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I read it last month and enjoyed it; diffrent. Will be interested in what you think."
It's not at all what I expected so far. I was expecting it to be a bit similar to Ursula K. Le Guin, and make with the cross-cultural stuff. Not so far though..
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Took a bit but I have caught on to the flow of the narrative and am really enjoying this book."
It does take a while before you twig to what it is you're reading, huh? It was the same for me.
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It's a nice surprise, though. It reads like a straight zombie adventure for a while, and it's only after a certain point you realise that there's some serious "literature" going on!
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I'm reading an uber-trashy novel and loving it! Bwahahaha!
Crazy Rich Asians
But, yeah, I'll still be scoring it. :)
Finished Ulysses and review here, moving onto the totey Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos because it is small and has a hippo on the cover and I need something that fits that description before I move onto The Quest by Daniel Yergin because every new thing I hear about the energy crisis and global warming makes me want to stay home all the time and drink cava until all the cava factories are shut down and all the cava fairies are dead in like... 2035.
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I am foreseeing a 'what color is indigo' debate....
Mark wrote: "Zone OneTook a bit but I have caught on to the flow of the narrative and am really enjoying this book."
I love that book. One of my favorites.
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Seriously? You want to debate whether indigo is a shade of purple?
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Seriously? You want to debate whether indigo is a shade of purple?"
No, I don't want to debate it, I just want to instigate said debate. (Because that's how I roll.)
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That's how you (t)roll. ;P
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That's how you (t)roll. ;P"
Wow, did I walk into that one ;-)
Why does this thread NEVER show as having new posts for me? Lame!In any case, I'm halfway through Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
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In any case, I'm halfway through Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said."
On you on a total-immersion PKD reading binge? I whole-heartedly approve, but worry for your sanity.
Whitney wrote: "On you on a total-immersion PKD reading binge? I whole-heartedly approve, but worry for your sanity."Maybe a little. Oh well, I'll be over here possibly having a psychotic break if anyone needs me.
Just finished The Quarry very good and am reading MaddAddam: A Novel. thank goodness she has a synopsis of first 2 books.
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I just listened to a gushing podcast interview with Atwood about this novel--I hope it's as delightful as the interviewer/critic found it to be! I didn't even realize there was a trilogy (I read Oryx and Crake and enjoyed it, and we own The Year of the Flood)--makes me want to go back and read all three!
Jan wrote: "Just finished The Quarry very good and am reading MaddAddam: A Novel. thank goodness she has a synopsis of first 2 books."I can't wait to read MaddAddam! I'm gonna be on the library waiting list forever...
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Yeah I seem to have missed a bunch of notifications lately too. Then today - it's notificationapolooza!
just requested Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo from my library, thanks Ruby!fyi Indigo is a deep blue.
Now I'm reading P is for Peril by Sue Grafton. So far I've been enjoying it--Kinsey Milhone is looking into the disappearance of the doctor who ran an old folk's home.
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fyi Indigo is a deep blue."
Sigh. Indigo is between red and blue on the colour spectrum. You can call it purple or you can call it blue. As far as I'm concerned it's purple.
Whitneeeeeey............!
I have trouble with the mobile good reads app showing recent posts so I use the desktop version on my tablet. it seems to work better.I'm thinking of the dye indigo and not the name on a color, maybe that is the confusion (?)
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The dye indigo looks more like blue than the colour or pigment indigo, at least to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo
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fyi Indigo is a deep blue."
Sigh..."
Tee hee. Being a troll is fun, I can understand why people do it ;-)
This is one of those definitional arguments that has no definitive answer. Indigo is between blue and violet in the color spectrum (after all, it's the 'I' in 'ROYGBIV'), so one can claim with equal justification that it's a shade of blue or that it's a shade of purple. It depends on what wavelength of light you (arbitrarily) choose to draw the line between the two.
To my eyes, looking at indigo on a color spectrum it looks more purple. But indigo dye appears more blue (it was used to make the original blue jeans, after all).
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fyi Indigo is a deep blue."
Sigh..."
Tee hee. Being a troll is fun, I can understand why peo..."
I had always understood purple to be between blue and red, and that indigo is not considered purple in color theory but IS considered a purple in common usage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo
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This is why color debates end up being endless and unresolvable. In color theory, definitions of where colors are is different from where colors are in the visible spectrum. Most painterly definitions put purple between red and blue. If you look at a spectrum of visible light, purple is at the lowest wavelength, just below blue and moving into the ultra-violet. http://www.gamonline.com/catalog/colo...
If you look at a typical color wheel, the spectrum has been folded into a circle, and purple at the low end of the spectrum ends up between blue, just above it, and red at the very highest end of the spectrum.
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/c...
Whitney wrote: "Marc wrote: "I had always understood purple to be between blue and red, and that indigo is not considered purple in color theory but IS considered a purple in common usage http://en.wikipedia.org/w..."Oh my god, you guys are having some serious problems singing a rainbow right now: 'red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and bluuuuee'... Indigo isn't even there! Now where does pink lie on the spectrum, that's the real question ;)
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ok y'all, I guess I "stirred the pot" with indigo. Nuf saidSooo, Marc, what do YOU think Mauve is?
FYI, I tried requesting City of Saints and Madmen online from my library and was told I couldn't that I had to see a librarian!!??!! Which of course, has me more intrigued now!
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Sooo, Marc, what do YOU think Mauve is? ..."
I think mauve is one of the most ridiculous words in existence. I imagine it's the kind of color someone wanting to create artificial quinine would come up with and you know what those type of people are like...
Or it might just be a scapegoatish type word for people who aren't manly enough to embrace lilac.
As you can tell, I'm conflicted.
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God Lord, that isn't even in the order the colors of a rainbow appear! What the heck kind of color perception dyslexic wrote THAT bit of scientifically reprehensible doggerel?
(This troll thing is totally addictive. Now I think I'll head over to a Star Trek discussion site and tell them to get a life.)
Whitney wrote: "Leo X. wrote: "Oh my god, you guys are having some serious problems singing a rainbow right now: 'red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and bluuuuee"..."God Lord, that isn't even i..."
Are you telling me you never sang that at schoool?!?!?!?!???????? U had no childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I see what you mean about the slippery troll slope so this will be my final act haha!)
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Excellent nominations! Why not let alliteration rule the day and go with Carrion Comfort for your next read?
I'm torn between The Fifty Year Sword and I, Claudius for my next read, but I have to finish the other 4 books I've started first!
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God Lord, t..."
Also, never having heard (much less sang) this song, I had no childhood : (
Marc wrote: "Leo X. wrote: "Are you telling me you never sang that at schoool?!?!?!?!???????? U had no childhood!!!!!..."God Lord, t..."
Also, never having heard (much less sang) this song, I had no childhoo..."
Lol ull b fne ^_^
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The Fifty-Year Sword is a pretty quick read. I recommend reading along with the performance that's available on YouTube, which is pretty cool. Did MD really expect people to keep track of the different color coding?
Ruby wrote: "Jan wrote: "just requested Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo from my library, thanks Ruby!fyi Indigo is a deep blue."
Sigh. Indigo is between red and blue on the colour spectrum. You can call it pu..."
_I_ would definitely call it purple if I was reading the book. 'coz I haven't found a "purple" book for the treasure hunt yet (at least one I was willing to read…)
Oh. I feel so normal. I sang the rainbow song. and.........Blue.
Blue.
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Blue.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Harold and the Purp..."
Mine was
And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street :-)
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No, dude. Whitney stirred the pot. You just took the bait!
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