What book are you reading?

[Pax Nerdvana]

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Again.

Heyyy, that's one of my personal favorites. I usually read it at least a couple times a year.

[Elwher]

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Again.

Heyyy, that's one of my personal favorites. I usually read it at least a couple times a year.

Such a great book. Such a lousy movie series.

[Ethel mermania]

Lincoln's lieutenants. --- Sears
And
Lee's lieutenant's -- Freeman

One loves his subjects, the other doesn't.

[Radiatia]

"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

[Bodovonia-Selo]

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F....by Mark Manson.

[Shwe Tu Colony]

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan... I'm using it for annotation practice & to see what Joy Luck Club will be like. I haven't gotten very far in, but I honestly don't really like Amy Tan. Certainly, I'll appreciate the book since she is somewhat lauded, but based off of my quick looks, her characters seem to be only Chinese-American woman & not much else, & her depiction of Chinese culture makes me feel like I'm watching a cartoon where one of the characters is Chinese so they're showing off how very Chinese they are. Her writing style really isn't mine but I don't strongly mind it — it gives off the vibe of an audiobook being read by a vaguely-Asian woman that's intended for children. As it turns out, Amy Tan's voice is exactly that. I also could've sworn that my mom said she didn't like Amy, but she claimed that she never said that.

I also strongly dislike her characters' dialogue. It's just awkward enough to be realistic, but at the same time, it feels like someone who watched cartoons writing dialogue based on that. I could just be biased, since my brother really disliked the assignments for Joy Luck Club & I've only heard subpar reviews of it too. Besides that, I also disagree with the idea of struggling with biculturalism, but then again, that could be my plain "weirdness" or the fact that I live in a community that's predominately my culture pair so that I never had to fit in. That said, I'm a bizarre enough person as is that my bicultural tag being "weird" is just another quirk out of hundreds. But I just really don't relate to this idea of "am I this or that," because if everyone's trying to put up a facade & fit in, then all we're following is an idea & masquerading. I'll adapt to appeal, of course, but relinquish wholly? I don't see myself doing that, but life, I'm sure, will surprise me.

Edit: Well, Joy Luck Club seems a bit more entertaining.

[Kodoonr]

The Martian by Andy Weir.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Heyyy, that's one of my personal favorites. I usually read it at least a couple times a year.

Such a great book. Such a lousy movie series.

So I've heard. Are the movies worth watching?

"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

It's a good read from what I remember

The Martian by Andy Weir.

.
That is a great book.

I'm 100 pages into my reread of X-Wing: Wraith Squadron.

[Elwher]

Such a great book. Such a lousy movie series.

So I've heard. Are the movies worth watching?

I'm 100 pages into my reread of X-Wing: Wraith Squadron.

If you can ignore the book completely, they are a passable shoot em up Human vs. monster series with excellent CGI. I cannot help myself comparing the deep philosophical insights on war, patriotism, and the mentality of the warrior in the book with the aliens, lets kill them all viewpoint of the movies.

[Pax Nerdvana]

So I've heard. Are the movies worth watching?

I'm 100 pages into my reread of X-Wing: Wraith Squadron.

If you can ignore the book completely, they are a passable shoot em up Human vs. monster series with excellent CGI. I cannot help myself comparing the deep philosophical insights on war, patriotism, and the mentality of the warrior in the book with the aliens, lets kill them all viewpoint of the movies.

Yeah. Somehow the director interpreted the book as promoting fascism, from what I understand.

[Elwher]

If you can ignore the book completely, they are a passable shoot em up Human vs. monster series with excellent CGI. I cannot help myself comparing the deep philosophical insights on war, patriotism, and the mentality of the warrior in the book with the aliens, lets kill them all viewpoint of the movies.

Yeah. Somehow the director interpreted the book as promoting fascism, from what I understand.

Given the intellectual level of the movies, I doubt the director could even spell fascism, much less think that deeply about it.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Yeah. Somehow the director interpreted the book as promoting fascism, from what I understand.

Given the intellectual level of the movies, I doubt the director could even spell fascism, much less think that deeply about it.

That's possible.

[Barboneia]

No Man’s Land by Simon Tolkien.

[The Macabees]

Recently read Rebels in the Rif by David S. Woolman.

Now reading Lives of the Later Caesars, written by the so-called Scriptores Historiae Augustae.

[Monsone]

Reading August 1914 by Solzhenitsyn. Hope to read the rest of the Red Wheel series.

[New Visayan Islands]

Given the intellectual level of the movies, I doubt the director could even spell fascism, much less think that deeply about it.

That's possible.

I'm pretty sure the director is no stranger to fascism, seeing as he was there when The Freaking Nazis went Dutch--beg pardon, invaded the Low Countries.

But I digress; Tom Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon somehow reminds me of a certain comparison between the PRC and aforementioned Freaking Nazis being invoked today.

[Elwher]

That's possible.

I'm pretty sure the director is no stranger to fascism, seeing as he was there when The Freaking Nazis went Dutch--beg pardon, invaded the Low Countries.

But I digress; Tom Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon somehow reminds me of a certain comparison between the PRC and aforementioned Freaking Nazis being invoked today.

If he has any concept of fascism, then he would not be claiming to find any trace of it in Troopers. Had he said militarism, I would disagree but admit he could make a case; but a fascist state where any person is guaranteed the right to earn the vote, even if it required counting the hairs on a caterpillar by touch as the author states, I do not see it any way.

I do see your point about Bear, however, even if it is from the other side. Invading Russia is always a bad idea, no mater who does it or from which border.

[New Visayan Islands]

I'm pretty sure the director is no stranger to fascism, seeing as he was there when The Freaking Nazis went Dutch--beg pardon, invaded the Low Countries.

But I digress; Tom Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon somehow reminds me of a certain comparison between the PRC and aforementioned Freaking Nazis being invoked today.

If he has any concept of fascism, then he would not be claiming to find any trace of it in Troopers. Had he said militarism, I would disagree but admit he could make a case; but a fascist state where any person is guaranteed the right to earn the vote, even if it required counting the hairs on a caterpillar by touch as the author states, I do not see it any way.

I do see your point about Bear, however, even if it is from the other side. Invading Russia is always a bad idea, no mater who does it or from which border.

Not what I was trying to get at; remember how in Bear the PRC was compared to The Freaking Nazis? Now you have that clusterfuck in HK and people comparing the PRC IRL to The Freaking Nazis.

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

the fall of chronopolis (1974) by barrington j. bayley

[Thepeopl]

Several:

Zero History, by William Gibson; Uzumaki, by Junji Ito

[The New California Republic]

Workers' Co-operatives, by Jenny Thornley.

[Gopnikea]

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, by Carl Jung

[Blargoblarg]

Haven't started it yet, but I'm planning to start reading Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky soon.

[Novus Niciae]

I am re-reading "A dance with dragons" for fun and reading "Business driven information systems" in preparation for semester 1 of 2020.

[Wolfkaria]

I'm reading don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes