Haydn Trudeau Prometheus
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maribouHaydn of Mars, by Al Sarrantonio
I borrowed this book from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raisinbottom on his enthusiastic recommendation and at first I was skeptical. See, the characters in the book are all humanoid cats living on Mars at some point in the fairly-far future. And for the first couple chapters a little mean voice in my head kept going, "Why are we reading furry fanfic, again??" Although, really it was not anything like furry fanfic (based on my limited and unpleasant exposure to the genre), it's just that well, humanoid cats. Anyway, I adjusted fairly quickly and was delighted to discover that it's a really good book! A good romp with fully drawn characters and interesting plot/worldbuilding. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the sequel.
(49/200)
Towards a Just Society: The Trudeau Years, edited by Pierre Trudeau and Thomas Axworthy
So, this was basically Canadian Liberal propaganda, written during a Tory administration about the Liberal administration that had come before it, edited by two of the chief politicians of said Liberal administration. That enormous helping of bias aside, it was, I suppose, a worthwhile read. Some of the chapters were very well written and managed to discuss complex policy questions in a breezy and rhetorically smooth fashion; some of them were clunky as heck and became interesting only as one started playing a 'spot the deliberate manipulation of statistical data and mixing of apples and oranges therein' game. Which is what one might expect. This was an awful slog (started it last November and have been reading it off and on ever since), but I am honestly glad to have read it.
(50/200)
All of the works of Aeschylus that were in the Britannica Great Books volume: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and The Eumenides, translated by G. M. Cookson
For some unknown and perverse reason, I persist in reading my flowerly Britannica translations of these Greek classics instead of picking up a more modern and more accurate version. I still really enjoyed these, especially Prometheus Bound and Agamemnon. It's neat to get nearer the source of all the allusions one is always coming across, and they're pretty interesting in their own right as well.
(51/200)
I borrowed this book from
raisinbottom on his enthusiastic recommendation and at first I was skeptical. See, the characters in the book are all humanoid cats living on Mars at some point in the fairly-far future. And for the first couple chapters a little mean voice in my head kept going, "Why are we reading furry fanfic, again??" Although, really it was not anything like furry fanfic (based on my limited and unpleasant exposure to the genre), it's just that well, humanoid cats. Anyway, I adjusted fairly quickly and was delighted to discover that it's a really good book! A good romp with fully drawn characters and interesting plot/worldbuilding. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the sequel.(49/200)
Towards a Just Society: The Trudeau Years, edited by Pierre Trudeau and Thomas Axworthy
So, this was basically Canadian Liberal propaganda, written during a Tory administration about the Liberal administration that had come before it, edited by two of the chief politicians of said Liberal administration. That enormous helping of bias aside, it was, I suppose, a worthwhile read. Some of the chapters were very well written and managed to discuss complex policy questions in a breezy and rhetorically smooth fashion; some of them were clunky as heck and became interesting only as one started playing a 'spot the deliberate manipulation of statistical data and mixing of apples and oranges therein' game. Which is what one might expect. This was an awful slog (started it last November and have been reading it off and on ever since), but I am honestly glad to have read it.
(50/200)
All of the works of Aeschylus that were in the Britannica Great Books volume: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and The Eumenides, translated by G. M. Cookson
For some unknown and perverse reason, I persist in reading my flowerly Britannica translations of these Greek classics instead of picking up a more modern and more accurate version. I still really enjoyed these, especially Prometheus Bound and Agamemnon. It's neat to get nearer the source of all the allusions one is always coming across, and they're pretty interesting in their own right as well.
(51/200)
