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*What book are you reading? (part 2)

campanula said:
.convince me they are a radical change from the vaguely gaming conceit and who the fuck are the Trisolarians cos I have no solid conception of them to present any sort of possible threat or anything else
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yeah it goes beyond the wallbreaker stuff which I know was a bit cheese but I liked it anyway. Way beyond. Can't help you with trisolarians lol but I think the first one explains the life cycle, the star system etc and how they might evolve. At the start. It was a good long time between me reading the first and then the second two, I read 3 body when it was released then the other two some time after they were both out. Its worth your time imo.
 
Dead Man's Trousers - Irvine Welsh. Follow on to Blade Artist, which follows Porno, I think, though I haven't read that - all of which follow Trainspotting - but are all preceded by Skagboys. Are you keeping up at the back? :) Anyway, certainly flawed: feels like he's giving it another shake, doesn't write women characters well (and there's that thing about whether the misogyny of his characters is actually him) plus there's an implausibility about Begbie as there was in Blade Artist. But there's enough vibrancy in his writing, strong portrayals of hedonism and ageing and the like. Certainly readable.
 
Yogibear said:
That looks like a really interesting book. AI and genetic manipulation - “My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog"
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I've blasted halfway through it already, it's fantastic.

It's a lot like We3 but looks like there's going to be more of an after action section about what it means to be human.
 
Aelfreds Britain - war and peace in the Viking Age. Max Adams.

Much more, and much better, than a biography of King Aelfred of Wessex, it's more a biography of the Viking Age, both in Britain and further afield, with Aelfred as a bit part player.

Really good, really readable - Adams' The King in the North was equally worthwhile.
 
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Read the intro yesterday, but just getting the chance to start chapter one now. I've got a cup of tea and the Fournier/Backhaus Brahms Cello Sonatas on in the background. (I know it well enough not to divert my attention).

I'll let you know how I get on.
 
So far not very impressed. He spent a long time setting up what appears to be a pretty tenuous case for substitutionism.
 
Everyday Sexism, by Laura Bates. It's fucking enraging me, page by page. I don't think I've ever identified with the content of a book so much.
 
A friend who is very senior in publishing recommended her favourite book, so I'm having a go at that: The Discovery Of Heaven by Harry Mulisch.
Supposed to be the most popular novel in Holland, enjoying it so far. It's massive, with equally large ideas, concepts and non-stop theories and distractions, history, philosophy, everything. A bit of a challenge, but so far so good.
 
Just finished Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley. It's taken me a while to get round to a book specifically focused on reggae, having been a fan of it for over a decade; reading this, though, has filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. Still, I wish the author wasn't as dismissive of a lot of the 80's/90's dancehall stuff - not to mention having a pop at Smiley Culture, who I think he refers to as 'gimmicky'.
 
Dragnet said:
Just finished Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley. It's taken me a while to get round to a book specifically focused on reggae, having been a fan of it for over a decade; reading this, though, has filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. Still, I wish the author wasn't as dismissive of a lot of the 80's/90's dancehall stuff - not to mention having a pop at Smiley Culture, who I think he refers to as 'gimmicky'.
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Adds to reading list :thumbs:
 
The City and the City by China Mieville. Murder mystery set in a dystopian future. Only just started it.

I have finished Prisoner 155 by Augustin Comotto, a graphic novel about the remarkable life of dedicated anarchist Simon Radowitzky, I found it a powerful and educational biography, great stuff. By reading it you learn not just about Radowitzky but about history, including the history of the anarchist movement during the time he lived.
 
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1981. Two men head over the border to Donegal to illegally cut some turf and discover the body of a child. Lots of commentary about the hunger strikers. A real page turner.
 
Leila Ahmed - Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Laleh Bakhtiar (translator) - the Sublime Quran
Frederick Engels - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Helen MacFarlane: Red Republican: Essays, Articles and Her Translation of the Communist Manifesto
Alan Moore / Kevin O'Neill - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910
 
Voley said:
Just read 'The Call Of Cthulhu' for the first time. I feel an obsession coming on.
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I've been wanting to read some Lovecraft, don't think I've read anything by him aside from a couple of short stories when I was a teenager. Wasn't he a massive racist though - does any of that come through in his writing?
 
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