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You just gave me a good idea and is bound to make everyone cringe, especially the soil and geology folks.


 

 

"Vertisol-chan~!"

"Oh, Mollisol-chan! How are you today?" Why did I even bothered asking? Mollisol-chan is the prettiest of all. She has the longest and most luscious hair and the best complexion. I on the other hand can't handle this dry year well at all. My skin is dry and flaky...

You started this and yes, I based it off of the properties of each soil order.

 

And I saw you buy Under Heaven in the other thread and I'm interested.

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I discovered Harlan Ellison a little while ago. He mostly does short stories (and Sci-fi TV show episodes) so I never post in this thread because usually I'm not like, in the middle of one of his stories unless I happen to be browsing and reading at the same time. Big fan thus far. His more celebrated works are easy enough to find published around the internet; but you'll probably have to hunt down his collections if you want some of the more obscure stuff.

 

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: http://pub.psi.cc/ihnmaims.txt

This one was turned into a fairly well received little adventure game back in the day. It was pretty adult for the time too from what I hear, but haven't yet played it. Word of caution; it's horrifying and graphic.

 

"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktock Man: http://compositionawebb.pbworks.com/f/%255C'Repent,%2BHarlequin!%255C'%2BSaid%2Bthe%2BTicktockman%2Bby%2BHarlan%2BEllison.pdf

Kind of funny and creepy at the same time, it's about a jester in an authoritarian society obsessed with time. One day he spills jelly beans all over the city.

 

The Outer Limits: Demon with a Glass Hand: http://www.hulu.com/watch/155121

Also in parts on YouTube if you don't use media fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImaly19Yps

Like I said, he does TV shows and stuff as well. I was never a Trekkie, but apparently he has some notable Star Trek episodes; many of which were heavily rewritten or cut by others for being too dark (he once wrote a drug dealer on the Enterprise).

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Umm... what? I like to find out how they come up with the geologic time scale and why they sectioned it off as they did. So pretty much chronology of some sort. My copy is from a loan from SJSU's Library. If I like this book enough I might get it. I saw it on sale not too long ago for $45. Regular is $90.That or I can hunt down a pdf...

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: The Ancient World and it's really pissing me off. Covers ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Indian, Nubian—even Australian Aboriginal!—history. Yet it only mentions Persia three times. And as a defeated empire. It was a huge, powerful empire that rivaled the Byzantine, and yet the only mention is of its conquest by Alexander and one or two rebuffs by the Romans. What? How can you have such a large hole where such an important empire is concerned?

 

I'm also reading Guy Gavriel Kay's A River of Stars. Amazing. Even has a clever reference to Water Margin.

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Currently about 300 pages into The Adventures of Amir Hamza. It's a good read. Better than similar mythological sagas like Odyssey and Aeneid. Though it does suffer in some rights from the heavy-handedness of Islam. It's still a valuable piece of literature and some worthwhile research despite being after the fall of the Persian empire.

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I just started howl's moving castle after I watched the film again on TV yesterday. It's a young adult book, but I like the writing style and supposedly it's different enough from the film to keep it interesting.

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I haven't been updating this because it changes so often . . . but:

 

History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East

Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity

Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians

Persian Folklore

Nart Sagas from the Caucasus

 

Tend to keep my Goodreads updated with all this stuff.

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*uses phoenix down on thread*

 

I started and finished Lockstep by Karl Schroeder this past week. Excellent book that gets around the impossibility of faster-than-light travel with a concept that builds a very interesting universe for a series. Hopefully he continues writing in this world he's created. This story is very self-contained but there's endless potential here for other characters.

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I've been reading the View from the Mirror quartet, which I think I've posted about on here in the past, and I think ThursdayNext is the only other person to have read the series. I was kind of getting murky on the details of the first quartet, and also the latter trilogy, but I guess that might be a side effect of accidentally starting in the middle of the series.

Other than that my usual physical reading material is Empire :P

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I started reading Neil Young's autobiography Waging Heavy Peace last night. It's really good but super rambly, which is about what I'd expect from Neil. It reads almost like him just talking to you, telling stories form his youth, getting side tracked, talking about music he likes, his family, his hobbies. 

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