What We're Reading

[[ptx]]

It's significantly different from Blade Runner movie. Reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds https://www.goodreads.com/series/56392-revelation-space
Like it a LOT so far.

[WITCHCRAFT]

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Heh, Zappa o'clock

[Jacko]

Down and out in paris and london 

[Angantyr]

Finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep the other day. It was excellent, best sci-fi I've read since Asimov and Clarke short stories (looking forward to Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly). Just begun the Hyperion Cantos, have heard a lot of good about them.

[[ptx]]

The first couple of books are fantastic! The last ones though...

[Angantyr]

From when does the series turn bad?

[Rhekimos]

First was great and definitely worth reading. Second is still nice, and after that I dropped it.

[Grytviken]

Finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep the other day. It was excellent, best sci-fi I've read since Asimov and Clarke short stories (looking forward to Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly). Just begun the Hyperion Cantos, have heard a lot of good about them.

I loved the Foundation series.

[Angantyr]

Looking forward to reading it.

[Falka]

No one reads anything, but if they do read, they do not really understand what they’ve read, and if they do eventually understand something, they forget about it immediately.

True dat 

[WITCHCRAFT]

No one reads anything, but if they do read, they do not really understand what they’ve read, and if they do eventually understand something, they forget about it immediately.

True dat 

"everything is dumb and gay and nothing matters so don't do anything ever"

[Falka]

More like: how do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?

[WITCHCRAFT]

    Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
    Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
    So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
    Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

             -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1874

[Falka]

„BLOODLANDS – EUROPE BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN” by Timothy SNYDER

The most impressive - if that's the correct word in this context - book I've read in a very long time. To the point that it was just hard to read sometimes. Humanity, you repel me.

[WITCHCRAFT]

Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

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Covers the pharmaceutical mechanisms of creating a "zombie" as well as in-depth reasearch on the  folklore, social structure, and history of Haiti. It's informative but not dry and boring. If you like pop culture zombies check this out, Haitian zombies are point of origin for our stories of the undead over the last 100+ years.