Absolutely. Not to imply it was a thinking mans book at all. Dostoevsky it is not, but it sure was a no-brainier fun read.Amusing in a Hunger Games for nerds kind of way.
Does anybody read [books] anymore?
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The Martian and I highly recommend it to monkeys who enjoy sic-fi books.
Just finished Honor by Elif Shafak. Honor killing.....heavy stuff.
Finished Gordon's Girl in a Band, back to Open Veins of Latin America.
I got a long drive to work everyday so I listen to books on tape. Makes my drive enjoyable, plus my dad does the same drive basically and he buys all the books. I just get them second. Finished up atlas shrugged the other day. Pretty awesome book, ayn rand had some good predictions.
I have to agree with JBP on this one. I've read the book twice, and man is it bad. Read it first in 7th, maybe 8th grade and thought it was really bad then. Couple years back when the Tea Baggers came to "prominence" I decided to read it again, thinking that maybe the first time I'd read it maybe I'd just been too young and/or naive to really appreciate it. No, that book just sucks, all her books suck actually. It's an amazing piece of fantastical hackery. It's boring, the pacing sucks, and has super bad "I'm the cabler guy" porn-like dialog. I'm immediately suspicious of any one who claims that book as a positive part of their intellectual foundation.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
― John Rogers
Colorado 30/50 for manufacturing output in 2013. Quite the solid prediction.
http://www.nam.org/Data-and-Reports/State-Manufacturing-Data/2014-State-Manufacturing-Data/2014-State-Manufacturing-Data-Table/
it pains me that thurston chasing trim led to the demise of sonic youth...
Manufacturing Pot?
One of the bands that I deeply regret not being aware of while they were performing, and in general one of my favorites.
Cormac McCarthy, Y U break my heart?
McCarthy is my favorite author because there are no happy endings.
Cormac McCarthy, Y U break my heart?
I tried reading that and found no reason to continue.
Really good, but dog book, so you kind of already know how it ends. Right in the feels.
*Edit: @stoney you might like this if you're still looking for something to read. Dogs and race cars are big focal points.
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Scars and Stripes - Lacey Doyle
Scars and Stripes - Lacey Doyle
My wife and daughter read them all over the last 6 months together and now they really want to go visit one of the homesteads because woman-child was totally enamored. Most likely the De Smet, SD place. So I decide to read them to keep up. Read Little House in the Big Woods today at work. Kids books, so simple, yet strangely endearing. I really enjoyed the book today.
Enjoyed the hell out of City Of Thieves, read it in two nights.
Riveting.
Riveting.
Finishing up 'The Shining', which somehow I missed when I was in my Stephen King phase 30 some odd years ago. Damn good, and very different (and better IMO) than the Kubrick film.
Finished 'Killing the Rising Sun' on CD this morning...Meh...Let's just say Bill O'Reilly is no Stephen Ambrose.
Finished 'Killing the Rising Sun' on CD this morning...Meh...Let's just say Bill O'Reilly is no Stephen Ambrose.
I just finished The Stand. Over 1200 pages in two weeks. Loved it. Considering revisiting the Dark Tower series this winter, but am wondering if I should check out some other King book instead.
Also just received Finnegan's Wake and the Reader's Guide. Diving into that soon.
Also just received Finnegan's Wake and the Reader's Guide. Diving into that soon.
Got something in my eye.
Now reading:
This was a free book in the iBooks app. Very interesting read.
Shit. I'm just reading the manual for my MIDI controller. Riveting stuff.
I never got into the whole control scheme for MIDI controllers.
Tell me, am i missing out?
Depends what you're trying to do. They're making some pretty deep and flexible tools. My latest purchase was built as a sequencer, but I got it for the rotary encoders. It comes with software that lets you get in and customize the MIDI commands. Ableton and NI make MIDI learning/mapping in the host software pretty easy now. It takes some thinking to keep track of all the variables on more flexible/complicated machines. Check some videos on YouTube for Tim Exile's Flow Machine, which is a collection of MIDI devices he's assembled and mapped to soft synths and loopers.
Also, if you're a modular synth type, Reaktor 6 now supports sending CV (if you have the right audio interface) to external devices.
Even if you're making more traditional rock music, it still has uses. I just saw a video with the drummer from Periphery explaining how they often MIDI sequence drum parts in the studio as part of the writing process. Later he has to learn what he programmed. The giant catalog of sampled instruments you can control via MIDI is staggering, from classical string sections to Aztec death whistles.
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I might have to pick these up. I loved the TV series.
My wife and daughter read them all over the last 6 months together and now they really want to go visit one of the homesteads because woman-child was totally enamored. Most likely the De Smet, SD place. So I decide to read them to keep up. Read Little House in the Big Woods today at work. Kids books, so simple, yet strangely endearing. I really enjoyed the book today.
The Stand was a great read, but at 1200 pages,it takes a commitment. After reading it, I rewatched the miniseries, which I loved when originally aired and was let down just a little bit on the re-watching.
I read them as a kid. It was different reading them as an adult. Pa is kind of a dick.
Finishing this...yeah, I know, not exactly "War and Peace."
But just picked this up.
But just picked this up.
I've been re-reading some of the older Tom Clancy books as it's probably a decade since I read most of them. The 1300 pages of Executive Orders kept me going across a couple of weeks work travel.
Oh yeah, I am reading American gods at the moment. Kind of a strange book.
Enjoying this.
can't remember whether or not someone here recommended this book to me
He's the former Greek Minister of Finance no? He seemed to be popping up on lots of TV talk shows and such... embarking on a lucrative speaking tour is he?
I'm not trying to disparage the book at all... curious to hear your thoughts.