what are you reading? - Page 258

tesla69 · 06.28.2018, 04:50 PM

Rabble in Arms - Kenneth Roberts

The Battle of Lake Champlain!

chrome noise tape · 07.01.2018, 06:50 AM

tw2113 · 07.01.2018, 03:51 PM

Already finished the first Harry Potter book, but that's mostly because it's the shortest and easy to digest. Onwards!

Severian · 07.01.2018, 07:00 PM

I read all of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” from beginning to end. Now I’m reading the prequel that came out last year.

I also read “PREACHER” in its entirety (so, second time through for most of it) in preparation for the third season of the show.

Lotsa comics and magazines... not a book lately.

Rob Instigator · 07.02.2018, 07:42 AM

ham on rye rules. harsh, funny, brutal..

!@#$%! · 07.22.2018, 07:51 PM

BOGLEHEADS!

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

*THE BEST*

tw2113 · 07.22.2018, 08:04 PM

So in about 21 days, i finished the 2nd, 3rd, and half of the 4th Harry Potter books. And here I thought they'd carry me through the end of the year.

!@#$%! · 07.22.2018, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

I read all of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” from beginning to end. Now I’m reading the prequel that came out last year.

ha ha ha neil gaiman wrote an episode of the final season of babylon 5 and i’m watching it right now. it’s very good! and funny...

!@#$%! · 07.26.2018, 03:38 PM

i was searching for articles on conflicting moral codes and ran into this great little publication. just finished 3 articles (the first one germane to my search, the second one because someone had to finally say so, the third one because it echoes my constant complaint against stupidly calling horrible events “tragedies” —but the third one takes the “tragedy”label consciously and runs with it, and does so brilliantly).

https://thesmartset.com/the-clash-of...ee-moralities/

https://thesmartset.com/laughing-heathens/

https://thesmartset.com/something-is...ca/#more-40671

this is better than i regularly find in paywalled subscription-only publications. highly bookmarkable. a real pleasure.

here’s the front page:

https://thesmartset.com

(not really enamored with the pretentious name, but fuck names, read the great content)

!@#$%! · 07.26.2018, 04:08 PM

another...

https://thesmartset.com/what-hallie-knew/

damn, i wanna watch more john ford

Rob Instigator · 07.26.2018, 04:11 PM

I am reading (about 85% through) a book called Panpsychism in the West, detaling the history of the Panpsychic idea in philosophy since ancient times.

Panpsychism is the idea that "Mind" is inherent in all of existence. Hylozoism is the idea that everything is "alive." Pantheism is the idea that everything is "god." quite a lot to take in!

!@#$%! · 07.26.2018, 04:19 PM

^^oh yeah a. huxley (not thomas) advanced that notion in his peyote book

the brain as a valve to the large mind, not as the seat of the mind

some schools of zen have also a “big mind”theory, search it if curious

even if zen is not of the west it’s been in western culture for nearly a century now, maybe more if you’re jesuit

but anyway this “big mind” business is entirely western

well actually the jungians too... the whole ego/self thing

where does one draw the east/west line

—-

OOH I FORGOT THE DENISOVICH. SORRY.

will update

Severian · 07.26.2018, 05:35 PM

“The Terror” by Dan Simmons

ilduclo · 07.26.2018, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

“The Terror” by Dan Simmons

this about the Franklin expedition?

Rob Instigator · 07.27.2018, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

^^oh yeah a. huxley (not thomas) advanced that notion in his peyote book

the brain as a valve to the large mind, not as the seat of the mind

some schools of zen have also a “big mind”theory, search it if curious

even if zen is not of the west it’s been in western culture for nearly a century now, maybe more if you’re jesuit

but anyway this “big mind” business is entirely western

well actually the jungians too... the whole ego/self thing

where does one draw the east/west line

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The book was recommended to me by Rudy Rucker, the cyberpunk author and mathematician

!@#$%! · 07.27.2018, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

The book was recommended to me by Rudy Rucker, the cyberpunk author and mathematician

man i havent read his ware trilogy in aaaaaages

i mean, not since it was a trilogy. i didn’t know he had added.

i lie: i was remotely aware but grad school ptsd left me functionally illiterate haa haa haaa

maybe i just read software and wetware

maybe i should have a look again

tell him hi & thanks

Rob Instigator · 07.27.2018, 12:27 PM

he calls it a tetralogy

!@#$%! · 07.27.2018, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

he calls it a tetralogy

now he does

what i meant was i read him in the 90s

no, how did it go

i read him this century, but i only read what he had written in the 80s

back in the 90s i had begun to read the hacker and the ants and some terrible things happened and i never could continue

anyway my biography is not important lol

what’s important is that there are now 4 books!

Severian · 07.27.2018, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

he calls it a tetralogy

SPEAKING OF TETRALOGIES...

It’s literally been YEARS since you read the first hundred pages of Booknof the New Sun and said you’d finish it after whatever mushroom book.

JUST SAYIN’

tw2113 · 07.27.2018, 07:58 PM

Thinking about disrupting my Potter-thon with a read of "Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age" by Mike Godwin, even if I just have the 1st edition.

First I need to finish Goblet of Fire though. I'm not going to sidestep in the middle.

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tesla69 Banned Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 4,055	Rabble in Arms - Kenneth Roberts The Battle of Lake Champlain!
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07.01.2018, 03:51 PM	#5143
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,147	Already finished the first Harry Potter book, but that's mostly because it's the shortest and easy to digest. Onwards! __________________ Shake shake
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07.01.2018, 07:00 PM	#5144
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,743	I read all of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” from beginning to end. Now I’m reading the prequel that came out last year. I also read “PREACHER” in its entirety (so, second time through for most of it) in preparation for the third season of the show. Lotsa comics and magazines... not a book lately.
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07.02.2018, 07:42 AM	#5145
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	ham on rye rules. harsh, funny, brutal.. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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07.22.2018, 07:51 PM	#5146
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	BOGLEHEADS! https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page THE BEST
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07.22.2018, 08:04 PM	#5147
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,147	So in about 21 days, i finished the 2nd, 3rd, and half of the 4th Harry Potter books. And here I thought they'd carry me through the end of the year. __________________ Shake shake
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07.26.2018, 03:38 PM	#5149
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	i was searching for articles on conflicting moral codes and ran into this great little publication. just finished 3 articles (the first one germane to my search, the second one because someone had to finally say so, the third one because it echoes my constant complaint against stupidly calling horrible events “tragedies” —but the third one takes the “tragedy”label consciously and runs with it, and does so brilliantly). https://thesmartset.com/the-clash-of...ee-moralities/ https://thesmartset.com/laughing-heathens/ https://thesmartset.com/something-is...ca/#more-40671 this is better than i regularly find in paywalled subscription-only publications. highly bookmarkable. a real pleasure. here’s the front page: https://thesmartset.com (not really enamored with the pretentious name, but fuck names, read the great content)
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07.26.2018, 04:08 PM	#5150
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	another... https://thesmartset.com/what-hallie-knew/ damn, i wanna watch more john ford
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07.26.2018, 04:11 PM	#5151
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	I am reading (about 85% through) a book called Panpsychism in the West, detaling the history of the Panpsychic idea in philosophy since ancient times. Panpsychism is the idea that "Mind" is inherent in all of existence. Hylozoism is the idea that everything is "alive." Pantheism is the idea that everything is "god." quite a lot to take in! __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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07.26.2018, 04:19 PM	#5152
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	^^oh yeah a. huxley (not thomas) advanced that notion in his peyote book the brain as a valve to the large mind, not as the seat of the mind some schools of zen have also a “big mind”theory, search it if curious even if zen is not of the west it’s been in western culture for nearly a century now, maybe more if you’re jesuit but anyway this “big mind” business is entirely western well actually the jungians too... the whole ego/self thing where does one draw the east/west line —- OOH I FORGOT THE DENISOVICH. SORRY. will update
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07.26.2018, 05:35 PM	#5153
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,743	“The Terror” by Dan Simmons
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07.27.2018, 12:27 PM	#5157
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	he calls it a tetralogy __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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07.27.2018, 07:58 PM	#5160
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,147	Thinking about disrupting my Potter-thon with a read of "Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age" by Mike Godwin, even if I just have the 1st edition. First I need to finish Goblet of Fire though. I'm not going to sidestep in the middle. __________________ Shake shake
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