I finally started reading the origin tale of Mitth’raw’nuruodo! He’s one of my favorite Star Wars characters since the Thrawn Trilogy. It’s good to be back.
Thank you for your comment. A varied reading list keeps boredom away and helps to improve mood. After all, it is said that “variety is the spice of life”.
“Since the Egyptian scribe Ahmes put pen to papyrus some time around 1550BC to explain how to calculate the slope of a pyramid, we’ve had over three millennia of maths literature. So within some level of statistical confidence: here are a subset of the best ever maths books.”
@hoare_spitall@bibliolater@bookstodon i find them greatly dissimilar, unless he was molesting teenagers he brought along for the ride? No?
Didn't think so, or YOU would've spoken up, or at least refused to go along with it silently, and certainly not defending him when the truth came to light
@whatzaname@bibliolater@bookstodon
I'm not defending anybody, not even me. But I am aware that sometimes prima facie situations appear to be other than they are, and I have also learned to wait until all the pieces of the jigsaw are on the board before deciding what the picture shows.
Heute „Genossin Kuckuck“ fertig lesen können. Ich musste das Buch regelmäßig weglegen. Es war einfach zu düster für mich. Die vielen Andeutungen von Gewalt sind mir unter die Haut gegangen auch wenn es oft surreal dargestellt wurde, irgendwo zwischen Wirklichkeit und Traum.
@pascaline
It definitely sounds like you made the right choice to quit reading that one. I too have gotten rid of books that I felt were not all that. My shelves are like trophy cases: there's only room for what is absolutely worthwhile (ok, for those and for my tsundoku - of which I don't know yet, but hope, I will like them 😊 ) @boeken@bookstodon
@cpkimber
Thanks - in truth, I had no idea about Jameson.
Robinson may himself be no engineer, but he definitely seems to have done some thorough research and curating (or so I think, being a layperson in this discipline myself). @boeken@bookstodon
@fifischwarz@cpkimber@boeken@bookstodon Absolutely. His Mars trilogy may not be as popular as the Martian, but I don’t think that’s because it is less “hard” as a sci fi novel.
@diazona@paul_ipv6@CindySue@bookstodon I think it’s partly about what age group you mean. I happily read what I’d call MG, or just plain children’s books, but much of what I try that’s marketed as YA is romance with the thinnest veiling of fantasy or some other plot, and it’s not so much that angsty adolescent But Can I Really Trust Him? is dull for me, though it is, as that the world, story, and other characters are so flimsy.
@CindySue@bookstodon I’m 44 and enjoy reading YA, especially contemporary stories. Not so much a fan of sci-fi or fantasy, which currently seem to be taking over the market.
Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
“Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics.”
Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
“Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics.”
“Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests.”
“Classical literature has been reinterpreted for millennia. Different generations have made these works their own by translating the original Greek or Latin into their vernacular, and every translation brings fresh perspectives. While the earliest appearances of these texts are unattainable, the history of printing is peppered with remarkable Classical firsts from a wide array of translators.”