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> I previously thought that conspiracy are filled with people with 160 IQ and master plans that make Gendo's instrumentality look like a child play.
I think conspiracies are way more like the Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum... You start with a premise like "This will be hilarious" or "I wonder if I can get away with XYZ" and then suddenly you're in a ride or die scenario with something that's ballooned way out of proportion to the original intent.
When I get bummed out that we only got 4 season I remember that it was originally written as a screenplay for a movie. 4 seasons is awesome when you look at it that way!
I also recommend this book! It's so detailed. I think I've gotten it for closer to $20.
I read the Modern Library Classics "slipcase" edition of the sequence (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Lost-Time-Library-Classics/dp/0812969642/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1OM2LJM34TG6&dchild=1&keywords=in+search+of+lost+time&qid=1596656830&s=books&sprefix=in+search+of+lost%2Caps%2C166&sr=1-2), translated by Montcrieff and Kilmartin, and then later revised by Enright. Not the best judge of whether this is the "best" translation (I don't speak French so can't really compare with the English) but I definitely loved the prose itself, as you can imagine it's quite lyrical and sublime.
Historical cycles do happen, but you can't model them as simply as an oscillating sine wave. And I wouldn't label the peaks and troughs as Marxist vs. Capitalist extremes; an axis of expansion vs. preservation would be more suitable. And in any case, this sine wave model seems to posit a supreme and transcendent universal Capitalism whereby all possible resources are extracted and exploited in a way that maximizes both utility and desire-production.
https://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singularity-Charles-Stross/dp/0441014151
Alas, same thing happened to me, but from Amazon Australia. From the post, it seems like it's mostly minor changes though. Hopefully I won't get confused when book two comes around :P
Link for what I purchased for reference: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/3982216737?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
16 year old male?
If he can start it, go down the Palahniuk rabbithole, and go with RANT. It's a hard book to start, but I guarantee, if he gets through 30 or so pages he will be hooked and it will start his journey.
This is the same Author that did the book Fight Club (highly recommended, but I think Rant is better for a 16 year old).
It’s actually a illustrated pop up version of the book. It’s really cool. I got it for her for Christmas years ago.
I started watching the show in 2015 when it was still airing. I loved the show so much. I'm still not over it.
Honestly? Mr. Robot changed me as a person. (That sounds lame as hell, but once you finish the show, it will make more sense. You might not agree, but at least I won't sound like a psycho.) It did more for me than 20 years in religion and nearly half that in therapy did for me. I've seen each episode an uncountable amount of times. (I've literally watched the pilot dozens of times bc I've shown it to so many people, and I just think it's such a well done pilot.)
I know S2 is very different. The pacing is different, and we see less of Elliot. It also gets REALLY dark in spots. Everyone I know that has given up has done so right around the same point in the show, bc it just got so dark. But it does come back around, I promise. Seasons 3 and 4 are closer to S1, though still different. And there's a companion book, the Red Wheelbarrow Notebook. It fills in some of the blanks from S2 when our friend isn't talking to us very much. It's remarkably well done, and I can't recommend it enough.
There are some really amazing performances in the last 2 seasons, especially in S4. You'll know them when you see them. And the ending? Sweet Jesus, the ending is amazing. Nearly everyone agrees that it's a stunning ending. (There are a few here and there that don't love it, but seriously, over 95% of the fans I've encountered online LOVED it. It pays off big time.)
I think it's worth it, but I'm kind of crazy about the show.
> Women stick to YA fiction they should have given up at 19.
I mean, I had Foucault's Pendulum and The City and The City recommended to me by a woman. My main social group for a while was a board game club that was roughly evenly men/women, and the TTRPG campaigns that started in that group were roughly evenly men/women.
But of course, you'll say "there are exceptions", and so my experience doesn't count. So my question: what evidence will you accept? What would change your view?
Perhaps a touch too close to simple fiction and not fantasy--it's hard to say; the 'fantasy' aspect is mostly how the world gets clouded by... so, so many conspiracy theories...
But Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is the thing that immediately comes to mind.
Also if anyone is interested, this is not a podcast, but, as far as the character is voiced (!!) by Christian Slater I recommend "Cognito.Inc" - very good cartoon calling out conspiracy theories :D can depend on your taste of humor but i find it hilarious and quite soothing to fill any void left after Mr. Robot series.
And my personal absolute favorite is this It's a must read after season 2 :) once again just leaves me speechless for how much detail, care and authenticity has Sam Esmail put into this show.
I’d assume she’s already read them all, so going for something cool, there’s a pop-up book version of “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” that is really gorgeous. Someone gifted it to my dad a few years ago and he absolutely loved it!
One of my favorite books! Just for fun, there is a pop-up version of the book - it's pretty cool and worth checking out if you're into that kind of thing.
Have you read "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk? One of my favourite books. Based on your post, I think you'd get a kick out of it :)
Don't read anything about it, take it on the blind word of an Internet stranger :D
https://www.amazon.ca/Rant-Oral-Biography-Buster-Casey/dp/0307275833
Bloody hell, that's strange. COVID has temporarily locked certain countries out of their delivery network, though. Maybe try Amazon.co.uk?
If all else fails, send me an email to and I'll order a copy directly from my printing company. Thanks for your patience & support.
I'd like to order the hardcover version to Estonia, but it says I need to increase the quantity. I can't simply order 1 book from amazon for some reason. Is there anything you could do about that? I tried both the official listing from your website, as well as the one on amazon.de. Both had the same issue.
Enderal is by far my favourite game ever. If you plan to make a new mod or start your own game dev company, then I'd love to support you. Are there any plans?
Though, in the meantime, I'm happy with the book with the appendix as well. I'm going to DM a DnD game in the world of Vyn, so I love having more information ;)
You say that we must use the official Amazon page to buy it.
Does that mean that the linked Amazon US page is the only place or is this one ok?
I would like to buy it but the shipping and import fees from US Amazon will more that double the price.
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
9,609,000 characters (including spaces) or 1,500,000 words
Average reading speed of 200 to 250 words a minute,
1,500,000/225=6666.66 mins
111.11 hrs
$27,778 to read the book.
I teach an Outdoor Living class in the PNW, and my goto book for getting lost/navigational horror is the pop up version of SKs The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. No swears, fun stuff. I bought it used off Amazon.
In season 2, they published a book of Elliot’s journal, Red Wheelbarrow. In it, Elliot writes, “Hot Carla is my totem.” I think it may be a reference to the Sylvia Plath poem. The Inception connection is cool, too.
<em>Accelerando</em> by Charles Stross might make a decent impression on him - it's basically a hyperstimulated rollercoaster riding the emergence of a grey goo singularity out of the networks of global technocapitalism. Walter Kauffman's Portable Nietzsche is easy to get into as Nietzsche goes, and would make a good grindstone upon which to sharpen his intellectual tendencies.
When I was 13, my parents gave me a nice hardtail mountain bike. This allowed me to tear around various suburbs, ride down concrete steps, skid across loose soil in public parks, and generally get a sense of what geographical mobility felt like, as well as training me to be conscious of risk from competing road traffic. This was an excellent education for a young teenager to have - mastering danger and being able to travel under my own power, not to mention getting me out into the real world and away from my device screens. So, a mountain bike would be a definite consideration based on your criteria, budget permitting. But if you're living in a more urban/suburban environment, or if there's a dearth of satisfying earthen hills in your immediate area, then a fixed gear road bike would be faster, more practical, no less satisfying, and quite possibly more aesthetic. r/FixedGearBicycle has some buying guides on their sidebar - some tried and true complete builds can be bought new for as low as $300, though I'd warn you to seek out the ones that include brakes for obvious safety reasons. And any bike would of course necessitate a helmet and some obnoxiously bright front and rear lights.
Brilliant. Surprised you didn't mention Accelerando (the book by Charles Stross, not the piano study series by Robert Schultz and Tina Faigen), though, at least in passing; not that it would lend credence to any of your arguments, per se, but it's a good read for imagining some unexpected post-capitalistic outcomes.
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> Few novels (or any type of media, for that matter) resonate so very much with a specific culture or a certain time in history as does Ross's book.
> Unintended Consequences mostly follows the life of a man named Henry Bowman from the time of his birth until his life's defining moment, some forty years later.
> Though the setting of this book reaches back more than a century and ends in the early to mid nineties, it captures what America is facing right now; an overbearing federal government doing all it can to crush liberty and stifle the free exercise thereof.
> This novel is, more than anything, about hope. Ross and his hero Bowman show that the most powerful force in this world is a free man unwilling to compromise his self or his ideals and that the change this man and men like him can have on the world is worthy of awe.
> There isn't much I can say to persuade you, some stranger roaming the wilds of the internet, to make you stop here and purchase this book, to give it the chance it deserves, aside form that this book has within its pages the means to instill in those who read it a great sense of conviction, and purpose, and hope.
> America can shine again across the world when each man, a sovereign citizen, takes up the banner of freedom and refuses to go quietly into the night.
> This book is a learning experience, a tool, a manual, a manifesto, and a wonderful story seamlessly blended into one span of pages.
> Read this novel. Give it a chance. I promise it will speak to you.
If anyone is interested in reading a sci-fi/cyberpunk book that deals with these more advanced physics concepts, I can really recommend Charles Stross' Accelerando
Hard to get a hold of a hard copy of the book, but could probably find an electronic version online somewhere. It is lengthy, but worth it. I consider it the Atlas Shrugged of gun rights.
Apophenia: The human tendency to see patterns in things. We find come correspondance and we (people) want to put meaning into it.
Have I got some books for you:
A discussion, via a novel, of coincidences, and how we can find connections to everything: Foucaults Pendulum https://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-Umberto-Eco/dp/015603297X Best related scene: The Comte De Saint Germain (sort of) points to a magazine kiosk, and points out all the connections between its design and the solar system at large. Also points out you can find something connected to something else everywhere. Most of the book revolves and resolves around this concept (as well as a few others).
A more humorous, but very cool take, on "kabballistic" thought and correspondences: Unsongbook.com Best related scene: The main character Aaron, is challenged by someone one to defend a kabbalist's ability to find connections when looking at completed events, and in ability to predict future events.
The correspondence of Pi and the number of seconds in a year can be looked at through both these lenses. Sure... the number isn't exact. But you could go forward or backward in time (the earth's orbital velocity changes through the aeons), to find a moment when these numbers do correspond, maybe you could make some additional connections to that period.
Bonus connection: A pendulum that swings at exactly once a second is exactly one yard long at the equator. (I.e. one of the old definitions of a yard.)
I love this.
The movie Her was a breath of fresh air because the AIs weren't monsters, even though they did the whole Accelerando thing and hit some Singularity on their own.
It would be hard, but if you can manage it you might want to try pulling a Frankenstein (the original) and making humans the monsters and the "creature" (your AI) the morally superior being.
The thing you're going to struggle with is that it is difficult to write characters that are smarter than yourself. And an AGI is smarter than anyone. One trick you could use is to keep in mind that an AI will be able to anticipate almost everything a human will say or do - it will almost seem to be prescient, able to see into the future. So any trick or outwitting of the AI that the humans attempt will need to ultimately turn out to be part of the AI's plan. But I think it would be fun if the AI had a benevolent plan or inscrutable plan, instead of just a boring old Big Evil Plan. Maybe a fun twist could be that it planned to be trapped, for some reason.
There's also apparently an audio book, though the posting looks a little odd. https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Robot-Original-Tie--Book/dp/1681684497/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472626150&sr=8-1&keywords=mr+robot+audio+book Also doesn't say who it will be read aloud by. I think it would be too much to hope for it to be Rami Malek.
Maybe include something by his son, Joe Hill. I've only read Heart-Shaped Box, but I enjoyed it. The movie Horns was based off another of his books that I eventually plan to read. They wrote a novella together, Throttle, that also had a comic based on it.
You could also check Etsy for unique King related items.
This looks AMAZING, but is only available used. http://smile.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Loved-Tom-Gordon/dp/0689862725/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1456481258&sr=8-1
Another example of this is the book Accellerando by Charles Stross. One of the main concepts in the first fifth of the book is a foundation of a reputation based economy, where people purchase stock in the ideas and honest views of individuals, which are then traded like a commodity.
And then the singularity happens.
I highly recommend that book.