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#28504783 - 10/14/23 07:53 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
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#28506392 - 10/16/23 05:17 AM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living ~ Dale Carnegie
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's been a great reminder that 99% of the things we worry about it never come to fruition. It's all in our head, and sometimes, we need to remind ourselves of this. This book has been a great reminder to chill out and stop worrying over the little things.
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#28507333 - 10/16/23 07:21 PM (3 months, 10 days ago) |
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High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis
This book is an exploration of the philosophies of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick. I'm a few pages into it and it's great.
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#28508524 - 10/17/23 06:32 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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I'm halfway through Steve Os new book A Hard Kick in the Nuts. Got a signed copy it's pretty funny!
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#28510865 - 10/19/23 05:50 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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The Three-Body Problem trilogy was amazing 
Now onto Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells This is a very fun series, which I'm enjoying much more than I expected I would
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#28510901 - 10/19/23 06:23 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
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#28511023 - 10/19/23 07:58 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh
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#28511376 - 10/20/23 05:54 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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DividedQuantum said: Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
I never read Tolstoy. Should I start with Anna Karenina or War and Peace? Probably would need note cards to keep track of characters for either. Never did that (except college) but hundreds of times wished I did.
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#28511506 - 10/20/23 08:59 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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I'd probably start with War and Peace. I think there is an index of characters. Be prepared for a long book (around 1200 pages), and a lot of philosophy, and a lot of military theory involving Napoleon. It all fascinated me, but it's not for everyone.
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#28513464 - 10/21/23 08:34 PM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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Starting Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy #1) by Steven Erikson, which is a prequel series to his main Malazan Book of the Fallen series (probably my favourite fantasy series I've ever read) - so I am super excited for this one
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#28513511 - 10/21/23 09:30 PM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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Been ripping through the southern reach trilogy. First book sucks, but is necessary for the rest of it.
I'm kinda hoping #3 is gonna finish strong.
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#28513513 - 10/21/23 09:32 PM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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DividedQuantum said: Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
I never read Tolstoy. Should I start with Anna Karenina or War and Peace? Probably would need note cards to keep track of characters for either. Never did that (except college) but hundreds of times wished I did.
Anna Karenina makes more sense. Both are very good, one is just more accessible to the modern American reader.
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#28513679 - 10/22/23 04:58 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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I liked Dostoevsky who's also deep, but the plot lines seemed easy to follow. Always an issue with foreign names, but when I heard War and Peace had 580 characters, it seemed like a full semester course.
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#28513863 - 10/22/23 08:41 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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I remember as a kid, War and Peace was jokingly referred to as the hardest book to read due to how many pages it had and the complexity of the writing/story/concepts in the book.
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#28514208 - 10/22/23 01:44 PM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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It reminds me as a book, of the Renaissance oil paintings that had Like 300 ppl/characters in it and so much going on.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ashfiken]
#28514236 - 10/22/23 02:00 PM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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When I say "modern American reader" I'm making a lot of assumptions. Modern American literature, and storytelling in general, almost always has some baked-in assumptions. The most common one, of course, being that everything works out in the end. But it goes deeper than that. Even the idea that the story has a beginning, middle, and end is not universal. Certain concepts are treated as self-evident. Or, self-evidently good/bad. Even the distinction between good and bad. And I recognize that these are not always true, I'm generalizing a lot.
Russian literature also has baked-in assumptions, obviously, but they are different. And those differences can be jarring. When enough of those differences happen, it can make the book downright unintelligible.
This is true for pretty much any culture.
I just think that Anna Karenina fits better into American literary sensibilities, compared to War and Peace. Hence why I suggest starting there, between the two options presented.
Edit: That being said, for the exact same reasons, War and Peace will likely lead you further down some interesting paths of thought.
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#28518065 - 10/25/23 06:30 PM (3 months, 1 day ago) |
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#28519218 - 10/26/23 06:03 PM (3 months, 18 hours ago) |
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Carrie by Stephen King
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#28521635 - 10/28/23 08:38 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
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#28523907 - 10/30/23 08:45 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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^^^Phenomenal.
Next:
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by Kevin J. Mitchell
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Nonlocal Nature: The Eight Circuits of Consciousness by James A. Heffernan
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