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for me it was the 'remembrance of earth's past' series, better known as the Three Body Problem series, after the first book honorable mentions are Destination: Void, by Frank Herbert and Parable of the Talents, by Octavia E. Butler these happen to be my most recently read books, so take this with a grain of salt, really |
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The complete works of Yoshiharu Tsuge |
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Do you have a good "imagination skill" ? These days when I think I read Lord Of The Rings, Silmarillion, Hobbit back in my kid/youth days I think: why ? I know it helped my English vocabulary and the language knowledge, but.....My imagination is not so great, when I speak to my friends and compare their experiences when reading books. I still like to buy sci-fi oriented paper magazines cause they still come out, people still write, and write amazing imagination/thought provoking stuff, but I feel kind of disabled compared to my mates with "huge imagination" lol. |
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i guess so i wonder whether it goes away with age a bit. that's what i'm thinking now like instead of reading, i've been filling Goodreads with what i've *read*. Amy average rating now is 4.5 stars. which means i've scored LOTR very low, with 3 stars. i don't like it and maybe it's also written not well for imagination. (mind you that 3 booby problem isn't written good, but that's more for the characters) |
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my mom bought me charlie kaufman's Antkind for christmas. Because I enjoyed "I'm thinking of ending things" so much and hadn't read it. but I think it came out a few years ago. |
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because i don't think i read any book that came out this year, that isn't a prerequisite for this topic |
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gotcha. I also re-read stephen king's Desperation and The Regulators. Don't think I actually read anything else this year, sadly. |
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I’m reading Klara and the Sun. It’s rather delightful. Something about the prose deeply relaxes me. |
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Also reading 2001: night stories I think it’s just called 2001: stories in English. Hard sci fi, beautifully drawn. |
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i've read that one this year, too! the prose kind of reminds me of Atwood. |
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link? curious to see this |
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it's from the same writer that wrote remains of the day |
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Last year I read "Middlemarch" by George Eliot and "Great Expectations" by Dickens and I loved them. English isn't my mothertongue and each book took me around 6 months to finish. But it was worth it. |
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Oval, by Elvia Wilk, was a very fun mess of things |
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I’m a bit late to the party.. but… The pearl John Steinbeck People are awful; this book is a beautiful illustration of that. The other Steinbecks I read are also good at pointing out how awful people are. I could be missing the point but that’s what I see. |
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ive been reading schopenhauer's the world as will and representation quite a lot almost a year in now also plato, but more because i like the greeks and also to understand christians whom steal bit by bit from phedon (except for the reincarnation skit, that was a bit too much for the jewish) |
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everyone should read Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the best books only read Siren's of Titan, that was the first one I read, actually. have other ones of him as well, though |
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this comment inspired by Portnoy. people are awful, but i agree with Vonnegut's approach of just bemusingly smiling at them (kind of like you're a Tralfamadorian; or they represent actually extracting yourself from society, which doesn't help to much?) |
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read cat's cradle next biggie, vonnegut is so good |
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timequake too |
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i do have that one (played piano being the other one? can't find it atm) |
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Children of Time is my favorite now it's pretty hard scifi, but has thoughts on the human condition as well. Tchaikovsky appreciates animals animals very much, i love it |
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'animal animals' unintentional, but yeah the boundaries between human and animal animals gets blurred |
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Last London - Iaian Sinclair (not Clive Sinclair's brother?) he's about 80 now by the looks and still doing like 10 mile walks around London.... walking good. i still don't understand what 'psychogeography' is, but it seems more interesting than georgraphy apart from actual maps which are cool ofc cos autism. whatever it is it seems more like the way that I and everyone i know approach places than... just lines on a map or whatever. |
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>>>Clive Sinclair's brother could be tho, has same DOME, 'spect |
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For years now, I can only read non-fiction books. I have no idea why. Somehow, fictional content doesn't interest me anymore. What did I read last year? Actually, a bunch of books on music production. |
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i've had that phase. but now i'm like: fiction is a good medium to talk about reality in. also because the nonfiction i liked is written like fiction, like literary stuff. kind of like how reality tv is heavily edited and scripted as well |
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reading books on music production is a cool past time, of course |
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i'm currently reading the turner diaries (it's not very good) |
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well good, i guess, that it's not very good this was the video that got me into jenny nicholson: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4 about just a lame anti woke book, not literal fascist |
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or literal fascist in that the writer would totally be an authoritarian (yes, that's not fascism. but i mean he's dumb so mostly harmless. on the other hand: many dumb people can become dangerous) |
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right, now remembered thought slime actually did a video on these forgot what it's about, though. just that it's bad and lame |
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this seems off topic, though. i'm reporting you to phobiazero, just to be sure |
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thank you, i accept the responsibility |
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there is an interaction much like this in the diaries where the protagonist is given a suicide mission as punishment for failing to kill himself and letting the feds capture him and torture information out of him (he gets a metal rod inserted in his rectum), and he goes thank you for the opportunity it's all written in the same flat tone whether it's recalling his torture and incarceration or hooking up with his girlfriend ("nature took its course") so he mostly comes across as pathetic and aimless the book's strangely coy about its ideology but there sure are a lot of intricate depictions of bomb making! |
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maybe i'll read it some day i read starship troopers, though. so i have street cred when it comes to questionable fashy books |
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I'm re-re-re-re-reading Lovecraft and not just because it's a bit racist. |
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really this thread was meant as a best of the year list for last year. i have to point it out, though i don't mind it being used different |
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I'm reading Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi. Not on the same level as Lovecraft, but from the same era, and effective well crafted pulpy horror from the same Weird Tales - Arkham House milieu. I read his story The Last Drive when I was a kid, re-read it recently, and it's just as good as I remembered. A perfect example of an atmospheric horror story stripped down to its essential elements. |
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well i mentioned Oval and i think some of you would get a real kick out of that book so you should read it!! |
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