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Old 11-01-2004, 03:14 PM
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OMG, Zeke put my rice joke in his sig! That is SO AWESOME!
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I go with Vedra that Asimov is depressing
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Depressing? Maybe. I also hold most of his robot stories in very high regard. It's the basis for a lot of the robot theory I believe in. Second only to some Mega Man stuff.

From me, that's a high and mighty compliment.
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Yes depressing. I personally think the Guide contains much more of what the future may well be like.....especially if Microsoft moves into cybernetics..... :wink:
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Has anyone read the Canterbury Tales? I used to think this book was confusing and, thus, intelligent, but now I've realized it was written by some rhyming Middle Age dork that probably owned a lute. And some kind of hat with bells on it.

Oh,and have any of you read Atlas Shrugged? I borrowed a copy from my friend and I'm only a few pages in,and I'm not gettin it.lol So help me out?
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Has anyone read the Canterbury Tales? I used to think this book was confusing and, thus, intelligent, but now I've realized it was written by some rhyming Middle Age dork that probably owned a lute. And some kind of hat with bells on it.
Actually, I'm reading them right now.

And Geoffrey Chaucer was both a politician and a poet, and he is widely regarded as the first major poet to legitimize the English Language as valid as an art form. Before that it was all in french and latin.

I wouldn't complain about stuff just for the sake of complaining about it, remeber also, this is Reccommended Reading.
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Fair enough...I'm mainly complaining about it because I'm reading it for English, and that automatically makes it evil. So I'm sorry, Canterbury Tales, for besmirching your name.

Canterbury Tales: You betta' be, biatch! *smack*

Ow!

Stupid Chaucer...*rubs face*
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Fair enough...I'm mainly complaining about it because I'm reading it for English, and that automatically makes it evil. So I'm sorry, Canterbury Tales, for besmirching your name.

Canterbury Tales: You betta' be, biatch! *smack*

Ow!

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I've read a rewrite of the Canterbury Tales in the form of the Hyperion Cantos, a sci-fi pair of duologies by Dan Simmons. The first volume parallels the original Tales: several pilgrims travelling somewhere while telling their personal stories, set against a highly-technological future. The second novel goes a bit beyond that (revealing that the author has something of a Keats fetish, as well as an unhealthy obsession with Catholicism). The further on you go, you notice that there's a distinct parallel to the Terminator movies as well. Simmons is stealing from all over the map.

I recommend them, for the take on the progress of technology and society if nothing else.
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Old 11-05-2004, 04:46 AM
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An unhealthy obsession with Catholicism is never good.
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An unhealthy obsession with religion of any kind is never good.
An unhealthy obesession of any kind is never good.

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What? It's a healthy obsession!
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Sure it is, Maverick...sure it is. *coughlunaticcough*

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Ahem. Sa'ar wrote: "unhealthy obsession with Catholicism)."
Vedra wrote: "An unhealthy obsession with Catholicism is never good"
Maverick wrote: "An unhealthy obsession with religion of any kind is never good."
It. Depends. On. Whether. It. Is. Positive. Or. Negative. Like. Dan. Brown. Or. Whoever. :x :x :x
If you mean in the form of "it claims to be white, therefore it is black and evil and KILL KILL KILL!" then yes I agree. If you mean interest or that they think it is good, I might have to reveal my religious beliefs thusly. I am Catholic and I find negative comments about religion highly highly HIGHLY offensive. Sorry, I am devout and I do find comments about people such as myself being "wyrd" as an excuse for open hostility, aggression and war. And yes, I believe in the Last Judgement. :roll: . Sorry, just embittered over the subject because over here religion is still a sore point. Bloody Henry the zarking VIIIth.
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I wasn't saying anything about Catholicism, I was talking about people that believe in Catholicism. Those are not the same.

Besides, we were talking about unhealthy obsessions with religions. Being devout and having an obsession are, hopefully, two different things. They are to me.
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Okay, going to restrict myself to just the one book. And because Dune has already been mentioned, it'll be a different book.

The Shape of Things to Come, by H.G. Wells. It's mostly written in a somewhat abstract style, and is deliberately very dry, but it is absolutely fascinating in it's analysis of the modern day society and the take on the idea of the world state that it presents so ably. Some of the predictions do even stand the test of time, but the really interesting thing is though the world that Wells presents is very different than our own, you can imagine that this really might have happened, that the world might have gone down this path in exactly the way he sets out. In some ways one might compare it to Citizen Cane - once you've read it, you'll start to notice the echoes even in books written recently. All in all, one of those books that I think everyone should read the once.
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Vedra: sry, just wanted to clear that up...sry if it sounded wrong, was still irritated after the spat this morning.... ops: . And i happen to find people like Dan Brown extremely worrying....and stark staring bonkers, obviously.... :roll:
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His books are fiction, I hope you realize. They're only pseudo-scientific. But the stories are pretty good, even if the books are poorly written, because he usually keeps up a good pace.
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