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I liked all three of them a lot. But I think my standards are maybe not terribly high, as I haven’t read an awful lot of science fiction. I did wonder sometimes if the author was trolling us by having someone make or drink or discuss tea on literally every page.
I’m not a sci-fi expert, and I’m mainly interested in going back and reading the classics, but I recently read Ursula Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, and Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. I loved them all, and would recommend any of them.
So I’ve tried a few times to read ‘Consider Phlebas.’ I can’t get past the first fe pages. Can you tell me something that will help me get through them so I can experience what everyone evidently has?
You seem really empathetic.
are we dancer?
It’s not well.
That’s so romantic.
That’s good to know.
Probably everyone, some to their face, some behind their back.
To be fair, that should be allowed.
Me too, that movie stank.
It was so bad it should be on the worst list for the next three years.
These shoes suck.
It would be about 5 minutes long.
In support of your position is that fact that things can be categorised into multiple categories (a table is in the ‘furniture’ category as well as the ‘things made out of wood’ category), and categories have internal structures (some members are better exemplars than others, e.g., the robin is a ‘better’ exemplar of…
I agree, but wonder if it would be even less interesting to have a conversation about this boring conversation.
An acquaintance named their baby ‘Apollo’. Endless mocking, endless.
Hey, it’s a nice name.
Did you also like Foucault’s Pendulum? That and the Name of the Rose are two of my favourite books, but the rest of his novels were awful (in my opinion).