What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Mar 26, 2023 2:31 pm

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I do assume that Asimov will feel very dated, I mean, I robot stays as a philosophical experiment, but as for being SF... our world has gone a different route in the meantime.

Still, it being that my favorite reading material dates from before WWII (think classic Weird Tales), maybe it will still feel more modern to me ;)
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Svartalf » Sun Mar 26, 2023 3:06 pm

Dated stuff does not need be bad, but for reading, I'm still happy we came up with the alphabet rather than having to slog though cuneiform.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:52 pm

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Dated stuff does not need be bad, but for reading, I'm still happy we came up with the alphabet rather than having to slog though cuneiform.
You can read cuneiform?

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Svartalf » Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:17 pm

I tried to learn, but I'd have needed to go to a uni with a real assyriology cursus, and I wasn't motivated enough to leave home for that course of study.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Sun Mar 26, 2023 7:30 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
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The Hugo award winner...A Desolation called Peace by Arkay Marine is keeping me engaged for reading. Brilliant pair and insanely good debut novel in the case of A Memory called Empire
Indeed. Books that stay with you.
I've seen those on the Amazon site for available Kindle books. Might give them a go...
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:45 pm

They're very 'woke' Jim.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Svartalf » Sun Mar 26, 2023 9:20 pm

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Of course they are, you don't want a book that'll put you to sleep do you?
(unless you mean James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, but that one is to be tried only for medicinal purposes)
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Mar 26, 2023 9:39 pm

Yeah, I always found Joyce a bit of a yawn. Hardy and Tolkien too.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Sun Mar 26, 2023 11:22 pm

Tolkien too.
:lay: wrong...Hardy and Joyce yeah. :snooze: Once I get sleepy tho it's a rare book that will keep me reading.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:02 am

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Yeah, I always found Joyce a bit of a yawn. Hardy and Tolkien too.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:45 pm

When I became a man I put away childish things. You can't make me eat pineapple, and you can't make me read 1950s fiction for children - neither Tolkien, Blyton, or Fleming. :tea:
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:11 am

We are glad you are not in charge of movies.... :biggrin:
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Sat Apr 01, 2023 3:15 pm

I'm wrapping up a pile of books. Most of the history stuff will be on pause. I have a class I'm giving in September that I have world history books on, those I will keep.

Rome and the barbarians is on hold. No class beyond the Celts (ends with Ireland video) planned. I didn't quite know what to do with the Germani.

I did have an amusing history wtitten by a German in the 1920s. It was clearly heading to nationalism there.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:17 pm

Infinity and God have been close bedfellows over the recent millennia of human thought. But this is James A. Lindsay's point. These two ideas are thought, mere concepts. Lindsay shows in a concise and readable manner that infinity is an abstraction, and shows that, in all likelihood, so is God, particularly if he has infinite properties.

This book is about math. It is about God. It is about stressing the importance of not confusing these two ideas with reality. Never the twain shall meet.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rasetsu » Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:15 pm

Really enjoying the audiobook of this.

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