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!coomers !bookworms crossover
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Should be a coffee table book.
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Are there any decent novels dipping into Greek mythology that aren't complete slop/YA? I have an itch 🥺👀 !bookworms
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Try Robert Graves' retellings.
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Iron Druid Chronicles
deals with mythology
many cultures but mostly Irish 
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Thx for the suggestion but I hate the Irish and will not read anything that features their culture 👍
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It does not paint
their mythology 
in a happy 
light. Pretty 
good series 
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You're missing out. The Cooley Cattle Raid is incredibly based. Two guys get in an argument. As they leave, one of them is so mad that he grabs a small tree and yanks it out of the ground and tosses it over his shoulder. It lands right on the other guy and impales. There's all kinds of crazy shit like that in there. Telepathic cattle. Girlfights. It's got everything.
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It's all really pretty prose too
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Just read the actual mythology. Don't bother with the novels, they're all slop
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I'm pretty sure the actual mythology was oral...
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Read homer. Stanley lambardo translations are plain english and readable by modern standards. He translated the aeneid as well but thats roman but same shit.
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Not a novel 👎
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I've been skeptical of Homer translations since reading Strabo. When I see how much was already completely incomprehensible by the 1st century I have my doubts about modern translators. In a lot of cases they didn't even know if something was a word or a proper noun.
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there's a few books that actually cover it, they're not really novels tho
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But do they count as "the actual mythology"? 🤔🤔🤔
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I just want a cozy historical novel set in Ancient Greece that toys with the mythology a bit is this too much to ask
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That's certified ludoslop, sorry
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https://www.goodreads.com/series/243176-stephen-fry-s-great-mythology
I think these are supposed to be good.
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Read Strabo when he's explaining which places in the real world the Odyssey was actually set in.
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Did u kno that Ulysses is le hec*in Odyssey?!!!?!!
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Tl;dr
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Bestest !dramatards don't read!
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No idea what this thread is about but I always assume the most r-slurred shit of you people.
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Computrace, BIOS flashing, and SPI flashing. BlackHat had an interesting slideshow on how to disable it from Windows. It's also vulnerable to RCE.
!codecels, any of y'all played around with this? I'm thinking of getting back into the refurb business as a side hustle.
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like refurbing old office PCs? where's SPI flashing come in?
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For bypassing computrace. Lot of recyclers simply chuck out those corporate-locked computers, so there's potential for profit here. They tend to retire stuff from 2020 that also has 9th or 10th gen i7's which is great for basic stuff. Sold prices on eBay are around $200-450.
I used to buy a pallet of this stuff (not locked by computrace), plug 12-24 of them into a switch, deploy images with FOG or whatever that 4-letter acronym is for Windows, run a script to test and log performance, and usually upgrade them to a 256 or 512GB SSD.
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im halfway through the new nate silver book, it's actually incredibly good. I haven't had this much fun reading a nonfiction book in a while. his main thesis is that people aren't taking enough risks, and that people who are willing to take risks are more successful. theres a good mix of stats, finance, game theory, and a surprising lack of politics. i want to play poker after reading it
i've also been reading mother knight by vonnegut, but it's not as good as his other books
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Gonna finally be reading dune on the plane. The movies convinced me and I realized it's like a character focused Foundation
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You're in for a rude awakening 😬😬😬
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😬😬😬
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It is good.
Never read foundation though. Is it any good?
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Foundation is pulpy sci-fi about grand ideas (Empires falling, religion as a tool, free-will). If you enjoy that stuff then you'll like Foundation.
Asimov's characters however are made of cardboard and forget about descriptions of battles and stuff like that.
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It's my favorite series of all time but you have to be an Asimov writing style enjoyer. Have you read any of his short stories? Try those and if you like it you'll probs like Foundation. Oh and it's nothing like the shit Apple TV show.
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I'm reading The Dark Forest, the sequel to the Three Body Problem, still can't tell if the author is neurodivergent or just Chinese. But it's fun, aside from the stilted feeling dialogue.
I'm also reading The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall, I'm not sure how much stock I'd put into what he's saying (he talks about Atlantis A LOT) but his knowledge of symbolism is impressive and the masonic stuff is neat.
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Oh he's hella neurodivergent AND hella Chinese. I liked the whole trilogy but the third book ended up leaving me with no desire to read the fan made "official" 4th book
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I liked Hall's book as inspiration for letting ideas flow, if nothing else. He gets into the weeds and it's beefy, but the explanations are fun.
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Agreed, I'm using more for a resource of esoteric symbolism than a guidebook for reality.
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I read cleopatra and frankenstein by the same author so why not this one
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How is her Frankenstein different than the real one?
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The characters names are cleo and frank. So thats why
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Stasiland, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stasiland-Anna-Funder-ebook/dp/B005ERMKSO/
It was an incredible system. There was 1 agent/informant per 6 people in East Germany spying and reporting on their friends and family.
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This rdrama thread currently
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Still on The Iran-Iraq War. I've gotten through Operation Karbala 7. The Iranians have gotten within sight of Basra, as close as they'll ever get to winning. I think this is right before the tide turns.
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Just finished Crime and Punishment, thinking of reading more dostoevsky but not sure which one yet.
Also Russian names are so hard to remember or maybe I'm just racist
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Read Kamala brothers next
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Is that orange man bad in the sky?
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IDK but it's actually a real cover
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Annotated-Fyodor-Dostoevsky-ebook/dp/B0CPCP1ZWR/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?s=books&sr=1-3-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1
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I dropped Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain earlier this year, but tried to pick it up again. It's a legitimately hard read. Very, very specific references to turn of the century European lifestyles and philosophies that I don't understand well enough. The writing is very dense, I'm probably at my lowest words per minute. It is good, just difficult, but probably more of research project than a leisurely read.
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I have started reading "Reverend Insanity". I dismissed it because it seemed like yet another Xianxia novel at first, but then while reading "Zenith of Sorcery" (and discovering that it is a monthly release, ick) I discovered that "Reverend Insanity" apparently has fanfiction, so I guess it must be decentish.
I am a little over 100 chapters in. The main character has successfully outmaneuvered his Uncle and Aunt, and claimed his inheritance, the highlights so far is the main character getting away with a few murders. If there is one thing I could do without, it is the cooonstant usage of the term "Gu" (The Chinamen cultivate by raising and feeding pets called Gu in this setting), also the Chinese "how could I"s are a bit goofy, and they happen constantly as the Chinese are quite fond of bootlicking it seems.
Other than that I have read some of the textbooks I have been assigned this semester, some late sub chapters in "Thomas' Calculus", two first chapters of "Interactive Computer Graphics" chapter 2 and 3 of "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow".
I was surprised by how easy I found "Thomas' Calculus", I guess I have finally started developing some competency with deciphering math texts.
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still unemployed then?
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Just finished Dan Jones Wolves of Winter. A sequel to Essex Dogs about the invasion of Normandy in 1346.
A very gripping and exciting read. Though the man r*pe in the middle of the story at the brothel caught me off guard tbh.
Still highly recommend the series, as Dan Jones is in the middle of writing the third and final book
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Tom Segev - 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
It goes a bit further than just military stuff and really paints a picture of the broader geopolitical situation around the six day war.
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Started reading Dead Souls. I'm getting the sense that Gogol wasn't a fan of the Russian aristocracy.
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reading about the ghetto city i've lived in my entire life, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/806626.Dream_City
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I finally finished the Wool trilogy, the series that Apple TV's Silo is based on.
It was ok although it got a bit silly by third book.
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Name a sci fi series
that didnt 
go insane 
at book 3
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Omnibus of H.P. Lovecraft as bedtime reading since it's comfy
, I've started The Smartest Guys in The Room which is about the Enron crisis 
, and slogging through a book about Deontic Logic and the problems with SDL 
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Finished reading the Culture series, rounding off with Surface Detail and The Hydrogen Sonata. The Hydrogen Sonata was... ok. It's definitely one of the better books in the series, but that's not saying much because most of them are bad. It has the Ian M Banks problem of focusing its entire story on some sort of event that supposed to be big, and then right at the end going "never mind lol it never actually mattered the culture wins again".
Surface Detail is one of the most disgusting books I've ever read. Not only does one particular plot thread not go anywhere, he also apparently included it solely so he could get his rocks off describing torture. The man is an out and out sociopath, and anyone who actually enjoyed his books is suspect.
His description of The Culture as "hippies with guns" is accurate, because hippies are terrible people who think they're good and he fits right in with them.
At least Peter Kenny's voice work in the audiobook versions is great.
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The origin of conciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
What does it mean to be conscious? How did it come to be? When? Where is it? How does it work?
What exactly seperates consciousness from unconcious lower beings? Your body can react unconciously, unconcious beings have memory.
In the Odyssey, the protagonist is like us, with an inner monologue, frequently paired with other characters who are borderline automatons. Is it possible consciousness only came to be as recently as written history?
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How it does it work? Like this:
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Not to be rude but this is literally the dumbest fricking idea I've ever heard of in my entire life.
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It's an interesting idea, and I think it's probably fair to say that the complexity of consciousness does accrue over each generation. But the bicameral mind I'm skeptical of as a theory because it's basically saying we as humans only recently gained the equivalence of object permanence with our conscience.
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reading the omnibus collection of the nine princes in amber abt halfway thru. v corny
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I finished reading Snow Crash last week. Really fun book. The book has a nice tempo, and doesn't really get boring at any point. Thinking about it, there's one slow point (the talk about the Sumerian language with the Librarian) and even that one goes by pretty fast. Which my impatient over-dopamined brain appreciates.
The world building is really fun, and keeps a nice balance between the overall humorous tone of the book, and much darker implications of how the world affects the people living in it. Like for example thedentata - it's used for a funny gag, but it's actually pretty dark that a teenager would have to use it, and they'd consider it fairly essential.
While the world building is stellar and the narrative style is good, I will say that I was kind of disappointed by the middle part of the plot - specifically the Sumerian part. The wholemind control thing didn't really do it for me. The rest of it was good though.
All in all: really good, I understand why Carmack said it inspired him (and a lot of other people).
I'm planning on finishing reading LotR now. I like it so far, but it's really really slow, and I dislike how The Two Towers is split up: I'd much prefer if the Frodo&Sam storyline was interweaved with the Rohan story, rather then them being sequential.
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imagine caring
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@timmy_blueballs last read the ultimate spiderman comic which is honestly going pretty good so far.
@timmy_blueballs finished blame! manga last which is also a pretty good manga although a bit abstract on the storytelling, the environments are great though.
@timmy_blueballs found out about the blame manga through a comic called Ion because they had similar artstyles so looking up discussions about Ion on reddit led @timmy_blueballs too mentions of blame comic. @timmy_blueballs like blame more personally.
Hunter x Hunter current arc is kinda boring for @timmy_blueballs because there are too many characters and sub plots running together for @timmy_blueballs too care anymore. @timmy_blueballs think its the weakest arc of the manga out of all the arcs they ever had. @timmy_blueballs is hoping the fights between Hisoka and the phantom troupe will make up for the drop in quality.
Jujutsu kaisan last few chapters have been a bit middling compared too the fight between Sukuna and Gojo, its like they peaked with that fight and after that they are just finishing up the story. Also there are only 5 more chapters too go for Jujutsu Kaisan too be completed.
@timmy_blueballs continue too dislike one piece because the comic has gone on too long for any sane human too read it from the beginning and complete it.
@timmy_blueballs stand with Israel.
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. May God have mercy on your soul.
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"Paul and Jesus" by James Tabor. He makes some claims that are a little bit strong and not fully supported for my liking, but I think his main thesis about Paul (that he was more explicitly opposed to the Jewish Jerusalem Church than the book of Acts lets on) is basically correct.
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More Zerk. I have like
gaps between reading it because there's a long line to take it out from my library.
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I'm still reading "For Whom The Bell Tolls" two pages at a time, every time I take a dump.
Hemmingway is perfect for such consumption, as he's frugal with words.
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