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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm back at reading "Metropolis" by Ben Wilson and I had left it unfinished months ago.
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I'm deep in Tolkien lore, though I fear I may have gone too deep, into the Dol Guldur of Tolkien's mind
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From Tom Clancy's earliest work (his 2nd book?) before his American cultural chauvinism
became unbearable,
I mean I know Clancy has always been a neoconservative, but his latest work was the yank wingcuckery equivalent of call of duty modern warfare 3 slop shit, even Americans found Blops nr fricking 3/4/5? uninteresting in the end
Instead what makes his earliest work like Hunt for Red October spectacular reads, is that they are war and espionage thrillers rolled into one combo genre.
Clancy brings authenticity in terms of making his fictitious scenarios at least plausible within the realms of possibility, so that they are less fantastical , and more like frictional simulation for Cold War events
Red Storm specifically is great because it changes genre over the course of the book, from spy thriller to war and dread
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My life is stressful atm so I'm rereading Harry Potter, it is cozy and non-threatening
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There's really something about HP and around Christmas time that just really hits
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etymologicon and elements of eloquence, both by the same guy. They're books where you can read a few pages a day and learn a fair bit about language
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Continuing the Warlord Trilogy (modern historical fiction take on Arthurian legend). I just hit the third book.
I think I made a mistake by reading this after The Once and Future King because I still have no idea what the baseline story is.
The Warlord books try to imagine what a "real" Arthur might have been like, but they're still ultimately a response to traditions and stories that were developed far later. It's fun to see the author speculate on the pagan roots of the Grail quest narrative, but for every detail that has some historical element there's an "expectations subverted" version of Lancelot or whatever.
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I'm reading about Cisco and the CCNA. I love Cisco!
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Peskin and Schroeder's Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
It's alright
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Lol are you in first grade or something
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WARNING!!!! If you overuse lefty lingo and go over the top, they can smell you out as "sus" and a r-word. you have to play midwit IQ, and agree to other peoples comments, before making them look like leftist cowtools.
THEY TOO HATE BEING SUBVERTED BY ME!!!
But they follow me for years on those sites and on invite only groomercords and on other reddits not in that news link. I CAUSED THE BOTS TONIGHT, SORRY!
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