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read books you poo poo rear end dumb as gently caress morons
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sorry, that was rude please read books you poo poo rear end dumb as gently caress morons
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Dec 20, 2017 20:42
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I just finished Authority, the followup to soon-to-be-movie Annihilation I'm probably the only person in the world who enjoyed it as much or more than Annihilation. The latter was a fun book but I am, quite frankly, sick to loving death of Lovecraftian horror poo poo and it leaned quite heavily on it, especially near the end when I started kind of skimming. Authority is the followup centering around the institution that has been tasked to research Area X and it plays out like a supernaturally mysterious drama of bureaucratic infighting and power struggled, with a Lovecraftian end that wasn't so hammered on. I enjoyed it, but not sure I enjoyed it enough to move onto book 3
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Dec 20, 2017 20:49
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Peanut President posted:I only read 1 book and that is the bible same but instead of the bible it's Top Dog: Marmaduke at 50
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Dec 20, 2017 20:49
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mormonpartyboat posted:ive been reading woody allen's book getting even he adopted an underage girl for the purposes of loving her and making him his wife the bitcoin of weed posted:the divide seems really good and i should probably read it but i feel like I'd get dangerously mad and blow out my eardrums or something read The Divide and The New Jim Crow back 2 back and transcend to Anger Elemental
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Dec 20, 2017 21:16
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mormonpartyboat posted:oh really takes hold of ya and doesn't let go
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Dec 21, 2017 00:49
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pitch me on it, I read a few reviews on it and they mentioned "disjoined" and "post-modern" so I immediately didn't like it
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Dec 21, 2017 01:06
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I've been reading this slowly over the last month or so, one short story at a time It's quite awesome so far. The premise is that there is a Jupiter-sized ship, billions of years old, that was found traveling the depths of space and claimed as salvage by humanity and built up and established by them, that has become home to thousands of alien species and millions of humans - all made effectively immortal by scientific advances so some stories span thousands of years with the same characters - and the interactions and stories that crop up as a result. Everything I have read so far has been awesome and unique and made me think, and the first one "Alone" is a truly unqiue and very sci-fi tale in the vein of what Asimov would've written if he had been influenced heavily by Philip K Dick Not all stories are limited to the ship itself, but do not suffer for it at all...in one, the character effectively gestates for 10,000 years and then lands on a planet where she "dies" a couple times before being declared as a god, then you get to watch her live through the roilings and upheavals of being the deified figure head of thousands of years of governance as she herself tries to find her place in the world with nobody to help or guide her I highly recommend it Epic High Five has issued a correction as of 04:41 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Dec 21, 2017 04:39
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deep web creep posted:Picked up The Greatship last night and really like it so far. It strikes me like a harder Culture series with actual stakes and a way more interesting setting. Alone and Mere are two of my fav short stories ever, good pick putting them near the front. Never read any of the Culture stuff, but if it runs on themes similar to the early stories I'll check it out StashAugustine posted:Blindsight was really good but incredibly loving depressing This is a big reason why I liked it. If you want something along the same lines (encountering something truly alien) that is less depressing, check out Solaris.
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Dec 23, 2017 22:50
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deep web creep posted:If you're going to read any Culture stuff, try Excession. Can I just pick up in the middle of the series and not miss much?
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Dec 24, 2017 00:21
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Just finished The Fountains of Paradise and I was pleasantly surprised Dipping in and out of a fascinating history while never shaking loose the fundamentally hard science that is the root of it all, it was a fun story and a good read
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Dec 26, 2017 04:42
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Finicums Wake posted:
Oh dang I'm deffo gonna have to check this one out
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Dec 28, 2017 14:04
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Echopraxia is pretty great so far, I look forward to following the adventures of a vampire who isn't wholly or partially just a puppet of the ship because human psychology would trust a killer before it trusted a machine. Not quite far enough in yet to render judgement on whether or not people who believe this was a huge letdown from the first one are correct or dumb or not.
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Dec 31, 2017 17:06
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StashAugustine posted:pls trip report I liked Canticle but I always recommend people who didn't grow up Catholic have a list of the latin phrases handy
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Dec 31, 2017 20:32
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deep web creep posted:Epic High Five have you ever read any of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee stuff? After Greatship I got a little burnt out on the Marrow books and wanted another hard-ish sci fi short story collection and picked up Vacuum Diagrams and really like it so far. I have not but I shall check it out
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Jan 4, 2018 02:49
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whomupclicklike posted:I preordered "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff because I'm unhealthily obsessed with this gently caress lagoon of a presidency. It's probably going to be a waste of $15 but I have poor impulse control. It's gonna rule
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Jan 5, 2018 03:18
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Just finished The Greatship and it ruled. The ending stories are considerably less of an exploration of the ship and more of the universe, but not the worse for it. I don't think I'll remember any of them with as much fondness as I do Alone and Mere, but I highly recommend the book to any hard sci-fi or nerds who like stuff on grand, highly creative scales
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Jan 5, 2018 03:19
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just finished Red Son and omg it rules
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Jan 6, 2018 04:11
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TheDon01 posted:I put down Lucifers Hammer for now because I found a copy of The Forever War by Haldeman. Forever War loving rules, especially the fully automated gay luxury communism bit never read Lucifer's Hammer but it sounds pretty bad, you made a good call in switching up If you like Forever War check out Return from the Stars next, it also deals with culture shock from time dilation but it's all post-war, and also Stanislaw Lem is a gem of a writer who doesn't get enough love
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Jan 8, 2018 18:41
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TheDon01 posted:The only Lem I've read was Solaris. It was good, but slow and not an action packed book at all. Does he have any other notable scifi books? I haven't read terribly much of his yet, but what I've read has been more contemplative than action packed, though the "it's all talking" doesn't approach Asimovian levels or anything. There's also the first half of Starship Troopers, which is a fun read as long as you stop when he gets to Officer School
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Jan 8, 2018 18:56
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Echpraxia was p good Onto Bill, the Galactic Hero
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Jan 10, 2018 04:08
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Though more likely, I will be finishing up The Rediscovery of Man, the book honkin 700 page version not the slim version for CUCKS
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Jan 10, 2018 04:09
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The best thing about Kindles is that if you buy one from 5 years ago it's gonna be pretty much identical to the same model you could buy new today
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Jan 11, 2018 07:53
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Homeless Friend posted:yeah I looked it up and it's basically the exact same thing. Holy poo poo at their e-ink racket, their big boy flagship goes for $250 and comes with a whopping 8GB Yeah I used 5th gens for years until I upgraded for the backlight and splurged on a Voyage. It's wonderful but I can't really recommend it over a paperwhite for twice the price now that I've tried them all
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Jan 11, 2018 08:01
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The Picture of Dorian Grey is written in that way that made Dracula a tedious chore but this is not as bad because it's also super gay and catty
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Jan 12, 2018 17:55
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I can also report that it only took 10 volumes for Battle Angel Alita: The Last Order to start measuring up to the original run I look forward to this plot arc being tossed out in favor of 800 pages of pornographic ultraviolence Yossarian-22 posted:Invisible Man is just.... god drat. It's good. Like 69/10 good added to my enormous list of books to read
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Jan 12, 2018 18:43
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TheDon01 posted:Well finished Forever War. Fantastic, probably one of the best scifi books ive ever read. I haven't, but I've heard they're good reads and passable but it's important to go into them realizing that they aren't going to be as incredible as the first because so much of the philosophical ground is already covered I know they aren't reviewed very highly
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Jan 12, 2018 19:23
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Last and First Men is a ponderous tome that I'd probably like less if it didn't start out by explaining that capitalism, and American finance and hubris in particular, strangled a newly forming movement to truly advance human civilization and then plunged it into a thousands year long dark age
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Jan 12, 2018 20:37
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TheDon01 posted:Right on, ill go find a copy. The philisophical stuff was great but i just got a hunger for more shooty spacemen, weird aliens and relativity fuckery. Hell right now Id sit down and read just a timeline of what all happened on earth in those thousandish years. If you're just looking to embed yourself deeper in the universe then you'll probably love the followups. All the negative reviews I saw were like with Echopraxia - hoping it would be as groundbreaking as the original, which is almost impossible since it's set in the same world
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Jan 12, 2018 21:25
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Picture of Dorian Gray end notes: There's a good story in there, but it's buried under endless tedious exposition. Do not recommend. Just picked up my copy of Fire and Fury from the local shop and lmao there was a whole shelf of preorders for it
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Jan 17, 2018 22:02
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Just finished a re-read of Between the World and Me Cannot recommend this book highly enough. A very quick read, and poignant throughout.
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Jan 21, 2018 21:25
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RIP Le Guin  May put current stuff down for a re-read of The Lathe of Heaven in honor, was definitely one of the formative books of my youth and I often go back to it
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Jan 24, 2018 00:03
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SKULL.GIF posted:I loaded all the earthsea books onto my Kindle read The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven and The Birthday of the World and then consider the rest imho
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Jan 24, 2018 06:10
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The Lathe of Heaven, one of my absolute favorites by Ursula K Le Guin, is only $1 today on Amazon for the ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Lathe-Heaven-Ursula-K-Guin-ebook/dp/B00JTZ95I0quote:In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only George has the clear memory of how it was before. He seeks counseling from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately understands how powerful a weapon George wields. Soon, George is a pawn in Haber’s dangerous game, where the fate of humanity grows more imperiled with every waking hour. It owns and if any lurkers in this thread want to get in on why so many are in mourning over Le Guin's death, this is a good starting point that's also a quick and engaging read
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Jan 26, 2018 17:03
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Finicums Wake posted:only le guin I've read is left hand of darkness, but i liked it way more than most sci-fi(ish) stuff. what should I read next? I got a kindle recently, so if you wanna flood me with recs don't hold back!! The link I posted is a good place to start, it's where I did. After that I recommend The Birthday of the World - it's especially a solid read after Left Hand Yossarian-22 posted:Is the ebook file, you know, good? I own a paperwhite and I've found that some of their ebooks suck ed balls vis-à-vis formatting and whatnot Tough to say, I've got an ebook version of it but I don't know if it's the amazon one. Generally if the formatting or text is bad it'll say in the reviews
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Jan 27, 2018 00:31
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hackbunny posted:I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and Le Guin to be revealed as a secretly terrible person like so many other sci-fi writers, but it doesn't happen Fret not because she loving ruled
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Feb 6, 2018 00:04
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for an entertaining and readable insight into the salience of modern markets, I highly recommend Drinking Cheap Vodka from a Paper Bag Under a Bridge by Epic High Five
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Feb 6, 2018 01:32
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hey I'm startin a book club through a Discord, a more normal sort of setup, who's in? thinkin 250-400 page book with a 4 week timeline, everything else is flexible based on how many sign up
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Mar 10, 2018 03:51
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SKULL.GIF posted:What sort of books? Everybody is welcome to pitch an idea and we'll vote on it, probably around 9pm tonight. https://discord.gg/sZs7Jrv
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Mar 10, 2018 20:33
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I had intended to join but got laid up by a trumpian headache. That is more or less my assessment as well, it was entertaining enough but very eurocentric and could've been shorter
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