What are you reading?

[venividivicibj]

It shows that anyone is really capable of violence which is a long way of saying women are capable of violence.

Didn't need a book to tell you that; could have just watched Snapped

 

[Kaplan]

Peter Watts: Blindsight, 2006.

"... we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. We have such need of intellects greater than our own."

"... you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it's a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It's noble, it's maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something. It's limiting. Maybe whatever's out here doesn't even use it."

First contact, and is consciousness all it's cracked up to be? This was (literally) awesome.

 

[edinatlanta]

Peter Watts: Blindsight, 2006.

"... we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. We have such need of intellects greater than our own."

"... you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it's a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It's noble, it's maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something. It's limiting. Maybe whatever's out here doesn't even use it."

First contact, and is consciousness all it's cracked up to be? This was (literally) awesome.

Real talk are you a speed reader? Do you read non sci fi

 

[Kaplan]

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[krakatoa]

Just began to read Madison Smartt Bell: Master of the Crossroads, 2000. Second volume in his three-part historical novel series on the role of Toussaint Louverture in achieving Haitian independence (I recently finished the first book, All Souls' Rising). While I'm not much of a fan of historical novels, these books have helped inform me how Saint-Domingue (colonial Haiti) fit into the contemporary socio-political situation (during and after the French revolution and during a period of intense great power rivalry in the region between France, Spain and England). Of course, they also remind of the brutality of slavery and the violence it provoked.

 

[ppk]

Absolutely fascinating. Probably a bit too close to the forum, but I eat up the history stuff.

 

[edinatlanta]

16 holds on six copies at the library meant I'll buy this one.

 

[edinatlanta]

Ok forgot to share this one i finished this am. It was really good. Henry was so awful. The structure was inventive and the way there was no real tension until the last 30 pages kind of blew my mind. Good stuff.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Begins in 1927 fascinating cultural, social and racial political arc up to I think the mid 50’s set in St Louis had it sitting on bookshelves for 20 years.Quite a remarkable read…

 

[Kaplan]

Alastair Reynolds: House Of Suns, 2008.

"Given the evidence at our disposal, only a fool would put any faith in the organic and the machine living harmoniously for the rest of time."

An ok read, but having now tried a few of the modern (say from 1990 and onwards) hard SF/Space Operas with 400+ pages, I've found that my tastes run more to the softer, brisker, more ideas and prose driven SF of the preceding 100 years. Thankfully there's still some undiscovered country there.

 

[venividivicibj]

16 holds on six copies at the library meant I'll buy this one. View attachment 2144011

No more feet pics please

 

[NakedYoga]

Was in New York a couple of weeks ago at a bookstore near Rockefeller Center. Son was busy wringing his hands over which Diary of a Wimpy Kid book to buy, and I decided to pick this up. Only finished the first chapter so far, but it's interesting, and I like the writing style.

 

[edinatlanta]

No more feet pics please

Would you be surprised to learn that I saw them in the frame once grabbing the pic and hten rearranged them for maximal impact

 

[HORNS]

Would you be surprised to learn that I saw them in the frame once grabbing the pic and hten rearranged them for maximal impact

You take the most off-putting photos.

 

[Fueco]

Would you be surprised to learn that I saw them in the frame once grabbing the pic and hten rearranged them for maximal impact

If you want to outdo yourself, you’ll need a Budgy Smuggler, a loud aloha shirt, and a can of Miller Lite.