• TheCaconym [any]
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    3 years ago

    I'm at the second book (The Dark Forest) of my re-reading of the three-body trilogy by Liu Cixin.

      • TheCaconym [any]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, it's mine too. For me it goes 2 > 3 > 1.

    • vertexarray [any]
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      3 years ago

      Man, what a great series. Liu Cixin has a knack for bringing out the best and worst of humanity.

  • WhatAnOddUsername [any]
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    3 years ago

    Halfway through Atlas Shrugged. I'm afraid it is too late for me. I no longer believe in creating a better world and dismantling unjust hierarchies. I only believe in the transactions of rational self-interested men in a free market. A is A. Help.

    • WhatAnOddUsername [any]
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      3 years ago

      P.S.: I've been brainstorming the funniest ways to adapt Atlas Shrugged into a movie, or at least the ways that would piss off objectivists the most. Two examples I've come up with:

      • An adaptation where every characters' dramatic speeches are immediately deflated by Joss Whedon-style ironic dialogue. E.g. "You say money is the root of all evil. But have you ever asked yourself what is the root of all money?" "Uh, is money gonna be a whole thing with this guy?" "Yeah, it's gonna be a whole thing with this guy."
      • An adaptation where all the good guys are black and all the bad guys are white, and it's a metaphor for how American institutions have systematically sucked wealth out of black communities.
  • ciaplant667 [he/him,fae/faer]
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    3 years ago

    2 books:

    1. A Little Hatred. A swords and sorcery vs industrial revolution story. Pretty cool so far, 2 outta 3 protagonists are women, and the book starts out with a character shitting on herself.

    2. Rin, Tongue, and Dorner. Weird psycho-sexual sci-fi story: Randian-hero central planner of new ice age dome city is TOO HORNY, so he undergoes matrix-style neural uplink therapy to discover why he’s gotta thirsty-as-fuck primordial feminine presence assailing his mind with horniness!

  • bubbalu [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Finally getting into 'The Lathe of Heaven' by Ursula LeGuin. I've read and loved so many of her books and I'm really excited to read this one.

  • Spinoza [any]
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    3 years ago

    finished Capital Vol I, finished Food by Jennifer Clapp, now I'm onto Reaganland for something a bit more fun

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Finally getting started with Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and whew it's A Lot. I'm reading it similar to how I read Ulysses (ie very slowly) because there's so much going on all at once. Enjoying it so far. Paranoia is seeping out all over the book, and feels very appropriate.

  • vertexarray [any]
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    3 years ago

    Started The Diamond Age. Feels like Stephenson by this point is getting his head on straighter wrt race and gender.