Reading, Listening, Watching
Jun. 14th, 2017 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Reading: Crime and Punishment - I've just finished chapter 2. This could take a while.
Listening: Of late, I've been frustrated by podcasters' apparent inability to check basic facts. There was the episode of Doctor Who:The Writer's Room in which one of the hosts discussed the trial of James II by parliament (comparing it to the trial of the War Lord in The War Games). Then there was the episode of Podcast Detected on the theme of "What we've learned about the UK by playing Zombies! Run!" which, among other things, discussed the extensive network of government run CCTV cameras that monitor our fields and country roads and the lack of swearing among members of our armed forces.
Watching: Almost exclusively Doctor Who of various forms. Need to find something to vary the diet.
Listening: Of late, I've been frustrated by podcasters' apparent inability to check basic facts. There was the episode of Doctor Who:The Writer's Room in which one of the hosts discussed the trial of James II by parliament (comparing it to the trial of the War Lord in The War Games). Then there was the episode of Podcast Detected on the theme of "What we've learned about the UK by playing Zombies! Run!" which, among other things, discussed the extensive network of government run CCTV cameras that monitor our fields and country roads and the lack of swearing among members of our armed forces.
Watching: Almost exclusively Doctor Who of various forms. Need to find something to vary the diet.
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Date: 2017-06-15 03:38 pm (UTC)Yeah, I get sick of CCTV on deserted country roads;p
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Date: 2017-06-15 06:11 pm (UTC)That's hilarious about the podcasts. Reminds me of the About Time books.
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Date: 2017-06-16 09:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-06-16 11:40 am (UTC)Karamazov is interesting for me because (among other reasons) it's a book about religion by a deeply religious author that gives the best arguments to the atheist Ivan Karamazov (e.g. the famous parable of the Grand Inquisitor, which is as much anti-Catholic as anti-religious, but certainly works as anti-religious). Maybe it comes from being Jewish (incidentally Dostoyevski was violently antisemitic), but I appreciate that arguing with God.