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janbartosik

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Bookworm, gamer & startup recruiter. Cricket, rugby, baseball and floorball. 90s music & craft beer. Magic City Prague.

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appassionato, to books
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Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.

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@appassionato @bookstodon I almost wish Smil was less productive 😀

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Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim.

A must-read, no excuses.


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RanaldClouston, to scifi
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one of my absolute favourites as a child when I first got old enough to raid my parents' bookshelves, so a huge nostalgia hit for me in this. This is a classic 70s first contact story and fortunately stands up great to re-reading as an adult, apart from the almost total lack of female characters, which I notice these days but I guess didn't concern me as a preteen boy. Still, inventive, surprising, and lots of fun. @bookstodon

janbartosik,
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@RanaldClouston @bookstodon Been quite some time since I read it. Fond memories.

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The Godfather.

What is there to say about this classic?


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mastopivo, to random Czech
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Vykašleme se na ankety, jestli by byl zájem nebo ne. Prostě zkusme nějaký sraz udělat a uvidíme.

V pátek 6. října v Praze. Kdo jde do toho?

janbartosik,
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@sesivany @evapavlikova @mastopivo Značím si do kalendáře.
Na Hradčanský a okolí je mrtě možností. Já bych navrhnul Pivovar Bubeneč, menší podnik s vlastním pivem 5 minut od metra.

janbartosik,
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@Unreed @sesivany @evapavlikova @mastopivo Nádražka je pro pokročilé uživatele 😃

janbartosik, to baseball
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August with the Royals and...we are no good :D

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@simonzerafa @betaquarii @bookstodon The Culture series by Ian M. Banks is defo a good start 😉

https://infinispace.net/iain-m-banks-culture-series/

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@simonzerafa @betaquarii @bookstodon You Hamiltonists! :)

veronica, to scifi
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Goddammit season 2 of Foundations is great. I'm annoyed at the end of every episode because it's the end of the episode. Only one more to go, and the suspense is killing me. Please don't let it be another two years until the continuation!

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@veronica I'm with you on this one!
Had my bookworm's doubts about the whole TV show, but let them go, and I'm just enjoying myself. Waiting for each new episode and googling details about season 3 😉

janbartosik, to books
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Demon in White, The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/743470/s/demon-in-white

A survivalist's guide to interstellar conflicts of gigantic proportions. Lord Marlowe, you weasel!
Two more books in the series, can't wait ⏲️


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janbartosik,
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@whybird @bookstodon
😀 😄 😆
Well met, Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.

janbartosik, to baseball
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A crap July in KC if you ask me.
39-68 🙈

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janbartosik, to Starwars
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Spaceballs (1987) is the best film.

janbartosik, (edited ) to berlin
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Fatherland by Robert Harris

A Goodreads link, this time only: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56842.Fatherland

Alt history fan's must-read. Or anybody who likes history. Makes you feel like reading The Man in the High Castle again...

There are 1984, 2001 and 2022 movies about a certain event in which are related and worth watching.

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@jillrhudy @willelm @bookstodon
Seconded 👊

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Eyes of the Void, book 2 of The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Faster paced and more alien-y than book 1.
AT absolutely must elaborate on the Essiel in the sequel, I insist!

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janbartosik, to baseball
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June 2023 in Kansas City.

Screw you, Miami, Baltimore, Tampa and Cleveland! :D

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Do your kids a favor and acquaint them with Studio Ghibli. Magical movies of profound beauty and humanism. An antidote to modern animation, frenetic and snarky at all times.

janbartosik,
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@stooovie Oh, Ponyo! My eldest grew up watching it.

Alongside Toy Story, Cars, Wallace and Gromit and others

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Jindřich Polák's Ikarie XB-1 (1963), loosely adapted from The Magellanic Cloud (1955) by Stanisław Lem

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janbartosik,
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@TheSpaceshipper @Dandelion A film appreciated far more outside the country of its origin.

Did Kubrick really get his inspiration for 2001 from it, or is it an urban legend?

janbartosik, to China
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Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

https://bookwyrm.social/book/129233/s/vagabonds

Struggled with this one.
The corrupt free-for-all Earth vs. regulated, yet just society on Mars...
Is the author comparing western societies with the Chinese one? Can Chinese writers even question Chinese things?

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janbartosik, to scifi
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Is there a story where the Martians are not an austere, reserved, spartan, militarized, conscientious and super techy bunch of people?

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@bookstodon @scifi @kwispel @whitmad @catselbow @starbreaker @eyrea
Thank you for your recommendations, fellas!
I admit to not having read any and knowing only 2 of these. I might have been subconsciously avoiding Mars-themed I guess :)

gutenberg_org, to books
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"I have an epic, not a dramatic nature. My disposition and my desires call for peace to spin my thread, for a steady rhythm in life and art."
Nobel Banquet Speech (10 December 1929)

Thomas Mann died in 1955. German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

Books by Thomas Mann at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4200

Title page of Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie by Thomas Mann which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34811

janbartosik,
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@gutenberg_org I've been looking for a Czech translation e-book for quite some time 🙅

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Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

https://bookwyrm.social/book/577091/s/half-a-king

Well, not that I didn't finish it in three days, it reads well. But it is half an Abercrombie compared to the First Law books 🤷‍♂️

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