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Sep. 5th, 2021 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yesterday was our first home football game. Mayor had declared a medical emergency since our hospital serves several counties and currently is full of covid with no room for the more mundane car accidents, sports related broken bones, or y'know other violent crimes. I'm super excited for the next couple of weeks. The only place I go is the movie theater, but there's been more people in there than normal so I don't know how long that will last.
Yesterday was our first home football game, and someone thought it would be a good idea to switch radio apps and providers the day before. Spoiler alert, all did not go well. Cue forty-five angry dudes and two gals all trying to simultaneously call me to whine as if there was anything I could possibly do. Naw man, I don't get paid enough for that, but I have seen admin do enough extraordinary shit over the years that I just shrugged and didn't worry about the things I have no control over. The baby dispatchers though, they were pissed.
“A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river – but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself – a thing that went on caring.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
I loved this book. Which makes two for two with this author. It's my favorite kind of sci-fi which is focused on the aspect of actually being human and what that means for the individual and the for the community. It has a lot of connections with nature and, what I thought, the idea of if being an Earthling equaled or had an effect on humanity. It was published in 1963 and I just like that it's so old that it's new, y'know? Like it's not full of the same tropes everyone is using now. But as far as I've been able to tell, I haven't noticed any blatant isms that would make his books unreadable.
I am now 7 books behind schedule. Good luck to my reading goal!
“As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
Yesterday was our first home football game, and someone thought it would be a good idea to switch radio apps and providers the day before. Spoiler alert, all did not go well. Cue forty-five angry dudes and two gals all trying to simultaneously call me to whine as if there was anything I could possibly do. Naw man, I don't get paid enough for that, but I have seen admin do enough extraordinary shit over the years that I just shrugged and didn't worry about the things I have no control over. The baby dispatchers though, they were pissed.
“A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river – but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself – a thing that went on caring.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
I loved this book. Which makes two for two with this author. It's my favorite kind of sci-fi which is focused on the aspect of actually being human and what that means for the individual and the for the community. It has a lot of connections with nature and, what I thought, the idea of if being an Earthling equaled or had an effect on humanity. It was published in 1963 and I just like that it's so old that it's new, y'know? Like it's not full of the same tropes everyone is using now. But as far as I've been able to tell, I haven't noticed any blatant isms that would make his books unreadable.
I am now 7 books behind schedule. Good luck to my reading goal!
“As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
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Date: 2021-09-06 02:34 pm (UTC)I know i've read at least one Simak story/book, but cannot remember which. Reading over his bibliography, I see a few I'm going to have to find and read - looks interesting!
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Date: 2021-09-06 08:14 pm (UTC)I'm usually more miss than hit when it comes to older books, but when I read City I didn't realize it was a golden oldie and enjoyed it so much. I got on ebay and just got a bunch of his books cheap with the pulpy covers, so I got a lot of choices up next. \0/
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Date: 2021-09-06 08:17 pm (UTC)Awesome! Never enough books. :D
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Date: 2021-09-06 07:48 pm (UTC)I haven't read anything else by Simak, but I probably should.
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Date: 2021-09-06 08:23 pm (UTC)Way Station definitely reminded me of like the grown up result of the idk 'country' books I read as a kid - Hatchet, The Far Side of the Mountain, all of Bill Wallace, Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows and the like. I was hooked. It was my outside I book I'd read when I was drying off from swimming. My current outside book is a reread of Anne of Green Gables, which again, is in the same vein. : )