommend to anyone.
Jimmy Carr is awesome.
If you like him you should read it. Its got lots of jokes in it.
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#1147
Posté 26 août 2013 - 06:35
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The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.
#1148
Posté 26 août 2013 - 07:05
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Just wrapped up The Wrong Box (R.L.Stevenson/ Lloyd Osbourne). Gotta love all the stuff that's out of copyright. I think I'll DL Moby Dick next -- haven't touched that one since I was an undergrad.
In physical books, I'm nearing the end of The Guns at Last Light, with Gene Wolfe's Home Fires on deck.
In physical books, I'm nearing the end of The Guns at Last Light, with Gene Wolfe's Home Fires on deck.
#1149
Posté 26 août 2013 - 10:41
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A book about Geological Morphology.
#1150
Posté 26 août 2013 - 11:06
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I'm reading one of the best novels I've read in years.
William Gibson's- Virtual Light.
After reading Neuromancer, and the rest of the "Sprawl Trilogy" as well as Spook County and now Virtual Light, I think I'm nearing the inevitable. Giving Gibson the title as the greatest science fiction writer in the history of the medium.
If Ernest Hemingway wrote scifi, it would be Gibson's voice. He's that good.
William Gibson's- Virtual Light.
After reading Neuromancer, and the rest of the "Sprawl Trilogy" as well as Spook County and now Virtual Light, I think I'm nearing the inevitable. Giving Gibson the title as the greatest science fiction writer in the history of the medium.
If Ernest Hemingway wrote scifi, it would be Gibson's voice. He's that good.
