Was excited to read my first Ian Banks book in the culture serie:

The player of game.

Disapointed.

The culture is a cool concept for a book. What we have are an uninspired personnage saying hello and goodbye before and after every conversation. A fist half dealing with the uninspired protagonist and his insipid conversation with personnages who will totally diseapear in second half when the conflict really begin.

The conflict is okayish. The alien civilisation feel alien. The dig at autoritative society isnt event too on the nose.

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One cool short James Ellroy novella (he is always cool):

Shakedown

It is ellroy: misogynist, racist , republican, but he do it with panache.

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Some bad french Sci-fi (my favorite genre tend to do bad book 99% of the time) , and one cool Sci-fi:

Salvager of Time (Wesley Chu 2015)

Fun premice: human society is in shamble, they only survive by going in the past salvaging ressource. Well written. Unfortunatly nothing is resolved, we are waiting for a scond tome, which didnt come yet. Still a good read.

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The killing Joke (A.Moore)

What a deception. I discovered that comics could be epic with Moore (Vandeta, From HEll, Watchmen...)

The killing joke, is just a short story, 40 page, where nothing interesting happen. Joker back story is bland. Batman doesnt do anything remarquable. Joker tell him where he is, and batman come and kick his ass, end.

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Next will be 2 James Ellroy (I'm closing on having read all his books now). One of which is in English.. and as I feared, I realized after the 1st few pages , that my english is not good enough for that level of slang.

You say that Biden could be mentally impacted by his age.

Which is fair after the poor debate. But the man is known for his lack of debate prowess.

Politically it look like he is the best president US had in years. He already did more good things for the US people and on the international front, than Obama (a great debater ) did.

We can argue that he is not the creative mind behind all those good things (and I rather see you guys have Cortez or Bernie as president), but they happened either way.

Finally the left prevail.

And the Far right, got 3rd place.

BUT, still 9 millions peoples voted for them, which is a lot in 60 million population.

An interesting point in the article is that Macron hoped to create a strong Moderate party (which seems reasonable).. there never was a strong middle party in France historically (only strong left and strong right, like Democrat and Republican).

And curiously what happened, is that, the left and right disappeared in a few years, and got replaced with far left and far right. Very telling about human mind, somehow.

Some context:

Borges was a poet. He only wrote poetry for years.

Then he had an accident (or a stroke), and had to spend some week in an hospital.

He feared his brain was damaged. So he didn't want to write poetry in fear he realized it was bad, and his brain was really damaged.

So he decided to write a short story for the first time of his life: Pierre Menard.

Thus began the carrier of the best short story writer of all time.

good argument, but the BMI is stable within all the sample 29 for <8 hour, and 28 > 8 hour window to eat

20 000 is not "small sample size"... that 20x more than needed to have reliable data

Since the beginning I argued for a more open, less elitist forum. I finaly found that on lemmy

Anyway, with the actual heavy on ad reddit , before the stock premiere, you can espect some new wave of refugee without a dark hubski

so for who do you think your work will be used by ? another artist?, really? that seems a bit naive