Thank you for reminding me that had been released. Read through it. Pretty good ending to the story.
This was a childhood favorite of mine too!
The illustration is quite close to Well’s description in the book: a boiler with a cowl/hood over it with long whip like tentacles holding the heat ray projector (and similar to that which Wells drew).
The description in the book of their motion is fascinating and never depicted on film: the legs rotating round like a three legged stool that has been bowled across a floor. Much more credible than a balancing in an awkward way on two legs while lumbering along. But harder to film.
A good read - and a good set of ideas and thoughts (“what does it look like to be attacked by an overwhelming technically advanced faceless opponent?” - relevant to the way the British projected power in the Empire). Definitely worth your time if you’ve not read it.
Also: read The Time Machine.
I finished book 6 of TDF some days ago.
I started reading Medical Medium’s Liver Rescue, a book I’ve been postponing to start reading due to its daunting amount of pages. I mean it is no Clarissa, but it is still long, and hard to read.
After that I’ll most likely continue reading Gates’s climate change book.
After that Moonwalking with Einstein maybe.
Poetry…Walter De La Mare…
The Listeners
BY WALTER DE LA MARE
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Just finished Neal Stephenson’s The Fall. He continues to impress.
Now rereading Gene Wolfe Book of the Long Sun because it’s some of the most creative and beautifully written stuff ever.
Finished reading 4th book in Medical Medium series.
I think I’ll finish reading Bill Gates’s book about climate change.
I’m still stuck reading Bill Gates’s book.
Be sure to eat some lab-grown meat while you read it!
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Will do!
I’ve been wondering if there were more people who like E-Readers…
E-book readers
- Yay
- Nay
0 voters
If you’re shy please vote, if you’re articulate…let’s discuss.
I bought a tablet for my drone, buts that’s all I use it for. Now when I have time to read, it’s usually on the pc. I still read paper books, but nowhere near as much as I used to.
I like reading because it gives you time to pause and think, reflect, to use your own imagination of what the author wants you to see. Not what hollywood wants you to see.
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It took me many years to get used to e-readers. They have a major advantage when it is dark - you can turn on the backlit screen.
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Last two posts…I agree with both of them.
However, PC reading makes my eyes tired after 30 minutes. I don’t experience that with e-book readers.
and
My e-reader doesn’t have backlight, unfortunately. Mine is the last generation before backlights. But I do plan to get a new one that has a backlight before my current one breaks.
I finished three books recently:
Bill Gates’s Climate Change book.
Rockefeller’s biography by Ron Chernow
and The Greatest Secret by Rhonda Byrne.
I want to have a short read when it comes to both fiction and non-fiction. That’s why I may either start reading:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
or
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
or at a later point…
I want to ask a question, but I am having trouble phrasing it in a non-dick way: “Why does anybody care what a predatory capitalist mega-billionaire (that made his fortune by eliminating consumer choice and forcing people to buy his poorly written software) has to say about the Earth’s climate?”
Can you read through my inherent bias to the crux of my question?
Facts about Rainbow Lorikeets ebook with lots of great pictures.
Old Dilbert books. Currently finishing off The Joy Of Work. Hilarious.
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I am going to only talk about his book reading aspect since this is the book thread. He may be chock full of shortcomings, but he has good taste in non-fiction books. Especially when it came to recommending Peter Diamandis&Steven Kotler book titled “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”. There are other recommendations of his as well, but I’m not going to elaborate at this time.
EDIT:
He has really done his homework in research before writing that climate change book, but only from the viewpoint of an engineer unfortunately. He lacks the empathy when it comes to sociological issues of the climate change thing.