It's of its time, like Charles Dickens or Jilly Cooper. Doesn't mean it's bad - unless it's Jilly Cooper of course.Svartalf wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:22 amI 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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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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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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I've seen those on the Amazon site for available Kindle books. Might give them a go...Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:29 amIndeed. Books that stay with you.macdoc wrote:...
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
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They're very 'woke' Jim. 
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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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Yeah, I always found Joyce a bit of a yawn. Hardy and Tolkien too.
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Tolkien too.
wrong...Hardy and Joyce yeah. 
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To Mordor with you!Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 9:39 pmYeah, I always found Joyce a bit of a yawn. Hardy and Tolkien too.
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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. 
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We are glad you are not in charge of movies.... 
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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.
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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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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Really enjoying the audiobook of this.
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