OT: Do you guys read at all?

MagnusOlsson · Post by **MagnusOlsson** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:34 am

I would like to bring some enlightenment to the forum and recommend the novel 'Cryptonomicon' by Neal Stephenson. It is well worth reading, and has it's own website:

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/

There's a lot of ww2 in it, so it's not entirely ot

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/Magnus

pasternakski · Post by **pasternakski** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:06 am

"Let's set the existence-of-god issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate. After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage,"

"You keep all your smart modern writers,
Give me William Shakespeare.
You keep all your smart modern painters,
I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, daVinci, and Gainesborough."

"...sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage," indeed. Yes, some of us do read, much to the astonishment, I suppose, of those who feel a duty to bring "enlightenment" to the forum. Good god a'mighty, a few blokes 'ere e'en right well knows their alphabets, bejazus, and pens 'im a stanza er two!

davewolf · Post by **davewolf** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:11 am

Reading???

No time to learn that left since I have to convince my girl friend again and again to type all these subtile posts for me.

She believes I should be able to do that myself...

Can someone help me?

P.S. This post wasn't processed by his girl friend, but by me.

Dave's ork

Stefdragon · Post by **Stefdragon** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:31 am

1. ????????

2. I did happen to notice a certain flair, imagination, and poetry in "your" more subtle posts that just didn't seem natural for what I'm used to from EL LOBO LOCO!

3. This board is hardly the place for "significant others" to be poking around in anonymously. Even 10,000 close friends can't get a little privacy anymore with guys like you mucking things up!

Stefdragon · Post by **Stefdragon** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:44 am

Has anybody read "The Last Ship" by William Brinkley?

A very good book about a U.S. Missle Cruiser that is in the Far South Pacific when Doomsday occurs. Check it out. Pretty interesting story!

MagnusOlsson · Post by **MagnusOlsson** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:56 am

Originally posted by pasternakski
Yes, some of us do read, much to the astonishment, I suppose, of those who feel a duty to bring "enlightenment" to the forum. Good god a'mighty, a few blokes 'ere e'en right well knows their alphabets, bejazus, and pens 'im a stanza er two!

Hi
Where's your signature from?

Come ride with me, my name is Dysentery,
Meet my friends, Rat, Slim, and Ares,
We expect a strong market in the 21st century.
Now, run along to school and let 'em teach you how to be like me.

MikeB · Post by **MikeB** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:51 am

If you insist on books on this forum, I feel confident to recommend some Tom Clancy books. Sum of All Fears, Executive Decision, Dragon and the Bear....are quite good...to my mind.
The movie "Sum of All Fears" sucks. I am amazed T Clancy had anything to do with it. Read the book!

pasternakski · Post by **pasternakski** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:12 am

Originally posted by MagnusOlsson
Hi
Where's your signature from?

Come ride with me, my name is Dysentery,
Meet my friends, Rat, Slim, and Ares,
We expect a strong market in the 21st century.
Now, run along to school and let 'em teach you how to be like me.

Stanza of lyrics from a song I wrote to celebrate the beginning of the 21st century. It's got a harmonica intro and interlude, very Dylanesque, like stems poking out the sides of your joint and seeds exploding in the middle of the fire. You know. The usual middle-aged American Vietnam veteran crapola.

Mad Cow · Post by **Mad Cow** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:36 am

Originally posted by davewolf
Reading???

No time to learn that left since I have to convince my girl friend again and again to type all these subtile posts for me.

She believes I should be able to do that myself...

Can someone help me?

P.S. This post wasn't processed by his girl friend, but by me.

Dave's ork

LOL....

Mad Cow · Post by **Mad Cow** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:39 am

right now I am reading a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski called "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town."

After that I go back to Shelby Foote's excellent American Civil War historical narrative, the first book...

davewolf · Post by **davewolf** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:57 pm

Originally posted by Mad Cow
right now I am reading a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski called "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town."

Bukowski.

Naughty you...

davewolf · Post by **davewolf** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:59 pm

Seriously I read Stephenson's "Snow Crash". Very good one.

"Cryptonomicon" is on my must-read list (very long list).

Mad Cow · Post by **Mad Cow** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:45 pm

Originally posted by davewolf
Bukowski.

Naughty you...

He is the best. So real. So dirty. So broken. Yet so beautiful.

You know, he was born in Germany. To an American father and German mother, then he was brought to the USA at the age of 2 I believe...

MagnusOlsson · Post by **MagnusOlsson** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:40 am

Originally posted by pasternakski
Stanza of lyrics from a song I wrote to celebrate the beginning of the 21st century. It's got a harmonica intro and interlude, very Dylanesque, like stems poking out the sides of your joint and seeds exploding in the middle of the fire. You know. The usual middle-aged American Vietnam veteran crapola.

I like it.
If you have read Cryptonimicon, you probably remember the quite lengthy discussion of Ares versus Athena. Ares the Warmonger and Athena the one who makes peace by going to battle. Two ways of using force, one righteous and one not. It applies to a lot of stuff in our history, and I am still trying to figure out if Stephenson is a genius or if he is scoring easy points by generalizing.

/magnus

OT: Do you guys read at all?

OT: Do you guys read at all?

???????

"The Last Ship"

Books ?