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Islander
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PostPosted: 19:37 - 22 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:
What are peoples favourite book sites now that the fcuking USofA has shut down Z Lib?

https://z-lib.org/iprc_seized_banner.png


I'm using an IRC channel called #ebooks on irchighway. It's pretty good too.

You can apparently still access Z lib on TOR - just use a TOR compatible browser like Brave.
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 22 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:
IRC channel


Do you also access it with Windows 95 just out of spite?! Wink
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PostPosted: 21:41 - 22 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
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IRC channel


Do you also access it with Windows 95 just out of spite?! Wink


Surprisingly, IRC is still a thing. Laughing
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PostPosted: 22:32 - 22 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Islander wrote:
IRC channel


Do you also access it with Windows 95 just out of spite?! Wink


3.1 Razz

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PostPosted: 09:51 - 24 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
IRC still for me too.
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PostPosted: 19:49 - 24 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm listening to an Audible series with Stephen Fry pontificating about the workings of the brain "Inside Your Mind".
It's very very interesting.

I don't usually have much patience for poor old Stephen, he really deserves my adoration much more than he gets.

Its unfortunate that he always sounds so self-satisfied at his own intelligence and wit - so I get uncharacteristically irritated by him.

Plus everyone adores him, so therefore in my typically contrary way, I must hate him Just Because. But I secretly also adore him. Just not as much as Hugh Laurie Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:05 - 24 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
hellkat wrote:
I'm listening to an Audible series with Stephen Fry pontificating about the workings of the brain "Inside Your Mind".
It's very very interesting.

I don't usually have much patience for poor old Stephen, he really deserves my adoration much more than he gets.

Its unfortunate that he always sounds so self-satisfied at his own intelligence and wit - so I get uncharacteristically irritated by him.

Plus everyone adores him, so therefore in my typically contrary way, I must hate him Just Because. But I secretly also adore him. Just not as much as Hugh Laurie Laughing


Hoi.... Mrs. Just coz we transported/gave you Rolfaroo back, doesn't mean you can use one of our National Treasures as a ball for your game of Rules. Very Happy

Mr. Fry is super intel. He just sounds like a pontificating curmudgeon. But IMHO he never takes himself seriously.
I think the Curmudgeon is a part of his schtick.
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PostPosted: 21:03 - 24 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know Brick Wall
I don't really hate him at all.
I just ...wish...I ... was ... that... brainy ... too Laughing
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PostPosted: 00:07 - 25 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
hellkat wrote:
I know Brick Wall
I don't really hate him at all.
I just ...wish...I ... was ... that... brainy ... too Laughing


https://youtube.com/shorts/UOMA0VAIs_4?feature=share
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PostPosted: 20:11 - 25 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wub
He really was at his best in that series Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 26 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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PostPosted: 20:57 - 27 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
panrider_uk wrote:
Decline and fall of the Roman Empire


a little light reading for a rainy day.
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to v or not to v wrote:
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Decline and fall of the Roman Empire


a little light reading for a rainy day.

Something to help me sleep.
The other option would be trying to watch an entire episode of a prof cox documentary
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PostPosted: 20:33 - 01 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Machine Stops, E M Forster

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...there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free from taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.


Written in 1909 Shocked
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I have Richard Marsh's The Beetle infront of me.

Initially outselling Dracula, it's a novel most people don't know about but it is good.
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 02 May 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I have Richard Marsh's The Beetle infront of me.

Initially outselling Dracula, it's a novel most people don't know about but it is good.


Only one left is Ringo.
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PostPosted: 06:44 - 11 Jul 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
blurredman wrote:
I have Richard Marsh's The Beetle infront of me.

Initially outselling Dracula, it's a novel most people don't know about but it is good.



Finally finished (I can only read at work, and only then when I have some spare time at lunch break to do it) the Beetle, published 1896.

The begining was so strong, and th middle even better. But the ending was for me a disapointment...



Already into Starship Troopers (1959), i've already listened to parts of an audiobook out of curiosity so I know I'll really enjoy it.
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PostPosted: 14:52 - 11 Jul 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
blurredman wrote:

Already into Starship Troopers (1959), i've already listened to parts of an audiobook out of curiosity so I know I'll really enjoy it.
Nothing like the film, thank god. Have you read Citizen of the Galaxy by the same author, one of my all time favourites.
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Already into Starship Troopers (1959), i've already listened to parts of an audiobook out of curiosity so I know I'll really enjoy it.


You get a lot more detail on the political side of things. Much the same as reading Dune over watching the atrocious film adaptions.
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The War On the West. Douglas Murray.
The year the world went mad. Mark Woolhouse.
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 11 Jul 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Robinson Crusoe
a lot better than i was expecting.
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to v or not to v wrote:
Robinson Crusoe
a lot better than i was expecting.
Not all set on a desert island was what surprised me.
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Robinson Crusoe
a lot better than i was expecting.



The real Robinson Crusoe was born in Lower Largo, Fifeshire, Scotland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk

We used to go our summer holidays to Leven and wandered up to Lower Largo as there are rock that reach into the sea there.

We thought that Robinson Crusoe was born there.
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yen_powell wrote:
to v or not to v wrote:
Robinson Crusoe
a lot better than i was expecting.
Not all set on a desert island was what surprised me.


none of it was set on a desert island Laughing
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none of it was set on a desert island Laughing


https://youtu.be/8Apcn_HbeUg

That was filmed before special effects or acting had been invented.
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