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[keyboardistmatt]

The EMU Proteus 2000 Owners Manual.

Page 44: MIDI parameters.

[PH]

The new iO Pages landed on my doormat, so I'm going to read it right away!
There's an 8 pages long(!!!!) John Mitchell interview!!


-Paco

[Nicky007]

Looks like it's a good magazine, Paxi, much better than anything that's published in Denmark.

I just checked their homepage with a list of articles and concert reviews in the latest issue:  http://www.iopages.nl

I'd particularly be interested in reading about the recent Queen concerts.

Nicky.

[maddox]

I've just (read: yesterday evening) begun reading the somewhat short novel Executive Orders by Tom Clancy.
If i'm not mistaken: 1100 pages. 

[PH]

I finished Nineteen Eighty-Four yesterday.
It was a very interesting read.
Did anyone here read it?


-Paco

[Nicky007]

Yup, Paxi, I read it with great interest in my youth (the 70's). It was a much discussed book then.

The expression "Big brother is watching you" is from that book.

It doesnt seem dated to you ?

Nicky.

[PH]

Yeah of course it was a bit dated, but it's still a contemporary theme.
It makes you think about what is freedom.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

And how language can have an impact on how you think. It's very clever.


-Paco

[keyboardistmatt]

Now reading 'The Shattered Room' forum.

[johninblack]

It doesnt seem dated to you ?

Of course it does, it's got 1984 all over it.



Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Nicky007]

I find it more a figment than dated, John 

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

The latest issue of Marillion's 'The Web UK' magazine.

[PH]

The latest issue of Marillion's 'The Web UK' magazine.

No you're not.

[Steve Jones]

No you're not.

Eh?

[PH]

How can you read the Marillion magazine and post on a forum at the same time.
Impossible!
Don't deny it!!

[Steve Jones]

How can you read the Marillion magazine and post on a forum at the same time.
Impossible!

Ah yes, sorry!  I was being a little slow off the mark there

[keyboardistmatt]

The Shattered Room

[PH]

The Shattered Room

You're reading the lyrics?

[keyboardistmatt]

You're reading the lyrics?

No...
This forum...

It has already been discussed about reading more than one thing at a time...

[PH]

Ah of course. Now you got me!

[Iggy]

Touché

[keyboardistmatt]

Aliped lyrics

[Draco chimera]

I just finished Isaac Asimov, I Robot.
Very interesting book.

[Iggy]

I just finished Isaac Asimov, I Robot.
Very interesting book.

I enjoyed most of the Asimov books although many of them seem somewhat dated now.

[Manatee]

I just finished Isaac Asimov, I Robot.
Very interesting book.

Asimov wrote a huge number of books, and most of them were good, although for some reason none of them really stayed with me.  On the upside, that means I can read and enjoy them again.   

[Nicky007]

I read several of Asimov's books in my youth, and I remember enjoying them, but Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury gripped me more.

The best scifi book I'v read is "2001: Space Odyssey". The movie is fabulous too, probably my alltime fave.

Currently Ms 007 and I are reading a scifi book (aloud, in Swedish) by a Swedish astronomer, Peter Nilson, "Projekt Nyaga". It's intriguing and really stretches your imagination 

Sadly he's known to only few, mainly Swedes, and to my knowledge, his books have not been translated 

But with time I'm sure that his books will be cherished by more and more people 

Nicky.