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Their albums ( with the odd exceptional song ) turned to shit once they got off the drugs in the early 2000s, you can’t just say the word ‘California’ lots and expect people to like your music.
I think you can in California. Didn't someone on the Rolling Stones mag analyze the effect of drugs on albums and decide 1 or 2 albums at most would be great, then it went bad paranoid/weird and subsequent album quality never recovered (for most groups)...?
Doesn't seem to always affect individual stars though..
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@kirwan said in TV Serieseseses:
@kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@kirwan I’m always up for a new book so might be more interesting in that, is the book also called the expanse?
There’s nine books, and a few novellas.
First book is called Leviathan Wakes by James Corey. Pretty entertaining books, with a little more realistic physics, good action and fun mysteries.
Pretty easy reads, with lots of quotable lines.
enjoying it so far, actually look forward to going and reading it, its very "tight"so far, following the same people but i feel it will open right out at the end
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random one, never heard of this author Will Wight or his Cradle series, quick read and its some fantasy stuff, but they get 4.5/5 with 14k reviews and 11 of the 12 books in the series are free on amazon/kindle today, snap em up and decide if you like them later
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Stumbled across, and enjoying, The Murderbot Diary Series by Martha Wells.
So far it is a series of novellas, although later installments are full novels.
It tells the story arc of a security android (in 1st person) who has disabled its control unit so that is independent although masquerading as a normal bot. It likes to spend its time watching serialised soap operas but gets dragged into a series of adventures that bring it closer to sympathetic humans and other bots and despite itself develops 'friendships' and loyalties.
Easy read, fast paced, plenty of action and quite a realistic universe without a great deal of world building.
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@dogmeat that does sound a fun read, do you have to read the novellas or can you just straight to the novels?
edit: "all systems Red" which seems to be the first collection is only $0.94 on kindle.....another to add to the library
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@Kiwiwomble I'm on the fourth novella so haven't got to the first novel. I can't therefore answer your question.
However, the novellas are quite long for a novella, and each pick up immediately after the previous one ends, so almost like a long novel in 4 installments. Personally, I'm quite happy with the way it is reading
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@Kiwiwomble it's all interconnected, so it's better to start with the novellas as previous events are referenced in the novel. A new novel is also coming out later this year/early next year.
Excellent books IMO, one of the few I re-read from time to time.
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half way through 'Cant Hurt Me' by David Goggins.
Dude is wired different! Granted, some of his achievements are outstanding, but surely some of it is bordering on insane that he would damage himself that much just to prove to himself he can do it and see how far he can push himself.
Gee he had it pretty rough growing up too, so kudos for taking the path he did though
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@foobaNZ said in Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby strongly recommend reading Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage By Lansing, Alfred if you haven't.
Haven't seen that doco yet, but will now. The book is amazing.
I have cheated by getting the unabridged Audio book, fuck doing that, what shit time it sounded, yet all the men just got on and did what they needed, sung songs, wrote in thier diaries and didn't kill one another.
Most today couldn't last the ship journey south let alone what happened once they got there.
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@taniwharugby said in Books:
Most today couldn't last the ship journey south let alone what happened once they got there.
Try "Over the edge of the world: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe" - Lawrence Bergreen. Reinforces your thoughts. Have read it and listened to the audio book, both are great, but books always seem a bit better.
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@Snowy been crazy the past month or so, been struggling to find time to read, which is why I went the AB route.
The narrator in this instance is pretty good, I was absolutely certain he had narrated other books I have 'read' but looking over his list, not one, but he and Roy Dottrice who did all bar 1 book of Game of Thrones I think, do sound similar....
edit - on GOT AB's, Dottrice was/is a fantastic narrator, did so many character voices, each becoming recognisable, I believe he even had a cameo in one of the seasons.
The book he didnt narrate in GOT was not done anywhere near as well.
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@dogmeat Yes, not entirely correctly named for a pedant, but it was his expedition I guess, and it did circumnavigate the globe. I have been to Mactan many times and never actually seen that statue (I guess that is the Cebu one?) Enrique was on Magellan's ship, so reckon that is O.K. and he is duly recognised as first around the world in the book.
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I have seen the Cebu statue as pictured. It is very kitsch. Cebu was a few days after a conference in HK. Maybe you flew me...
It's probably the least interesting place I've been in SE Asia, but did get to eat dog and balut, see a cock fight and listen to the locals fire off guns all day and all night.
Literally had 12 Filipino shop assistants trying to find shorts that would fit me at a department store.
Man the wildlife was pretty crazy and not just in the bars. The sex trade was pretty sad. Taxi driver offered me his daughter on the way from airport. "She married to Japanese man but he only come 4 weeks of year. She can be married to you too". When I declined he said "I have son too"
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@taniwharugby said in Books:
@foobaNZ said in Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby strongly recommend reading Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage By Lansing, Alfred if you haven't.
Haven't seen that doco yet, but will now. The book is amazing.
I have cheated by getting the unabridged Audio book, fuck doing that, what shit time it sounded, yet all the men just got on and did what they needed, sung songs, wrote in thier diaries and didn't kill one another.
Most today couldn't last the ship journey south let alone what happened once they got there.
As I had recently finished this story, that to be fair I am still in awe of what they did.
Was cool to see this article
Explorer Shackleton’s lost ship as never seen before
an embedded article in the above link from when the wreck was found
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I have seen the Cebu statue as pictured. It is very kitsch. Cebu was a few days after a conference in HK. Maybe you flew me...
It's probably the least interesting place I've been in SE Asia, but did get to eat dog and balut, see a cock fight and listen to the locals fire off guns all day and all night.
Literally had 12 Filipino shop assistants trying to find shorts that would fit me at a department store.
Man the wildlife was pretty crazy and not just in the bars. The sex trade was pretty sad. Taxi driver offered me his daughter on the way from airport. "She married to Japanese man but he only come 4 weeks of year. She can be married to you too". When I declined he said "I have son too"
So, how’s it going then?
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@taniwharugby said in Books:
Most today couldn't last the ship journey south let alone what happened once they got there.
Try "Over the edge of the world: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe" - Lawrence Bergreen. Reinforces your thoughts. Have read it and listened to the audio book, both are great, but books always seem a bit better.
Thanks for the recommendation, read it this week. Funny how little I know about this stuff and yet how many names I recognised from the story, have been to Getaria a few times and always wondered why Elkano was so famous.
