Grand unified books thread

[Ed Anger]

The Cain W40K books are actually tolerable.

[The Brain]

Never touched a 40k novel. Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader RPG books are what I read these days. The space marine RPGs hold no interest.

[Sophie Scholl]

Whenever I want to turn off my brain, I pick up some WH40K stuff.  Talk about checking out intellectually.

  Exactly why I like them.  They're great mindless pulp sci-fi fodder.

[Scipio]

Finally finished The Demon Princes series by Jack Vance.  Great stuff.

[11B4V]

Just got back from the local PB bookstore. Left with Mote in God's Eye, a couple Michael Moorcock and a Fritz Liber book.

[jimmy olsen]

Whenever I want to turn off my brain, I pick up some WH40K stuff.  Talk about checking out intellectually.

Like fiction and shit?

Both the fiction and the RPG rulebooks and companions.  As far as the fiction goes, I started with the Horus Heresy series.

Try the Ciaphas Cain series.

Also, you guys know any good books on Ancient Greek sexuality/gender?

Probably won't be able to find it on kindle, but worth a shot.

[Ed Anger]

Cain books = Tainted. 

[Ideologue]

Whenever I want to turn off my brain, I pick up some WH40K stuff.  Talk about checking out intellectually.

Like fiction and shit?

Both the fiction and the RPG rulebooks and companions.  As far as the fiction goes, I started with the Horus Heresy series.

Try the Ciaphas Cain series.

Also, you guys know any good books on Ancient Greek sexuality/gender?

The Iliad.  The Odyssey.  The Oresteia.  The Trojan Women.

[jimmy olsen]

The Iliad.  The Odyssey.  The Oresteia.  The Trojan Women.

I've read the first three.

Not what I was talking about though, as you're well aware.

[Ideologue]

Then you've learned the ancient Greek approach to sexuality and gender: powerful men can fuck what they want, and women are worthless.

[Razgovory]

Then you've learned the ancient Greek approach to sexuality and gender: powerful men can fuck what they want, and women are worthless.

Indeed.  The Greeks took an abnormal delight in humiliating women.  You should see some of the more risque pottery that's been uncovered.

[jimmy olsen]

Then you've learned the ancient Greek approach to sexuality and gender: powerful men can fuck what they want, and women are worthless.

Thanks Sherlock, I wouldn't have guessed. 

I want to see the complexity and detail of it all.

[Ideologue]

Greeks of a socially inferior status would rage greatly when their rape chattel was taken by Greeks of socially superior status, and the Muses would sing of it.  But they'd be even more angry when their homosexual partners died, because men are actual people.

Also, it's important to kill your rape chattel's existing children at or around the same time you kill their previous owner.

[jimmy olsen]

Greeks of a socially inferior status would rage greatly when their rape chattel was taken by Greeks of socially superior status, and the Muses would sing of it.  But they'd be even more angry when their homosexual partners died, because men are actual people.

Also, it's important to kill your rape chattel's existing children at or around the same time you kill their previous owner.

While you certainly have a way with words, this is not a scholarly dissertation.

[Sheilbh]

I believe these are major texts:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sexuality-Greek-Culture-Marilyn-Skinner/dp/0631232346/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Sex-Gender-Greeks-Freud/dp/0674543556/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2

This is an interesting sounding reappraisal:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greeks-Greek-Love-Reappraisal-Homosexuality/dp/0297819976
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jan/05/history.society