Girl I dated in college had Eragon.
:comeonGirl I dated in college had Eragon.
Didn't we all agree you'd stop talking about 15 year olds?
What if you don't have a bookshelf? Just a slab of textbooks lying around?
My gf doesn't read very much, and at sometimes her lack of worldliness bothers me (I'm hardly the most culturally-inclined person in the world but I do read stuff other than cookbooks and feminist mags). It's so weird since my ex nearly always was buried in a book, in nearly every single genre you can think of except trashy romance fiction. I try to get her to read a bit more but aside from Hunger Games I have no idea what I could get her into.
I know it's just some listicle that isn't meant to be taken too seriously, but I can't help but point out the flaws in such a system. How can I know for sure if a book is trash unless I've actually read some portion of it? I'd have to go around literally judging books by their cover to avoid picking up something I end up disagreeing with. I guess I could just sell or donate the ones I didn't like once I was done with them, but getting rid literature feels a little too 10th century for me to do more than a couple times a year.
Also most of the books I've read for pleasure lately have been ebooks. I find reading from of a computer screen far more comfortable than constantly adjusting to find that perfect reading position.
you can't make a list out of people, yes.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Foucault's Pendulum = :lawd
The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Foucault's Pendulum = :lawd
Those are on my bookshelf
:leon
I know it's just some listicle that isn't meant to be taken too seriously, but I can't help but point out the flaws in such a system. How can I know for sure if a book is trash unless I've actually read some portion of it? I'd have to go around literally judging books by their cover to avoid picking up something I end up disagreeing with.
People still read?
j/k
That's why I have a Kindle. I can read all the trashy stuff I want and no one is the wiser!
(http://i.imgur.com/XhUg15N.jpg)Girl I dated in college had Eragon.
Didn't we all agree you'd stop talking about 15 year olds?
I have Salem's Lot, The Gunslinger, The Stand, White Jazz, The Alienist and The Passage on my shelf. What does this say about me? (http://i.imgur.com/8No4NsW.png)
what about my six volumes of the akira manga
Girl I dated in college had Eragon.
Also, what if you just have a kindle with like 300 books on it?
Digital minimalism. :lawd
I forgot to ask you re: the best Romance of the 3 Kingdoms translation :rejoice
thanks for the heads up
Also, what if you just have a kindle with like 300 books on it?
Digital minimalism. :lawd
'would you like to come up and peruse my kindle?'
I really, really need to get back into Chinese novels. :mynicca
I'm just delving into the foundational ones now. Most of my readings from china are all daoism related but i finished the shuihu zhuan recently. Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West next.
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Also, what if you just have a kindle with like 300 books on it?
Digital minimalism. :lawd
'would you like to come up and peruse my kindle?'
Better than keeping around hundreds of pounds of worthless paper. :umad
Real talk, a lot of fiction people talk about make me feel uncultured. Like, I have no idea what Infinite Jest even is. :fbm I just don't pay attention to fiction much beyond classics. I have always concentrated on building a big religion/philosophy/history book collection that I mostly avoid fiction that isn't comics, book-wise.
Interested to know about your venture into Three Kingdoms. It has a lot of Taoism and Confucianism in it, as it's pre-Buddhist China, it's got a lot in that area. There are many classics I haven't read such as The Water Margin despite being a massive fan of one particular adaptation of it. I need to get on it.
The pervasiveness of Confucianism in a lot of these classics makes it hard to get through without getting bored :stahp
Also, what if you just have a kindle with like 300 books on it?
Digital minimalism. :lawd
'would you like to come up and peruse my kindle?'
Better than keeping around hundreds of pounds of worthless paper. :umad
Electronic devices depreciate in value so quickly MACRS is actually too slow to properly account for it.
Also, what if you just have a kindle with like 300 books on it?
Digital minimalism. :lawd
'would you like to come up and peruse my kindle?'
Better than keeping around hundreds of pounds of worthless paper. :umad
Electronic devices depreciate in value so quickly MACRS is actually too slow to properly account for it.
Electronics degrade and deprecate, but data is forever
Knowing academia, a digitized Library of Alexandria would have been accessible only to people deemed worthy to have access by the library (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR) and those who had access would have been forced to archive literature in proprietary file formats protected by the state's monopoly on violence.
I can't even cleanly import Quicken for Mac files to the real version of Quicken (use Macs to do grown up activities y'all) and you think this hypothetical isn't ridiculous beyond transporting our current level of technology to whichever burning of the library you want to start from? :lol
You should transcribe your Quicken files onto illuminated manuscripts to let people know you mean business.
What the hell is Quicken?
What the hell is Quicken?
What the hell is Quicken?
Software that people use to do actual work; you'd be unfamiliar, naturally.
I got to work on later versions of some workbooks that were used to create Diablo 2. It was pretty much the highlight of my career in gamesWhat the hell is Quicken?
Annual runner up to game of the year, behind Excel.
Also excel mastery is some rpg level shit. You see what normal folks can do with it, then like, mbas, and then like accountants, and then engineers like my wife, and then you get to grey bearded stat narbos and you see what excel is really about.
I can't read books on my laptop. I downloaded all the Malazan books and couldn't get through a page. I need a physical book.
Also excel mastery is some rpg level shit. You see what normal folks can do with it, then like, mbas, and then like accountants, and then engineers like my wife, and then you get to grey bearded stat narbos and you see what excel is really about.
I've seen a guy on a bus hold a netbook sideways. If repetitive strain from keyboard jockeying hasn't wrecked his wrist yet, this will have done it.I can't read books on my laptop. I downloaded all the Malazan books and couldn't get through a page. I need a physical book.
No-one reads on a laptop; that crap is uncomfortable. Reading on a phone is only slightly less so. Get the cheap-ass Kindle and enjoy the lovely e-ink page.