Shadow Wolf
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That's on my list to get to.
That is a good one. I especially love Dog.
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What book r u reading?
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Spice
StewardshipPeaceIntergityCommunityEquality
I enjoyed the sequel to American Gods, better: The Anansi Boys. My son preferred AG.
jbg
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I just finished reading First Strike: The Exclusive Story of How Israel Foiled Iraq's Attempt to Get the Bomb by Shlomo Nakdimon. First Strike was not well-reviewed on Goodreads. There was criticism that it "dragged" and of the translation from Hebrew. I am giving the book "Five Stars" regardless. I am giving the book "Five Stars" regardless. I consider it a thrillin page-turner.
The author well makes the point without saying so directly that "diplomatic efforts" are useless against a determined enemy. Iraq was bound and determined to get "the bomb" and obliterate Israel. In the prevailing atmosphere of the late 1970's and early 1980's, oil could buy anything, notwithstanding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency of the U.N.
Nakdimon well makes the case that should not need making; Israel and similarly advanced countries must defend themselves. Words are not enough.
The author well makes the point without saying so directly that "diplomatic efforts" are useless against a determined enemy. Iraq was bound and determined to get "the bomb" and obliterate Israel. In the prevailing atmosphere of the late 1970's and early 1980's, oil could buy anything, notwithstanding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency of the U.N.
Nakdimon well makes the case that should not need making; Israel and similarly advanced countries must defend themselves. Words are not enough.
No, although I've read pretty much everything Pratchett wrote individually, including Small Gods, which is an interesting (comedic) take on a similar theme line to American Gods.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Not reading it yet, but it came by mail and it is next on my list
A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control―52 Week-by-Week Lessons
Sounds interesting.
About a third through this and I have found it quite interesting - perhaps more as to future possibilities - such that, apart from AI being the major aspect of the future, advanced technology (especially as to brain-interfacing but also other such) will likely be able to solve so many issues where individuals have some deficiency as to sensing - lacking eyesight, hearing, touch, etc. - and as to expanding the range of such things. Given that the brain is not so source-dependent upon any inputs, and where it soon adapts to whatever source of stimulus that we can devise and that provides meaningful information.
Some things I didn't know - with the first possibly happening to me in the future - that when a cornea is replaced after cataract surgery, UV vision is enabled to some extent because the normal cornea filters this out.
Also, babies have been born with no nose, no eyeballs (so no sight obviously), and no ears - not all as to one individual of course.
Neuroprosthetics - Wikipedia
So I can recommend this book, even if four years out of date - and that is a long time in such technologies.
osgart
Nothing my eye, Something for sure
I'm reading Logic A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest.
Also reading Metaphysics A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford.
On the flip side of that, I'm reading a Christian book called The Quest for Character by John MacArthur. I have Christians in my family and they enjoy giving me material to read.
Also reading Metaphysics A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford.
On the flip side of that, I'm reading a Christian book called The Quest for Character by John MacArthur. I have Christians in my family and they enjoy giving me material to read.
Spice
StewardshipPeaceIntergityCommunityEquality
I'm still dabbling through the works of Edward Reaugh Smith, and still on _The Burning Bush, An Anthroposophical Commentary on the Bible, Terms and Phrases: Volume 1_
For lighter reading I've just started S.G. MacLean's 17th century historical crime series _The Seeker_: spies, exiles, assassins in Oliver Cromwell's London.
For lighter reading I've just started S.G. MacLean's 17th century historical crime series _The Seeker_: spies, exiles, assassins in Oliver Cromwell's London.
I'm working on the Childe Cycle by Gordon R Dickson. I'm on book 7 "The Final Encyclopedia".
It started off as military science fiction and has progressed to historical, philosophical and faithful speculation on the future of humanity in a fictional future reality.
It is a break from more technical material that I should be reading.
It started off as military science fiction and has progressed to historical, philosophical and faithful speculation on the future of humanity in a fictional future reality.
It is a break from more technical material that I should be reading.
EinGeheimkonto
New Member
I recently saw Villenueve's adaptation of Dune in the theatres and thought it would be a good time to re-visit the novels.
I just finished Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. It is an epic Fantasy with Magic and Dragons. It starts off slow but builds into a great story. It has some wild adult romance in the middle and an epic romance in the final. Out of 10, I would give it a 7 because of the slow start but the ending a 10 out of 10.
The Story is about a woman who is forced by her mother to become a Dragon rider which only 25% of the candidates make it the rest die. She overcomes the odds and falls in love and then out of love along the way. Story 7 out of 10 Slow start, Romance 10 out of 10 once it gets going, Fantasy element 7 out of 10, the world is more like ours with some fantasy elements.
The Story is about a woman who is forced by her mother to become a Dragon rider which only 25% of the candidates make it the rest die. She overcomes the odds and falls in love and then out of love along the way. Story 7 out of 10 Slow start, Romance 10 out of 10 once it gets going, Fantasy element 7 out of 10, the world is more like ours with some fantasy elements.