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94ssd:
Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Brown for my Arabic class. It actually is rather short and (although there isn't much in there I don't know from previous classes) informative.
LeeC:
Ravenor. A trashy sci-fi novel about a warhammer 40k potent psychic inquisitor confined to a hovering wheelchair, encased in a life support system. the first few chapters where rough to get through, I'm in part two now and it has gotten quite exciting. His crew are an interesting group. Favorite characters other than the named one is Patiences Kys - a self proclaimed "non-people person" telekenetic psychic, Nayle - a gruff merc (makes me think of wolverine with guns), and Kara Swole - a bodacious former acrobat turned merc. Most of the other characters are quite fun too. The first planet they were on was beyond depressing. I think its safe to say if I was living in those slums I would have turned to drugs and ate my own gun three times over.
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update: finished it. Not bad. William King is the best story teller for 40k stuff so far, but dan abnett who wrote this didn't do half bad. Switching perspectives from person to person kind of got confusing towards the end but all in all its not a bad bit of sci-fi in the warhammer 40k universe.
LeeC:
Just finished "Angles of Fire" by William king (see above) it is the first of the Macharius trilogy. My god I love this author. If you like 40k, you gonna love this! Its all done from the first person perspective of a Baneblade driver. You learn so much about the guard, war on a planetary scale, hives, heretics, Macharius, battles of faith. It was just awesome. If you are familiar with 40k and love the lore, I'd recommend this as a buy or borrow from a friend. 400 pages so you can get through it fairly quickly when you get sucked in.
LTK:
I read Novice to Master by Soko Morinaga. It's an autobiographical account of the spiritual development of a Zen master. It's very light reading - I finished it in three sittings - but fascinating nonetheless. I find some of his revelations very relatable; on some of them I know I've had similar thoughts. For example, early in the book he describes how his master showed him the surprising efficiency and ingenuity in how to do something as simple as sweeping a floor. I realised something similar when I was working a summer job at a plantation: even though the work is menial and not intellectually stimulating in any way, there is a great deal of skill involved in maximising the efficiency with which you do it. This is not at all what the book is about but it still stood out to me.
There are a lot of other teachings that really resonated with me in the book. I'm suddenly very interested in learning more about Zen.
LeeC:
Are lovecraftian books worth it? I have often heard that lovecraft books are rough to read but the lore that comes out of it in other mediums are more enjoyable.
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