That's how I imagine the Ministry of Love.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i'm here today.
the art deco niceness ends on about floor 3. then it's more like an archive-prison.
7/10.
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I just started reading The Destroyer series, anyone else read it?
who's the author? the name rings a bell . . .
i've recently reread The Lord of Light, by Roger Zelezny.
i've recently reread The Lord of Light, by Roger Zelezny.
The beginning of the series is written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. The series is what the 80's movie Remo Williams was based on, though I must say, the first book in the series is already better than the movie was.
started reading It by Stephen King
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
it's the building orwell based the ministry of information on. it's at the heart of bloomsbury - london's posho-academic-literati-intelligentsia square in north west london.globefish23 wrote:
That's how I imagine the Ministry of Love.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i'm here today.
the art deco niceness ends on about floor 3. then it's more like an archive-prison.
7/10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Truth
it's perfectly nice, really.
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still keeping yourself amused, i see.
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You read it before 1956?Dilbert_X wrote:
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Started the Romance of the Three Kingdoms book yesterday. 200 pages in 2000 more to go.
I thought you would have read that already.
Abridged version was like 500ish. I'm going for the unabridged.
So when BnN either goes bankrupt or stops supporting nook what are you guys going to do with your bricks?Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch has resigned, according to an announcement issued by the company's board of directors late Monday.
[READ: Barnes and Noble Ditching Tablets, Closing Stores]
"We thank William Lynch for helping transform Barnes & Noble into a leading digital content provider and for leading in the development of our award-winning line of NOOK products," said Leonard Riggio, chairman of the Barnes & Noble board of directors, in a released statement.
The announcement comes amid earnings woes, particularly surrounding Nook products. At the end of June, the company announced it would stop manufacturing Nook tablets, instead choosing an outside firm to make the tablets while the company focused more on Nook eReaders. The company also announced that Nook revenues were down 34 percent in the fourth quarter from one year ago.
Amazon is actually the reason I stopped ordering anything from BnN.
amazon don't pay tax here, which kinda irks me. kindle and devices like that are stupid, imo. that sort of technology is going to continually move on. in 10 years time owning a kindle library - and all those books you paid full hardback prices for, because of the publishing industry's financial solutions to amazon's rape - will be like owning a mini-disc library today. there will be something else, better, more advanced. a book will always be a book. and i try to buy from brick-and-mortar stores now if i can. i feel dirty pissing my money away on amazon. though saying that, if i'm ever buying an order in bulk, or want to buy-out an entire topic, i'll just go the lazy way of amazon. since i started record shopping again though i find a lot of pleasure in the accidental finds of going to bookstores. you end up picking up books you wouldn't necessarily look at.
i think in a way, after like a decade of buying everything online (from clothes to entire pc's), there's becoming less and less novelty-thrill in coming home to seeing a courier package. it's like i'm going back to the high-street, and kind of weirdly enjoying all the shit that i precisely hated and found inconvenient a few years ago (not to mention the retail 'high-street' in the UK has totally died these last few years, leaving the city-centers of many small towns looking desolate and depressing, as all the capital and life-blood is filched away to multi-national internet companies).
i think in a way, after like a decade of buying everything online (from clothes to entire pc's), there's becoming less and less novelty-thrill in coming home to seeing a courier package. it's like i'm going back to the high-street, and kind of weirdly enjoying all the shit that i precisely hated and found inconvenient a few years ago (not to mention the retail 'high-street' in the UK has totally died these last few years, leaving the city-centers of many small towns looking desolate and depressing, as all the capital and life-blood is filched away to multi-national internet companies).
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Many states force Amazon to pay taxes. My own does.
anyway. here's a book that is worth a couple of months' rent (and you'd need a decent sized apartment to even keep the thing):
/bookporn
/bookporn
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An ex of mine writes romance novels now for a living. In her latest one she wrote me as a character. My character is the perfect man who got away.
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Played Viggo Mortensen or Hugh Jackman in the movie.Macbeth wrote:
An ex of mine writes romance novels now for a living. In her latest one she wrote me as a character. My character is the perfect man who got away.
pretty sure you mentioned this months ago. she sounds like she has almost as many screws loose as you do.Macbeth wrote:
An ex of mine writes romance novels now for a living. In her latest one she wrote me as a character. My character is the perfect man who got away.
you can also sue authors that do that. it's shitty writing.
It's my story, not his, and it's young adult, not romance. You think mac has more than one ex? Please.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
pretty sure you mentioned this months ago. she sounds like she has almost as many screws loose as you do.Macbeth wrote:
An ex of mine writes romance novels now for a living. In her latest one she wrote me as a character. My character is the perfect man who got away.
you can also sue authors that do that. it's shitty writing.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat