I finished Blue Mars last night, thus bringing to a close a month of reading the three Hugo-award-winning books in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I highly recommend the series! It is a sweeping 120-year saga of the colonization of Mars. But more importantly, it is a very personal narrative about the triumphs and tribulations of a
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Anyway, I truly believe that there are only losers in win/lose games like trying to sleep with as many women as possible. Only a loser cares so much about winning because a winner is secure in the knowledge that they've already won.
It's interesting you should bring this up because one of Tony's classmates from high school called him last night, drunk, and told him twice about "hooking up with some fat chick" he met online. He went on and on about how she was so nice but no one he'd ever date.
Let's see, he's 28, no long term relationships, unemployed, no license forever due to 4 DUIs, and he's worried about the social implications of dating a fat chick? Frankly, I think pick-up artists are as big a loser as that guy under the skin, even if they are wealthy and conventionally attractive and can have sex with attractive women as often as they want to. Only deeply insecure people need to validate themselves with disposable relationships like that.
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