What book are you reading?

by **Dark Socialism** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:45 pm

https://thundermark.files.wordpress.com ... -right.pdf
Might is right/Survival of the fittest by "Ragnar Redbeard"

by **Neo Canada** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:47 pm

"Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky

by **The Black Forrest** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:58 pm

Elwher wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:Tribulation Force. Why? It was in our free library and I figured why not? I am regretting it now. My OCD about finishing books is making me finish it.

I know the feeling. I wonder just how much time I have spent on finishing bad books just because I started them.

Indeed. I finally finished it and it was a waste of time. Boring to the end and when things started to happen as in three cities nuked? I was happy it was over.

by **Greater Cesnica** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:29 pm

I read Dan Brown's Inferno today because I was bored.

by **Geneviev** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:27 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:Tribulation Force. Why? It was in our free library and I figured why not? I am regretting it now. My OCD about finishing books is making me finish it.

The Left Behind book? I was obsessed with those when I was younger. It wasn't a bad book.

Anyways, I just started The Great Divorce by CS Lewis.

by **An Alan Smithee Nation** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:04 am

Just started on the works of Aristotle. Quite hard going it has to be said.

by **The Black Forrest** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:28 pm

Geneviev wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:Tribulation Force. Why? It was in our free library and I figured why not? I am regretting it now. My OCD about finishing books is making me finish it.

The Left Behind book? I was obsessed with those when I was younger. It wasn't a bad book.

Anyways, I just started The Great Divorce by CS Lewis.

Different strokes I guess. I think you have to be religious if not then some to appreciate them.

by **Aleckandor** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 11:47 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Geneviev wrote:The Left Behind book? I was obsessed with those when I was younger. It wasn't a bad book.

Anyways, I just started The Great Divorce by CS Lewis.

Different strokes I guess. I think you have to be religious if not then some to appreciate them.

Well, not just religious in general. You'd have to have been a specific kind of religious to fully appreciate those books, like, as in an a North American Evangelical dispensationialist-type of religious.

by **Aleckandor** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 11:50 pm

I'm currently reading a full English-translated text version of Xunzi, which - if I had to sum it up - is essentially Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan except if Hobbes were a heterodox Confucian thinker from Chinese antiquity.

by **The Macabees** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:44 pm

Losing Binh Dinh was fantastic, a focus on the counterinsurgency (and its failure) in the Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh during the Vietnam War.

Now reading Appian's The Civil Wars.

by **The Macabees** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:45 pm

Aleckandor wrote:I'm currently reading a full English-translated text version of Xunzi, which - if I had to sum it up - is essentially Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan except if Hobbes were a heterodox Confucian thinker from Chinese antiquity.

This sounds pretty amazing.

by **Geneviev** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:46 pm

Aleckandor wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
Different strokes I guess. I think you have to be religious if not then some to appreciate them.

Well, not just religious in general. You'd have to have been a specific kind of religious to fully appreciate those books, like, as in an a North American Evangelical dispensationialist-type of religious.

Not really, I'm not North American anything and enjoyed it. Not to mention Dragons in our Midst.

I'm rereading Circles of Seven from the Dragons in our Midst series and it's pretty good.

by **Nolo gap** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:03 am

i just finished this book that was kind of like a role playing game in which everyone god-modes.
most of it was kind of fun, but the part where the protagonist went back in time,
to set up, or re-set up, most of the conditions that were the environment of the story, both before and after,
which came pretty much where you'd expect the hight of page turning suspense to be in most plotlines,
got so bogged down in details, i had to skip most pages of it to retain interest in what was going on.

looks like sf only superficially, reads like fantasy, turns out to be a kind of convoluted love story.
(and sort of a good argument against god-mode role play)

now if i could find what i did with it i'd tell you the name of it. which i can't seem to remember at the moment.
it was by someone called modest, and i think it was something like hammer of darkness, something like that,
anyway it was mostly a fun, if kind of dumb read, that only really fell apart for me, right where you'd least expect it to.
its doing so didn't ruin the fun of the rest of the romp, and frequent misdirection, along with stumbling upon super powers, was actually part of the fun.

none of the deeper questions it purported to ask, significantly altered my answers to them, which, for someone who didn't already have their own to read,
just might be somewhat mentally destabilizing.

by **The Niceties of Normal Moral Constraints** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:11 pm

Previously: The series of Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

Currently: Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

Next: Hard To Be A God by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

by **Estantia** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:57 am

Mostly Harmless-Douglas Adams

by **UniversalCommons** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:49 am

Prediction Machines The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agarwal, Joshua Gans,and Avi Goldfarb.

by **An Alan Smithee Nation** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:08 am

Knowledge-based systems for engineers and scientists.

Some light relief from Aristotle.

UniversalCommons wrote:Prediction Machines The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agarwal, Joshua Gans,and Avi Goldfarb.

Interesting?

by **Zhizao** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:07 am

I am reading Rama II, by Arthur C. Clarke. First published 1989. It's the sequel to Rendezvous with Rama, first published 1973.

Science fiction at some of its finest.

by **Imperium of The Huron** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:36 pm

Splinter of the Mind's Eye, by Alan Dean Foster. The first star wars expanded universe novel.

by **Knessniet** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:38 pm

Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson.

It's lit so far, I just started Chapter 4.

by **Grant Park - Harrow** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:17 pm

Yiddish for Pirates. The narrator is a parrot.

Currently · by **The Grene Knyght** » Sun Nov 04, 2018 12:52 pm

A Brilliant Void, edited by Jack Fennell, published by Tramp Press. Its a book of Irish Sci-Fi. Tramp Press are reasonably well known here as being a very decent indie publisher. I've read a few of their books before and I went to a panel discussion that had one of the two editors, so I have high hopes for this book.

by **High Eyrie** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 7:45 am

Decisive Battles of the Western World, by JFC Fuller

by **Ruskland-Preuben** » Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:45 pm

Rising Sun, by that author...
I don’t remember his name I’ve only read little as for now. Something about the writer of Jurassic Park.

by **Elwher** » Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:15 pm

Ruskland-Preuben wrote:Rising Sun, by that author...
I don’t remember his name I’ve only read little as for now. Something about the writer of Jurassic Park.

Michael Crichton

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