What book are you reading?

[Philbo King]

I've been reading these ebooks for quite a while. Sci-fi with expired copyrights.

Books: Science fiction (sorted alphabetically)

Project Gutenberg offers 73,571 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

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[Timcognito]

"In The Real Work—the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick—Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking down and building up—of identifying and perfecting the small constituent parts of a skill and the combining them for an overall effect greater than the sum of those parts. For another, mastery almost always involves intentional imperfection—as in music, where vibrato, a way of not quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness. Gopnik’s simplest and most invigorating lesson, however, is that we are surrounded by mastery. Far from rare, mastery is commonplace, if we only know where to look: from the parent who can whip up a professional strudel to the social worker who—in one of the most personally revealing passages Gopnik has ever written—helps him master his own demons."

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

I hadn't realised that Farce, in the novel form could exist.
A Good man in Africa, and Stars and Bars, by William Boyd, laugh out loud good!
Possibly not read in the company of ones Missus, when she is trying to concentrate on her Thriller!

 

[Andysu]

still not finished reading maritain book , the movie rubbish , actually the sound mix 7.1 was waste of my listening time , dialog centre channel , boring
rather read , Tom Holman book , look up index and find chapter to read , too scary Tom Holman THX is , find book too scary

so maritain has laid where is as first two pages after the movie dreadful 7.1 if atmos atmos is rubbish can't stand atmos on rest of rubbish dc marvel rubbish mixers , can't take there mixes serious anymore , other than , gravity 2013 way better directional dialog

 

[Multicore]

The Great Psychic Outdoors - Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli​

I recommend that you read it and then explain it to me.

The author helpfully put together this playlist

The Quietus | Features | Books | Badly Recorded Boy: Author Enrico Monacelli’s Lo-Fi Playlist

To accompany the release of his new book The Great Psychic Outdoors, Enrico Monacelli offers up ten slices of raw, poor sound

thequietus.com

 

[Wicky]

 

[Timcognito]

The Great Psychic Outdoors - Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli​

I recommend that you read it and then explain it to me.

The author helpfully put together this playlist

The Quietus | Features | Books | Badly Recorded Boy: Author Enrico Monacelli’s Lo-Fi Playlist

To accompany the release of his new book The Great Psychic Outdoors, Enrico Monacelli offers up ten slices of raw, poor sound

thequietus.com

Thanks for Quietus, a mile wide and mile deep in a sea of mostly boring music internet reviews. I like this https://kfjc.org/music/ where brevity leads to lots of listening and new music.

 

[DrachenherzTargaryen]

I've been reading these ebooks for quite a while. Sci-fi with expired copyrights.

Diving into the world of sci-fi ebooks with expired copyrights has been an enlightening journey. These books, now in the public domain, offer a rich history of the genre's evolution. It's a pleasure to explore the origins of sci-fi tropes we see today. The foresight of these authors, imagining futures shaped by technology and innovation, is remarkable. Their creativity continues to inspire, proving that great stories transcend the era they were written in. A true gem for aficionados!

 

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