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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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jimmy olsen

#1080
February 08, 2012, 11:41:15 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 08, 2012, 12:35:09 AM
They exist.
I was annoyed you thought I was one of those guys.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Ideologue

#1081
February 09, 2012, 12:06:53 AM
I don't, but that's why it's a joke.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Darth Wagtaros

#1082
February 09, 2012, 07:36:30 AM
Ready Player One. I liked it. 

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain. I enjoyed it.  Got it off the dollar store for Kindle on Amazon.
PDH!

jimmy olsen

#1083
February 09, 2012, 07:39:31 AM
By the way, got that book and it's pretty good as a scholarly look at the subject, but the amount of Greek they use (and define once) is wicked annoying. I'm constantly flipping back to recheck vocab.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Ideologue

#1084
February 09, 2012, 03:17:55 PM
Do they do that thing where they do it in Greek script, too?  That's obnoxious.  I get it, I can read it (although not as well as Cyrillic), but it's lazy and pretentious at the same time.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

jimmy olsen

#1085
February 09, 2012, 07:29:33 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 09, 2012, 03:17:55 PM
Do they do that thing where they do it in Greek script, too?  That's obnoxious.  I get it, I can read it (although not as well as Cyrillic), but it's lazy and pretentious at the same time.
No, it's at least in English.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Ed Anger

#1086
February 09, 2012, 09:22:10 PM
Tried to read Abercrombie's The Heroes. Realized within 5 pages I really, really didn't give a fuck about any of the characters. Or the North part of his world. Pass.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Habbaku

#1087
February 09, 2012, 09:23:35 PM
 :hmm:  Want to sell your copy?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Ed Anger

#1088
February 09, 2012, 09:28:22 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on February 09, 2012, 09:23:35 PM
:hmm:  Want to sell your copy?

It is on my ipad.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Habbaku

#1089
February 09, 2012, 09:54:12 PM
Give you $20.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Ed Anger

#1090
February 09, 2012, 09:55:31 PM
 :lol:
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Syt

#1091
February 19, 2012, 08:52:07 AM
I'm in the market for a decent history of WW2.

Requirements:
- global perspective, covering all theaters
- covering not only the military but also social, political, economical aspects
- comprehensive
- can be in multiple volumes
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

garbon

#1092
February 19, 2012, 09:12:32 PM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

#1093
February 19, 2012, 11:19:21 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 19, 2012, 08:52:07 AM
I'm in the market for a decent history of WW2.

Requirements:
- global perspective, covering all theaters
- covering not only the military but also social, political, economical aspects
- comprehensive
- can be in multiple volumes

Ank really likes Overy's "Why We Won"; with some exceptions, I didn't care for it much, but those exceptions involved the social, political, and economic aspects of the war.

I think your requirements are in a bit of tension with each other.  Most anything that's written for above a smart kid's level is going to be specialized, I suspect...
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

11B4V

#1094
February 20, 2012, 11:14:55 PM
Starting The Lessons Of Modern War: Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".
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