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**rosestone** · January 23rd, 2018, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by otokonomidori

Does it give away the ending? I'm 300 pages in and Captain Ahab has just appeared for the first time.

They do summarise the plot, so probably best to leave off listening until after you've finished it - also if you want to maintain your innocence about the relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg..........

**Sir Honkers** · January 24th, 2018, 05:54 AM

The Hanging Tree. The latest in the Rivers Of London series by Ben Aaronevitch. Better the second time around.

**Silicone Carne** · January 24th, 2018, 07:36 AM

Sam Forever

A very interesting and easy to read look at Samantha Fox's career, full of stories sometimes funny and sometimes moving, some nice never seen before pics and a great reminder of how crazy (in the right sense of the word) the 80s were. Definitely a nice book.

**73north** · February 8th, 2018, 03:45 PM

July 1945.

Using XE-craft midget this is the full story when 2 British Midget Submarines attacked the 2 Imperial Japanese Heavy Cruisers , Takao and Myoko in shallow water off Singapore - where they were a potential threat to the forthcoming ' Operation Zipper ' , the Invasion of Malaya , in September 1945 .
It is a book I am starting to read , I knew a bit of the back story through War Comics , but this is the full in-depth detail about the mission , and the 2 other far less known attacks of submerged phone cables that lead to China and Indo-china - worth a punt

**ultimatewarlord** · February 8th, 2018, 04:49 PM

Hey North. Bought yourself a copy of the collected Darkie's Mob yet? Best comic story ever. I remember to this day running to the shops for my Battle and getting home only to find out that both Cold Steele and Merrill's Marauder's finished that day. Was devastated. The following week brought Capt. Joe Darkie. I'm hoping they print The Team That Went To War as a book.

**73north** · February 8th, 2018, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ultimatewarlord

Hey North. Bought yourself a copy of the collected Darkie's Mob yet? Best comic story ever. I remember to this day running to the shops for my Battle and getting home only to find out that both Cold Steele and Merrill's Marauder's finished that day. Was devastated. The following week brought Capt. Joe Darkie. I'm hoping they print The Team That Went To War as a book.

better than that !
I have it already , and ( 2 ) Dust-jacket is covered in PVC cover
and ( 3 ) I have it autographed by John Wagner in person
( back in May 2016 ) -
I admit , sadly , I was 10 years old when I first read it !!

Darkies Mob !!

Wendigo =thank you !!

**rosestone** · February 9th, 2018, 09:15 AM

'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' by Max Tegmark.

I'm very interested by this subject, because when it happens it will be the greatest shift in human history, greater than the agricultural or industrial revolutions.

It's intriguing that most experts are not so concerned with creating artificial intelligence, so much as they are with mitigating against the risks of it - it is both inevitable and highly risky, for a number of reasons, and the two books I've read about this recently (this one and 'Superintelligence' by Nick Bostrom, another Swede), both go into great detail about the myriad ways in which it could be very bad for us if we're not careful, and it is not even necessary for the AI to become 'malevolent' (by our lights) for this - for example, if we assign the AI the goal of 'minimising all human suffering as far as possible', the most efficient way of achieving that goal would be for the AI to instantaneously painlessly euthanise the entire human race.

Although he does get a bit 'physics-y' at times (he's a physics professor), about our cosmic endowment and the energy potential of all the atoms in the solar system, which makes my head hurt, he writes very well, I enjoyed his previous book too.

Well worth a read if you're interested in where we're headed.

**Baresfan** · February 9th, 2018, 11:21 PM

John Le Carre's latest "A Legacy of Spies"

**BlueArsedFly** · February 24th, 2018, 12:49 AM

jwh4268 · February 24th, 2018, 04:09 AM

Trying to get my grandkids interested in reading more than watching TV, so I bought my grandson 15 or so of the Hardy Boy books.....and found myself reading them as well. Great stuff and I think Im swaying him to the print side.

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January 24th, 2018, 05:54 AM	#2292
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,341 Thanks: 286,789 Thanked 386,096 Times in 30,294 Posts	The Hanging Tree. The latest in the Rivers Of London series by Ben Aaronevitch. Better the second time around.

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73north Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Scottish Borders Posts: 1,890 Thanks: 16,318 Thanked 39,348 Times in 1,847 Posts	July 1945. Using XE-craft midget this is the full story when 2 British Midget Submarines attacked the 2 Imperial Japanese Heavy Cruisers , Takao and Myoko in shallow water off Singapore - where they were a potential threat to the forthcoming ' Operation Zipper ' , the Invasion of Malaya , in September 1945 . It is a book I am starting to read , I knew a bit of the back story through War Comics , but this is the full in-depth detail about the mission , and the 2 other far less known attacks of submerged phone cables that lead to China and Indo-china - worth a punt

February 9th, 2018, 09:15 AM	#2297
rosestone Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,256 Thanks: 79,772 Thanked 37,954 Times in 2,261 Posts	'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' by Max Tegmark. I'm very interested by this subject, because when it happens it will be the greatest shift in human history, greater than the agricultural or industrial revolutions. It's intriguing that most experts are not so concerned with creating artificial intelligence, so much as they are with mitigating against the risks of it - it is both inevitable and highly risky, for a number of reasons, and the two books I've read about this recently (this one and 'Superintelligence' by Nick Bostrom, another Swede), both go into great detail about the myriad ways in which it could be very bad for us if we're not careful, and it is not even necessary for the AI to become 'malevolent' (by our lights) for this - for example, if we assign the AI the goal of 'minimising all human suffering as far as possible', the most efficient way of achieving that goal would be for the AI to instantaneously painlessly euthanise the entire human race. Although he does get a bit 'physics-y' at times (he's a physics professor), about our cosmic endowment and the energy potential of all the atoms in the solar system, which makes my head hurt, he writes very well, I enjoyed his previous book too. Well worth a read if you're interested in where we're headed.

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Baresfan Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,060 Thanks: 2,313 Thanked 14,181 Times in 1,013 Posts	John Le Carre's latest "A Legacy of Spies"

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jwh4268 Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 30 Thanks: 301 Thanked 246 Times in 28 Posts	Trying to get my grandkids interested in reading more than watching TV, so I bought my grandson 15 or so of the Hardy Boy books.....and found myself reading them as well. Great stuff and I think Im swaying him to the print side.