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watching this doctor who christmas special because michael gabaldi is supposed to be in it but he's not in it also i'm pretty confused about what is happening
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Dec 26, 2013 09:13
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DiggityDoink posted:gently caress Red Mars is good, kinda mad i havent read this before. are Blue Mars and Green Mars as good?
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Dec 26, 2013 12:15
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FMguru posted:not as good. green has a pretty cool twist near the end, but only after 200 pages of people arguing politics and writing the martian constitution. blue is mostly politics (ho hum). theres also a book of short stories set at various points in the novels. all are worth reading but red is the best of the bunch. the Mars books are social scifi - politics is the point of them. the characterisation is just as strong in the sequels, and you still get the sense of awe at the landscape. i can understand that some people might get bored with the constitution stuff but I don't think you can argue that red mars sets up the sequels and then they go off a different way
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Dec 26, 2013 13:19
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shut up fags all three mars books are great
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Dec 26, 2013 14:06
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I read the Mars Trilogy when I was 14 and it probably helped shape my current political beliefs in a pretty big way. Thank god I didn't pick up an Ayn Rand book.
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Dec 26, 2013 14:55
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was given a delany novel for christmas (nova) to head off my desire to read dhalgren
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Greed is eternal posted:everything that was taken directly from the book owned and evertyhing Hackson added was poo poo. correct
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Dec 26, 2013 18:25
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:watching this doctor who christmas special because michael gabaldi is supposed to be in it but he's not in it just want to say the dr who thing was ok and better than most of the recent stuff. also clara is really pretty
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Dec 26, 2013 21:37
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toby posted:correct
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halfway through ancillary justice and it's p good so far y'all http://www.amazon.com/Ancillary-Justice-Ann-Leckie-ebook/dp/B00BAXFDLM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388092494&sr=8-1&keywords=ancillary+justice i guess it's leckie's first novel, and it's a pretty impressive debut
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Dec 26, 2013 22:16
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Trig Discipline posted:halfway through ancillary justice and it's p good so far y'all thanks, this looks right up my alley
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Dec 26, 2013 22:39
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Cold on a Cob posted:just ordered the philip k dick hardcover collection with some amazon gift monies i received i too got these amazon moneys guess its time to books
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Dec 26, 2013 23:02
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Dec 26, 2013 23:07
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Cold on a Cob posted:ｄｅｈｕｍａｎｉｚｅ  ｙｏｕｒｓｅｌｆ  ａｎｄ  ｆａｃｅ  ｔｏ  ｂｏｏｋｓ  went a bit mental on the Kindle Xmas Deals section, all new books 
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Dec 26, 2013 23:19
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I read the Mars Trilogy when I was 14 and it probably helped shape my current political beliefs in a pretty big way. yeah it led to me being insufferable in yr11 politics but as you say it coulda been heinlein
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Dec 26, 2013 23:19
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Jet Age posted:yeah it led to me being insufferable in yr11 politics but as you say it coulda been heinlein heinlein would have made the
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Dec 26, 2013 23:20
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hmm, seems awful.app doesn't like ASCII chars in quotes 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:hmm, seems awful.app doesn't like ASCII chars in quotes ｌｏｌ
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Dec 27, 2013 00:00
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NoneMoreNegative posted:hmm, seems awful.app doesn't like ASCII chars in quotes they're called fullwidth characters u gaijin
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Dec 27, 2013 00:01
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Opinion Haver posted:they're called fullwidth characters u gaijin Sorry, I reserve that term for seeing your family at a restaurant.
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Dec 27, 2013 00:04
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Dec 27, 2013 00:09
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
also i used to kindle a lot but guess i prefer the warm sound of analogue books plus i like the big covers
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Dec 27, 2013 00:18
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Cold on a Cob posted:also i used to kindle a lot but guess i prefer the warm sound of analogue books plus i like the big covers i also like physical books because they are very personal pieces of furniture in sufficient quantities
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Dec 27, 2013 05:23
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after having to move twice in two years i've decided my love of physical books has to take a back seat to practicality, and all in all the kindle is a pretty neat gadget (i still have a shitton of books to move again...)
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Dec 27, 2013 05:30
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i probably gained like 5 pounds of arm muscle reading the physical hardcover version of reamde so there's another advantage goddamn does stephenson like his doorstoppers
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Dec 27, 2013 05:31
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finished red mars earlier. im already basically arkady in political views so it wasn't revolutionary in ideas that way but gently caress if the first half wasn't some of the most interesting and enjoyable hard scifi ive ever read. the second half with john's story and all the poo poo going down are probably exactly what would happen too. 5/5 would read again on green mars now
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Dec 27, 2013 08:04
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i probably gained like 5 pounds of arm muscle reading the physical hardcover version of reamde so there's another advantage too bad the book is trash
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Dec 27, 2013 08:10
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Mad Wack posted:too bad the book is trash the 200 page MMO brainstorm would have been jerkoff time for my 16yo self and part of the time where thier in China (i think, been a while since I read it) was at least mildly amusing but then he had to go and turn it into "Midwest conservative gun loving family saves the US from brown people" including the most boring of all Stephenson endings, maybe because he actually wrapped it up in more than 10 pages
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Dec 27, 2013 09:10
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DiggityDoink posted:the 200 page MMO brainstorm would have been jerkoff time for my 16yo self and part of the time where thier in China (i think, been a while since I read it) was at least mildly amusing but then he had to go and turn it into "Midwest conservative gun loving family saves the US from brown people" including the most boring of all Stephenson endings, maybe because he actually wrapped it up in more than 10 pages I just labored through the Godfather trilogy, and I now understand the pizza box server analogy + possess a pizza-cutting katana. by me, age sanjuu
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Dec 27, 2013 09:13
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Metal Pink Babble posted:I just labored through the Godfather trilogy, and I now understand the pizza box server analogy + possess a pizza-cutting katana. by me, age sanjuu i know you are pain, dude who i barely understand most times
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Dec 27, 2013 10:26
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Base Emitter posted:after having to move twice in two years i've decided my love of physical books has to take a back seat to practicality, and all in all the kindle is a pretty neat gadget i am currently having to severely reduce my collection myself for a variety of reasons, and it is seriously like pulling teeth "do i really need a roget's thesaurus from 1937? it looks so good on the shelf, though" also during my latest re-organization and culling efforts, i discovered that my copy of "origin of species" was once owned by the us ambassador to mali during the nixon administration
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Dec 27, 2013 10:53
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goddamn do i want to go to mars or anywhere in space. i know i have no real skills needed for space travel and colonization other than being a mechanic but gently caress this gay earth
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Dec 27, 2013 11:03
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DiggityDoink posted:goddamn do i want to go to mars or anywhere in space. i know i have no real skills needed for space travel and colonization other than being a mechanic but gently caress this gay earth enjoy your cancer
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Dec 27, 2013 11:46
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if u think we're ever gonna build a colony on mars/the moon rather than just sending increasingly versatile robots, lol
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coffeetable posted:enjoy your cancer like you don't have a damned good chance of that already. lol if you wouldn't be one of the first people on mars cause you might die 10 years earlier. if i could step foot on mars, gently caress around for a day or two and then keel over, psure id be ok with that. DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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coffeetable posted:if u think we're ever gonna build a colony on mars/the moon rather than just sending increasingly versatile robots, lol dude, teh moon is made of cheese. if its crust is also stuffed with cheese, this must be some kind of pleidaean utopia that humans cannot fathom. i hear there is a towere on the moon made of... cheeeaeese! :urkel:
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DiggityDoink posted:like you don't have a damned good chance of that already. lol if you wouldn't be one if the first people on mars cause you might die 10 years earlier. if i could step foot on mars, gently caress around for a day or two and then keel over, psure id be ok with that. i know mars bars are made of inferior slave chocolate.
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Jonad posted:thanks, this looks right up my alley odd thing about this book: for the first time i can remember, i am halfway through a book and am completely unable to determine the gender of any of the main characters the reason for this makes sense in the narrative, but it's interesting as an illustration of a lot of the assumptions you make when reading fiction
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Mad Wack posted:too bad the book is trash i got more and more mad at that book as i read it but i kept reading it just to see how bad it would be verdict: preeeeetty bad
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