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Grudge
Approaching the singularity
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 12:04 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
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Ryoki
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 12:24 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Not a fucking thing :paranoid:

I need to go bookshopping real soon.



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Mat Linnett
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 01:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Phillip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle", an alternate reality sci-fi story where the Axis won WW2.

Also desperately awaiting the arrival of Book 7 of The Walking Dead.
Preacher's giving me my comic-book kicks in the mean time.
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 01:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


where are they up to in the comics? i've got up to 37, but that was weeks ago. my mate's just lent me battlepope and some samurai detective thing.
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Mat Linnett
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No idea where they're up to in comics; I've got addicted to the trade paperbacks, and need my fix in one large chunk.
I'll have to check with the guys at Orbital, see where it's up to.

Been a while since I've been reading comics (was an Eighties 2000AD child), and I'm really getting back in to things.

Mind you, I've just spent 30 squid on Zombie fiction on Amazon :paranoid:
That should keep me happy for a while...
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 05:04 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ive been reading airport novels:
The girl at the Lion D'or - Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
tonight, just finished The Conjuror's Bird - Martin Davies
really enjoyed Birdsong and The Conjuror's Bird.



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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 11:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Heliconia trilogy (currently on book 1, Spring)
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StarShrieker
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 01:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


about to go outside and start reading 'The Histories' by Herodotus, the tale of the Greek-Persian war in the 5th century B.C.

Gonna try finishing it before I see 300.



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Elementary Forest Mensuration - M.R.K. Jerram

Its basically about how to evaluate a wooded area in terms of the volume of produce to be had from the wood.

No, really.
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 02:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i wonder if i can forget how to read.

so i can think and do more ey

i'm pretty sure i can cuz my spelling is disintergrat'in nicely so
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Foo
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I went through a few weeks of deliberately ignoring all signs and anything else legible in public when I was at uni. Once you get used to doing it it's actually kinda relaxing.
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 02:17 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The Secret History of the Iraq War - Yossef Bodansky
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson

the usual light reading...
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 02:28 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I read Sorrows of Empire before I'd heard about it anywhere, and was thoroughly impressed. For some reason I can't seem to get as interested in the other two, and I'm not sure why.
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 03:51 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Chainfire by Terry Goodkind
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 05:24 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Buttfire by Marty Badcruel (Vol. 1 of 9)
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Foo
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PostPosted: 06-05-2007 11:49 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hannibal wrote:
Buttfire

lulz
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Wabbit
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PostPosted: 06-07-2007 05:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


One Thousand Years of World Architecture - An Illustrated Guide. Francesca Prina with Elena Demartini

On sale at Borders. It's worth the price.

Gloucester Cathedral - cloister 1337-60. Earliest surviving example of fan vaulting

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Antiquarium (Residenz) - Munich - 1569-71. Example of a barrel vault

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The pics in the book are much better. Especially pics of the fan vault in Gloucester Cathedral.

Wells Cathedral - picture by Robert Feinman

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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 09:21 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


bound to happen that some marketing alt would drop turds in this thread. surprised it hasn't happened in the photo thread yet.
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seremtan
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Wabbit wrote:
One Thousand Years of World Architecture - An Illustrated Guide. Francesca Prina with Elena Demartini

On sale at Borders. It's worth the price.

Gloucester Cathedral - cloister 1337-60. Earliest surviving example of fan vaulting

Image


oxford is full of stuff like this. it's weird, but i only really notice how aesthetically awesome my city is when friends come from out of town and i give them the tourist trail routine

here's the bodleian library, for example:

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:drool:
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 10:26 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


um, that's not the whole library, obviously. no books for a start
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 11:20 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If you're going to pick up anything to read, make it The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.
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werldhed
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 11:48 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm working on writing my grant, so I've been reading nothing but scientific articles for the past month. I've got about 30-40 I'm focusing on atm.

Just a few sitting in front of me right now are:
    "Flt3 mutations from patients with acute myeloid leukemia induce transformation of 32D cells mediated by the Ras and STAT5 pathways."

    "Combined deficiencies in Bruton tyrosine kinase and phospholipase Cgamma2 arrest B-cell development at a pre-BCR+ stage."

    "Cutting Edge: Signaling and Cell Surface Expression of a µH Chain in the Absence of lambda5: A Paradigm Revisited"

    "Cancer gene discovery in solid tumors using transposon-based somatic mutagenesis in the mouse"

    "A novel PAX5-ELN fusion protein identified in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia acts as a dominant negative on wild-type PAX5"

    "Constitutive activation of NF-kB is not sufficient to disturb normal steady-state hematopoiesis."

And the list goes on and on...
ffs, I'm sick of this. :dork:
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Wabbit
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 12:45 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
oxford is full of stuff like this. it's weird, but i only really notice how aesthetically awesome my city is when friends come from out of town and i give them the tourist trail routine


I'm going to visit some of these places when I get the chance. You're lucky. While there is great architecture all over the world, personally, I'm attracted to styles that are predominately located in Europe and the mid-east.
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 12:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


- Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (for my course "The Filmmaker")
- just finished R. Scott Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" trilogy which was interesting but went over my head in its philosophical depths (kinda surprising for a fantasy series) and did not give me any closure with the rather abrupt ending
- following that up with Louise Cooper's 8-book "Indigo" series. I'm a huge fan of three other fantasy trilogies she's written, so I bought the first four books of this series on eBay and I'm starting the first one tonight
- also plodding through the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and An Introduction to Short Fiction, because you have to read what you write
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 12:50 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Wabbit wrote:
seremtan wrote:
oxford is full of stuff like this. it's weird, but i only really notice how aesthetically awesome my city is when friends come from out of town and i give them the tourist trail routine


I'm going to visit some of these places when I get the chance. You're lucky. While there is great architecture all over the world, personally, I'm attracted to styles that are predominately located in Europe and the mid-east.


I'm pretty much in love with norman architecture from the 11th century onwards which become such a definitive element of british structures with the explosion of castle building and religious constructions from that time. The broader gothic architectural style appeals in the general sense too, but the Normans really nailed it as far as England goes.
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 02:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Oxford is beautiful. I've been there a few times now and it never gets old :D



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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 02:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


R00k wrote:
bound to happen that some marketing alt would drop turds in this thread. surprised it hasn't happened in the photo thread yet.


prophetic statement?
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Dr_Watson
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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 05:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


just finished "Eragon"
decided to see if modern fantasy was worth a shit...
man that book is a steaming pile of feces.
everyone rips off tolkien to a certain extent; but i'never expected someone to get the idea of stealing almost the entire middle-earth universe and then mashing the story from star wars in there. "if i toss in a dragon; no one will notice."
doesn't help that its so badly written it reads like a movie script; and a bad one at that. Characters are so bland and undeveloped, you could just pick a random page and start reading without being lost.
least its quick... can tear through it in an afternoon.
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7zark7
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Dr_Watson wrote:
just finished "Eragon"
decided to see if modern fantasy was worth a shit...
man that book is a steaming pile of feces.
everyone rips off tolkien to a certain extent; but i'never expected someone to get the idea of stealing almost the entire middle-earth universe and then mashing the story from star wars in there. "if i toss in a dragon; no one will notice."
doesn't help that its so badly written it reads like a movie script; and a bad one at that. Characters are so bland and undeveloped, you could just pick a random page and start reading without being lost.
least its quick... can tear through it in an afternoon.


wasnt it written by a 15 year old kid?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eragon

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After graduating from high school at the age of fifteen, Paolini started planning a novel which he would enjoy reading himself. After a month of planning out the trilogy, he started writing the first draft of Eragon, initially by hand, but after writing the first sixty pages he continued writing it on a computer. After a year of writing, Paolini finished writing the first draft of Eragon and commenced writing a second draft.



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PostPosted: 06-08-2007 07:13 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
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Dr_Watson
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7zark7 wrote:
wasnt it written by a 15 year old kid?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eragon



suppose that explains some of its badness... but it was edited and published by adults. They should have known better.
also nice to see that i'm not the only one to notice the "star wars in middle earth" connection.
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PostPosted: 06-09-2007 11:45 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What I've been reading the last couple of weeks:

[lvlshot]http://123pichosting.com/images/6541sg01.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://123pichosting.com/images/9834sg02.jpg[/lvlshot]

Fortunately I'm almost finished with it, but it would be nice to be able to come back and look at pages 20-25 again sometime.


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PostPosted: 06-10-2007 12:26 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Why does it look so bitter and crushed?
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Grudge
Approaching the singularity
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PostPosted: 06-10-2007 12:27 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ffs spazda, keep that retarded trolling shit in the void
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Captain Mazda
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PostPosted: 06-10-2007 12:28 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


wtf, I was just wondering why the book's in such an awful shape, you dumb Swede >:E
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