june gloom on 29/10/2009 at 23:51
Haven't you figured out by now that I tend to state my opinions as fact as a matter of course?
Aerothorn on 31/10/2009 at 19:32
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Haven't you figured out by now that I tend to state my opinions as fact as a matter of course?
Yes, but I wanted to call you on it at least once. I believe that the way people speak tends to directly affect the way they think (just as the reverse is obviously true). If you continually state an opinion is fact, I think you'll likely end up giving that opinion more weight than you should.
june gloom on 31/10/2009 at 19:37
Well yeah, because it's your opinion. Of course you're going to be a bit biased.
Please come back with a point.
theBlackman on 11/11/2009 at 02:55
I just finished, for the third or fourth time, Enders Game.
I have the rest of the series, of course, and will be starting Speaker for the dead and shortly after Children of the mind.
If you've not read these books by Orsen Scott Card, you have missed one of the best series written. True, they do be Sci-Fi, but they offer much more than that.
DaBeast on 11/11/2009 at 03:02
Quote Posted by theBlackman
I just finished, for the third or fourth time, Enders Game.
I have the rest of the series, of course, and will be starting Speaker for the dead and shortly after Children of the mind.
If you've not read these books by Orsen Scott Card, you have missed one of the best series written. True, they do be Sci-Fi, but they offer much more than that.
I used to have something of an aversion to sci-fi novels, It might have been the fear of ridicule, as I remember a guy in my class years ago who used to sit and read star trek novels and I myself thought "dork - or an irish equilivilent" I've gotten past that ofcourse, and Enders Game was great. I've heard the rest of his stuff is a bit meh, with extra racism?
Currently reading the entire Conan collection.
theBlackman on 11/11/2009 at 03:10
If you are, in fact, reading that -all 353 pages- and every provision of the Cal EP act, you must be a glutton for punishment. At the least, if you read the entire act you will be better informed as to its content than the legislators who enacted it.
If you are advertising for the AEP, Blechhh...
Tocky on 11/11/2009 at 03:17
That is by far the worst book I've ever read. The denouement was particularly bad.
Fringe on 11/11/2009 at 04:33
Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons. Finished his Against a Dark Background not long ago.
Once I'm done with this one, Matter will be the only Culture book I haven't gotten to. Though I should reread Look to Windward at some point.
