Candide summarized: Leibniz stand-in is stupidly naïve. God pisses on him. Beige Prose.
edited 1st Mar '10 9:27:38 PM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.I mean, there are better ways to make fun of such ludicrous optimists than a long series of Godpissing.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.And ludicrous optimism isn't even what Leibniz promotes.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.Just finished Pale Fire last night. I liked it but I can't help but feel I was supposed to closely monitor every word in order to figure out who the narrator was.
And did anyone else think that John Shade was a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Robert Frost?
edited 2nd Mar '10 12:00:15 PM by Myrmidon
Kill all math nerdsI just started reading Starship Troopers. Bit of a Slow Starter.
edited 2nd Mar '10 7:49:12 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!Any one familiar with a short story about a black teen in a farming family, who wants to become a man and so buys a gun?
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.So Cap, need any help in finding a translation of the Shahnameh?
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.ALSO you know what gets Candide's aesop ("Life's a bitch and then you die") across better? And from the same period, to boot? A Journal of the Plague Year.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.I've started reading A Meeting at Corvallis again. Not rereading, but I just picked it up again after several months of not reading it. Why did I stop? I was gonna live blog it back when I first bought it, but...well, liveblogging the third book in a series isn't the easiest thing to do when you haven't liveblogged the other two. Did a couple of chapters then stopped.
Haven't had a whole lot of time to read it yet, so I'm still not that far, but I'm progressing steadily.
edited 4th Mar '10 7:43:10 PM by LuckyRevenant
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."I started reading Thus Dies The Fire. I did not get that far.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.It's just Dies the Fire, if you're talking about the first book. And, really? I really liked the first book. The second one wasn't quite as good, but it was alright.
I think part of the reason I liked hte first book was because I read it during the week or so I didn't have any power or anything after Hurricane Ike hit us. So, I could kinda relate, even though what I was experiencing wasn't anywhere near as severe. I mean, gunpowder still worked for me...I assume. I never really tried it.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."Just finished Hyperion. Good book. I could have done without Kassad's sex scene with the Shrike, though. That was apparently when a friend of mine stopped reading. I'm going to start The Fall of Hyperion now.
edited 7th Mar '10 2:46:55 PM by Myrmidon
Kill all math nerdsAs awesome as Hyperion, I just could not force myself to get into Fall.
The Philosopher-King ParadoxI've managed to find this one. Unfortunately its prose.
I hear there's a good one by Dick Davis though.
No, though apparently contemporary New Persian can be used to read it.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.

How eerie, our English class just discussed the first book of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal today. Now I'm going to be paranoid in class thinking that half of my classmates are secretly Tropers.