EPTDiscworld owns
and the man is a genius
so entertaining
2013 - What are you reading? - Page 42
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
Discworld owns and the man is a genius so entertaining | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
![[image loading]](http://skhole.fr/sites/default/files/u1/The_Human_Condition.jpg) Passionating. The best criticism of modernity I've ever encountered ![[image loading]](http://www.laparafe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/9782253059103-G1.jpg) The second tome of In search of Lost Time. Still the greatest novel I've ever read. Beautiful writing and incredible psychology and art understanding. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17440 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.altweeklies.com/imager/ian-bogost-reveals-how-to-do-things-with-videogames/b/main/4670024/e588/st110809120237.jpg) How To Do Things With Videogames by Ian Bogost Pretty enlightening and extremely insightful. | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
On my agenda for next is still The Hunger Games and also Kafka's The Metamorphosis which I've somehow not yet read. | ||
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vgijamven
Sweden95 Posts
 Made me spend 76€ on books. Well, at least I'm geared up for the winter... | ||
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shinyA
United States473 Posts
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Juggernaut477
United States379 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/NMXmw.jpg) Then gonna read the Hobbit for the first time,or continue to Dance with Dragons. | ||
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jusTjoshin
United States66 Posts
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OsoVega
926 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/170110000/170112624.JPG) Planning on starting this soon. | ||
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Zozma
United States1626 Posts
Now I'm reading this: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/FrankHerbert_Dune_1st.jpg) (with a different cover, obviously, which I couldn't find a picture of. It's a great book, though!) | ||
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kaihangkk
8 Posts
where do you get your books usually? | ||
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mememolly
4765 Posts
![[image loading]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2v1i_TcQl5g/TZLLR1e_HpI/AAAAAAAAE0c/xLv-xTQqAeo/s1600/physics-of-the-future.jpg) Quick ramble: It's good but I think Kaku underestimates the likely hood that a lot of this new technology will be used for simply gratifying our primitive desires in the same way that mindless distractions like TV and some aspects of the internet do now (that is not to say that all TV is bad or the internet but like anything it is open to abuse and I think a lot of what he talks about in this book may push us to the point where we find it hard not to abuse and totally sacrifice our "humanity" in order to gratify our desires). Also, I think he underestimates the fact that a lot of these advancements are going to be co-opted and abused by the military industrial complex and it's naive to think that human life for the average joe is actually going to improve because of these advancements or whether we will become enslaved to them (in a sense) and immersed in them to the point where we can no longer distinguish between what's "real" and what is some aspect or byproduct of the technology. Not to mention the fact that huge corporations might use these advancements to further their stranglehold on our attention and thus our money etc. In other words will we end up in a situation posited in DFW's novel Infinitie Jest where entertainment and mindless distractions will become so captivating and good at assuaging our primitive desires that we lose our humanity (whatever the fuck that is). Having said that the book is showing and reminding me of how amazing the human brain is and to me so far the most startlingly revelation is just how amazing our human brains are, there is a section where super computers and AI are discussed and they are laughable compared to the human mind, just amazing what we have between our ears. | ||
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YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
Namely "Hyperion" and "The fall of hyperion" by Dan Simmons And the first five books in the enders game series in publicised order: Ender's Game (1985) - Nebula Award winner, 1985;[1] Hugo Award winner, 1986;[1] Locus Award nominee, 1986[1] Speaker for the Dead (1986) - Nebula Award winner, 1986;[1] Hugo & Locus Awards winner, 1987;[1] Campbell Award nominee, 1987[1] Xenocide (1991) - Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1992[6] Children of the Mind (1996) Ender's Shadow (1999) - Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2000 | ||
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qqK
Germany282 Posts
On October 01 2012 20:13 YoucriedWolf wrote: Namely "Hyperion" and "The fall of hyperion" by Dan Simmons And the first five books in the enders game series in publicised order: Ender's Game (1985) - Nebula Award winner, 1985;[1] Hugo Award winner, 1986;[1] Locus Award nominee, 1986[1] Speaker for the Dead (1986) - Nebula Award winner, 1986;[1] Hugo & Locus Awards winner, 1987;[1] Campbell Award nominee, 1987[1] Xenocide (1991) - Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1992[6] Children of the Mind (1996) Ender's Shadow (1999) - Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2000 Calling Xenocide and Children of the Mind great SF is pretty far-fetched. | ||
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Deimos0
Poland277 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ecsmedia.pl/c/upal-b-iext7511450.jpg) I'm reading The Heat, by Polish writer Marcin Ciszewski. It's a novel about fictional terrorist attack during the Euro 2012 match in Warsaw. | ||
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YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
On October 01 2012 20:27 qqK wrote: Calling Xenocide and Children of the Mind great SF is pretty far-fetched. Not stand alone I agree. As a continuation of the series. They are good though. | ||
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twsx
Switzerland29 Posts
Not exactly totally bad as I expected, it actually reads okay. The naughty scenes, if read with analytic intent (which, being from a country that is not sexually repressive, is quite easy), are actually quite hilarious. The sentence that made me burst out laughing because of its utter crudeness: (Sort-of-NFSW Spoiler)+ Show Spoiler + “Aargh!” I cry as I feel a weird pinching sensation deep inside me as he rips through my virginity. | ||
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DaPhinoXX
United States6 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.comicsbulletin.com/main/sites/default/files/features/images/Top%20Ten%20manga/akira1.jpeg) If you have not read these or watched the movie, do so now. Between Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Ender's Game, I consider these novels to be one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On October 01 2012 20:27 qqK wrote: Calling Xenocide and Children of the Mind great SF is pretty far-fetched. I thoght they were enjoyable enough. Just because they were weaker than the first two means they get more flak than they should... | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
Now reading: Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. I've started but not finished this before, so I'm picking it back up. Pretty fascinating, and HST writes non-fiction so compellingly compared to pretty much anyone else I've read. On October 03 2012 05:41 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I thoght they were enjoyable enough. Just because they were weaker than the first two means they get more flak than they should... Didn't enjoy them at all, total slogs, and I'm someone who thought Speaker for the Dead was great. | ||
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