I still love natural wine
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Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
You could probably trade your rifle for one.
I just had the Andrea Calek Blonde last weekend at Heart in SF and thought it was awesome. So Chardonnay and Viognier, huh? The waitress initially told me it was menu pineau and romorantin and it totally made sense to me, when she came back with the correct information I was almost more confused. What region is Calek working in?
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
The Ardeche it is.
Ahhh, fucking terroirs,
After all chardonnay and viognier are not that far from menu pineau and romorantin. And one can easily go from Ardche to Loire by bicycle.
Though I find a blonde from romoratin and menu pineau much more sexy than from chardonnay and viognier.
OTOH Ardche is sooooo trendy these days, while Loire begins to fade.
Maybe romoratin and menu pineau from Ardche could be the Holy Grail.
From carbonic of course...
Carbonic is such a treat!
I had a 2008 Moinette not long ago. I could have swear it was from arbane from Chavot made in a Crete amphora with a 27 months maceration.
Believe me or not it was not.
Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
How are the English translations of Lem? I've only read Solaris in Finnish and very much enjoyed it. Unfortunately his other translations are rare and expensive (so even though I work in the second hand book trade, I haven't seen them...) Though not generally a huge scifi fan, I really liked Solaris and have been meaning to get back to them.
scottreiner
scott reiner
anyone have any opinions on ringworld by niven. really more philosophy than sci-fi. i'm a huge fan...
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
By Niven, I read The Moon's a Ballon when I was a kid and liked it a lot.
scottreiner
scott reiner
larry niven, not david...
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Bummer, for a moment I thought David had become a philosopher.
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
Whether I agree with you or not, this is some excellent satire, I must say.
Cory Cartwright
Cory Cartwright
Unfortunately poor for the most part, but still a joy to read.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
all that sex and no adults knew...
Larry Niven always struck more as a thinker than a writer, which is to say that most of his books trot out some intriguing ideas couched in fairly sloppy writing (wooden characters, simple plot lines, workmanlike prose). By the standards of genre fiction, most especially SF, he was a better-than-average writer who rarely indulged in the adolescent wish fulfillment that plagues the genre. I much preferred the short stories collected in "All the Myriad Ways" than any of his novels as they allowed him to explore those ideas without having to construct the elaborate edifice of a novel.
On Ringworld specifically: the idea for the world was a cool one, and he explores it fairly well, but the main characters (Louis Wu, Teela Brown, Nessus, Speaker) are fairly two dimensional and broadly painted. His characters and the plot always seem to be in service of his central conceit. On the plus side, the book reads fast and you get to learn about how you can generate a stationary eye in the sky on a ringworld, which was way cool to me.
Mark Lipton
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Amusing conceit: my very thought.
scottreiner
scott reiner
agreed, that's why i always enjoyed the philosophical aspect, as opposed to the sf... especially the discussion (never overtly mentioned in the book, as i remember it, but always alluded to) of the nature of gods and or divinity.