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tuyop posted:Well, poo poo, I've run out of my queue of sci fi. Stephen Baxter's NASA series; Voyage, Titan, Moonseed
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tuyop posted:Well, poo poo, I've run out of my queue of sci fi. Mote in God's Eye was really good
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Oct 21, 2018 14:59
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I’ll get that! I’m really enjoying Spin so far, so thank you for that recommendation.
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Oct 21, 2018 15:10
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Mote in God's Eye had a lot of good stuff and also hilariously stupid poo poo, such as, "Human woman have to stop working once they're pregnant!".
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Oct 21, 2018 22:47
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Anyone have any nonfiction recommendations of books about Renaissance intrigue? Court plots, assassinations, politics, stuff that has firsthand letters and journal entries - that is, stuff at a fairly personal level. I'm also interested in odd period details or folk customs/beliefs. (War campaigns and detailed battles are things I'm not too keen on)
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Oct 21, 2018 23:57
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Christoph posted:Anyone have any nonfiction recommendations of books about Renaissance intrigue? Court plots, assassinations, politics, stuff that has firsthand letters and journal entries - that is, stuff at a fairly personal level. I'm also interested in odd period details or folk customs/beliefs. (War campaigns and detailed battles are things I'm not too keen on) If you haven't tried The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini yet, you ought to. It's a great read, although be warned that Cellini is far from a reliable autobiographer.
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Oct 22, 2018 00:21
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tuyop posted:I'm looking for good hard SF, FTL and dumb dogfighty space battles are pretty much right out for me. I loved Chasing Ice, Children of Time, and Rendezvous With Rama, among others. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora.
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Oct 22, 2018 00:37
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Khizan posted:Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora. I loved that book, good recommendation.
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Christoph posted:Anyone have any nonfiction recommendations of books about Renaissance intrigue? Court plots, assassinations, politics, stuff that has firsthand letters and journal entries - that is, stuff at a fairly personal level. I'm also interested in odd period details or folk customs/beliefs. (War campaigns and detailed battles are things I'm not too keen on) The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
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Pretty drat close to finished "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. All in all a story I very much enjoyed (and I didn't think I was going to first, but the details and the charm of the main character sold me) and it was interesting reading something by a non-white author. I'll be looking for new things to read soon, so are there any recomendations along similar lines?
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Oct 23, 2018 20:15
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OscarDiggs posted:Pretty drat close to finished "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. All in all a story I very much enjoyed (and I didn't think I was going to first, but the details and the charm of the main character sold me) and it was interesting reading something by a non-white author. I'll be looking for new things to read soon, so are there any recomendations along similar lines? Good fiction by non-white authors? Off the tip of my head, check out: Beloved by Toni Morrison Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (I liked it much better than The Kite Runner) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Zone One by Colson Whitehead (it's a zombie book, but it's also very poetic and he just won the Pulitzer! For a different book.) Blindness by José Saramago One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
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Oct 23, 2018 20:55
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tuyop posted:Blindness by José Saramago Your definition of white seems extremely problematic
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Oct 23, 2018 21:12
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Ras Het posted:Your definition of white seems extremely problematic Latinx people are “white” where you come from??? Edit: I guess Saramago is from Portugal, oops. Still a good book though! tuyop fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Oct 23, 2018 21:22
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I mean feel free to racialise Latin America if you feel like that's helpful, but considering Portuguese people "non-white", really? How about Italians? Or the French?
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Ras Het posted:I mean feel free to racialise Latin America if you feel like that's helpful, but considering Portuguese people "non-white", really? How about Italians? Or the French? Yeah I thought he was Brazilian, my bad.
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tuyop posted:Latinx people are “white” where you come from??? There's both white and nonwhite people in latin america so even if he was from Brazil I'm not sure how that would change things
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Well, sure. But the whole concept of whiteness and race in general is absolutely made up bullshit. I’m just trying to give a goon a list of books by authors I thought fit their criteria! Next you’re going to tell me that, say, Junot Díaz isn’t “African American” because he’s from Dominican Republic and doesn’t fit the blood quanta for East African slave ancestry or something, it’s all absurd!
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i need to know the exact skull measurements of any given author before i choose to read their books. its the only way to be sure whether they be of the caucasoid, mongoloid, negroid, or australoid race
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Oct 24, 2018 02:23
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i need to know the exact skull measurements of any given author before i choose to read their books. its the only way to be sure whether they be of the caucasoid, mongoloid, negroid, or australoid race You left out Iberian
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Oct 24, 2018 02:30
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If you want a good book by a non-white author, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is both really good and really brutal. Picture a lady in the library, picking up the book and going "what's this" and then spending the next hour sitting in the upstairs comfy seat by the window, eyes wide open as horrible things happen in Jamaica.
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Oct 24, 2018 02:41
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:You left out Iberian once again forcibly removed from a book signing for attempting to apply calipers to saramago's head
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Oct 24, 2018 03:30
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Just about finished with Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death and can strongly recommend it. It's probably a bit too genre for some but if you like a little magic in your post apocalyptic Africa-based stories it might be for you.
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Oct 24, 2018 03:46
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro must be such a suprise for fans of Japanese literature.
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OscarDiggs posted:Pretty drat close to finished "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. All in all a story I very much enjoyed (and I didn't think I was going to first, but the details and the charm of the main character sold me) and it was interesting reading something by a non-white author. I'll be looking for new things to read soon, so are there any recomendations along similar lines? Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Oct 24, 2018 |
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Oct 24, 2018 10:28
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OscarDiggs posted:Pretty drat close to finished "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. All in all a story I very much enjoyed (and I didn't think I was going to first, but the details and the charm of the main character sold me) and it was interesting reading something by a non-white author. I'll be looking for new things to read soon, so are there any recomendations along similar lines? Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Giovanni's Room, or anything else by James Baldwin Anything by Toni Morrison but my favorites are The Bluest Eye and Sula
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OscarDiggs posted:Pretty drat close to finished "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. All in all a story I very much enjoyed (and I didn't think I was going to first, but the details and the charm of the main character sold me) and it was interesting reading something by a non-white author. I'll be looking for new things to read soon, so are there any recomendations along similar lines? Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Maru by Bessie Head
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Kind of an odd request, but would anyone know of a good - more popular than scientific - book about the history of paleontology? Stories of the people and expeditions that dug up dinosaurs, that kind of thing.
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anilEhilated posted:Kind of an odd request, but would anyone know of a good - more popular than scientific - book about the history of paleontology? Stories of the people and expeditions that dug up dinosaurs, that kind of thing. Bone Wars by Tom Rea about the turn of last century battlebetween Marsh at Yale and Cope in New York and how Andrew Carnegie wanted his own dinosaurs in Pittsburgh. Quest for the African Dinosaurs by Louis Jacobs. Recent dinosaur hunting in Mali iirc Hunting Dinosaurs by Louis Psihoyos--profiles of then current, now aging, dinosaur hunters Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin, about the finding of Tiktaalik in part. Living Fossil by Keith Thompson, about the rediscovery of living coelacanths Dinosaur Lives by Jack Horner, about whatever the hell Jack was talking about in that book. And there are many others, about the AMNH's Mongolian expeditions headed by Barnum Brown, say, or the one about Sue the T. rex. Now if you want deeper histories, like say into early supporters of Darwin like Huxley, or Mary Anning (who has a book about her published in the past year or two) LMK. Gould often gets into the history of disovery and development of evolutionary thinking so his collections of essays are all highly recommended (and Wonderful Life pretty much mandatory reading). These are a few recommendations I just pulled off the shelf to my right.
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This is just a general recommendation, not an answer to any request. I’m reading a book called Herokiller by Paul Tassi. It’s about a Special Ops spy in a dystopian but believable future America sent to compete in a Hunger Games slash Modern Coliseum Gladiator Battle reality show. The show is backed by a tech zillionaire who may be an agent for Communist China. Hero is ultimately supposed to get dirt on and take down the zillionaire. It’s got great writing, compelling characters, very interesting and well established setting... I like it enough to recommend it here even though I’m still in the second of 3 acts. Pick it up if you’re looking for a fun action packed character drama to read.
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Bilirubin posted:Bone Wars by Tom Rea about the turn of last century battlebetween Marsh at Yale and Cope in New York and how Andrew Carnegie wanted his own dinosaurs in Pittsburgh. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Oct 26, 2018 |
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Oct 26, 2018 08:39
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anilEhilated posted:These sound perfect, thanks! No problem. These sorts of books are a bit of a cottage industry in paleontology--if you want more recommendations just PM.
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achtungnight posted:This is just a general recommendation, not an answer to any request. Hi paul
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Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. Bonus round: The primary source of narrative conflict or adversity for our heroes is something that can't be summed up as "and then some rear end in a top hat(s) shows up" or "and then Bill did something inexplicably stupid for absolutely no good reason".
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Splicer posted:Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. You might dig The Terror by Dan Simmons.
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Splicer posted:Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. Station Eleven is pretty good for these.
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Franchescanado posted:Station Eleven is pretty good for these. *yes I'm aware he's a specific rear end in a top hat e: That came out a little harsh, I appreciate the recommendation, it's just the polar opposite of what I'm looking for. I was actually very annoyed by Station Eleven. I'm basically looking for the film Contagion, but longer and in book form. Splicer fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Splicer posted:Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. The first thing to come to mind is Lucifer's Hammer, but I can't in all good conscience recommend it. So, uh, On the Beach?
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Splicer posted:Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. Sort of a given here, but how about The Stand?
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Splicer posted:Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. Alas Babylon is about people in a small town dealing with the effects of a nuclear war being fought elsewhere. When Worlds Collide is about rogues planets causing stuff like earthquakes and tsunamis as scientists try to make a spaceship they can escape in. Level 7 is about people living in an automated bunker where they are always waiting for the order to fire nuclear missiles (and eventually the order comes, of course).
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I recently rewatched the film adaptation of The Assassination Bureau (I haven't read the novel - I'm not conversant with Jack London so if it is worth reading please let me know). It has a secret society, a daring suffragette reporter, a plot to assassinate the crowned heads of Europe and also the President of France (it's set in 1910) and a showdown involving a zeppelin. I was wondering if anyone can recommend any adventure novels which have a similar sort of vibe, or alternatively homages to/pastiches of that kind of storytelling.
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