Hopstretch Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 Love the Culture stuff. "Consider Phlebas" is on my personal short list of all-time favorites. 1 Quote
Craig Sawyers Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 6 hours ago, Hopstretch said: Love the Culture stuff. "Consider Phlebas" is on my personal short list of all-time favorites. That was my introduction to his work, Stretch. A great novel. My other favourite is Greg Bear. Particularly some of his astonishing earlier work like Blood Music and Infinity Concerto. He's gone off the boil a bit, more recently. 1 Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 Love Greg Bear. Have you read '/' (Slant)? Where would you consider that? Will definitely check out Banks. Quote
Hopstretch Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 In that same vein -- Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod. Neil Asher is good for nasty alien potboilers. 1 Quote
HiWire Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 Germania by Simon Winder – hilariously entertaining informal history of Germany 1 Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 3 hours ago, Hopstretch said: In that same vein -- Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod. Neil Asher is good for nasty alien potboilers. Love Alastair Reynolds' material, will check out the others. Quote
Craig Sawyers Posted August 12, 2016 Report Posted August 12, 2016 Alastair Reynolds worked at the European Space Agency, and wrote novels in his spare time. Once they began to sell big time, he resigned and started as a full time author. Love his stuff - as a hard scientist, his novels reflect that. 1 Quote
TMoney Posted October 10, 2016 Report Posted October 10, 2016 Master & Commander It is very good and quite entertaining. I can see why people love this series, but it is a little to much for me. I'm just not quite interested enough in the subject matter to want to continue into the other books. If you sail or have a love of sailing though, I'd consider this a must-read. 4/5. Quote
grawk Posted October 10, 2016 Author Report Posted October 10, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin Fantastic story, and unusual because it's current-ish hard science fiction. 3 Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted October 10, 2016 Report Posted October 10, 2016 Peter V. Brett, The Demon Cycle (books 1-IV) Quote
grawk Posted October 10, 2016 Author Report Posted October 10, 2016 does it really count from 1 to IV? Quote
grawk Posted October 10, 2016 Author Report Posted October 10, 2016 ah, too bad, I was hoping they were trying to torture ocd folks 1 Quote
Sechtdamon Posted October 10, 2016 Report Posted October 10, 2016 Albert Camus - The Rebel, by day Proudhon - The Philosophy of Poverty and Marx - The Poverty of Philosophy, by night The Philosophy of Poverty is especially good for exploring different ideologies by their ideologists, cuz Proudhon mentions their names and quotations a lot. Also while Marx tries to be more systematic, he fails alot, imho. Proudhon proves that he is trully an idealist. And Proudhon's ideas are more useful for today's world. Especially for countries like Turkey. Quote
Voltron Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 Master & Commander It is very good and quite entertaining. I can see why people love this series, but it is a little to much for me. I'm just not quite interested enough in the subject matter to want to continue into the other books. If you sail or have a love of sailing though, I'd consider this a must-read. 4/5.I don't sail or love sailing but I read every one of the Aubrey - Maturin books. I do love history, so they're was that. Quote
swt61 Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 Nor do I sail, though I have had some experience with seamen. 2 Quote
TMoney Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 47 minutes ago, Voltron said: I don't sail or love sailing but I read every one of the Aubrey - Maturin books. I do love history, so they're was that. The first book was much better written than I expected. The attention to detail was staggering. I just never really got sucked in to it. Quote
MoonShine Posted October 12, 2016 Report Posted October 12, 2016 On 10/10/2016 at 2:43 PM, grawk said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin Fantastic story, and unusual because it's current-ish hard science fiction. The sequels are excellent as well: The Dark Forest & The End of Death (just published last month). 1 Quote
TMoney Posted October 12, 2016 Report Posted October 12, 2016 2 minutes ago, MoonShine said: The sequels are excellent as well: The Dark Forest & The End of Death (just published last month). I've got holds on the e-books for both at the library, just waiting for the people who have them to turn them back in. Being able to use my library membership to check out e-books from home and download them to my kindle is pretty damn sweet. Quote
grawk Posted October 12, 2016 Author Report Posted October 12, 2016 yah, I'm 1/3 of the way through dark forest now Quote
Sechtdamon Posted October 13, 2016 Report Posted October 13, 2016 Marquis de Sade - Tanrıya Karşı Söylev (I dont know book's original name or in English, Maybe "Speech Against God"), Collection of his notes. It's the only book which does not include eroticism I guess. 1 Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted October 16, 2016 Report Posted October 16, 2016 a well-timed article written for me (It cracks me up that they use Aubrey Plaza as the poster child... 1 Quote
Sechtdamon Posted October 16, 2016 Report Posted October 16, 2016 (edited) Theodore Millon et. al. - Personality Disorders in Modern Life 2nd Edition While reading the "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" chapter, most of the and defense mechanisms and rationalization ways of some hi-fi firms (Sennheiser with He-1, MSB, Hifiman) acually point that disorder. They want to be respected, loved for what they have done. And actually some of the buyers of mentioned products, most probably, can be diagnosed with this disorder either. Edited October 16, 2016 by Sechtdamon 1 Quote
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