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my heart is telling me To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers
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Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #89 
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bettoota advocate maybe has a funny headline 1/10 times. the problem is that the articles are just the headline jones repeated in different clothing for 300 words and it makes me hurt inside
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Most of the parody news sites have that problem. The onion gets it right just only doing a headline if they can't think of a funny body.
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Bill Bryson - the Road to Little Dribbling.
It's not nearly as funnny as his earlier stuff, so it's probably just as well that he's now retired.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489012-the-road-to-little-dribbling
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I read the second Xeelee book "Timelike Infinity". I feel like I'm missing something as the only discourse around them makes them out to be the most grimdark books ever but they're actually enjoyable novels about theoretical physics?
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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
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I really identified with the narrator in the beginning and the end, but the middle part was too confusing for me
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150 hours of pure unadulterated slop PERIODT
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ok so Been reading more of the First Law Trilogy, and On to the last book now, and Better than Sando in a lot of ways but still very flawed, and The story doesnt really move forward in literally all of 2 books, and Some things are like just way to repetitive, and Like how there are so many identical torture sequences
im literally screaming, I think I like just dont give a shit about the quality of writing, and When I see a paragraph describing how something looks with a lot of allusions and big words I like just skip that shit, and I think I am going to go back to reading math textbooks
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"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, same guy as the martian.
Good idea hampered by absolutely cringe writing and characters. The protagonist is a scientist/schoolteacher with reddit-tier mannerisms. There is a government super agent who girlbosses all over everyone (there is a scene where she calls in the US Army to dismiss a lawsuit from the copyright lobby
), a Russian scientist cracking jokes over a life and death situation, and a super intelligent alien that acts more like a child when given a tape measure .
I'm powering through because I am still interested in the main mystery but Jesus Christ, I wish any other author had written this
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Ward by Wildbow. Bretty gud, I've always like his writing style, and the setting and theme is neat too. Not done yet, but very much enjoying my read so far.
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Why did
@nuclearshill die in that rocket explosion???
omg!
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Just started today. And I am not well read enough to understand the references Pound is making here.
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reading another Adrian Tchaikovsky book, and dunno why cuz theyre okay, but literally all the same, and this one is called Alien Clay
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Some classic dystopian lit
but go off i guess
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Fahrenheit 451 is the best highscool dystopian novel and it's not even close.
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Been reading through some of the more famous stories in
GRRMs Dreamsongs Vol, and 1 and honestly it might be the most high density collection of cuck fiction Ive seen anywhere besides rdrama but go off
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Anyone have literally any recommendations for something
easy to read???
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Try A Memory of Solferino by Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross, and It documents the aftermath of The Battle of Solfarano and the humanitarian aide Dunant gave at the site, and Its like only 38 pages and can be read in an afternoon
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Murder mysteries by Josephine Tey (Miss Pym Disposes, Brat Farrar) and Edmund Crispin (The Moving Toyshop, Swan Song), and 30s-50s style and thats the tea, sis
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After reading some Buddhist literature I figured maybe I want to become a Christian instead because it probably makes people seethe more???
I bought a bible does anyone know are you supposed to read this front to back or what???
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It's not really ordered in any sensible order, so probably not (although Genesis and the first part of Exodus are pretty interesting since that's a lot of well-known stories). If you just try to plow through Deuteronomy though I guarantee you're gonna get bored and put it down.
The most well-known part for Christians is certainly the Gospels. Mark is the shortest, likely earliest written, and most straight-forward, so start there and see what you think.
Paul's letters (Galatians, 1st Thessalonians, 1st Corinthians, 2nd Corinthians, Romans, Philippians, and Philemon) are the earliest Christian writings, written before even the gospels. If you just read them without reading the gospels you probably get a better feeling for what the earliest Christianity was like. In a lot of ways Paul's theology came to define Christianity, but he also had a very different relationship with Jesus than we tend to think of today. He never met Jesus, only briefly met people who had known Jesus (and didn't get along with them), and frankly doesn't seem to really know anything about Jesus's life nor care that much about it. The resurrection is important to him, but not really at all what Jesus actually said or did before that. That would be a very foreign perspective to us today!
The important thing to realize is that every book was written by a different person (well, mostly), at a different time, for a different reason, and with a different viewpoint. Too often people like to believe that the bible is somehow one monolithic "Word of God" that's all saying the same thing, but you end up missing so much of it if you don't listen to what each author actually has to say on their own terms.
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit here was the best option?
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the less you actually know, the angrier you can make people
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um Read the New Testament first
and then the old
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Begin with Revelations and read in reverse order.
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Start with the book of John then read through to the end
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