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• p4bl0 · Jun 9, 2020 · Recommends

  The Campus Trilogy (Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work), by David Lodge. DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution, by Jerry Rubin. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage, by Cliff Stoll. The Hitchhiker's Guide to…

  on “Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?” ↗
• cafard · Oct 29, 2022 · Recommends

  Fiction: Changing Places and Small World by David Lodge. Quite old, quite funny, lots of boys (professors) behaving badly stuff. History: War of the Running Dogs by Noel Barber. A history of the communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s.…

  on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗
• pseudolus · May 12, 2019 · Recommends

  A pretty sombre article. In what were the "go go" days of academe, the MLA was the target of some fairly comic parodies and ridicule. A standout was David Lodge's "Small World" which formed part of his campus trilogy. [0][1]. Still a great read today. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_World:_An_Academic_Roman... [1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=campus+trilogy&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

  on “Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at MLA” ↗
• FiddlerClamp · Apr 18, 2021 · Recommends

  In David Lodge's novel, "Small World," there's a great scene where one character chases another through a paternoster. The one being chased thinks that the compartment will flip over when it reaches the top, and comes down standing on his…

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• Twisell · Jul 23, 2022 · Mentions

  This sound literaly like a subplot of the famous 1984 book by David Lodge Small World: An Academic Romance In the book professor Robin Dempsey almost become mad by chatting with ELIZA and gradually begin to believe it's sentient to the point of being ridiculous. PS: Apparently it was…

  on “Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient” ↗