[ ]   [ ]   [ ]                        [ ]      [ ]   [ ]

Radio Paradise Comments - Steely_D - Dec 2, 2023 - 11:27pm
 
The World IS Hunted - Steely_D - Dec 2, 2023 - 11:20pm
 
Photos you haven't taken of yourself - KurtfromLaQuinta - Dec 2, 2023 - 9:11pm
 
Wordle - daily game - geoff_morphini - Dec 2, 2023 - 7:29pm
 
As California Goes, So Goes The Rest Of The Country - KurtfromLaQuinta - Dec 2, 2023 - 7:27pm
 
Upcoming concerts or shows you can't wait to see - Bill_J - Dec 2, 2023 - 6:39pm
 
NYTimes Connections - ptooey - Dec 2, 2023 - 5:00pm
 
December 2023 Photo Theme - Reflection - Antigone - Dec 2, 2023 - 3:12pm
 
USA! USA! USA! - westslope - Dec 2, 2023 - 12:17pm
 
Israel - R_P - Dec 2, 2023 - 11:28am
 
November 2023 Photo Theme - Perspective - MrDill - Dec 2, 2023 - 10:11am
 
2024 Elections! - Red_Dragon - Dec 2, 2023 - 9:16am
 
Musky Mythology - Red_Dragon - Dec 2, 2023 - 9:11am
 
Today in History - Red_Dragon - Dec 2, 2023 - 7:47am
 
Update playlist please - hansotten - Dec 2, 2023 - 2:55am
 
What the hell OV? - Manbird - Dec 1, 2023 - 11:10pm
 
Vinyl Only Spin List - kurtster - Dec 1, 2023 - 7:42pm
 
Gotta Get Your Drink On - black321 - Dec 1, 2023 - 2:58pm
 
Fear of Flying - Beaker - Dec 1, 2023 - 1:53pm
 
Things You Thought Today - black321 - Dec 1, 2023 - 12:00pm
 
Name My Band - DaveInSaoMiguel - Dec 1, 2023 - 9:35am
 
Talk Behind Their Backs Forum - GeneP59 - Dec 1, 2023 - 8:43am
 
Radio Paradise NFL Pick'em Group - GeneP59 - Dec 1, 2023 - 8:39am
 
The Obituary Page - DaveInSaoMiguel - Dec 1, 2023 - 8:34am
 
Eclectic Sound-Drops - thisbody - Dec 1, 2023 - 8:13am
 
What Puts You In the Christmas Mood? - thisbody - Dec 1, 2023 - 7:18am
 
songs that ROCK! - thisbody - Dec 1, 2023 - 6:53am
 
Live Music - thisbody - Dec 1, 2023 - 6:04am
 
Buddy's Haven - miamizsun - Dec 1, 2023 - 4:47am
 
Other Medical Stuff - kurtster - Dec 1, 2023 - 3:04am
 
OUR CATS!! - Red_Dragon - Nov 30, 2023 - 6:11pm
 
RightWingNutZ - kcar - Nov 30, 2023 - 4:50pm
 
Baseball, anyone? - ScottFromWyoming - Nov 30, 2023 - 4:44pm
 
Bug Reports & Feature Requests - DrLex - Nov 30, 2023 - 2:00pm
 
JFK Assassination - kurtster - Nov 30, 2023 - 12:46pm
 
Pogues! - ScottFromWyoming - Nov 30, 2023 - 11:45am
 
FLAC stream crashes Sonos - fbloemhof - Nov 30, 2023 - 10:32am
 
If not RP, what are you listening to right now? - kurtster - Nov 30, 2023 - 10:28am
 
Download Manager IPhone problems - RPnate1 - Nov 29, 2023 - 11:31am
 
RP On Windows Media Player? - William - Nov 29, 2023 - 10:00am
 
RP Daily Trivia Challenge - lily34 - Nov 29, 2023 - 8:44am
 
Animal Resistance - lily34 - Nov 28, 2023 - 9:59am
 
Trump - kcar - Nov 28, 2023 - 9:09am
 
The Dragons' Roost - GeneP59 - Nov 28, 2023 - 8:59am
 
Economix - black321 - Nov 28, 2023 - 7:38am
 
NY Times Spelling Bee - lily34 - Nov 28, 2023 - 6:48am
 
New mix, what would you like to see ? - KurtfromLaQuinta - Nov 28, 2023 - 6:27am
 
Tech - what makes RP sound so good? - William - Nov 27, 2023 - 5:37pm
 
Dialing 1-800-Manbird - oldviolin - Nov 27, 2023 - 1:32pm
 
New Music - oldviolin - Nov 27, 2023 - 11:52am
 
Questions. - miamizsun - Nov 27, 2023 - 10:37am
 
♥ ♥ ♥ Vote For Pie ♥ ♥ ♥ - miamizsun - Nov 27, 2023 - 10:36am
 
iPad wake screen - michaelmuller - Nov 27, 2023 - 10:11am
 
the Todd Rundgren topic - Coaxial - Nov 27, 2023 - 9:36am
 
Mixtape Culture Club - ColdMiser - Nov 27, 2023 - 7:46am
 
Lyrics That Remind You of Someone - oldviolin - Nov 26, 2023 - 8:25pm
 
Happy Thanksgiving! - Bill_J - Nov 26, 2023 - 5:58pm
 
Audio Problems - uaerez - Nov 26, 2023 - 12:30pm
 
Shameless Band Promotion - West Coast Division - sunybuny - Nov 26, 2023 - 11:56am
 
Guns - Red_Dragon - Nov 26, 2023 - 10:45am
 
HALF A WORLD - oldviolin - Nov 26, 2023 - 9:54am
 
AI Bill - timothy_john - Nov 26, 2023 - 3:52am
 
Would you drive this car for dating with ur girl? - KurtfromLaQuinta - Nov 25, 2023 - 8:07pm
 
Discussion Thread for the Meetup Meetup Topic - Red_Dragon - Nov 25, 2023 - 2:02pm
 
Europe - thisbody - Nov 25, 2023 - 1:08pm
 
Climate Change - R_P - Nov 25, 2023 - 12:00pm
 
Germany - thisbody - Nov 24, 2023 - 12:29pm
 
Ukraine - Steely_D - Nov 23, 2023 - 1:20pm
 
Artificial Intelligence - thisbody - Nov 23, 2023 - 9:28am
 
It's the economy stupid. - thisbody - Nov 23, 2023 - 9:17am
 
Tech & Science - thisbody - Nov 23, 2023 - 9:08am
 
Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant Massacree - islander - Nov 23, 2023 - 7:51am
 
Coffee - haresfur - Nov 22, 2023 - 7:53pm
 
Counting with Pictures - ScottN - Nov 22, 2023 - 2:08pm
 
Climate Change - thisbody - Nov 22, 2023 - 1:53pm
 
Index » Entertainment » Books » What are you reading now? Page: 1, 2, 3 ... 203, 204, 205  Next
Post to this Topic
thisbody

thisbody Avatar

Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 12:45pm

 GeneP59 wrote:
The fine print on my first go through with Medicare.  



Don't give up!

GeneP59

GeneP59 Avatar

Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday.
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 12:28pm

The fine print on my first go through with Medicare.  
KurtfromLaQuinta

KurtfromLaQuinta Avatar

Location: Really deep in the heart of South California
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 11, 2023 - 7:38am

Almost done with this...


920 pages of fine print.
A great read of a man's man. He did some amazing stuff,

I read this first...



Another great story.
Theodore was somebody I wish I could have met.


pilgrim

pilgrim Avatar

Location: outlier


Posted: Nov 10, 2023 - 1:39pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Seveneves was good; the criticisms of it are the same as that review of Termination Shock: he goes into a 400-page explanatory jag that the reviewers don't like but that is the meat of the story for me. When it all comes to the exciting end, I'm usually, "oh, sure, got it."

His book, REAMDE, was super interesting to me, until the last two chapters when it was just wrapped up with a bow and ended.

Anathem and Cryptonomicon are his high water marks, IMO, but Diamond Age and Snow Crash are the ones that the sci-fi nerds still get excited about.


I understand the criticism, but yeah, that's the stuff that kept me reading.
I'll check out the others - cheers! 
ScottFromWyoming

ScottFromWyoming Avatar

Location: Powell
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 10, 2023 - 12:23pm

 pilgrim wrote:


Cool - and speaking of Sevens, I read Stephenson's SevenEves  a while back and really enjoyed it.



Seveneves was good; the criticisms of it are the same as that review of Termination Shock: he goes into a 400-page explanatory jag that the reviewers don't like but that is the meat of the story for me. When it all comes to the exciting end, I'm usually, "oh, sure, got it."

His book, REAMDE, was super interesting to me, until the last two chapters when it was just wrapped up with a bow and ended.

Anathem and Cryptonomicon are his high water marks, IMO, but Diamond Age and Snow Crash are the ones that the sci-fi nerds still get excited about.
pilgrim

pilgrim Avatar

Location: outlier


Posted: Nov 10, 2023 - 12:17pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

In a similar vein:
Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock (NY Times but it's a gift link so you can read it).


Cool - and speaking of Sevens, I read Stephenson's SevenEves  a while back and really enjoyed it.

ColdMiser

ColdMiser Avatar

Location: On the Trail
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 10, 2023 - 7:56am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


In a similar vein:
Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock (NY Times but it's a gift link so you can read it).

Looks a little interesting. Might take a swing at it if I see it in my library. Thanks Scott! 

ScottFromWyoming

ScottFromWyoming Avatar

Location: Powell
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 9, 2023 - 8:48am

 ColdMiser wrote:

I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley. A fictional account of how the US climate/political landscape unfolds as we move into the near term future. Page turner and very scary realistic. 



In a similar vein:
Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock (NY Times but it's a gift link so you can read it).
lily34

lily34 Avatar

Location: GTFO
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 9, 2023 - 8:23am

 ColdMiser wrote:

Seven? Why stop there, go for 8! 




  i'll let you know if she gives a reason.
ColdMiser

ColdMiser Avatar

Location: On the Trail
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 9, 2023 - 8:22am

 lily34 wrote:


oooo i'm going to have to check that out, sounds really interesting!

i'm about to start The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. (fiction).

Seven? Why stop there, go for 8! 

lily34

lily34 Avatar

Location: GTFO
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 9, 2023 - 8:00am

 ColdMiser wrote:

I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley. A fictional account of how the US climate/political landscape unfolds as we move into the near term future. Page turner and very scary realistic. 



oooo i'm going to have to check that out, sounds really interesting!

i'm about to start The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. (fiction).
ColdMiser

ColdMiser Avatar

Location: On the Trail
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 9, 2023 - 7:55am

I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley. A fictional account of how the US climate/political landscape unfolds as we move into the near term future. Page turner and very scary realistic. 
gilmarbeta



Posted: Nov 9, 2023 - 5:45am

I'm re-reading Fight Club. I suddenly found myself in a dystopian mood.
miamizsun

miamizsun Avatar

Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 3, 2023 - 4:53am

 boomman8139 wrote:

Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Lost my daughter recently and this book was recommended to me…helping me get my life back…thank you, Neil, whether it be Rush’s drummer or a father/ husband, you really are helping…I hope you are somewhere out there enjoying their love and company again…





Steely_D

Steely_D Avatar

Location: Biscayne Bay
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 2, 2023 - 12:27pm

 boomman8139 wrote:

Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Lost my daughter recently and this book was recommended to me…helping me get my life back…thank you, Neil, whether it be Rush’s drummer or a father/ husband, you really are helping…I hope you are somewhere out there enjoying their love and company again…



Oh, that’s horrible. Very very sorry. 
Steely_D

Steely_D Avatar

Location: Biscayne Bay
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 2, 2023 - 12:26pm

For the second time while on a road trip, “The Mountain in the Sea” audiobook by Ray Nayler. The reader is extremely good at navigating through the story. Don’t know if a hard copy would be as entertaining.

I love this book so much.

It’s a complex exploration into the ideas of sentience, with one foot in a not-too-distant futurist society and another in the reality of what we know about octopi. What?
Our main character is in a remote archipelago (owned by a giant company) at the behest of a hard-to-read genius researcher. At her side, the world’s only (possibly) sentient android. The question in front of them: what is going on in a piece of wreckage where a large, territorial octopus is living. Is the octopus sentient?

A parallel story involves a robotic fishing vessel, where the owning company has replaced its robotic equipment with slaves, kidnapped from various lives. People are cheaper to maintain, and the boat is all about profit. But in this future, they have fished the oceans almost empty. They want this protected archipelago to give up its remaining fish. Is the ship, with its complex protocols, sentient? Are the slaves, unable to do anything except what the boat AI allows them to do, still sentient?

This is obviously a thoughtful, complex, philosophical book. And I’ll never eat octopus again.


boomman8139

boomman8139 Avatar

Location: Vancouver Island (the center of the Canadian universe)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 1, 2023 - 8:04pm

Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Lost my daughter recently and this book was recommended to me…helping me get my life back…thank you, Neil, whether it be Rush’s drummer or a father/ husband, you really are helping…I hope you are somewhere out there enjoying their love and company again…
whatshisname

whatshisname Avatar

Location: West OZ
Gender: Male


Posted: Jun 12, 2023 - 12:55am

' A Banquet of Consequences, Reloaded'
by Satyajit Das.

Read the original a few years back now he is back with an updated offering.
Das,  a former banker and world renown financial adviser was predicting the then upcoming GFC or 'Great Recession' as he referred to it ,it's fallout and more worry some the failure of the world to act on that experience to prevent the mother of all crashes which he sees as just around the corner.
While his visions of life after the next event are not very comfortable, he does see some positives for humanity coming out of it.







miamizsun

miamizsun Avatar

Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 8, 2022 - 5:02am

 Manbird wrote:


yes he is - makes me want to sign up for another audio book club again.



i'm sort of in that tub
i use blinkist to scan/glean the field
recommended



miamizsun

miamizsun Avatar

Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 8, 2022 - 4:56am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

next on my list

Day of the Oprichnik



looks timely...
Page: 1, 2, 3 ... 203, 204, 205  Next