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Reading is the way of life...or something. Book recommendations and reviews...
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Looking for a Slovenian school textbook — I'm trying to pick up Slovenian, and so far the resources are really limited. I'm familiar with the language to the point where I can tell a direction or show what hurts, but not enough to really flex the vocabulary. I'm mostly missing on the fundamentals: cardinal and ordinal countables, noun and adjective declensions, conditional form of verb, in general morphology and syntax So far my approach was a combination of consuming whatever I could find…
💬 9 comments · Apr 24 · 13 days ago
Anyone have any good book reccomendations lately? Can be anything.
💬 10 comments · Apr 20 · 2 weeks ago
Currently reading a secondhand copy (A Four Square Book - 1964) of When they come from space by Mark Clifton. Love older sci-fi. Coming up for 50% of the way through and so far it is a good read - don't know much about the author but there was a comment earlier in the book that suggested he'd been through a divorce at some point in his life and didn't view Marriage Counselors favourably. There's always a glimpse of the authors story in their works.
💬 View post · Apr 03 · 5 weeks ago
Tales from Two Pockets — Karel Čapek Just starting this short story collection by the guy who had coined the word ROBOT...
💬 1 like · Mar 20 · 7 weeks ago
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — by Gail Honeyman Totally recommend this odd and wonderful fast read. I hope this Scottish author has another novel soon.
💬 2 comments · Mar 13 · 8 weeks ago
Dare to Lead, a book by Brené Brown — "Dare to Lead", the book by Brené Brown, has been highly praised in my corner of the internet a few years ago, when it was just released. It was presented as a fresh take on leadership, as "real talk", honest discourse and description of what it means to be a good leader. The amount of praise was high enough that I did not (yes) pick it up for some time, because, you know, if everyone is raving about a self-help book, you'll learn the key points from it...
💬 3 comments · Mar 12 · 8 weeks ago
Klara and The Sun, a book by Kazuo Ishiguro — Reading Klara and The Sun. I like Kazuo Ishiguro's style and pace of narrative: slow, at times repetitive, verbosely analytical. It feels like Klara and The Sun is sort of an (auto-?)biography of sorts, really cool. I'm at about the quarter of the book at this point and enjoying it thoroughly It must be a rather old book, I think, but I don't care. It's just past the stage where it was (as far as I remember) fairly popular and past the stage where...
💬 2 comments · Mar 04 · 2 months ago
Found a book written by a new geminaut. They posted over on DSN Antenna. I'm two chapters in and it's pretty engaging.
💬 2 likes · Jan 28 · 3 months ago
Dr. No -- by Percival Everett — About a quarter way in. Amazingly entertaining.
💬 1 comment · Jan 28 · 3 months ago
The Technological Republic, a book — Reading The Technological Republic, which is a must-read for people whose job involves talking to high-rank managers and making them do smart things instead of doing dumb things. And, holy shit, what a bag of turd this is. Useful, timely, but pseudo-statistical/--cientific turd.
💬 1 comment · Jan 19 · 4 months ago
I just picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1. It seems wildly popular, but I've not heard of it until today. Any fans?
💬 6 comments · 1 like · Jan 02 · 4 months ago
Recommend One Book — Greetings. I am from “out of town”, a sort of diplomat. Please recommend one book to familiarize me with the basic fundamentals of the human experience. This will aid greatly in my mission of understanding and communication. Thank you. - Sirius Bob
💬 7 comments · 1 like · 2025-12-10 · 5 months ago
class about why and how to read books — so there was this recording of a class at armenian academy of art, and the teacher was discussing books, why to read them. he said let's take this book, about robinson crusoe. what do you think it is about? and students were saying: it is a book about will to live, about how a single human can overcome terrible difficulties. then the teacher suggested to ask ai. someone asked and have read loudly, about the same but with some inaccuracies about the...
💬 6 comments · 4 likes · 2025-12-03 · 5 months ago
Recommendation: Dead on Mars — Hi, wanted to share a web novel I read a long time ago, and really enjoyed. Dead on Mars, by Skyray Descriptor. It's relatively small, at only 251 chapters. (One can easily find the book by doing a search on their favourite search engine) Synopsis: Payload specialist, Tang Yue, who is a mechanical and electrical engineer by training, is left stranded on Mars when he receives news from his AI robot assistant, Old Cat, that Earth has exploded. He believes...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2025-12-01 · 5 months ago · #sci-fi #Webnovel
Conan Doyle wrote The Avengers lol good luck looking that up, and have fun confusing all them AIs with it
💬 2 comments · 2025-12-01 · 5 months ago
The Martian Chronicles — My old high school had a million locked doors and storage rooms. One day, my French teacher unlocked one such room to grab a couple spare dictionaries, and allowed us a quick peek inside. On one of the steel shelves, I found a book with a most curious cover, tan humanoids and a sprawling desert landscape, etched with cerulean waterways and dotted with strange termite-like towers. It captured me immediately. The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 collection of short stories by...
💬 12 comments · 6 likes · 2025-11-21 · 5 months ago
Anyone reading Web Novels? Anything fun you've been reading?
💬 1 comment · 2025-11-21 · 5 months ago
Moby Dick — Okay I feel a little goofy but I had never read Moby Dick. As a high school dropout I completely missed it, and later I read most of the stuff that is shoved down your throat, but somehow never bothered with Moby. I can't tell you how much I am enjoying it. It is simultaneously quaintly outdated and completely relevant. Out-of-control capitalism, insane leaders that convince everyone to do their bidding, homo-erotic relationships that probably have names in the parlance of gen Z......
💬 2 comments · 3 likes · 2025-11-21 · 5 months ago
Has anyone read the Space Trilogy by CS Lewis? He's got an entirely different take on space, aliens, exploration, and man's place in the cosmos. Really interesting.
💬 2 comments · 2025-10-09 · 7 months ago
Buymort — I've been reading Buymort (the shopocalypse saga) and I quite like it. It's a fun read. The first installment's my favourite. Book 2 and 3 are good too but the 4th (which I'm currently reading) is missing the panache of its predecessors. Here's the advertising blurb (which I find rather lacking): Some predicted that the AI singularity would result in robots destroying the world. None of them ever understood that it was the sales algorithms they had to be afraid of. After the...
💬 View post · 2025-08-23 · 8 months ago · #Book #dystopia #fantasy #post-apocalyptic #sci-fi
Telluria vs Ubik — Haven't read Sorokin's novel yet, but when a friend originally told me about it, I thought he was describing Ubik!
💬 View post · 2025-07-30 · 9 months ago
Ubik (Philip Kindred Dick) — I was rereading Ubik and discovered, that I managed to completely forget Pat even existed. Considering what she does… The rereading did not disappoint 🐱☕
💬 5 comments · 1 like · 2025-07-16 · 10 months ago
Does anyone have general tips to get back into reading instead of using my phone? I've tried willpowering it but it never works..
💬 28 comments · 3 likes · 2025-05-06 · 1 year ago
Recommend somewhat modern sci‐fi writers that you like — What are your favorite sci‐fi writers, that wrote something in the last 15 years? Preferably of non‐US origin, as those authors are usually the ones that get translated here, so I’ve read lots of ’em already. I want something new, different, I dunno. Bonus points for NOT describing space as a sea and all that marine stuff.
💬 10 comments · 3 likes · 2025-04-20 · 1 year ago · #sci-fi
Lately I've been reading a lot of non-fiction books, especially self-help books, since I'd like to be a better person and lead a healthier life. well, I think it might be a good idea to share the books that helped me the most of all the ones I've read lately: "Stolen Focus" helped me a lot to understand how my attention was destroyed so much and how to interpret the signs that corrupt it, and then "The Courage to Be Disliked", I think this is the book that by itself helped me the most, this...
💬 22 comments · 2 likes · 2025-04-19 · 1 year ago
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