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Tyrannio

Tyrannio

"You will find that Tyrannio has made a wonderful job of arranging my books."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus

I am a librarian. I have forever loved books and the idea of books.

Science fiction is my literary comfort food, but when I feast (not often enough), I prefer modern literature. I read science -...more »
  • Vienna, Austria
  • member since Friday, July 13 2007

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  • dikonstrukt

    dikonstrukt says

    Happy new year, Tyrannio!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • spiegelscherben

    spiegelscherben says

    Wow, we do have a lot of interests (and books, and authors, and a hometown) in common.
    Just out of interest, on which one of them did you find me? And which ones I don't already have would you recommend me?

    ;)

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Laura

    Laura says

    :) no,i did not. thank you.i admit im not such a big fan of ando.im a fan of calatrava.:)

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nikkol

    Nikkol says

    Gladly! I hope you enjoy it, if you track it down. Thanks for the add.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ix

    Ix says

    I'd love to know what you think about Cioran. I was in love with his essays when I was a teenager and it would be interesting to see how an adult perceives his ideas.

    Tip: The books he wrote in French are better than the ones written in Romanian.;)

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ix

    Ix says

    You might find some Eugen Ionescu (or Ionesco) in English (you can certainly find his plays in French), Emil Cioran (since you like philosophy), maybe Mircea Cartarescu (contemporary writer) and, of course, Mihai Eminescu, our national poet.

    Btw, if you enjoyed reading Marquez, you should also try Jose Saramago. He is really good!

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Helicon

    Helicon says

    You can find a pretty good book review at: http://www.ams.org/notices/200604/rev-kennedy.pdf

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Helicon

    Helicon says

    Goldstein's 'Incompleteness' uses more popular language than any of the other books on Gödel I've read (Maybe comparable to Yourgrau's 'A world without time). The most interesting thing about the book is that Goldstein defends the position that Gödel's theorems were misinterpreted by postmodernists to show that there is no such thing as truth, while Gödel was a Platonist and believed that mathematical truth is attainable. It makes for an interesting read. I used it and Dawson's 'Logical Dilemmas' as research material for a short film I wrote "Gödel". It was finished earlier this year and was shown at the Munich International Student Film Festival this Monday. The director is trying to get it selected for Austrian Filmfestivals. Robert Stuc played Gödel, Andrea Nürnberger played Adele. In it Gödel is perturbed by the realization his surroundings are a filmset.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • stephie

    stephie says

    Hi, Tyrannio. Thanks for adding me to your friends list! We have much to discuss. Today is CRAZY for me, but I certainly will have time over the next few days to share and opine a bit. Talk to you soon!

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • GreenMan8

    GreenMan8 says

    Hi Tyrannio,
    Thank you for extending your offer of shelfarian friendship. While I love to share books, generally I have found that the focus and breadth of my reading interests have been unlike anyone else's that I've encountered. I had the uncanny experience today of perusing your shelf and finding many books that are also on my shelf, many others that I have read or own but had not yet posted, and still others that I had never heard of and looked quite interesting.

    I must admit that I found this both unsettling and exciting at the same time. Isn't it strange how the universe works?

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dikonstrukt

    dikonstrukt says

    Hi Tyrannio! Thanks for finding me and your posts to the Natural History group have been interesting and I'm looking forward to getting to know you better. Glad to see another eclectic and eccentric here :)

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Shi

    Shi says

    i wouldn't actually call it twisted early 20th-century racism but possibly a lack of understanding. i do think it is worth a read more so for the reasons of aesthetics and indulgence in wabisabi. although, in the end, it's all a matter of taste. :}

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Aasemoon

    Aasemoon says

    You're welcome. =) Yes I think the new edition of the book is a bit more complete. I think I should get the new one too. Goodluck with the building. =)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • LuTzeTheSweeper

    LuTzeTheSweeper says

    Hi there. In response to your note, I'd say that Haskell as a computer language is more like a LeGuin novel... terse but beautiful in its simplicity.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Aasemoon

    Aasemoon says

    Hi there, thanks for adding. =)
    Some years ago I came across a few good books for beginner robotics, here are 2 of them that I liked best:
    - "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots" by Gareth Branwyn
    - "Robot Builder's Bonanza" by Gordon McComb

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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