What'cha Readin'?

[Marcus Hadrianus]

Browsing through this gem

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Basically, I recently encountered "Communication Problem" with my "superior" (= not my actual superior, but somewhat superior); I'm trying to understand why some people behave like assholes, and how to politely yet decisively tell them to f*ck off.

[don't get me started]

[quote="Marcus Hadrianus";p="2784867"]Browsing through this gem

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Basically, I recently encountered "Communication Problem" with my "superior" (= not my actual superior, but somewhat superior); I'm trying to understand why some people behave like assholes, and how to politely yet decisively tell them to f*ck off. [/quote]


This title prompts a dimly remembered quote - I think it was Marcus Aurelius....

"Do not despair, even though every day you will be surrounded by fools..."

Maybe it was not Marcus Aurelius and just my mate down the pub...

[Marcus Hadrianus]

[quote="don't get me started";p="2784902"][quote="Marcus Hadrianus";p="2784867"]Browsing through this gem

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Basically, I recently encountered "Communication Problem" with my "superior" (= not my actual superior, but somewhat superior); I'm trying to understand why some people behave like assholes, and how to politely yet decisively tell them to f*ck off. [/quote]


This title prompts a dimly remembered quote - I think it was Marcus Aurelius....

"Do not despair, even though every day you will be surrounded by fools..."

Maybe it was not Marcus Aurelius and just my mate down the pub... [/quote]
Yup, that's something Mark Goldenboy would say. I actually have a copy of Meditations, some eveing I should sit upon it and re read it. Thanks amice for giving me inspiration for my upcomming lecture.

[BWE]

Reading just finished James Gleik's The Information. Highly recommend.

[murshid]

I'm reading "The Travelling Cat Chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa. If you love cats, I highly recommend it.

[BrettA]

I'm reading Evolution 3rd Edition, by Mark Ridley but I'm using the ToC and Index to point me to areas of interest in this 750-page book. I'm starting on The History of Life on Page 524.

[Calilasseia]

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Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world

It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/ ... ovel-world

If you're just getting around to Dune now ....I'd be interested in what novels you consider so much better. ( Yes Hyperion is brilliant and no one knows about it )[/quote]

I had a fun thought about Dune last night.

Basically, this is a story featuring an entire galactic civilisation whose very existence depends upon WORM SHIT.

A story in which ENTIRE EMPIRES are effectively ENSLAVED BY WORM SHIT.

[murshid]

Currently reading these:

1. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
2. Atheism: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Baggini
3. The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple by Anne Hart
4. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

[cyberomega]

Been reading a lot of LitRPG/Isekai stuff for a while, and have just got stuck into 'The Wandering Inn' (https://wanderinginn.com/). A woman gets pulled into another world, comes face to face with a dragon and runs. After getting singed, then has to run from a group of Goblins, and finally takes shelter in a dusty abandoned inn. After deciding to clear up some of the mess, she gains the class [Innkeeper].

It's well written, and there is a lot of it already. I'm only up to July 2019, and it's still being published currently, so a lot of catching up to do. I didn't start reading it initially because I when I heard the title I pictured most of the story taking place in the Inn (silly pre-conceptions), but the story really has spanned this whole new world.

I would also like to take a moment to recommend Dungeon Crawler Carl (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567 ... awler-carl):

The apocalypse will be televised!

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.

The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.

Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.

You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.

You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

[cyberomega]

Still drowning in the Wandering Inn, but got sidelined. Someone suggested the 'Book of the Ancestor' Series. I was hooked shortly into the first book 'Red Sister', when the start was: 'It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy Convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men.'

Definitely worth reading.