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Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: riccostar on 25 Nov 2012, 16:52 ---Calculus, I liked it at the beginning but the plot seemed to get a little repetitive when it got to the multivariale chapter. That being said the characters are wonderful and so dynamic, it seems like X has an entirely new value every time you turn the page. I would definitely recommend it to those with some time on their hands.
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A good book about life on the delta, but I found the characterization had limits.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt,
Cognitive psychology research about moral intuition and reasoning, aimed at a popular audience, putting ideas in the context of their development and their application. Interesting points include that the contemporary mid-to-upper-class EuroAmerican idea of the scope of morality is far narrower than in anyplace else that's been studied. Also that social class correlates better with moral ideas than does age, urbanization, or anything else that's been studied.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 30 Nov 2012, 11:09 ---The Founding arc, from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series.
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Very good books, but they get better as they go on. The Saint is a brilliant arc (Guns Of Tanith is an action book, a thriller, a legal drama and a murder mystery all at once), The Lost not as good of an arc but it has Traitor General, which is easily the best book in the entire series, absolutely stunning book.
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Is it cold in here?:
Just finished _House of Silk_, a new Sherlock Holmes novel.
Skaltura:
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A good book about life on the delta, but I found the characterization had limits.
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I felt his style was a bit derivative in places, and lacking some of the integral elements I had come to expect of the author.
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TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 02 Dec 2012, 09:08 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 30 Nov 2012, 11:09 ---The Founding arc, from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series.
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Very good books, but they get better as they go on. The Saint is a brilliant arc (Guns Of Tanith is an action book, a thriller, a legal drama and a murder mystery all at once), The Lost not as good of an arc but it has Traitor General, which is easily the best book in the entire series, absolutely stunning book.
How far through are you?
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The Armour of Contempt was the latest book that I read. Been reading them for years as they've been released. But as much as I love the series, the more of the core characters that get killed off, the less I can connect with the series. Yes, its a war series, characters are going to get die, but at the same time there is this point of how many characters getting killed off before the replacements outnumber the originals and that what connected people to the story is gone.
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