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[onefullmoony]

You know, I've been doing a great deal of reading lately. I always have, really, since I was a boy. I can't count how many times I've found myself needing to be dragged from the library by a mate, or reminded by my wife that I need to have actual meals other than simply tea. With so many people here from different worlds, I have to wonder: what is

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[batmanschmatman]

I've recently rediscovered a love of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

[onefullmoony]

A classic. A bit heavy on the Christian mythos for my taste, but my favorite when I was a boy nevertheless.

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[batmanschmatman]

It's more for sentimental reasons than anything else. I don't think he could have been more clear about the Christian allegories if he was physically hitting you over the head with a Bible.

[Private]

[onefullmoony]

I expect it happened more than once at the Lewis home.

[no_fastolfe]

I greatly enjoyed "A Programming Language" by Kenneth Iverson. Many of the concepts are outdated but it is elegant and thought-provoking.

I have also enjoyed some of the historical fiction of Isaac Asimov although it carries a strong male Earther bias. None of them are perfect enough to be my favorite, however.

[Vasilia has discovered the robot short stories. They have Susan Calvin in them. AKA her very first historical crush. Be still her angry heart.]

[onefullmoony]

I've not read anything like that I'm afraid. I'm going to need to browse in that section.

What draws you to those in particular?

[no_fastolfe]

The programming books because it is both my profession and my hobby.

Asimov because they are the stories of my childhood: apocryphal and hyperbolic, these incidents are not real even if the characters were historic figures. But it is interesting to see them in prose.

[onefullmoony]

I see.

We've stories like that in my world as well, actually. I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name.

[Private]

[yeerkwarveteran]

...My favorite book. Sun Zu's "The Art of war".

[She's riding the "I've done bad things" high and knowing that she can't get caught.]

[Private]

[onefullmoony]

That is an interesting choice.

Re: [Private]

[yeerkwarveteran]

It's a good one. It'll keep you alive here.

[Private]

[onefullmoony]

I see. I'm Remus Lupin, I don't believe I've met you yet.

[impure_tale]

That would involve picking one, and I often hear it is never the act of a good parent to single one out over the rest. As a writer, books are much the same, for me.

[onefullmoony]

I see. And what do you write?

[impure_tale]

Sometimes histories -- it was what I began with, socially acceptable literature for a man of my stature to write. I'm more famous for my fictions and dialogues though.

[onefullmoony]

I see. I'm sorry, I don't recall your name.

[strangehstorian]

Fiction or non-fiction? I quite liked the Encyclopedia Britannica!

[onefullmoony]

You've read the whole of it? My goodness, and I thought I was an avid reader.

[strangehstorian]

Well, there are so many people here from that world! I'm used to knowing a lot more about my surroundings.

[onefullmoony]

Are you not from that world, then?