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AngryAmerican
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right now i'm readin Zodiac by neal stephenson.
genius. excellent writer.
try 'snow crash' if you like SF, its his masterpiece.

looking for next book........any suggestions?
bueller.....

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8-23-06 2:23pm (new)
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ivytheplant
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I started Zodiac a while ago, but I kept getting distracted by other books.

8-23-06 3:07pm (new)
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Scyess
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Snow Crash was horribly overrated. Not that it was a bad book -- it was palatable. But it wasn't a "masterpiece" by any stretch. People often forget that science fiction doesn't have to mean poor characterization and forced plot lines. Hello! It doesn't!

Unfortunately, all I'm reading right now is my weekly Economist... and I rarely have time to read that.

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8-23-06 3:17pm (new)
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crabby
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I am currently reading, 'How to be Lost' by Amanda Eyreward.

8-23-06 3:53pm (new)
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AngryAmerican
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Snow Crash was horribly overrated. Not that it was a bad book -- it was palatable. But it wasn't a "masterpiece" by any stretch. People often forget that science fiction doesn't have to mean poor characterization and forced plot lines. Hello! It doesn't!

Unfortunately, all I'm reading right now is my weekly Economist... and I rarely have time to read that.


whoa. i meant it was Neal Stephenson's (personal) masterpiece. as opposed to 'the diamond age' which was very good also or 'cryptonomicon' which was his way of saying "jesus fuckin christ i'm smart!"
but still a damn entertaining book....

what is 'how to be lost' all about, crabby?
sounds promising...

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8-23-06 4:08pm (new)
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BigFrank105
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In 5 days I'm gonna be reading "The Principles of Microeconomics"

8-23-06 4:44pm (new)
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ivytheplant
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Currently reading The Mote In God's Eye. Niven and Pournelle really know how to mete out information at just the right pace to keep me desperately hungry for more. By the time they slam the big reveal in, there's still 1/4 of the book to go and I can't stop reading. I was rooting for the little monkey things in until they started severing people's heads.

I'm still reading another dozen books, but Mote currently has my full attention. I'm sure boorite wishes I would hurry up and finish Hunt For the Skinwalker. Maybe after I finish the sequel to Mote.

8-23-06 4:48pm (new)
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boloboffin
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I'm reading the One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind, and the Seven Deadly Colours by Andrew Parker. It's so hard for me to get into fiction these days.

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8-23-06 7:06pm (new)
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areallystupidguy
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I'm rereading "Donovan's Brain" by Curt Siodmak, and reading for the first time "Story Of The Eye" by Georges Bataille.

So far "Story Of The Eye" has the highest concentration of rad in any book ever written. Let's see if it can keep it up.

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8-23-06 7:16pm (new)
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Inflatable_Man
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The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Luskind, putting in disturbing detail the fucked-upness of the Bush administration, and specifically how it missed capturing Osama Bin Laden and how it got us into Iraq against the sound judgment of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, etc.

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8-23-06 8:01pm (new)
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little_kitty
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Been there, done that, dropped the class three weeks in.

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8-23-06 8:12pm (new)
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BigFrank105
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It's a fucking requirement for my major :(

8-23-06 8:22pm (new)
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umfumdisi
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The Politics of Dancing

Wait, no, that was just a bad 80s song. But weren't they all?

I just finished Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Much like his The Name of the Rose, the ending was a bit disappointing.

Think I'll tackle Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses next.

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8-23-06 8:48pm (new)
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DragonXero
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Have you taken Macro yet?
Micro is a pain in the ass, especially if you've got a bastard of a teacher. The readings are so freaking bland and dull, but it's made worse by the fact that they try to "spice it up" with "real" examples. Basically they're trying to relate the material to your life now. I think that's just moronic.
How many students in college are there because they need affirmation that the things they are learning will relate to their lives right now?
And I am as well reading lots of crappy texts. I have a financial accounting "book" (actually unbound textbook paper that I had to buy a huge fucking binder for), an Algebra book and a Logic book. Thank GOD I don't have anything to read in my Weightlifting class.

Shut up. I needed a PE class for my general ed. And I sure as hell am not going to get planted into the turf playing football against guys 5 years younger than me, yet twice my size.

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8-23-06 9:31pm (new)
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BigFrank105
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Have you taken Macro yet?
Micro is a pain in the ass, especially if you've got a bastard of a teacher. The readings are so freaking bland and dull, but it's made worse by the fact that they try to "spice it up" with "real" examples. Basically they're trying to relate the material to your life now. I think that's just moronic.
How many students in college are there because they need affirmation that the things they are learning will relate to their lives right now?
And I am as well reading lots of crappy texts. I have a financial accounting "book" (actually unbound textbook paper that I had to buy a huge fucking binder for), an Algebra book and a Logic book. Thank GOD I don't have anything to read in my Weightlifting class.

Shut up. I needed a PE class for my general ed. And I sure as hell am not going to get planted into the turf playing football against guys 5 years younger than me, yet twice my size.


I'm taking Macroeconomics next semester... haven't heard much about that. Two of my friends have had this teacher though, and apparently she's really upbeat and makes things easier to learn. I'm definitely not expecting entertainment in this class so any sort relief will probably be alright. All I could ask for is a teacher who explains things well and I should be fine.

Dare I ask what this field is even about? I have no idea on what to expect as I walk into class on Monday.

8-23-06 9:57pm (new)
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attitudechicka
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Can I just say that I took weight training to fill my PE requirement?

And is your school in such a state of disrepair that they can't afford to give you an actual accounting book? I'll mail you mine, if you want, I finished the class last January.

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8-24-06 7:56am (new)
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BigFrank105
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Blagh I already bought mine. And knowing how schools work today, I'm sure every college uses a completely different book/edition, making transfers like that impossible.

8-24-06 8:05am (new)
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boorite
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8-24-06 10:13am (new)
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NeoVid
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Just got done reading the "Legends" collection, and it's good to know something about Shadow's life after "American Gods" ended.

But what interested me most out of that collection convinced me to start on Tad Williams' "Otherland" series.

I recently read the "Mote" series. Brilliant. Though I still just like the Ringworld series more.

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8-24-06 12:43pm (new)
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Humpenstein
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8-24-06 12:53pm (new)
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Rabid_Weasle
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I've been reading Casino Royale for about the last 3 months. I just don't read as often as I should.

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8-24-06 2:27pm (new)
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boorite
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That's one argument for the elimination of Jerry Mander.

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What others say about boorite!

8-24-06 3:44pm (new)
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Zaster
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Probably why I'm not very funny, lately.

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8-24-06 4:03pm (new)
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DragonXero
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AChicka, our business education department decided to buy the unbound version because it was cheaper, and "cheapness" on the part of the school has nothing to do with it. Unlike tuition costs, none of the cost of textbooks is absorbed by the school. It all goes straight into the students.

BigFrank, Micro/Macroeconomics is basically a sociology course that discusses the psychology and nature of goods and services exchange. That's an overly simplified explaination, but the course itself is relatively easy to understand. It's the semantics you're going to have to deal with the most. You'll be talking about Adam Smith early on and eventually start getting into how demand and supply interact. The science behind it is quite compelling, if you really care about how our economy actually works. To be quite honest, I really would have reccomended you take Macroeconomics first, as Micro is more about the individual details and gets into real situations rather than abstracting most of the text into generally-applied ideals. It's a little more blah, but it's easier to comprehend how large-scale markets really work.
Just about all economics teachers are anti-socialism due to the nature of their teaching and the system in which it is taught. You'll learn why capitalism is favored by a lot of people and what makes it ultimately work, not to mention what is needed to maintain it. Around two weeks of my Micro class was dedicated to Macro review, so when you take Macro, expect to hear some familiar ideas.
I think a good portion of Microeconomics is extolling the virtues of capitalism while speculating on its flaws and pointing out the means by which those flaws are being corrected. Ideas like wealth distribution (which is pretty crazy in the US), "externalities" (basically alluding to pollution and other negative side-effects of a totally free market) and several other things are going to get touched on. Mainly you're going to be talking about different systems within the current economic model, especially levesl of business and probably labor unions near the end.
All in all, it's an interesting subject on its own, but it can become quite tedious, and you're going to be seeing a shitload of graphs.

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8-24-06 6:00pm (new)
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BigFrank105
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Well, I'm required to take Micro before Macro so I guess I didn't luck out there. I guess all together that doesn't seem too bad. I was just worried that it would be about a lot of math, which is shitty because I'm taking two other math classes already.

8-24-06 6:12pm (new)
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