There were several authors but Zechariah Sitchin was the main one I remember.
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What are you reading Chapter 4
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There were several authors but Zechariah Sitchin was the main one I remember.
I know that name, but haven't read anything. I got a chuckle at the bookstore the other day when his stuff was located in the science fiction section. I'm not actively searching for this sort of stuff, just got the first book on a whim. I actively DO search for sci-fi, and thought it was a funny situation.
Tonight I read "The Saga of the Volsungs". Classic Norse epic, which I've read a few other translations of as well. I remembered more than I thought I did!
Science fiction is close to what he writes. His ideas are probably similar to writers like Philip K Dick and Robert Anton Wilson.
I was 12 when I saw this documentary "Chariots of Gods", based on his book. By some strange quirk of fate it was widely shown at movie theaters in USSR around 1976.
I haven't read much of Dick's stuff, but I DID just read his "Martian Time Slip". Weird, to say the least. Don't want to spoil anything, but it was bizarre.
He was the author of the book I just read, yes. His first. Apparently he has plenty of others.
I just finished Our Share of Night and it was phenomenal. Now looking at my bookshelves is like staring into a full refrigerator and seeing nothing to eat. The Mieville feels so slight in comparison.
I read a review of this recently, but I haven't read it yet.Just finished this:
Still on this book. I'm in the last quarter. This book should be explained, analyzed in schools..
Major Book. Thanks again to the TBer that shared this advice..
In a way, it reads like a transcript of a documentary or video; The primary focus is on the three old friends sitting around and talking, with some injected "asides" from notable people at relevant points. It's a fun read, and some of the background and inside info are quite interesting. The form is just different from a typical, omniscient-voice A-to-B-to-C narrative one might expect.
Recommended, though.
"If you love the movie, this book is pretty good too."
Still on this book. I'm in the last quarter. This book should be explained, analyzed in schools..
Major Book. Thanks again to the TBer that shared this advice..
Put it on my reading list. Thanks.
As someone who works with the younger generation, I live this book daily. It's absolutely terrifying. I'm not sure if I want to read it and be better informed, or if it would only heighten my distaste for what I see. Bottom line is this - it's bad. To put it incredibly mildly.
Still on this book. I'm in the last quarter. This book should be explained, analyzed in schools..
Major Book. Thanks again to the TBer that shared this advice..
I can't say this Book is a happy one. It will not help my overall feeling about this social media thing. But it helped me the understand better the mechanic behind, and consequences that i didn't even imagine about our entire world. Terrifying is the correct World. I think it Can really help to wake up young folks.
Still on this book. I'm in the last quarter. This book should be explained, analyzed in schools..
Major Book. Thanks again to the TBer that shared this advice..
I read that a couple of months ago - I agree, absolutely terrifying, and incredibly important.
At the risk of sounding pretentious, lately I've been revisiting Homer's Iliad. We think of it as the sort of dusty old thing they make you read in freshman English class, but really it's a ripping yarn and very readable. One aspect of it that really is gripping me is how Homer humanizes the characters, in an interesting way. They have no internal monologue; no character ever debates in his own mind what he should do. Instead, that kind of thing is all externalized; a deity sweeps down from Olympus to urge a hero into action when he hesitates or to stop Achilles from killing Agamemnon, etc. But what he does instead is that he tells you who everybody's parents are, where they're from and what they were known for there. And he does it in a really poignant way, even for very minor characters who are only introduced very briefly before getting slaughtered by Diomedes or whoever. The cumulative effect, all these lively, promising folks cut down not like so many faceless orcs but human beings who will never return to their beautiful homes and families, is very tragic and powerful.
Read that a few months ago, and had a similar feeling, but you were just able to put it into words. I'm having a similar feeling as I am currently reading The Nibelungenlied, which for a decent amount of time was known as the "German Iliad". I've always been a sucker for big mythology-type stuff, even before I consciously knew it. I really think that's what made me gravitate towards Star Wars and the numerous novels it inspired way back when I was a kid. Now that I have the background knowledge, I can see it for what it is - which is often times a sort of modern mythology. If not in fact, certainly in style. At least, the good ones (to me) are!
