Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #66 :marseyreading:

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

I'm still reading Ben Wilson's "Metropolis" as I've been very slow this week and I ended up reading almost nothing.

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Aevann :#marseypin: pls

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Finished the second 3bp book. I enjoyed the story but the prose is very sus.

It's also fun to observe the chink chauvinism. Early on the book a :marseymayo: assassin attempts to murder the :marseychingchong: protagonist. He then makes a quip about the :marseychingchong: 's name literal meaning.

When has a mayoid ever cared about the :soyjakwow: chinese naming system? Wow your name is Ching-Chong Ping-Pong and it means The Great White Dragon Who Flies Above the Night Sky :m#arseysoylentgrin: that's so cool

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enjoyed the story but the prose is very sus.

Many such cases among 3BP readers, it is not just you Respeitador de menina-piá, supposedly the translators actually improved the prose lol. It's more like old Sci-Fi from the 50s which focuses on grand ideas.

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>supposedly the translators actually improved the prose lol

Some passages are so lame :marseyeyeroll2:

The dialogue itself is okay but the way he describes stuff is not good.

>It's more like old Sci-Fi from the 50s which focuses on grand ideas

The world building is also pretty stupid sometimes. Vuvuzela had a sucessful commie experience :marseyemojirofl::marseykekw: :marseylaughpoundfist: , which spread to the rest of LA . China is a superpower on par with :marseymutt: , Euros are smug and annoying but irrelevant (correct for once), jeets are never mentioned once, despite being 1/8th of the planet.

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We had a tomboy back at school and one of my mates always referred to her as "aquela menina que parece piá".

Vuvuzela had a sucessful commie experience :marseyemojirofl::marseykekw: :marseylaughpoundfist: , which spread to the rest of LA . China is a superpower on par with :marseymutt:

Chinkshit lmao, he has to suck the CCP peepee to get published after all

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