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Sorry Sam, but I am still a strong believer in rationality and the power of discourse even with drones flying around
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
Sorry Sam, but I am still a strong believer in rationality and the power of discourse even with drones flying around | ||
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Sumahi
Guam5609 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/mQJYFZk.jpg) I've been on a mission to read every Jack Reacher book this year. I finally picked up the 18th book, the last one to read. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On September 20 2013 15:09 Shiragaku wrote: Sorry Sam, but I am still a strong believer in rationality and the power of discourse even with drones flying around beep... beeep.... beeep.... KABOOOOM! sorry, what were you saying? :p | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
On September 20 2013 15:14 sam!zdat wrote: beep... beeep.... beeep.... KABOOOOM! sorry, what were you saying? :p I take it back, I guess I was wrong  Imma read this book again now ![[image loading]](http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/364007626/FREE-SHIPPING-10PCS-QUOTATIONS-FROM-CHAIRMAN-MAO-TSE-TUNG-font-b-Chinese-b-font-font-b.jpg) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!??!?! ![[image loading]](http://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/chansub-global-emoticon-d31223e81104544a-24x18.png) | ||
Xxio
Canada5565 Posts
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
On September 20 2013 15:19 Xxio wrote: Young Mao's essays are badass. Yeah, I agree. Even though I have left and condemned most of Maoism, I really liked his early essays, especially Combat Liberalism. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm But I feel that most of his philosophy in the end is a bit superfluous and on level with Ayn Rand. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On September 20 2013 15:03 sam!zdat wrote: it's about a campaign strategist who can tell the future, kinda. Well at first he can only use statistics and intuitions and stuff but then later he can see the future. I don't know how it ends yet. robert silverberg is one of my absolute favorite writers and it's just awesome. All of his books are about religion (despite my advisor's protests, what does he know) which is why I like him.. So the themes in this one are about predestination vs flux (e.g. calvinism vs daoism) and things like that. This is not his best novel or anything but I like everything I've read by him so far (for some reason I did not read him in high school so it is all new to me, which is rad) he's not really a 'stochastic man' it's just called that because that's the kind of thing SF novels are called edit @above: yes have you? No, but Amazon reviewers are raving about it. Saying it's better than Catcher in the Rye and unfairly discriminated against for being SF. I was wondering what your impression was. | ||
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TOCHMY
Sweden1692 Posts
On August 26 2013 23:38 TOCHMY wrote: Finished: ![[image loading]](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1178660247l/818123.jpg) I don't know what to say about this book... I guess I'm not really that satisfied by short stories. Some were good, some were weird and some were a waste of time. But regardless of how good they were, they didn't satisfy me. Still trudging through: ![[image loading]](http://anyiko.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/gabriel-garcia-marquez-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-04.jpg) It's going really really slow for me with this one. I just can't seem to find motivation to keep reading it. Partly because it's hard for me to comprehend what's happening sometimes, and partly because stuff is happening all over the place, much of which isn't that interesting to be honest. I know this book's been praised alot in this thread. I guess I'm one of those less erudite people in this thread. Just arrived: ![[image loading]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RSub0VjLWU8/TOJA8Hf53tI/AAAAAAAABKo/f50i99I2H9Q/s320/amsterdam.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1343059311l/13578175.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kHAI3kSeA2g/T37WZgx7lmI/AAAAAAAAFEU/K0EzME1t0qA/s400/The+Witcher+USA.jpg) I started The Last Wish today and it looks really promising! Best part is that I have a clear understanding of how the various monsters in the book looks like, since I played the game. Always useful! Finished: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c5/Elantris_cover.jpg/200px-Elantris_cover.jpg) I have yet to read a book by Brandon Sanderson that I didn't like. While Elantris is the book I've enjoyed least by him, it was still great. His character development skills is on another level. ![[image loading]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4f7SgzBsUIc/TSWglXIFFpI/AAAAAAAAAFs/yo-zkzakmvg/s400/amsterdam.jpg) I got recommended this book by an english teacher that comes to my work from time to time. His favourite author is Ian McEwan and he recommended me Amsterdam and Enduring Love. Amsterdam was... okay I guess. The main character is dead from page 1 and I didn't feel any kind of connection to the other characters in the book. I don't know really. The plot was okayish but the execution could be better. Currently reading: ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wSPtNU0iL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg){kind=icon} Book 2 about Geralt the witcher. I love these books! Up next: ![[image loading]](http://functionalnerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-Emperors-Soul.jpg) Brandon Sanderson <3 Just ordered: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://gatheringbooks.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/hm-danceukpaper.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.adlibris.com/images/1439283/when-giants-walked-the-earth-a-biography-of-led-zeppelin.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/TCoM.cover.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348506712l/10137823.jpg) Brandon Sanderson <3 | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On September 20 2013 16:49 sam!zdat wrote: I'm not sure what it has to do with catcher in the rye but yeah that book is great Something about alienation and loneliness? | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On September 20 2013 17:19 sam!zdat wrote: I guess. Anyway yeah go read that book. And then go read more books by robert silverberg because robert silverberg is the fucking bomb What makes you say "Calvinist" in reference to fate and foreknowledge of the future rather than Oedipal? Calvin is a hack. Oedipus Rex is universal. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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xarchaosx
United States89 Posts
![[image loading]](http://images.ecampus.com/images/d/5/225/9780915145225.jpg<br>) ![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/p/9780156027649_p0_v2_s260x420.JPG) ![[image loading]](http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls1kikQ4eK1r3nf7fo1_400.jpg) and to top it all off ![[image loading]](http://images.betterworldbooks.com/006/Poetry-Language-Thought-Heidegger-Martin-9780060937287.jpg) | ||
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Xxio
Canada5565 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On September 20 2013 23:47 sam!zdat wrote: greek fate and calvinist predestination are completely different animals It's not that they aren't, but it seems like the Stochastic Man might be more like Oedipus based on your sparse description. Man finds out future. Man doesn't like future. Man tries to avoid future. Man fulfills prophecy anyway (guessing)? I assume Stochastic Man doesn't actually have the protagonist predict some behavior he doesn't want to do, and then he does it anyway despite not wanting to do it in a very direct sense. Or maybe he realizes he has to do it. Or maybe he decides he wants to right before he does it. What additional details make it Calvinist for you? What are the thematic differences between Calvinist predestination and Greek fate in your eyes? | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + The Creature isn't the Monster, Dr. Frankenstein aka Humanity is the monster. All the tragedy that bestows Frankenstein occur because of his evil. The creature wanted love yet blinded by his arrogance and self proclaimed "humanity" he refuses and throws the creature into a vengeance. In the end Man ends it all without remorse only self pity yet the creature the supposed monster, mourns. | ||
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