Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
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Ms Kat finished reading Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
I think I've hit saturation point with this trilogy. I've had enough of it and I just want to be done with it. I think it's because I like almost none of the characters, I'm sympathetic to maybe only one of them and we haven't interacted with her for some time.
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
There is an intensely annoying, frustrating, and mysoginist part of book 3 which features a woman character who is gasp a physicist, and KSR characterises her as "one of the first great women mathematicians". This fucking book is set in the 2100s for christ's sake 😡
Ms Kat quoted Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their work place? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue – control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what capitalism is – a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives’ labour, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.’"
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
This series is written from the point of view of various members of the "First Hundred" and the further I read through it, the more I see them as a metaphor for the Baby Boomers. And seeing them through that lens makes me intensely unsympathetic to them. I don't know how the last book is going to end, but I'm hoping it's with them all dying and allowing some of the younger generations to take leadership.
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
Finished book 2 (Green Mars). I really enjoyed this one; KSR is super fun to read when he starts writing politics.
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
Book 2 (Green Mars) refers to the item of clothing named "jumper" frequently, and it has taken me two weeks of reading this book to realise this does not mean an American "sweater" but is probably more like overalls.
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@futzle@outside.ofa.dog Is this one of our old books?
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
I have finished Red Mars! Now onto checks notes Green Mars? As an ecologist I feel like water (blue) comes before vegetation (green).
@leadegroot@outside.ofa.dog Eh, if I get to the end of the year and haven't reached my goal, I'll know.
Ms Kat commented on Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet …
I am heartily enjoying this but the downside of reading three books (each individually a tome) in a compilation is that it's slow going. And I feel like it might put off my annual stats - it's three books but Bookwyrm will count it as one.