Origins, Dan Brown.
I am angry. Chapter 19, page 92, paragraph 7, line 1, he wrote "The Regent had somehow gained inside information . . ." Disgusting! It's a novel! How hard would it have been to write that "the Regent had easily obtained the layout by a simple phishing hack of the architect's email account." Done. Really sad.
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Originally posted by @coquetteSupercomputers, IPhones. I too would have thought that a hacking reference would have been waaaay more appropriate. Maybe even some divine intervention to go along with the Science VS Creationism theme.🙄😉
Origins, Dan Brown.
I am angry. Chapter 19, page 92, paragraph 7, line 1, he wrote "The Regent had somehow gained inside information . . ." Disgusting! It's a novel! How hard would it have been to write that "the Regent had easily obtained the layout by a simple phishing hack of the architect's email account." Done. Really sad.
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Originally posted by @torunnToday I will go to my local library and ask them to get it in for me. I have a friend who has honey bees. Sounds like an interesting read. Thanks.
A very interesting and important book. It's not only about bees and people, it's about our way of living.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesSci fi, Kevin J Anderson, Blindfold, 1995 or so, about 300 years in the future, a colony around a star about 20 ly away, no FTL, strictly under c velocity, Ships arrive about every 50 years or so. Atlas is a planet found to be marginal for life and the colonists have a hard time but they find a bacteria humans can ingest that causes them to be telepathic and the Truthsayers guild is formed where the bug is used to find the truth of crime, innocent or guilty by reading minds. That works ok but the bug is developed on a geo sync orbit sat with ties to a 'diamond' ribbon space elevator and they do some nasty stuff to dilute the bug where the truthsayers cannot read with the idea to create chaos driven by one man intent on taking over the planet. Chaos ensues. Good read. Nice space opera.
Today I will go to my local library and ask them to get it in for me. I have a friend who has honey bees. Sounds like an interesting read. Thanks.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesYour kind of book, I think. Very well written, Norwegian writer.
Today I will go to my local library and ask them to get it in for me. I have a friend who has honey bees. Sounds like an interesting read. Thanks.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesYou can get it from Amazon for $14. Open the vault.
It is within our library system but appears to be very popular here but they have put me on a waiting list. I look forward to getting it.
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Originally posted by @handyandy😳😀
You can get it from Amazon for $14. Open the vault.
Edit: I forgot the damn combination.
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers.
I have been reading this book since summer 2016 (!), and it's so boring. It was cheap used copy purchased via abebooks.
I thought Powers was fast and furious postmodernist, as he was described in euphoric reviews. "He conveys the influence of science on men in our time" etc.
But he was so traditional in his narrative.
I am reading a page or two and make a long pause.
I consider his books (I haven't even started with his "Prisoner-s Dilemma" yet) as English practicing.