To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I started reading “Los Premios” by Julio Cortázar 
set in the 1950s it's about a bunch of porteños who won tickets to a cruiser ship to somewhere (they have no idea where). First chapter the passengers all meet each other at the London City cafeteria in Buenos Aires (that places still exists, it's located between Av de Mayo and Av Perú, they have a wonderful tea and deserts but are kind of expensive) then they're escorted by the police to the ship at the port, a ship called Malcolm, none of the passengers knows where they're going, the officers refuse to tell them at the first day and I'm getting some White Lotus vibes from the passengers and their companions. I'm also reading “ Tratamento de Água – Concepção, Projeto e Operação de Estações de Tratamento” a textbook on water treatment because of work related stuff.
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I have resigned myself to reading fantasyslop for a month. This one is kino though
!bookworms
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libertarian science fiction
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Kino.......
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80s incarnate!
!fellas !kino remember Kung Fury?, what has been going on with the sequel, which I heard Schwarzenegger was going to be in it?Jump in the discussion.
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I remember hackerman hacking time
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More like BEST science fiction
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Btw, does anyone know if Vernor Vinge is still alive? Miss that government hating king
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Cool cover
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It's cool so far. A Mercenary Lord is betrayed and left for dead so tries to assume a new identity while slowly uncovering a conspiracy. Plus the jousting arc on raptors is cool asf.
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When fellow authors give blurbs like the one on this book, they probably aren't actually reading it 90% of the time, right?
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The idea of
sitting down and reading this is pretty funny tho
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Imagining George Martin not writing is very easy
!bookworms
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started the wheel of time again. Just incase someone hasn't read it lately, they added a whole butt prequel chapter to the newer versions of "Eye of the World"
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Wait what? Is this new, as of the Amazon
show, or before 
that?
I started it for the first
time around 2020, and the opening was Lews Therin in his madness 
realizing he'd just killed 
his wife and then calling down the lightning 
that broke the world.
Is that how the book series
originally opened, or did I get Spielberged?
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That's chapter 2 now. Chapter 1 is now a young Egwene chapter (age 9) where they are shearing sheep and Tam tells a bad butt story. It's been a long time since I have read Eye of the World, but I think it's a good addition and provides a bit more background. Doesn't spoil the confusion of Lews Therin going crazy
I bought the 30th anniversary hardback and it's in my copy, but not my old paperback. My buddy bought Eye of the World at an airport recently and it was in his copy too. The chapter is called Ravens
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That seems like an awful change, because starting with zero info and then the insane
Lews is such a great 
hook. So much of the story 
is built on how everyone 
misinterprets and invents their own version of what actually 
happened when Lews broke the world. So i always loved how you as the reader 
get to share in that because you also have no background.
But i guess
if it's at least a good addition, i can't really 
complain.
Is it something Robert Jordan
wrote that they added in, or is it something Saunderson came up with?
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I truly have no idea who wrote it. I think i mainly liked it bc it dunks on cenn buie. It also gives you some idea of the relevance of lews therin breaking the world
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That book sounds fun.
I'm reading "Summerland" by Hannu Rajaniemi. It supposes that the afterlife is discovered in the early 1900s and it becomes another front in the cold war. It uses the backdrop to tell a spy story.
It's a decently fun book. If you like victorian spiritualism, you'll definitely enjoy the aesthetics.
I think the relatively short book gets too bogged down with details about Vim and ectoplasm. The main protagonist is also a little annoying. Not bad, but certainly not as good as the author's "Quantum Thief" books.
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Im reading Fever Dream before bed and listening to Red Rising series/Lightbringer throughout the day.
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Got to the 5th book of the Gor cycle and I'm bored now it's basically just coomer stuff. I wanted dudes fighting monsters and unveiling political plots, and it's been 200 pages of detailed notes on this dudes fantasy intercourse slave society. Incidentally, you can tell there was a no-edit clause in the contract because he keeps saying "incdentally" twice in the same run-on sentence, incidentally.
My advice, just read Conan instead.
Rereading Dune and Dune Messiah to remind myself what changed between the films and the book. Saw part 2 recently and it was ok, but I definitely preferred the book.
Gonna read Siddhartha on the plane later. I really enjoyed The Glass Bead Game when I read it over a decade ago. Might read Serpent's Walk if I can find an epub of it
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Understanding Conspiracy Theories by Josh Neal. Rightoid theorycel material. Not as good as his book American Extemist which is the best Radical Centrist book ive ever read.
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I wonder if the writers of The O.C. had an O.C. bible.
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Finishing my reread of Asoiaf, I'm on A Dance With Dragons now. Jon and Tyrion are great but Daenerys sucks so much. I'm also starting a book about the Song dynasty of China.
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I finished The Lesser Dead and I liked it sooo much. 1910s to late 70s New York vampire
doing vampire shit, it says it's a horror but I never found it to be spooky but it was super enjoyable. Seems like it could be the type of ending that ruins it for some people or raises it for others.
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