What is your IQ?

song_of_copper wrote: James wrote: I generally prefer paper too but some of the Wells novels are hard to find. I think there's been a reprint of his 1927 The Short Stories of H.G. Wells but I may be wrong... Some of his lesser works maybe difficult to find. Oh and I wondered where you'd gone... my inbox isn't full is it? Hehe, does this mean I'm now on a Wells quest...?  How did that happen?!   I think I'll just see what I can readily find and take it from there...   Besides which, I bet my Dad had some of these, I'll have to take a look at the shelves at home... No, yes, er, I am amazingly still here.  Have given up wresting this cataclysm of epyck offtopyckness back into some semblance of relevance and brain is slowing down hence poor fluency herein...

My evil dictatorial plan is working, I see.   Wells will be read by more people, especially his lesser works.

I have a book of short stories of his somewhere, which I've read a few times but that's all I have.  The rest I've read online.

I won't tempt you but...

Oh, I shall, the offer is too tempting... try some Lord Dunsany too.  His works are also epyck.

Now where did my IQ go?

moreitsythanyou wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: moreitsythanyou wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: This is going to be one of those classic threads that one of us needs to bump 2 or 3 years from now and be like, "Good times...". Yes. If only for me to remind you all on how I'm the smartest. I bet you I'll beat you to bumping it. I'm sure you will.

If I don't forget.

moreitsythanyou wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: This is going to be one of those classic threads that one of us needs to bump 2 or 3 years from now and be like, "Good times...". Yes. If only for me to remind you all on how I'm the smartest.

I bet you I'll beat you to bumping it.

song_of_copper wrote: James wrote: song_of_copper wrote: Re. 'Men Like Gods': The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper "The Liberal." At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, although it had been quite similar to Earth in the past in a period known to Utopians as the "Days of Confusion." That would go quite well with... er... you know. Not the Genesis song?  Noooo!!!! *starts melting* Although the video is good! Unless you meant something completely different... By the way, all of those novels/novellas/short stories are available via Project Gutenberg for free.  "Men Like Gods" is only available at the Australian Gutenberg site though, but it's linked via Wikipedia. That's if you don't mind aching eyes, headaches and the impracticality of non-portability, from reading online. Genesis?  No... certainly not. Moving swiftly on... I think paper is more my thing, the Amnesty bookshop is pretty good for most things, I'll look out for Wells next time I'm in there.

I generally prefer paper too but some of the Wells novels are hard to find.

I think there's been a reprint of his 1927 The Short Stories of H.G. Wells but I may be wrong...

Some of his lesser works maybe difficult to find.

Oh and I wondered where you'd gone... my inbox isn't full is it?

James wrote: song_of_copper wrote: Re. 'Men Like Gods': The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper "The Liberal." At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, although it had been quite similar to Earth in the past in a period known to Utopians as the "Days of Confusion." That would go quite well with... er... you know. Not the Genesis song?  Noooo!!!! *starts melting* Although the video is good! Unless you meant something completely different... By the way, all of those novels/novellas/short stories are available via Project Gutenberg for free.  "Men Like Gods" is only available at the Australian Gutenberg site though, but it's linked via Wikipedia. That's if you don't mind aching eyes, headaches and the impracticality of non-portability, from reading online.

Genesis?  No... certainly not.

Moving swiftly on... I think paper is more my thing, the Amnesty bookshop is pretty good for most things, I'll look out for Wells next time I'm in there.


Edited by song_of_copper - July 17 2008 at 00:31

James wrote: I have great difficulty reading and listening to music at the same time, so my reading tends to get neglected for music. I can listen to something like Bartók or Messiaen and read at the same time though. Well I have over 400 CDs and I still I have problems finding something to listen to.

Hehe, I just looked up some of these Wells titles on Wikipedia.

Re. 'Men Like Gods':
The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper "The Liberal." At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, although it had been quite similar to Earth in the past in a period known to Utopians as the "Days of Confusion."

That would go quite well with... er... you know.

James wrote: Well there's a few by Wells that I plan to read: 1. Men Like Gods 2. When the Sleeper Awakes 3. The Sleeper Awakes (revised version of the above) 4. Tales of Space and Time (collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories -- one of which is the novella "A Story of Things to Come" which Isaac Asimov may have borrowed for his Robot series) Plus the obvious ones: The Time Machine and War of the Worlds You'll love his dystopic and utopic works.

Dystopic and utopic works eh... sounds great.

Ahahaha, if I'm not careful my 'to read' list will attain the Epyck status of my 'to hear' list...

Bluesaga wrote: Although the personality test is interesting, it's almost an insult to limit anyone's personality to four letters.  Unless it's two letters and two numbers (n00b) and we're describing Flossy (I picked on James enough these last two years ).

Lol, I know what you mean. Of course, all of these tests must be taken with a grain of salt. Though I would say that the personality one would be more accurate in describing someone than the IQ test would be.


Edited by MovingPictures07 - July 16 2008 at 22:53

Although the personality test is interesting, it's almost an insult to limit anyone's personality to four letters.  Unless it's two letters and two numbers (n00b) and we're describing Flossy (I picked on James enough these last two years ).

James wrote: offtopickness We is fantastic.  I preferred it to Brave New World.  Finally, someone else who's read it!   Also one of my favourite novels. Yes indeed!  Oooh, glass buildings and pink tickets.  Sigh. I'm going to read that H.G. Wells dystopia next that was an influence on We. Which one is that? I've still yet to read Nineteen Eighty-Four. I predict you'll love it. One more thing: H.G. Wells = genius Not read any by him... yet. /offtopickness Er, yeah.  This is the IQ thread, in which we prove how clever we are by listing great 20th century novels we have read.