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url 2017-03-27 16:49
10 [Science Fiction] Books You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Really Read Them
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Foundation (Foundation, #1) - Isaac Asimov
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
1984 - George Orwell
Last and First Men and Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Source: io9.gizmodo.com/5924625/10-science-fiction-novels-you-pretend-to-have-read-and-why-you-should-actually-read-them
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url 2015-01-16 14:09
George Orwell books 1984 and Animal Farm should be on "must read" all for all people
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm[Illustrated] - George Orwell,Michael He
Nineteen Eighty-Four. - George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell

How Orwell's 'Animal Farm' Led A Radical Muslim To Moderation is a piece about a Muslim turning away from faith based terrorists act by reading book.

 

That's why people should make children and adult read books and discourage them from participating in religion. We should stop calling religions harmless, or good, because religion is just the opposite of good. Religions are stupid, and dangerous and it create us against them mentality that spreading hatred.

 

Read and re-read 1984. Then see the Christian bible through the eyes of a human rights activists who see Abraham was a horrible, homo-psycho father, that tried to murder his child in the name of the blood thirty child murdering Christian god. Honestly, whoever praised Abraham for his "faith" make me sick to my stomach. 

 

Enough of that. Read the article. See the nastiness in religions. 

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url 2014-08-14 23:34
In the Battle with Hachette, Amazon Puts Foot in Mouth- Yet Again

After completely misusing a quote from Orwell for their own nefarious purposes, Amazon has pissed off the author's estate. (Article from The Guardian)

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url 2014-01-15 20:41
Orwell’s Internet: A future where public access to YouTube can be blocked by ISPs

Animal FarmAmerican net neutrality rules which stated that all internet service providers (ISPs) were to give consumers equal access to all available and lawful content have been overturned.

 

This means that ISPs could potentially blackmail high traffic content providers like YouTube and Netflix into paying for faster and reliable access to their web content. And any disagreement over fees could allow ISPs to limit or block public access to those websites altogether.

 

Some internet traffic is more equal than others

 

Continue reading 

Source: literaryames.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/orwells-internet
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url 2014-01-08 02:26
Best Books of 2013: Fiction

 

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