Luna Bliss Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 22 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said: The first entry in Amazon's Editorial Reviews for that book is from Daniel Kahneman. I've put it on my reading list, right after the upcoming "Being You" by Anil Seth, which was recommended to me by @Innula Zenovka. It's hard enough to find time for SL as it is. Stop this, all of you! So true...I have discovered some great books here on this very thread.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) I've just started this, and enjoying immensely the stories of how particular statues came to be erected and removed. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55200406-fallen-idols?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=iNlrVWtdRo&rank=1 So far I've read about her first two statues, King George III (erected in New York, 1770, removed 1776) and the Duke of Cumberland ("Butcher" Cumberland, as Tories called him) (erected London 1770, removed 1868). Currently I'm reading about one to Stalin, erected in Budapest in 1951, removed 1956). Edited September 30, 2021 by Innula Zenovka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 On 9/29/2021 at 11:43 AM, SynesthetiQ said: A really interesting and thought provoking read. I read his previous book... Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind...and enjoyed it. So, I'm tempted to get this new one though most of me believes we'll never make it to the future scenarios he paints as our society is headed for a crash I guess I could read it as a kind of science fiction, as a description of what could have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chroma Starlight Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) Edited September 30, 2021 by Chroma Starlight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Voxel Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 4 hours ago, Luna Bliss said: I just got the Dune book in the mail today, per your recommendation...so it better be good! 😉 I look forward to the new movie version due out Oct 22, but if I remember right the first movie in '84 was not so good according to reviews and so possibly turned me off to it... That movie spoiled it for a lot of people with the 80's hair and latex suits, avoid it! It's largely considered unfilmable, so the book is your best bet. That's why they wisely split the novel into two movies. It's a really easy read and borders on YA lit, it's full of politics, genetics, science, metaphysics...I think you'll enjoy it! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, Janet Voxel said: That movie spoiled it for a lot of people with the 80's hair and latex suits, avoid it! It's largely considered unfilmable, so the book is your best bet. That's why they wisely split the novel into two movies. It's a really easy read and borders on YA lit, it's full of politics, genetics, science, metaphysics...I think you'll enjoy it! It is one big book!! physically.. And that does sound interesting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Voxel Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Just now, Luna Bliss said: It is one big book!! physically.. And that does sound interesting.. My husband said the same thing! About 300-400 pages are appendices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaise Glendevon Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) I will not abide this slander against the good goddamn names of Kyle MacLachlan's patrician profile and Sting's abs. The 1984 Dune adaptation was nonsensical, but glorious and grand and epic in scale. And weird as *****, in keeping with what would happen if someone shoved the bag of money at David Lynch. Edited September 30, 2021 by Blaise Glendevon 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tailpa Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) Quote Since it is emphatically true that no man can afford to be disliked or feared by his cat or dog, it is clear that the same consideration applies with still greater force to the human beings who surround him. It is not easy to overestimate the importance to a man of winning the kindly regard of those with whom he is in constant association-- to overrate the value to a schoolmaster of the attitude toward him of his pupils, to a merchant to the feeling of his clerks, to an officer of the devotion of his men; and this is entirely apart from the obvious effects produced in the physical world. Edited September 30, 2021 by tailpa elusive 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annalise Evergarden Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Dresden Files 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondira Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Reading the recent book of poems by Margaret Atwood. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordyn McGregor Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I always love rereading the classics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Blaise Glendevon said: I will not abide this slander against the good goddamn names of Kyle MacLachlan's patrician profile and Sting's abs. The 1984 Dune adaptation was nonsensical, but glorious and grand and epic in scale. And weird as *****, in keeping with what would happen if someone shoved the bag of money at David Lynch. Still, Skiffy's production put the first one to shame. But as usual Skiffy dashed all hopes of them ever continuing with it as they had originally planned. They only had 3 more books to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I only have Helium -3, Proxima Logfiles and The Wall left to read. I just started reading these books about a month ago. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/brandon-q-morris/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaise Glendevon Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Silent Mistwalker said: Still, Skiffy's production put the first one to shame. But as usual Skiffy dashed all hopes of them ever continuing with it as they had originally planned. They only had 3 more books to go. Couldn't disagree more. I found the Syfy channel adaptation to be limp and lifeless, without any of the profound cosmic weirdness in the text. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted McGregor Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, Blaise Glendevon said: I will not abide this slander against the good goddamn names of Kyle MacLachlan's patrician profile and Sting's abs. The 1984 Dune adaptation was nonsensical, but glorious and grand and epic in scale. And weird as *****, in keeping with what would happen if someone shoved the bag of money at David Lynch. That' s why I'm so sympathetic to Jodorowsky's grimace while not understanding why his version of the book never had a fair shot. It would have been either brilliant or absolutely awful. Maybe even both. Edited October 1, 2021 by TDD123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chroma Starlight Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 (edited) Edited October 6, 2021 by Chroma Starlight resolution 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55643287 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 It gets a lot of hate from hardcore Dune fans, but so far it's stringing together a more cohesive story than the later Frank Herbert originals managed and picks up a lot of the threads he had left hanging in chapterhouse ... and I'm not worried about them retconning things in the penultimate chapter of the same book (or building to a huge climatic ending and then neglecting to actually write it in). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echelon Alcott Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40915201-mama-s-boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leahndra Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 😊 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57200226-the-casanova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liv Simondsen Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 "History of hard rock and heavy metal" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollymews Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) i am reading The Empire Strikes Back : Act 3 the FTA agreed to between the UK and Aotearoa NZ so far The Empire is a empire of three. UK, Australia and Aotearoa NZ. 163 more dominions to go Is a bit like when King Alfred was sitting all by himself with some eels and frogs then set about reconquering the Olde Empire Altho reconquering the USA might be a bit difficult. But never know they might go oooh! you guys brought some boxes of beer to the gunfight. So we surrender and lets have a party. Like it takes tea to seperate people, and beer to bring them back together i am quite pleased about the FTA. Even tho we already got a FTA with Australia, China and the Pacific countries thru the CPTPP. More friends are better than less Edited October 20, 2021 by Mollymews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marigold Devin Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 https://archives.sgul.ac.uk/post-mortem-examinations-and-case-books I'm so glad I wasn't born 100 or more years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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