11 hours ago, Otto Kretschmer said:

I've just started reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson after finishing The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin.

I plan to read the entire Mars Trilogy.

I picked up Red Mars at the library some years ago but somehow it didn't grab me. Sometimes I circle back to a book years later and end up liking it. I'll be interested in your comments, if you post any.

7 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

You should see a mechanic, or perhaps a fishmonger.

I thought I did, but they turned out to be a tobacconist. I feel that the Poles, though mostly well-intentioned, deliberately put in unnecessary consonants to mess with foreigners. Had no effect on the Germans, of course.

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

I picked up Red Mars at the library some years ago but somehow it didn't grab me. Sometimes I circle back to a book years later and end up liking it. I'll be interested in your comments, if you post any.

I thought I did, but they turned out to be a tobacconist. I feel that the Poles, though mostly well-intentioned, deliberately put in unnecessary consonants to mess with foreigners. Had no effect on the Germans, of course.

I vill not buy zees tobacconist, it is scratched.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by exchemist

Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This confirms all my darkest suspicions about Zuckerberg and his sidekick, the horrible Sheryl Sandbag, who is just as hypocritical and creepy as I had imagined she might be. Timely too, in view of the recent court judgment against Meta for negligently deploying algorithms designed to addict people to social media.

Interestingly, the way Zuckerberg and Sandberg are treated like gods who cannot be questioned, and whose every whim must be indulged, reminded me of the shock I experienced in my time working for an oil company in Houston. There really does seem to be a fascist streak in corporate American culture. And so many of the underlings seem to be such creeps, with no morals or independent thought.

I've read it only last month and they've made a movie already 🙂