What are you reading right now?

OccultHawk · 03-13-2018, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

never really "picked up" but that wasn't really the point. still a quick and easy read with a surprising amount of depth to it.

7/10

That was an unforgivably boring book. I didn’t find it “easy” because I was thinking about everything else since it didn’t grab my attention at all.

grindy · 03-13-2018, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

I'll finally have an address starting 3/19/18. Going on a massive Amazon buying binge.

#1 - Foundation Trilogy

Who here has read the entire thing?

Moi.
Good times.

innerspaceboy · 03-20-2018, 03:47 PM

What an incredible day! I visited the unparalleled James Joyce Collection at The University at Buffalo and beheld Joyce’s spectacles, the 1939 first edition of Finnegans Wake, and Sylvia Beach’s personally-bound copy of Ulysses. I surveyed Joyce’s collected notebooks and related lit and met with a Joycean scholar who operates a used bookshop in town in an effort to secure one of the University’s workbooks with facsimiles of Joyce’s handwritten notes for The Wake. It's quite a rare specimen but I enjoy a challenge! And as a gift, a professor kindly provided me with a copy of Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection!

The manuscripts were riveting, and as icing on the cake I happened upon a stunning Joyce portrait from The Irish Classical Theatre’s 2000 production of Nightmaze - The Wake realized for the stage - which would be a brilliant complement to my framed issue of Time from ‘39 with Joyce’s portrait on the cover. The proprietor of the bookshop refused to part with the print but I’ve contacted the Classical Theatre to see if they have a copy.

Also enjoyed some engaging conversations with library and bookshop patrons. A fine day, indeed!

Trollheart · 03-28-2018, 07:47 PM

Just started a classic.

**Frownland** · 03-28-2018, 09:14 PM

First time?

Trollheart · 03-29-2018, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

First time?

Third, but this time Karen chose it and she hasn't read it before, so it's (mostly) new to her.

grindy · 03-29-2018, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Third, but this time Karen chose it and she hasn't read it before, so it's (mostly) new to her.

I hope you read it more passionate than you did in the voice exchange thread.
And also mimic explosions and stuff.

Trollheart · 04-02-2018, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

I hope you read it more passionate than you did in the voice exchange thread.
And also mimic explosions and stuff.

Not really. My voice is what it is, though kind of yeah: when you're reading out loud to someone there's a little more emphasis and life required than when you're just basically reading into a microphone.

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OccultHawk · 04-02-2018, 10:21 AM

Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan

20 years later every warning we ignored is biting us in the ass and only getting worse

Books he wrote decades ago still blow our current celebrity scientists away.

Dude knew what the **** was up

**Frownland** · 04-02-2018, 10:35 AM

Pretty much the only pop scientist worth anyone's time.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Pretty much the only pop scientist worth anyone's time. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x