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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
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Advanced Lectures to Senior Police Officers in Scotland. Published 1936

It's intriguing. Not to mention quite rare.
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this thread

disappointing :(
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Okay then. Currently reading: Viz. On the shitter.
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MKJ wrote:this thread

disappointing :(
lol, true
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Not reading anything atm which is rare for me.

Was sort of half trying to find some quality shit about the Korean War in my fav bookstore last weekend (for some reason i've recently taken an interest in that). But alas, i don't really know where to start.
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From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap - Edward Said :icon14:
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Re: currently reading....

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CitizenKane wrote:Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Highly overrated. It suffers from the same problem as 1984: it has huge potential, and then fails to go anywhere with it.

Haven't looked at anything for pleasure reading for a while.
atm I'm reading a shitload of papers on NK cells as I have to teach a class about it on monday. I've also got a journal club presentation coming up, so I've got to read for that. Then I have all the papers I'm reading for my grant...
... suddenly I wish I was reading Brave New World.
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Ryoki wrote:Not reading anything atm which is rare for me.

Was sort of half trying to find some quality shit about the Korean War in my fav bookstore last weekend (for some reason i've recently taken an interest in that). But alas, i don't really know where to start.
a good start.
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werldhed wrote:
CitizenKane wrote:Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Highly overrated. It suffers from the same problem as 1984: it has huge potential, and then fails to go anywhere with it.

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mmm i'd have to disagree there, what made 1984 great was how prophetic it was. i mean it wasnt supposed to be just a great story, the thought police were obviously just metaphors for censorship etc and the whole big brother V goldstein represents state propaganda trying to unite their citizens under fear of a common enemy.....(war on 'terror' anyone?)

so in that regard it was pretty successful imo. i think his predictions were fairly accurate
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Deception, by Denise Mina. Good so far but I have a feeling it is bound to disapoint me.
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I just read

The Power of the Dog

by Don Winslow and it was fucking awesome.
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The God Theory - Bernard Haisch
Gaza's Shirt:
Sayyid Iman Al-Sharif (aka Dr Fadl)
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http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp? ... 3&id=16980
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CitizenKane wrote:
werldhed wrote:
CitizenKane wrote:Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

about half way through it, very good. set the standard for Orwell's 1984 and more relevant now than it ever was
Highly overrated. It suffers from the same problem as 1984: it has huge potential, and then fails to go anywhere with it.

:icon13:

mmm i'd have to disagree there, what made 1984 great was how prophetic it was. i mean it wasnt supposed to be just a great story, the thought police were obviously just metaphors for censorship etc and the whole big brother V goldstein represents state propaganda trying to unite their citizens under fear of a common enemy.....(war on 'terror' anyone?)

so in that regard it was pretty successful imo. i think his predictions were fairly accurate

Don't get me wrong, they both make really good points about gov't and thought control and what have you. But as stories, they are highly lacking. Nothing happens in the whole second half of 1984... you just listen to some gov't shill preach his propaganda. It may have just been a letter to the editor instead of a novel.

As social commentary, they're decent. As works of literature, they both fall short, imo. :shrug:
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I just finished The DaVinci Code, first book I've read in quite some time. I should read more... dunno what's next.
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'i fuck men' by duhard...easy reading...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
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A bunch of papers on quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization and Simulink aerospace blockset documentation.
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Nightshade wrote:A bunch of papers on quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization and Simulink aerospace blockset documentation.
someone ban this nerd...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
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Freakaloin wrote:'i fuck men' by duhard...easy reading...
many endnotes?
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thx for the tip :)
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and lots of anal anecdotes!
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Antwone Q. Fisher -- Finding Fish
It is a memoir/bibliography/drama

You might have seen a movie loosely based on it's 7th chapter. Called Antwone Fisher http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168786/

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After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor (2nd time)
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