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Cryonica

Cryonica

Love books, Second Life, World of Warcraft (sometimes), movies and documentaries. A The Teaching Company fan in love with her MacBook and a fervent believer in GenoTech, RoboTech, InfoTech and NanoTech (GRIN) as well as in Cryonics and radical life extension. Love Kurzweil, transhumanism and Virtual Reality. Also Literature, Philosophy... more »
  • Oxford, UK
  • member since May 17 2009

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  • Timothy N

    Timothy N says

    Did You "Check Out" Timothy Newey at www.poetry.com Yet?!
    Regards... Le Blob... Ciao?!...

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oz

    Oz says

    Hi Cryonica, I am not sure I can recommend it. I liked it and appreciated the wisdom of his words. There are a couple parts of the book that hit a cord in understanding how western and eastern philosophies differ, but id did not call me to read more about him or the subject. I read the book after I read unstuck, which hit a spot when I read it. Curios about this philosophy I picked up the Dalai Lama Book.....
    :)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    How fascinating-I would love to see it. Did you ever see the Directors cut of Cinema Paradiso? God it was bad.I much preferred the original version.
    I have just bought the cd of the famous Orson Welles radio broadcast of the War of The Worlds on e-bay-you know the one that sent the listeners crazy with fear.I have always wanted to hear it.Amazing the stuff you can get-and only about 50p!
    We could have an interesting on-line chat at some point about what books were well adapted to film...

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    I know -Continental tastes are so different-you manage to keep a foot in both camps.I loved the bit about the Madeleines but then it just seemed to go on and on, all those pointless love affairs and women and parties.But I can see it is beautifully written, at least in the English.I never attempted to read it in French.Isee you also have Therese up there-that was a strange haunting book.I remember studying it at the lycee-it was one of my A level set texts.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    Its an excellent book, but really just from historical interest-the way that the prison camps were then-also D gets special treatment as one of the aristocracy under the Tsar.You can imagine the reverse would have been the case in the 1940s!
    It is not a masterpiece like Darkness at Noon-but is certainly a fascinating read, and a classic of its kind.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    I am still very much enjoying Voltaire in Love.What a strange man Richelieu was-he could never care for anyone who "was not necessary to his pleasure,who could not be useful to him in any way,and who was not a friend of his mistress"

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    I dont know how you can read Proust-I tried and I gave it everything, but it is just unreadable.I am reading a very amusing book "Voltaire in Love" by Nancy Mitford.Also re-reading The Gulag by Anne Applebaum, which I highly recommend.It is truly brilliant.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    Ah so you did mean Sarah Waters.Actually I have read The Night Watch by her and would recommend it wholeheartedly.It is a very very fine book as well as a page turner.I tried all her others and hated them-even Fingersmith but The Night Watch is really a rare treat.Read that!
    I had forgotten "ending is better than mending" Genius-I laughed aloud.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Diana P

    Diana P says

    you are so right about Brave New World.My favourite bit was the tapes in the children's bedrooms at night"I'm glad I'M NOT AN aLPHA because Alphas have to work really hard!
    I am reading Nella Last's war-the diaries of a 49 year old woman during the second world war.Not at all highbrow but very comfortable and cosy to read.Am at the same time reading for the 100th time The Rachel PAPERS as that is exactly how I would like to write my novel.God it is hilarious.Have just finished the History Boys -a play by Alan Bennett-very Lockwood, and hilariously there is a clever character called Lockwood! Am about to begin the Real Meaning of Money by Dorothy Rowe-an Australian psychologist, whose work I always find fascinating..
    Bye for now.
    PS I have never heard of this Waters person-no relative of Sarah Waters?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oz

    Oz says

    a new world indeed, my challenge is how to maneuver traditional school systems into 21 century systems that engage the digital generation. look forward to GUD.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oz

    Oz says

    Thanks Cryonica. Have not started GUD and I am reading Black Swan as well. I am enjoying his writing style, interesting message, will wait to the end to decide how much I like it :)
    Thanks

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )


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