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AFancyQuestionMark posted:Can someone recommend me something with a focus on behind-the-scenes factional struggles/political machinations? Both fiction and non-fiction accessible to a layman will do. Anyone?
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Jan 26, 2019 07:44
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 Sorry, I got nothing. Edit: All the King's Men, maybe? Still need to read that one. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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Jan 26, 2019 08:19
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I would start with the house of cards series and look at readers also enjoyed on goodreads.
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Jan 26, 2019 11:59
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Edit: All the King's Men, maybe? Still need to read that one. That's actually a very good recommendation.
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Jan 26, 2019 12:26
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hackbunny posted:Personal recommendations: Awesome, thank you very much. I've read Skunk Works, but not the other two. I have a passing familiarity with the Ufimpstov (I think) work that laid the groundwork for stealth, as my background is in antennas and RF so I did some propagation work in school. Both the others sound good, I'll check em out. Anyone interested in aviation can't help but love the SR-71, and the liquid rocket stuff sounds interesting as well.
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Jan 26, 2019 20:47
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Edit: All the King's Men, maybe? Still need to read that one. funkybottoms posted:That's actually a very good recommendation. While All the King's Men is great in its way, I recommend the T. Harry Williams biography of Huey Long instead, which won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. You can see from the biography how Robert Penn Warren got the story for All the King's Men from Huey Long's life, but the biography gives more nuance (and more story). https://www.amazon.com/Huey-Long-T-Harry-Williams/dp/0394747909
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Jan 27, 2019 06:19
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uwaeve posted:Awesome, thank you very much. I've read Skunk Works, but not the other two. I have a passing familiarity with the Ufimpstov (I think) work that laid the groundwork for stealth, as my background is in antennas and RF so I did some propagation work in school. Once you've read Ignition, head on over to this thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3602006
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Jan 27, 2019 16:49
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:Can someone recommend me something with a focus on behind-the-scenes factional struggles/political machinations? Both fiction and non-fiction accessible to a layman will do. I, Claudius by Robert Graves is extremely good.
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Jan 27, 2019 17:26
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:Can someone recommend me something with a focus on behind-the-scenes factional struggles/political machinations? Both fiction and non-fiction accessible to a layman will do. I've recommended it before, but Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, is a good read.
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Jan 27, 2019 22:23
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions, I'll be sure to put all of these on my reading list!
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Jan 28, 2019 12:01
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Looking for a sci-fi book that's basically post apocalyptic but also futuristic. So science and technology has moved ahead and then society collapsed, say like the Fallout universe.
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Jan 29, 2019 19:47
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ravenkult posted:Looking for a sci-fi book that's basically post apocalyptic but also futuristic. So science and technology has moved ahead and then society collapsed, say like the Fallout universe. Tons of options, in no particular order: Blackfish City Autonomous Snow Crash 2312 Ilium Anathem (it has the tone you’re talking about, I think) Children of Time The Stars are Legion
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Jan 29, 2019 20:15
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ravenkult posted:Looking for a sci-fi book that's basically post apocalyptic but also futuristic. So science and technology has moved ahead and then society collapsed, say like the Fallout universe.
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Jan 30, 2019 00:39
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ravenkult posted:Looking for a sci-fi book that's basically post apocalyptic but also futuristic. So science and technology has moved ahead and then society collapsed, say like the Fallout universe. The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe.
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Jan 30, 2019 03:05
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ravenkult posted:Looking for a sci-fi book that's basically post apocalyptic but also futuristic. So science and technology has moved ahead and then society collapsed, say like the Fallout universe. Viriconium by M. John Harrison.
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Jan 30, 2019 06:17
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ravenkult posted:Looking for a sci-fi book that's basically post apocalyptic but also futuristic. So science and technology has moved ahead and then society collapsed, say like the Fallout universe. Jeff Vandermeer's Borne
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Jan 30, 2019 11:20
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Engine Summer
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Jan 30, 2019 11:38
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funkybottoms posted:Jeff Vandermeer's Borne sucks like a gaping chest wound. blows like the winds to the east.
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Jan 30, 2019 16:37
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chernobyl kinsman posted:sucks like a gaping chest wound. blows like the winds to the east. That's helpful. I didn't love it- and it certainly cribbed off of King's The Wastelands pretty hard- but I liked it well enough and certainly fits OP's requirements, so...
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Jan 31, 2019 02:13
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i mean this in the purest spirit of christian charity: if you derived any pleasure, any at all, from jeff vandermeer's borne, then you are quite probably missing large swaths of your brain and should be put in a home for your own safety
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Jan 31, 2019 02:52
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Edit: There was definitely a post somewhere in this forum about morality of authors, but it seems not here. My post doesn't really mean much without it.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:08
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funkybottoms posted:That's helpful. I didn't love it- and it certainly cribbed off of King's The Wastelands pretty hard- but I liked it well enough and certainly fits OP's requirements, so... I feel the same.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:10
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tuyop posted:I feel the same. Maybe we should join a group therapy session.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:13
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Is that the one with the MoonPies
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Jan 31, 2019 03:25
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Could someone explain what's up with Borne? Or is this just chernobyl kinsman trying to out-rear end in a top hat A human heart
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Jan 31, 2019 03:26
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Some people freak out if someone finds pleasure in something they personally don’t care for. It’s a self-esteem thing.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:35
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StrixNebulosa posted:Could someone explain what's up with Borne? Or is this just chernobyl kinsman trying to out-rear end in a top hat A human heart It's the second one, though I don't doubt that he didn't like the book.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:36
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Dadbod Apocalypse posted:It’s a self-esteem thing.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:37
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Actually, it's just fun to be a dick on the Internet. Yeah man Penny Arcade covered this like 15 years ago.  Glad to see so many following in that noble tradition.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:42
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Actually, it's just fun to be a dick on the Internet. I've heard about this, but I'm paranoid of finally trying this out and pissing off the one turbo-creep who can trace my IP address, find me and kill my dog and then me, so. Better to be a decent person than risk my dog.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:45
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StrixNebulosa posted:Could someone explain what's up with Borne? Or is this just chernobyl kinsman trying to out-rear end in a top hat A human heart it's a bad book, hth
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Jan 31, 2019 03:48
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sorry i was mean about the artistic merit of the book in which a plant-squid fights a giant bear and which finally, in desperate attempt to have some kind of point, makes itself into a hamfisted and blandly anticorporate metaphor about either how climate change impoverishes the future to enrich the present or how colonialism is bad, possibly both
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Jan 31, 2019 03:52
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chernobyl kinsman posted:sorry i was mean about the artistic merit of the book in which a plant-squid fights a giant bear and which finally, in desperate attempt to have some kind of point, makes itself into a hamfisted and blandly anticorporate metaphor about either how climate change impoverishes the future to enrich the present or how colonialism is bad, possibly both Just for the record, if your actual goal is to stop people from reading a book, posting a quick synopsis like this is a lot more effective than saying people that enjoyed it to any extent are mentally damaged. But that wasn't really your goal, so carry on.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:58
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presumably before reading the book one would glance at the dust jacket, see the words "giant bear", and then decide to read it anyway, thereby signalling a perhaps crippling level of cognitive incapability
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Jan 31, 2019 04:02
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chernobyl kinsman posted:presumably before reading the book one would glance at the dust jacket, see the words "giant bear", and then decide to read it anyway, thereby signalling a perhaps crippling level of cognitive incapability And yet you seem to have read it, so...
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Jan 31, 2019 04:04
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took you a while but you got there in the end
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Jan 31, 2019 04:05
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If the bear fucks a human, though, that's good, like the classic Canadian novel Bear, by Marian Engel, about a bear that fucks a human.
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Jan 31, 2019 04:07
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This one's for chernobyl kinsman:
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Jan 31, 2019 04:22
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Sham bam bamina! posted:If the bear fucks a human, though, that's good, like the classic Canadian novel Bear, by Marian Engel, about a bear that fucks a human. that book is on my to read list partly because there's a bunch of funny reviews online freaking out at the concept
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Ornamented Death posted:This one's for chernobyl kinsman: they shoulda called it stillborne am i right folks
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