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(Quote) More like unstudied gazing at a picture than following a narrative?
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Also read Red Mars a while ago but, as I think everyone knows about me, I like reading things more than once.
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@RichardAbbott I hope you get through more of it to hear what you think after another couple of hundred pages. I have many of the same thoughts, but this is the third time I am reading the book, so I guess it must have something (for? or on? me). Th…
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(Quote) Well I will READ it then ;) (Quote) Got it. Will have to think a bit about how the idea of 'Marxist historiography' is being used there. Reading your post made me wonder what influence Russians authors like Tolstoy and Dostoeskvy might hav…
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(Quote) Yes there is that, which surprised me the first time I read it. But I meant more that there is an irritated and preachy LeGuin (Pandora) whose voice we haven't heard much in the other books we have read, as you said: (Quote) edit (Quote) A…
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(Quote) I find the author's conceit of being a translator interesting. There's a recognition that the poetry isn't quite poetry ... (Quote) I wonder. I think the voices were important to her. (Quote) I'm not sure what you mean. The Kesh society cl…
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So I have started a first discussion thread here.
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Seems fine. Look forward to hearing from folks around the first of May. BC
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Hi @Apocryphal this will be fine. Will wait for your updates. Maybe you can just add a poll to the thread to make sure everyone who is interested has received their copy? Or people can just chime in - I have a copy in hand.
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The 'Back of the Book' section might be a slog if read straight through, so I suggest that after reading a bit glance at it to see the kind questions it answers. I found the Glossary helpful while reading.
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I'm suggesting that we read to the end of the second part of Stone Telling's story. It ends on p. 242 in the Author's Expanded edition, and P. 201 in my first edition. Part of the fascination of the book for me is trying to figure out what the core…
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My previous post is first a question: Should we do something before the end of May (say early May?), and second the suggestion of a possible point we could have a discussion about what we have gotten from the book so far. I know that I will prepare …
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Thanks @Apocryphal for changing the title. As we are taking a bit longer to read this, shall we do the discussion in one go at the end, or should we have some discussion as we go? Obviously we need to avoid spoilers, but the structure is well, diff…
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(Quote) Ok thanks.
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Now the two from this session have the gear icon when I mouse over the post. Maybe upvoting locks me out, it would change what they voted for?
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So the number in the title should be 88 (Thanks @RichardAbbott). My most recent post has a little gear that appears, but not the head of this thread, or my other post on March 31.
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So I can't figure out how to edit my post. Is there a way to change the title? Thanks, BC
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The first edition clocks in at 525 pages. The LoA edition has lots of additional stuff, and so is bigger. Fine with however much time people want to take.
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So I've posted something, I think in nominations and suggestions. Let me know if it is in the right place.
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Sure, I suggested Always Coming Home and Pirates in the Deep Green Sea. Do you need more from me?
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I think this is the right time for LeGuin's Always Coming Home. It suggests an alternate society with a very different economy and relation to technology, which might be particularly relevant now, and might be good for a discussion of how games refl…
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(Quote) No our social world is not, or for our common good shouldn't be, about winning and losing, but it is treated as such by the media class, who see the road to profiting from e.g lifelong learning as being providers of 'edutainment.' Political …
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I wasn't impressed with the conceit that our shared memories are the stuff that makes 'reality' and the timeline. I thought the whole story lacked a coherent explanation of the relation between perception / memory and actuality. Since it was central…
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I think we should take fiction and playing very seriously - they are how we construct our world, and shape what decisions are possible within it. I think they can be a force for well-being, but I find that entertainment is starting to really impede …
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I felt it was skill directed towards a not-very worthy purpose. It seems clear to me that playing with friends produces far more good than reading this book, and others like it. People seem to get addicted to genres, which suggests something, but I …
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I found the ending unsatisfying. I thought that it was simply shoe-horned in to produce a work of the 'right-size' to bear the price-point. It also made little sense, so that we could have another reveal in another product of how this was a false-me…
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Both playing and reading are important ways we practice what is not present. I'm more and more interested in the ways that the global market continues to affect imagination among local friends, and in that way shape the possibilities of our action. …
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I'm going to get bcak to all the discussions this evening, but in the meantime here's a little nugget from yesterday's news: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/dd-licious-wendys-now-has-a-tabletop-rpg-and-the-villain-is-frozen-beef/
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Hi everyone. Questions will be posted 2 October - I have to go out of town on work Monday, then working until late Tuesday. BC
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(Quote) I actually found the book a good read, but it left a bitter aftertaste, which is I think due more to the rest of the stuff I read. I think it was pretty good in its genre. But is this a Ross Macdonald book, or it just the only kind of thing…