What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[pErvinalia]

What does bluray have to do with reading? I don't think you realise how little sense some of your posts make.

[macdoc]

Because you are not a media hound.

There are three different media telling the same GofT tale.

The book set which I'm reading.
The Audible set which I own but not inclined to listen to just now.
The BluRay set which I'd like to own but can't afford.

Don't have $200 and currently not streaming where I have access.

All are different experiences. All are enjoyable

[pErvinalia]

HBO is bringing their streaming service to Australia this month. I assume they'll have GoT. But also other really good series. They make some great stuff.

[macdoc]

They do but I'm broke

[macdoc]

Wanna split an account

...


I am listening to this Brian
Damn what a vocabulary

The narrator has similar accent and phrasing to Peter O'Toole so comfortable listen.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. ​Seven Pillars of Wisdom recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. In the words of E. M. Forster, 'Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, Lawrence has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams'. However flawed, T.E. Lawrence is one of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures. This is the greatest monument to his character and achievements, and formed the basis for the Oscar-winning film ​Lawrence of Arabia, staring Peter O'Toole and Alec Guinness.

This edition includes maps, drawings by Eric Kennington, and index of place names and a preface by A.W. Lawrence.

Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) was born in Wales and educated at Jesus and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. He was commissioned on the outbreak of the First World War and in 1917 was officially attached to the staff of the Hejaz expeditionary force, under General Wingate. After the war, Lawrence was Advisor on Arab Affairs in the Middle Eastern Division of the Colonial Office. In 1927, embarrassed with the 'Lawrence of Arabia' legend, he changed his name by deed poll to Shaw'. In addition to this book, of which Lawrence lost almost the whole manuscript at Reading station in 1919, he wrote ​Revolt in the Desert (1927) and ​The Odyssey of Homer (1935), a translation in prose.

[Sean Hayden]

Kant was an awful writer, just terrible. I don't care how important his works are, my life is more important!

[macdoc]

Usually reserved for Philosophy course....you actually took it on voluntarily?

[Sean Hayden]

I know, it happened as a result of wondering if Schopenhauer might be a potential fit to my own feelings, and then he said not to bother if you hadn’t had your eyes opened by Kant first, and now it’s a chore. Plato was never a chore. —guess I’ll just stay behind the times by a few thousand years…

[Cunt]

I've recently been thinking of a fiction character called Eatbugs. Enough that I went searching for my copy. Might end up buying a copy again. This Tad Williams chap is gonna get rich off me. (though my last two copies were certainly bought used)

[Tero]

Anthropology/pre history
https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything- ... ref=sr_1_1
got it on eBay

[macdoc]

One of the best science writers ever.

[pErvinalia]

Does it have a chapter on Ivermectin?

[Brian Peacock]

The bleach and lightbulb chapter is laugh-a-minute.

[macdoc]

not my usual reading material

Somewhere between sci-fi, horror, eroticism , fantasy, apocryphal …bit of Anne Rice

But I’m intrigued for the moment.
Still 50% into reread of GofT which I just realized has a similar mix except for scifi

[Brian Peacock]

Translation State, Anne Leckie.

Starts as a mystery then becomes... something else. Explores ideas around identity, ideology, and rights; then time, memory and history - all against a far future background and unimaginably alien aliens. A proper novel, with spaceships!