[Nico]

Originally posted by an0n
Even Nietzsche advocated reading the Bible. Something about needing to get inside something and live it before tearing it down and salting the foundations.

Nietzshe was patient. Tried reading the thing once, was so awful I stopped after 30 pages

[Fineus]

We had to read Nietzshe for our philosophy classes last year, I think it was lost on a lot of people though since we were only 17 to 19 in age at the time.

[J3Vr6]

You put Starship Troopers with the Classics, spreading its stink on Great Expectations?! Tainting Two Cities?!

[kode]

I've been thinking about getting the book of five rings (, and also "musashi" by eiji yoshikawa), but other money consuming posessions have come in the way. heard it was good and so...

[kode]

Originally posted by J3Vr6
You put Starship Troopers with the Classics, spreading its stink on Great Expectations?! Tainting Two Cities?!

it's a sci-fi classic. like dune, only not as much of a classic as dune.
or maybe more like the illuminatus! trilogy?

[Kazan]

i'm going to come over, give you a firsthand lesson in "the art of war" and take your copy of loa tzu!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Kalfireth

I know I know, sorry but Pratchett was the one that counted as far as I was concerned (not that Gaiman is a bad writer). Please don't burn me.

Bah, Pratchett is a hack next to the raw, elemental goodness that is Gaiman.

As for Nietsche, as Ernie Cline once said in a beautiful piece of poetry, "Nietsche is still just a monkey."

[karajorma]

Originally posted by mikhael
As for Nietsche, as Ernie Cline once said in a beautiful piece of poetry, "Nietsche is still just a monkey."

He had a tail?

[an0n]

He was short, hairy and spent all his time at a type-writer.

[Kazan]

lol

nietzsche wasn't a dumb man though, not in the slightest

Man muss Nietzsche auf deutsch lesen, ihn zu richtig verstehen.

[an0n]

I think people would have more respect for Nietzsche if his beliefs weren't tailored to suit the ****ty life he had to begin with.

[Kazan]

*gives you an odd look that implies you misunderstood nietzsche*

yes.. someone's own bliefs telling themselves they're basically worthless is really tailored to their ****ty life

[an0n]

Well, having read The Fall Of Reach, I'm quite impressed.

It's not an amazing book, but it's a good book and definitely one of the best 'from another format' stories I've read.

It coulda done with the ****load more depth, but to be fair I think I've been spoiled by reading David Weber. The last thing I read was the entire Honorverse series from start to finish, and being bombarded with such an immense volume of amazing detail may have ruined me for normal authors.

Anyway, good book. Took me 8hrs 20mins to read.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by an0n
Sci-Fi Warfare
Halo: The Flood - William C. Dietz
Halo: The Fall Of Reach - Eric S. Nylund
Halo: First Strike - Eric S. Nylund

...
Educational
The Art Of War - Sun Tzu, Ralph D. Sawyer (Translator)

[Tiara]

You should take a look at Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's quite enjoyable

[TopAce]

Originally posted by an0n
...Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

I read that in English. I really liked that book.

[Flaser]

Forever War - by Joe Haldman

That book deseves to be paired up with Starship Trropers.

[an0n]

Originally posted by TopAce
I read that in English. I really liked that book.

The modernized film version with Ethan Hawke, Robert DeNiro and Gwenyth Paltrow kicked ass.

[TopAce]

I must see that film, then.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by an0n
The modernized film version with Ethan Hawke, Robert DeNiro and Gwenyth Paltrow kicked ass.

You know, whenever I hear the words 'Ethan Hawke' and 'modernized' in the same sentence, I think 'Hamlet'.

Gawd that was awful. All the more pity that it was based on about the greatest play known to man.