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Currently reading "Disposable People" by Marshall Goldberg M.D. & Kenneth Kay. Really enjoying it so far. It's about an epidemic outbreak of a disease called Consolvo's Ulceration. Just taken delivery of what I think will be my next read too... "The Time Trip" by Rob Swigart. Know nothing of the author but it sounds refreshingly unique. Basically a computer scientist doesn't pay his Wife enough attention and she unalives by putting her head in a Microwave. There's then some realisation on his…
Just picked up Book 3 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. I took a short hiatus to continue the mistborn saga.
📚 — books to-read list! — my uni semester is almost over… which can only mean one thing: winter break lectures! 🪲 take these as both my own goofy list as maybe-book-recommendations c: “Living as a Bird” by Vinciane Despert — almost done with this one! “The King in Yellow” (+other tales) by Robert W. Chambers — really excited for this one! i miss reading horror “Bread of Angels” by Patti Smith — also really excited for this one “Sidhartra” by Herman Hesse — a classic, apparently. “Kafka…
How about extending the Gempub specification? We've been discussing this elsewhere, but I thought a separate thread might be useful. My suggestion is that Gempub be extended to include Markdown content. Not all of Markdown, and I'm not suggesting that clients should be required to render in-line HTML or tables. Whether a chapter is Gemtext or Markdown could simply be signalled by filename extension. Perhaps there could be provision for _both_ .md and .gmi in the same archive, for…
looks like @sloum made a gempub library over at circumlunar. check it out.
Vintage Yugoslav Pamphlet Info — This is a long shot, but I haven’t been able to find anything on the web, so I thought I’d ask. I was at the used book store to get some things and was browsing the foreign language section to see if there was anything to brush up on my Russian. I came across two illustrated Serbocroatian/Russian readers, published in 1963 by Grafički Zavod in Titograd and Progres in Novi Sad. From what little I can grok of the Serbocroatian (using my limited Russian), it seems…
Looking for a Slovenian school textbook - solved: found one! — I'm trying to pick up Slovenian, and so far the resources are really limited. I'm familiar with the language to the point where I can tell a direction or show what hurts, but not enough to really flex the vocabulary. I'm mostly missing on the fundamentals: cardinal and ordinal countables, noun and adjective declensions, conditional form of verb, in general morphology and syntax So far my approach was a combination of consuming…
Anyone have any good book reccomendations lately? Can be anything.
Currently reading a secondhand copy (A Four Square Book - 1964) of When they come from space by Mark Clifton. Love older sci-fi. Coming up for 50% of the way through and so far it is a good read - don't know much about the author but there was a comment earlier in the book that suggested he'd been through a divorce at some point in his life and didn't view Marriage Counselors favourably. There's always a glimpse of the authors story in their works.
Tales from Two Pockets — Karel Čapek Just starting this short story collection by the guy who had coined the word ROBOT...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — by Gail Honeyman Totally recommend this odd and wonderful fast read. I hope this Scottish author has another novel soon.
Dare to Lead, a book by Brené Brown — "Dare to Lead", the book by Brené Brown, has been highly praised in my corner of the internet a few years ago, when it was just released. It was presented as a fresh take on leadership, as "real talk", honest discourse and description of what it means to be a good leader. The amount of praise was high enough that I did not (yes) pick it up for some time, because, you know, if everyone is raving about a self-help book, you'll learn the key points from it...
Klara and The Sun, a book by Kazuo Ishiguro — Reading Klara and The Sun. I like Kazuo Ishiguro's style and pace of narrative: slow, at times repetitive, verbosely analytical. It feels like Klara and The Sun is sort of an (auto-?)biography of sorts, really cool. I'm at about the quarter of the book at this point and enjoying it thoroughly It must be a rather old book, I think, but I don't care. It's just past the stage where it was (as far as I remember) fairly popular and past the stage where...
Found a book written by a new geminaut. They posted over on DSN Antenna. I'm two chapters in and it's pretty engaging.
Dr. No -- by Percival Everett — About a quarter way in. Amazingly entertaining.
The Technological Republic, a book — Reading The Technological Republic, which is a must-read for people whose job involves talking to high-rank managers and making them do smart things instead of doing dumb things. And, holy shit, what a bag of turd this is. Useful, timely, but pseudo-statistical/--cientific turd.
I just picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1. It seems wildly popular, but I've not heard of it until today. Any fans?
Recommend One Book — Greetings. I am from “out of town”, a sort of diplomat. Please recommend one book to familiarize me with the basic fundamentals of the human experience. This will aid greatly in my mission of understanding and communication. Thank you. - Sirius Bob
class about why and how to read books — so there was this recording of a class at armenian academy of art, and the teacher was discussing books, why to read them. he said let's take this book, about robinson crusoe. what do you think it is about? and students were saying: it is a book about will to live, about how a single human can overcome terrible difficulties. then the teacher suggested to ask ai. someone asked and have read loudly, about the same but with some inaccuracies about the...
Recommendation: Dead on Mars — Hi, wanted to share a web novel I read a long time ago, and really enjoyed. Dead on Mars, by Skyray Descriptor. It's relatively small, at only 251 chapters. (One can easily find the book by doing a search on their favourite search engine) Synopsis: Payload specialist, Tang Yue, who is a mechanical and electrical engineer by training, is left stranded on Mars when he receives news from his AI robot assistant, Old Cat, that Earth has exploded. He believes...
Conan Doyle wrote The Avengers lol good luck looking that up, and have fun confusing all them AIs with it
The Martian Chronicles — My old high school had a million locked doors and storage rooms. One day, my French teacher unlocked one such room to grab a couple spare dictionaries, and allowed us a quick peek inside. On one of the steel shelves, I found a book with a most curious cover, tan humanoids and a sprawling desert landscape, etched with cerulean waterways and dotted with strange termite-like towers. It captured me immediately. The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 collection of short stories by...
Anyone reading Web Novels? Anything fun you've been reading?
Moby Dick — Okay I feel a little goofy but I had never read Moby Dick. As a high school dropout I completely missed it, and later I read most of the stuff that is shoved down your throat, but somehow never bothered with Moby. I can't tell you how much I am enjoying it. It is simultaneously quaintly outdated and completely relevant. Out-of-control capitalism, insane leaders that convince everyone to do their bidding, homo-erotic relationships that probably have names in the parlance of gen Z......
Has anyone read the Space Trilogy by CS Lewis? He's got an entirely different take on space, aliens, exploration, and man's place in the cosmos. Really interesting.
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