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19 Jun 2010, 6:32 pm

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Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Good stuff!


I read that recently! It is quite good.

I'm reading Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient West. It's pretty wacky. My kind of joint.

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19 Jun 2010, 7:00 pm

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Here's a hint, chelloveck.
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That's a great book. And I just noticed Alex's amazing eye make up in that image, that's gotta be fake lashes, yeah? Oculus sinister.


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20 Jun 2010, 12:35 am

Relativity, The Special and General Theory by A Einstein

Also read a number of books on American slavery that I got from the Gutenberg project. "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederic Douglass was very good. "the Right of American Slavery" is a very disturbing tract written in 1860 attempting to defend the practice. It is worth the read to see how a person justifies such a horrific act to themselves.

Also just finished "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande. I tend to screw up a lot. This book helps in working around the problem.


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24 Jun 2010, 9:17 pm

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I've just reading it but, have read Keene's other work,"City of the Dead" so, this seems to be interesting..



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26 Jun 2010, 10:45 am

The Orphaned Worlds improved a bit; frenetic and inventive, but jumbled, and I didn't much like any of the characters. The Complete Ro-Busters was very dated and nothing special. Hellsing v. 10 suitably apocalyptic; couldn't really work out what was going on for a lot of it. Now reading Schild's Ladder, which is proper science fiction, good so far. I've got a pile of hard sf books to work through.


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26 Jun 2010, 4:25 pm

I don't know how to upload a book. I don't have a replicator! :roll:


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27 Jun 2010, 12:30 am

I don't think I've finished any of the books I've posted in this thread...

I'm currently audiobooking Kafka on the Shore

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27 Jun 2010, 10:27 am

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I don't know how to upload a book. I don't have a replicator! :roll:


Well you can manually scan each page and merge it all into a PDF, but it'd be copyright infringement if you do :P



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27 Jun 2010, 1:17 pm

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Well you can manually scan each page and merge it all into a PDF, but it'd be copyright infringement if you do :P

Only if it is copyrighted in the first place. Though if it ain't there's a reasonable chance a link to Project Gutenberg would be easier. :wink:


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27 Jun 2010, 1:56 pm

Not really reading anything at the moment. I read way too quickly for my own good..



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27 Jun 2010, 2:09 pm

Ambivalence wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
Well you can manually scan each page and merge it all into a PDF, but it'd be copyright infringement if you do :P

Only if it is copyrighted in the first place. Though if it ain't there's a reasonable chance a link to Project Gutenberg would be easier. :wink:


I think legally you can make copies for your own use, it's only if you distribute copies that it's an offense. And then even if I'm wrong about that, who'd know you made a PDF of a book for your own use?


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27 Jun 2010, 2:10 pm

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Not really reading anything at the moment. I read way too quickly for my own good..

I see you have a Metro 2033 Fourth Reich avatar. You should read the book Metro 2033. I'm reading it and it's very good.



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27 Jun 2010, 2:21 pm

Yeah, I was thinking about buying it. The game got me hooked on post-apocalyptism again.

The fact that it's a Nazi avatar kinda creeps me out - Still, it's a pretty awesome gas mask.



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27 Jun 2010, 2:28 pm

There were a couple of books I started reading earlier this month, and then never finished.

The first is the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Not much more description necessary.

The second is "Jackfruit" by David Ngheim. It's about a guy who decides to journey to South America, and ride 3700 miles or so across the continent and see various areas... on a bicycle.



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27 Jun 2010, 3:31 pm

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Yeah, I was thinking about buying it. The game got me hooked on post-apocalyptism again.

The fact that it's a Nazi avatar kinda creeps me out - Still, it's a pretty awesome gas mask.

Despite them being Nazi's, I love the helmet design too. And the fourth Reich symbol looks awesome. They show it in the Metro map in the book. It looks a little like the Swastika but with three prongs. The prongs come out of the center at a weird angle, so if you weren't told that it was the symbol of the Fourth Reich, you wouldn't notice that it's a modified swastika.

I'm about 50 pages in. Hunter just went North to confront the Dark Ones after Sukhoi(Alex in the game) reveals that their influence is driving him insane. I bought mine imported from England. It isn't out here yet. But I love Metro so much, and I already know much of the story(It's different from the game in areas. Although I have not played the game, I do know much of the story). I can't wait til Metro 2034(Hunter didn't die. He's the protagonist of Metro 2034), and the spinoff books which were released this year but were not written by Dmitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033: Putevye Znaki, Metro 2033: Temnye Tunneli, and Metro 2033: Piter. One takes place in Moscow, another in Minsk(the capital of Belarus), and another in Saint Petersburg, Russia. People survived in the subways of those two other cities, so maybe there are people still alive in other metro systems around the world. I'm so obsessed with the Metro universe, my signature is based off something Khan says to Artyom at the end of the book regarding the Dark Ones. If they aren't released, I am currently learning Russian so I'll be able to read them once my Russian is better. And I'm learning German. Germany already has Metro 2034. They get the Metro books much earlier than us.

This is where I got my copy. They ship for free and have it for the best price. The book is an import from the UK as it won't come out in America until November.
http://www.cdwow.us/books/dmitry-glukhovsky-metro-2033/dp/4778781#bc=cbad

Oh, and I made a Metro thread here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt122631.html



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