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Very cool. I finished my work early on one of my trips and I got to go on a game ride in Namibia. I would loooove to get to spend some time seeing Africa’s natural beauty. :tup:
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It’s AMAZING. Being chased by a rhino that’s bigger than your little safari bus thing… not so fun. :tdown: But watching a mother lion stalk, kill, and drag a wildebeest back to her little cubs all in real life… you do not appreciate life and mother nature until you see this type of thing.
How’d you get one to chase you? We pulled right up to a family of 4 in an open range rover. Maybe that wasn’t the best idea.
Not really sure why everyone’s pointing. I think it’s fairly obvious that there are 3 huge rhino’s in front of us…
:mamoru: These were the biggest predators I saw.
You’ve read Airframe then? Finished that a few months ago, it was great.
What subject matter do you readz?
Haven’t read airframe. Ah, pretty much the only books I’ve read voluntarily are Michael Crichton sci-fi mystery type of stuff, Dan Brown’s books (da vinci code etc) and some non fiction stuff.
So yeah, I like a good science mystery. But I also enjoyed a million little pieces and I’m reading “The World Is Flat” right now. :gotme: I dunno, I’m a renaissance man. :pimp:
I’m going to run to barnes & noble now and get hot zone and a long way gone. We need more than that so I’ll browse around, and keep the ideas coming!
Jim Cramer’s Real Money. I’m really trying to get into investing and I can’t seem to put this book down right now.
Dean Koontz - Phantoms - read it when i was younger one of my favorite books ever
Well, it wasn’t technically US that caused it.
We hadn’t seen any the whole trip, then like a week into it, we finally saw one. There was another car up the road a bit that had stopped to look at it too… the Rhino was HUGE… like… that Alabama boar huge, and it was like 15 car lengths away from the road. And it would take a step up the road, and a step towards it, like it wanted to cross, but the car would scoot up to blocking it’s path. Brilliant idea, I know. Finally the Rhino got pissed off and started charging right at them… they took off like a bat out of hell, and the thing then turned back towards us and started charging at us… we turned around and high tailed it out of there… but I remember thinking how horrible it would be to die by Rhino.
There not long, there decently good. Takes about an hour to read. and if your a big enough nerd. youll pick up the 3 Starcraft Sci-fi novels.
I just picked up A Long Way Gone (autobiography of an African boy-soldier), Hot Zone (about how we’re all going to die because someone fucked a monkey), and Hannibal Rising (the childhood story of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.)
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Atlas Shrugged
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You liked that? I saw it at B&N and it looked like a good long read. What’s it about?
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Atlas Shrugged
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Sharing only rewards the weak!
Not sure what you’re looking for.
Recently read:
Outsourcing America (Hira), Imperial America (Newhouse) and Making a Killing (Smith)
Imperial America is a very difficult read. It’s very tedious. Good book, though.
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You liked that? I saw it at B&N and it looked like a good long read. What’s it about?
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I thought it was great. It’s about the degradation of society due to socialist ideals. There are a few good, hard working people who are self-sustaining and many many leeches that only rely on handouts.
Hell…this summarizes it better
The final novel written by Russian-born American philosopher and author Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged is a controversial and widely popular work. According to a 1991 Library of Congress report, it is considered the second most influential book after the Bible in the lives of its readers. A complex combination of mystery, love story, social criticism, and philosophical concepts, the 1,100 page novel embodies the author’s passionate celebration of individualism, free will, capitalism, logic, and reason.
Set in an imaginary America in a communist world, Atlas Shrugged is a sharp critique of a corrupt communist system and its damaging effects on areas as various as love, science, and industrial productivity. The novel’s main protagonists, Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, are capitalist-minded industrialists, “Atlases” who carry the collapsing national economy on their backs. Things change, however, when the mysterious John Galt begins a revolution against the existing order, believing that the parasitic society would destroy itself if its competent and hardworking members would simply stop working. But first, the protagonists must learn how to let go of the ties of obligation, responsibility, and guilt connecting them to the abusive community in all aspects of their lives.
As Rand said to her biographer, Nathaniel Branden, the novel explains her philosophical principles in a dramatic action story combining “metaphysics, morality, economics, politics and sex.” Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged with a sense of mission; she said, “[A]fter Atlas I was no longer pressured, my lifelong assignment was over.” Despite tremendous popular success—the novel sold over 5 million copies by 1984—Rand believed she had explained her philosophical views clearly enough and did not write another word of fiction for the rest of her life.
Read it, trust me. If you’re a bleeding heart liberal, it will probably piss you off. Otherwise, it might be the most significant book you’ve ever read.
I finished it in a few days. It sounds a bit bland, but it’s anything but. I couldn’t put it down.
I guess I’ll grab it then. :tup:
Wow, sounds like that’s going to be my next read too.
NYSpeed book club? :gay3:
Bump because I finally finished Atlas Shrugged a week or two ago. Longest book I’ve ever read, but well worth it.
I disagreed with some of it, but all in all it was amazing. I’ve never had a work of fiction change my thought processes at all but I’ve got a bit of a paradigm shift type of thing going on, understanding and refusing to accept false realities and whatnot.
Anyhow, thanks for the recommendation brent. :tup: