Just finished The Butlerian Jihad and started on The Machine Crusade.

I'm reading the original right now for the first time lol

How was The Butlerian Jihad?

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Its actually better than I expected from those writers, they develop the characters fairly well early on. It also beats working.

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Originally posted by R.j. DeLillo - White Noise

I tried reading this, could not finish it. Badly written, pretentious (hate using this word, but fits here), shallow crap imo...

Maybe I missed something, and as I said I didn't finish it, but it was just so ham-fisted...

what did you think?

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http://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Ye...d/dp/0879515864

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Originally posted by EgosXII I tried reading this, could not finish it. Badly written, pretentious (hate using this word, but fits here), shallow crap imo... Maybe I missed something, and as I said I didn't finish it, but it was just so ham-fisted... what did you think?

It had its moments. I would have liked it a lot were it shorter than it is. I would have liked it a lot more if the author did not feel as though he had to belabor the point about Consumer Land in the most tedious way, did not use his protagonist as tool like Ayn Rand usually does, if this character was not so goddamn detached from the story, or if everybody, kids included, did not speak and act like the 'protagonist'. But, I suppose, 'there was point' to this mode of storytelling, or so it felt like that was his way of 'making a point'. Only, I am neither buying it nor am I going to check out another book of his.

But like I said, for all its 'intended' shallowness and pretentiousness, it had its moments, meaning some of the 'humor' appealed to me. This last book, V., is the last bigwig post-modernist book that I am going to put myself through. So, once that one is read, I shall move on to something with a compelling and coherent plot that is not purposely fragmented so that it supposedly 'reflects our lives in a post-modern world', something with at least one sympathetic character, and something that is not self-consciously written for academics and suckers like me.

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Just finished Dune. Awesome, as I expected. I'll buy the second one next time I buy some more books, but still have a stack to go through right now.

Next up:

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Originally posted by Lews Heavy reading. How was The Elegant Universe? I thought about getting it, but it's like 10 years old and I worry about reading Science books older than a few years old

It's still incredibly interesting imo. I actually used it to brush up on string theory since I wasn't entirely familiar. His use of simile and metaphor was impeccable throughout and he keeps it entertaining. It gets all the way up to M-Theory toward the end so it's not terrrribly outdated yet. And besides, that Schoedinger's Cat book is from 1984

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Originally posted by Ted Promo It's still incredibly interesting imo. I actually used it to brush up on string theory since I wasn't entirely familiar. His use of simile and metaphor was impeccable throughout and he keeps it entertaining. It gets all the way up to M-Theory toward the end so it's not terrrribly outdated yet. And besides, that Schoedinger's Cat book is from 1984

Alright, cool. I'll add it to my wantlist after all, then, especially since I know hardly anything about string theory. I noticed that about the Cat book, but it still looked cool so I added it to my list after all

I'm just getting interested in learning more about Physics and stuff myself lately, so always on the look out for good books

Are you a Physics major/professional or is this just free-reading because you damn smart and shit?

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Quarantine Classics - Puligny-Montrachet Edition [Progressive Classics] (April 2020)
What Is Progressive Anyways? [Progressive House Classics] (November 2019)

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Originally posted by R.j. It had its moments. I would have liked it a lot were it shorter than it is. I would have liked it a lot more if the author did not feel as though he had to belabor the point about Consumer Land in the most tedious way, did not use his protagonist as tool like Ayn Rand usually does, if this character was not so goddamn detached from the story, or if everybody, kids included, did not speak and act like the 'protagonist'. But, I suppose, 'there was point' to this mode of storytelling, or so it felt like that was his way of 'making a point'. Only, I am neither buying it nor am I going to check out another book of his. But like I said, for all its 'intended' shallowness and pretentiousness, it had its moments, meaning some of the 'humor' appealed to me. This last book, V., is the last bigwig post-modernist book that I am going to put myself through. So, once that one is read, I shall move on to something with a compelling and coherent plot that is not purposely fragmented so that it supposedly 'reflects our lives in a post-modern world', something with at least one sympathetic character, and something that is not self-consciously written for academics and suckers like me.

indeed, can't believe you managed to get through more than one book like that

I'm a big fan of american literature, but this is not it imo... Back to the classics I go

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been really slacking in the READING department lately, but started picking through this.



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