03-29-2009, 01:50 PM
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#141
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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I've been deeply entrenched in this
More informative than I could've ever imagined.
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03-29-2009, 01:51 PM
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#142
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Victoria, BC
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"Europe: A people without history"
Originally not by choice, but I'm loving it.
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03-29-2009, 02:35 PM
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#143
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
I actually haven't found it so bad, although I started it worrying about its quality. It's not mind blowing, but I wouldn't say the writing is terrible. Yeah, it's paper thin at times, and the speech... is a bit much, but superb writing isn't really its point to begin with. Just have to look past the rough spots. I'm enjoying it so far. I am using it for research into something I am working on, so maybe I am able to look past some of its faults more easily.
The thing I dislike most about it is trying to say 'Ayn' correctly.
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I recognize the point behind it and it's mainly a good one. I just know some people who practically worship Ayn Rand.
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03-29-2009, 02:47 PM
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#144
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Wherever the cooler is.
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Originally Posted by Frequitude
I just bought a great combo off Amazon.
Smith's "Wealth of Nations" &
Marx's "Communist Manifesto"
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Communist Manifesto was really cool to read. It had a huge hand in shaping the world, and to see where all the original thoughts came from was pretty damn interesting.
I'm currently reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk...I dunno if I like the movie or the book more though.
I'm also trying to battle through The Shock Doctrine, but it's been a tough go so far.
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03-29-2009, 02:50 PM
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#145
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Originally Posted by Berger_4_
Communist Manifesto was really cool to read. It had a huge hand in shaping the world, and to see where all the original thoughts came from was pretty damn interesting.
I'm currently reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk...I dunno if I like the movie or the book more though.
I'm also trying to battle through The Shock Doctrine, but it's been a tough go so far.
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That book is a load of piffle. A Swedish economic historian has taken her heavily to task over her bias and research. Her response is awful.
Click here for Norberg's review.
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03-29-2009, 05:45 PM
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#146
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Originally Posted by ah123
The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman
Absolutely amazing book on globalization - really opened up my eyes...the author gives a good synopsis (or introduction) to this topic in this MIT presentation
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/ |
I'm reading the follow up book right now hot flat and crowded. Once I slug through this one, I'll try to go back and read that one.
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03-29-2009, 08:14 PM
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#147
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by peter12
I recognize the point behind it and it's mainly a good one. I just know some people who practically worship Ayn Rand.
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Really? Well, I don't worship her, and I think her philosophy is a load of hogwash, but I'm still enjoying the book.  I really don't know how some people can actually 'follow' Objectivism... Seems like a recipe to be a total jackass.
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03-29-2009, 10:26 PM
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#148
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Really? Well, I don't worship her, and I think her philosophy is a load of hogwash, but I'm still enjoying the book. I really don't know how some people can actually 'follow' Objectivism... Seems like a recipe to be a total jackass. |
Haha that's what I meant by worship. However, I do subscribe to a lot of her libertarianism and dislike of central control. There are others, such as F.A. Hayek, who do a much more eloquent and realistic job of transcribing those values.
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03-31-2009, 02:40 PM
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#149
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
You do realize he didn't get finished and passed away last year, don't you?
He did leave notes behind on how he wanted it finished, and a writer is working on it, but I guess we'll need to wait and see.
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Quoting myself, but I have a bit more news.....
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=...=blog&id=19734
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Tor Books is proud to announce the November 3rd, 2009 on-sale date for The Gathering Storm, Book Twelve of The Wheel of Time and the first of three volumes that will make up A Memory of Light, the stunning conclusion to Robert Jordan’s beloved and bestselling fantasy series. A Memory of Light, partially written by Jordan and completed by Brandon Sanderson, will be released over a two-year period.
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So there will be 3 more books. *sigh*
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"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
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03-31-2009, 05:43 PM
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#150
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In the Sin Bin
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Can't be any worse than Xanth right now, which is at about 32, and that the only reason why I still buy the new books is because (1) I've been reading the series for 15 years, and (2) I want to outlast Piers Anthony...
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03-31-2009, 06:31 PM
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#151
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Djibouti
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
So there will be 3 more books. *sigh*
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04-16-2009, 01:56 PM
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#153
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I am currently working through a collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens called "Unacknowledged Legislation." It's basically a bunch of critical reviews of some of his favourite essayists. I've got to say it's high brow and I'm enjoying it.
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04-16-2009, 02:10 PM
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#154
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by Hesla
I need a couple more books to read....
My favorite SF books in the past are...
Foundation series - Asimov (I have read most Asimov stuff out there)
Dune Series - Hebert and Son
Pandoras star and Judas Unchained - Peter F. Hamilton
I also have liked Cormac McCarthy - The Road and No country for Old Men.
Anyone have any recommendations..... I know it is pretty broad.
thanks
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You might enjoy Spin, by Wilson. It won the Hugo award in 2007.
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04-16-2009, 02:11 PM
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#155
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by peter12
I am currently working through a collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens called "Unacknowledged Legislation." It's basically a bunch of critical reviews of some of his favourite essayists. I've got to say it's high brow and I'm enjoying it.
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But you laughed when I said I was reading Hitchen's collection of essays on atheism? 
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04-16-2009, 02:14 PM
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#156
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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I'm actually back to reading The Bonehunters by Erikson after a quick detour to reread another series.
Probably look for something non-fantasy next, the book draft has given me lots of fodder.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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04-16-2009, 02:18 PM
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#157
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Originally Posted by troutman
But you laughed when I said I was reading Hitchen's collection of essays on atheism? |
I find his new stuff to be terrible, it's so blunt and crude. His older literary critique stuff shows him to be the true man of letters that he is and also exposes the philosophical foundations of his humanism far more than his atheist polemics.
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04-16-2009, 10:45 PM
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#159
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Calgary
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Currently working on Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality. I'm on the 3rd essay and so far its really interesting and often disturbing at the same time.
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04-16-2009, 10:52 PM
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#160
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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