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Book club/Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:23 pm
by CMA
Would anyone want to do that? My Philosophy/Literature class ends this summer and I need something to tide me over until I get to that sort of thing in college, if I do at all. We can read anything readily available over the internet that isn't crap. I.e., no Hunger Games. I was thinking maybe Plato or Dostoevsky(if anyone had time to read all of that). Sci-fi(that isn't crap) would be good as well. Something like Hyperion or A Canticle For Liebowitz.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:25 pm
by Vinyl
Magic Tree House man, Magic Tree House.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:13 pm
by CMA
Vinyl wrote:Magic Tree House man, Magic Tree House.
Ooor, we could read crap on purpose and see who can bullshit the most amount of 'meaning' from it. Yeah, that's a better idea.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:06 pm
by ACH0225
Thus spoke Zatharusa.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:41 pm
by Professor Fenway
Read Foundation by Isaac Asimov. It's not shit, and i'm pretty sure it should be freely available. Lemme see if I can find a link.
EDIT: Found a site with the books. Actually, it has all his books.
http://www.ebook2u.org/author/Isaac_Asimov.html
It seems safe enough, from the tests I did. Start with Prelude to Foundation. This series beat The Lord of the Rings for the Hugo award. It's good stuff.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 1:42 am
by Ivan2006
Or the Revelation Space universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_universe
Pretty much the most science you've ever seen in sci-fi.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:15 am
by Iv121
Though I wonder why do you people insist on that futile search for "meaning" in literature, some books are just written for the pure pleasure of experiencing them, in fact most of them are. Those books do touch different matters but never try to convey a "meaning" which for me sort of equals to "forcing" a meaning on you, rather have a conversation with the reader about the matter. After all imagine how it is to read a book that nags you all the time "hey dude convert to scientology convert to scientology ! You know you want it !" for example ... Most books just don't do that.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:54 am
by Archduke Daynel, PhD
I agree with Iv for once. I read books because I want to read a book, not because I want to look for a hidden meaning.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:27 am
by Ivan2006
I agree with Iv and Daynel.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:42 am
by ҉
What?
Revelation Space was a lot of things, but it was not scientifically accurate. That's way out there, weird sci fi. Read
The Martian if you want scientific accuracy.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:52 am
by cats
If you want accuracy I hear that the Encyclopedia Britannica is a pretty good read.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:55 am
by Tell
I'm in a book club at my school and we often get books from publishers before they are released to the public to do reviews on them. Anyways one such book I had the privilege of reading back last year in June is called Steelheart.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182126-steelheart
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:56 am
by Tell
If you want space read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:53 am
by Prototype
The Dark Tower
'nuff said
Re: Book club/Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:24 am
by Saravanth
Warhammer 40k.
