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I'm right in the middle of the Greenland Viking chapter. I was also pretty impressed by the Pacific culture stuff... very well written and concisely explained. Diamond is an excellent writer.
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I really need to start reading "The Hitchhiker'S Guide to the Galaxy". I got it for Christmas (well, early January), but I haven't started yet. I have to get a move on if want to finish it before the movie premiere.
For now I'm reading "Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction" for an HCI course. The exam is next week and I'm only halfway through it. Augh!Comment
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Originally posted by Adrian Hon
I'm right in the middle of the Greenland Viking chapter. I was also pretty impressed by the Pacific culture stuff... very well written and concisely explained. Diamond is an excellent writer.
Have you reached the food poisoning from bad fish bit ?
It was so tenuous, I was frankly aghast.
But the Pacific deforestation and knife's edge island resources bit was very disheartening and extremely convincing.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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"A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge.Comment
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"Hornblower in West Indies", by C.S. Forester.
Reading his whole career...
I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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You guys read boring and crappy books. Then again, it says about a man who reads crappy books. That man is crappy.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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"Image and Reality in Plato's Metaphysics" by Richard Patterson
Only feebs vote.Comment
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You guys read boring and crappy books. Then again, it says about a man who reads crappy books. That man is crappy.
Says the man who does not read.Comment
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I don't read?
Understatement of the year. **** I read, didn't you see, I even have my OWN BOOK! So what do you have to show? Nothing. You have nothing, and you are nothing. You will never have anything and you will always be a nobody and when you die, no one will remember you, let alone miss you.
In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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You OWN a bookI even have my OWN BOOK!
Its yours? For keeps?
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damn it you know what I mean I have published a book, and no, not as a publisher but as the writer.
In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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I don't read? Understatement of the year. **** I read, didn't you see, I even have my OWN BOOK! So what do you have to show? Nothing. You have nothing, and you are nothing. You will never have anything and you will always be a nobody and when you die, no one will remember you, let alone miss you.
I love Pekka posts.
What book are you currently reading? The people demand Proof!
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Haven't read the food poisoning bit yet. I'm quite interested to find out how he'll relate all of the case studies to the present day, and what he thinks we should do. Very sobering to think that western civilizations haven't been around for very long at all compared to many others.
A Deepness in the Sky
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Space, I posted it already, earlier.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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Google says no such book exists, therefore you do not read.Comment
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