climate change times are a changin'

[Kepler]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

As you said, "We are bacteria ... "

I believe The Agent called us a "virus."

But I'm saying the future will take care of itself. If the human part of us can get clear of the planet before the ape part destroys it, then we deserve to perpetuate. If not, then the universe is better off without us.

This system is self-correcting.

[unofan]

I did. I LOVED it.

Wait. What middle book? The book I'm talking about is the Chinese SF dude and it's just one novel, although it may have been divided.

Were you the person who recommended Kinsella to me? Because that was probably the most disappointing book I've ever read. Incredible first third, then garbage, as if the author died and their idiot political hack cousin finished it.

The other two books in the series have since been translated as well. The middle one is The Dark Forest Theory (or something like that). Can't remember the title of the third one. The second is as good as the first, imo. The third one, I think he struggled to come up with an ending.

[Kepler]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

The other two books in the series have since been translated as well. The middle one is The Dark Forest Theory (or something like that). Can't remember the title of the third one. The second is as good as the first, imo. The third one, I think he struggled to come up with an ending.

Holy crap, I need to read those immediately. I was blown away by the first book in a way I haven't been since I read Foundation and Ringworld in my mid teens and Dick and some of the experimental Brits in my late teens. It was a completely original idea. Once you've put a few thousand books away those are unicorns.

Edit: just bought books 2 (Dark Forest) and 3 (Death's End) on Kindle. Interestingly, the translator of the second book is a different person.

Hee hee, I can't wait! :-) Thank you very much for this.

In return, I have two suggestions:

1. Spin, Robert Charles Wilson

2. His Master's Voice, Stanislaw Lem

[unofan]

Holy crap, I need to read those immediately. I was blown away by the first book in a way I haven't been since I read Foundation and Ringworld in my mid teens and Dick and some of the experimental Brits in my late teens. It was a completely original idea. Once you've put a few thousand books away those are unicorns.

Edit: just bought books 2 (Dark Forest) and 3 (Death's End) on Kindle. Interestingly, the translator of the second book is a different person.

Hee hee, I can't wait! :-) Thank you very much for this.

In return, I have two suggestions:

1. Spin, Robert Charles Wilson

2. His Master's Voice, Stanislaw Lem

Like I said, I really like The Dark Forest. I was less enamored with the third one, mainly because I felt like it hit the Idiot Ball trope pretty hard.

And I was not the recommender of Kinsella, fwiw.

[mookie1995]

just bought books 2 (Dark Forest) and 3 (Death's End) on Kindle. Interestingly, the translator of the second book is a different person.

Hee hee, I can't wait! :-) Thank you very much

Mookie can't buy kindle books. He likes dead trees on shelves. Yah, he has issues.

[Kepler]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

Mookie can't buy kindle books. He likes dead trees on shelves. Yah, he has issues.

I have a beautiful library of dead trees at my house, with hundreds of fine volumes of history, philosophy and literature. I'd say somewhere between $10-20k. I literally cannot give them away: bookstores and even our local library won't touch anything that isn't below the Harry Potter Mendoza line.

I started to go Kindle when my eyes started to go. Resizable font FTW. I'll never go back -- the Kindle in my car holds an entire Medievalist graduate program of original sources. It weighs about 5 ounces.

[geezer]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

the Kindle in my car holds an entire Medievalist graduate program of original sources. It weighs about 5 ounces.

This is it for me. I travel quite a lot and I'm still giddy when I pack my "library" in my carry-on. Compared to the old days...

[dxmnkd316]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

I prefer "pop-fiction" on my Kindle. If I'm looking to get lost in a book, hardcover is the only way to go.

[Kepler]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

If I'm looking to get lost in a book, hardcover is the only way to go.

Got a spare $20k lying around?

But you have to come pick them up. I'll throw in the shelves for free.

At least I'd know they went to a good home.

You'll need at least one of these.

[joecct]

I have a beautiful library of dead trees at my house, with hundreds of fine volumes of history, philosophy and literature. I'd say somewhere between $10-20k. I literally cannot give them away: bookstores and even our local library won't touch anything that isn't below the Harry Potter Mendoza line.

I started to go Kindle when my eyes started to go. Resizable font FTW. I'll never go back -- the Kindle in my car holds an entire Medievalist graduate program of original sources. It weighs about 5 ounces.

I checked. There is no penalty for reading a Kindle while driving. However, if you are using the Kindle app on your cell phone, that is a $250 fine.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

Got a spare $20k lying around?

But you have to come pick them up. I'll throw in the shelves for free.

At least I'd know they went to a good home.

You'll need at least one of these.

Not for books.

Wait, do you have any first editions worth owning?

[dxmnkd316]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

I checked. There is no penalty for reading a Kindle while driving. However, if you are using the Kindle app on your cell phone, that is a $250 fine.

Distracted driving is a catch-all. Sorry.

[Kepler]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

Wait, do you have any first editions worth owning?

Only a daughter.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: climate change times are a changin'

Ha! Nicely done.

[joecct]

Only a daughter.

Is the dowry the book collection?