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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
Method of Madness:
First experience was when I was waiting in line before an IMAX screening of one of the Harry Potters...I forget which one. Five, probably. Anyway, my friend held my place, I walked down to the B&N downstairs, somehow ended up buying Ender's Game. Read probably the whole thing (or near enough) in line for the movie, got Speaker for the Dead from the library and tore through that. Started Xenocide and...well, it's years later and I might finish it someday. (I did eventually read through the Shadow series a year or so later but I never finished Xenocide and thus never read Children of the Mind.) I read Ender in Exile when it came out and found it just unremarkable but easy to get through.
Kugai:
Never read Enders game or any of it's sequels.
To be perfiectly frank, I think the only novel of his I've read was the novelisation of the movie The Abyss.
Pilchard123:
I wouldn't have minded that finish so much if it wasn't quite so out of the blue. I haven't read it in a while, but from what I remember, that's also the first the reader has any idea of what's happening.
GarandMarine:
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--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 13 May 2013, 03:35 ---Akima I confess I'm having a hard time following just what you're arguing for.
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In my last posting?
That treating unique artworks as somehow comparable with commercial products mass-produced for sale is dubious.
That colonialist looting of other people's cultures is bad, even when dressed up by the looters as "legitimate purchase" in a legal context that they force on their victims at gunpoint. That I don't accept Westrim's arguments as offering any justification for it, or for regarding Chinese attitudes as laughable.
That I don't accept that the characters in the story exhibit any sense of desperation as suggested by KOK, or any qualms at all about the appropriateness of their behaviour.
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I was more referring to the artifacts. I see where you're coming from in many respects. What do you suggest we (as "The West" and one large prison colony) do to rectify the situation? Should all artifacts be returned? Or should nations with artifacts stored in national museums pay some form of restitution? As a historian and an avid museum nerd, the argument that a lot of these items (not China specifically) would have been long destroyed or lost without archeologists and other dedicated individuals preserving them could also be made.
On a side note, if I ever become stupidly wealthy, I'm going to set up a special network of museums globally. From those museums that agree to participate, large themed traveling exhibits will be formed from their store houses and current displays. (Similar to the King Tut exhibit that goes around now and then) these exhibits will be constantly rotated, every month to two months globally in a massive pattern, giving the local museums something new and exciting to draw in patrons with, and allowing a global audience to benefit from the knowledge you can glean from said exhibits as opposed to limited portions of the United States or Europe.
Is it cold in here?:
Like in "Doorways in the Sand"?
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