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  • #46
    I finished Umberto Eco's The Cemetary of Prague the other day.
    I've begun reading Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene.
    Also read some booklet written by Slavoj Zizek in which he rants against liberal multiculturalism as well as some other obscure stuff.

    Btw, my grammar skills my be lacking a bit, but how should I interpret that Lessing quote Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy?
    "An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
    "Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca

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    • #47
      he is encouraging people to be lazy. except for three things, loving, drinking and being lazy. presumably he means that we should try hard to do those things and be lazy about everything else.
      "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

      "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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      • #48
        JUst finished book 2 Clash of Kings and two pages into the next -- Storm of Swords I think
        You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Nostromo View Post
          The damn thing was $10 last night on the Kindle store, but now its $15. Its a bit too expensive IMO for something that is inferior, in almost every respect, to the actual book. Not to mention that the hardback version is only $19.
          Depends on your definition of "inferior". I didn't see it for $10, even the evening before. I think that being able to get the book without going to a bookstore and being able to read it on a thin & light Kindle over the thick and heavy book is far more ideal.
          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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          • #50
            Originally posted by Pax View Post
            Jack McDevitt Alex Benedict series and Karl Schroeder Virga Series
            Read the whole Virga Series, recently and enjoyed it.

            Had read all the old Benedict books awhile back and just read the new one. Always a good read. Better after they changed who's point of view that he was using.
            It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
            RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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            • #51
              Re-reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
              And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?". t s eliot

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              • #52
                Originally posted by rah View Post
                Read the whole Virga Series, recently and enjoyed it.

                Had read all the old Benedict books awhile back and just read the new one. Always a good read. Better after they changed who's point of view that he was using.
                I just recently started the Virga series. Read the first two last Saturday.

                Didn't know about it before, better than some of the garbage I have read recently.

                JM
                Jon Miller-
                I AM.CANADIAN
                GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                • #53
                  Yeah, snoopy from here brought then in to work for me. I had never heard of them before. Quite a different concept for a universe.
                  It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                  RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                  • #54
                    Unfortunately, his short stories and Virga are the only ones on Kindle. I would be interested in reading the Lady of Mazes/etc.

                    JM
                    Jon Miller-
                    I AM.CANADIAN
                    GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                    • #55
                      Weird, I checked the evening before and it was $10 on pre-order.

                      Yes, e-books are superior to paper books on a couple of points (portability, space saving, generally cheaper, etc.), but actual books are still superior overall IMO. If they were the exact same price, I probably would never buy a Kindle book.
                      Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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                      • #56
                        Not to mention you never have to worry about the battery going dead on a book.
                        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                        • #57
                          The amusing thing is that I've actually paid slightly MORE for an ebook (the paperback was a Bargain Book on Amazon or something) because I find ebooks to be superior.

                          And the batteries tend to last like 2-3 weeks and are easily rechargable (use the same micro-usb as my cell phone charger anyways).
                          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #58
                            Starting with "A Dance with Dragons" (ASoIF vol 5)...
                            I expect a huge improvement over AFFC, I want some cliffhangers from ASOS solved please!

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