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I've listened to that in it's entirety as an audio book while working. My work can sometimes be very monotonous.
Which Book Are You Reading Now? Volume XII
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hobbsyoyo
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Ringworld is a great book and I hope you enjoy it.
Still working on that Judaism book, too. We've passed Maimonides and we're onto Kabbalah. I'd probably be quicker if I was able to focus on just that, and also if I was't reading a bunch of comics that I'm not posting here.
(Also, I've realised that nobody else is still posting the covers. Is that weird? Should I stop?)
Please continue posting covers as I like it.
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You do you. They're nice to look at. This isn't a bibliography section in a scholarly paper anyway.
I guess a reason against posting covers would be that they don't help people find books that much. Covers can change between editions, markets, etc. and could just lead to confusion.
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This is kind of a bonus for someone like me. It's cool to see someone post different cover art of a book you and they have in common. This is what my cover art looks like for Ringworld:
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
The edition I actually own has a third cover altogether, I just grabbed the first one on Google images.
Like most classic sci-fi novels, there are like a billion different editions of this book, although in this case it's mostly variations on a theme. Which is kind of a lost oppurtunity, I think, when one of your main characters is Garfield the Barbarian.
Like most classic sci-fi novels, there are like a billion different editions of this book, although in this case it's mostly variations on a theme. Which is kind of a lost oppurtunity, I think, when one of your main characters is Garfield the Barbarian.
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I literally snorted water out of my nose when I read this.
Anyhow, my copy of Ringworld has yet another cover!
Spoiler for size :
JohannaK
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I have this cover of the book. It spoiled me for life because I want nothing to do with any scifi looking covers for any other Philip K. Dick books. It really really spoiled me because I can hold off on buying a book until an edition comes out with a new cover just because I dont like the cover.
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Is he serious scifi? In wiki i read he managed to even not know which way teleporting should be done to arrive at a location on Earth that has a previous timezone
I sort of expected the ringworld to be a vast experiment, but from the plot it seems to be a rather more focused on some characters affair. Eg an "immature girl". Ehm...
^_^
Still, the actual synopsis could have been a bit interesting. I also read synopseis of the first 8 chapters, which pretty much showed the same. I suppose i just expected something different than power dynamics between two humans and two aliens, and some reveal
Spoiler :
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The book challenged my conception of what form power dynamics between humans and aliens could take. A synopsis won't capture that, even if it gives away a minor spoiler.
Snerk
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Just startet Stormlight Archive 3: Oathbringer, by Brandon Sanderson. I really like the series, just hope I don't take months to finish it.
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On Unemployment (Vol. I A Micro-Theory of Economic Justice) is the first of a two-part work by Mark Reiff. It presents a case for government policy to maximize employment. It calls for this within the framework of a liberal capitalist society, explicitly rejecting socialism as an answer. Should have been interesting, but it just has so many weaknesses. Questionable reasoning abounds. One example is an explanation of how Rawls' difference principle is insufficient: it only considers outcomes so it cannot deal with probabilities. I find this strawman ridiculous since in finding outcomes, one has to consider probabilities. Another is how cutting government spending is painted as interventionist, misrepresenting the views of Austrian economists.
Certain issues are ignored (e.g. who has the right to work) by the author, calling instead for other "micro-theories" to handle issues not covered in the work. And while the author acknowledges the vast gulfs created by inequality and its resulting problems, he is not willing to suggest substantive solutions for it. The author also likes to refer the reader to his previous works without a short summary. I also don't know why the work had to be split into two parts: it would have been less than 400 pages (with notes). For all these reasons I have no desire to read the second part.
Certain issues are ignored (e.g. who has the right to work) by the author, calling instead for other "micro-theories" to handle issues not covered in the work. And while the author acknowledges the vast gulfs created by inequality and its resulting problems, he is not willing to suggest substantive solutions for it. The author also likes to refer the reader to his previous works without a short summary. I also don't know why the work had to be split into two parts: it would have been less than 400 pages (with notes). For all these reasons I have no desire to read the second part.
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