*What book are you reading ?
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madamv said:
my favourite book of all time. Left me in bits
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
The Book of Dave, university of milesy press.
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Behold a pale Horse. William Cooper.
More conspiracy nonsense
Mind you if what he is saying is true, we are all fucked pretty soon.
More conspiracy nonsense
Mind you if what he is saying is true, we are all fucked pretty soon.
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"Posting On Bulletin Boards: the Laughter and the Tears"
Douglas Finnegan Jr, University of South Minota Press.
Douglas Finnegan Jr, University of South Minota Press.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
"Frek and the Elixir" by Rudy Rucker
Very strange SF, with a plot based around GM and reality TV-like branecasting (and yes, that is how he spells it).
I've read lots of his others and this is the weirdest. Fantastic imagination to come up with some of the ideas.
Very strange SF, with a plot based around GM and reality TV-like branecasting (and yes, that is how he spells it).
I've read lots of his others and this is the weirdest. Fantastic imagination to come up with some of the ideas.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
case of "languages that don't cross over very well in translation",Nina said:
see also: french vs. english, baroque vs. rational sentence structure...
(p.s.- all french philosophers are UNREADABLE for that very same reason- pointless chitchat/endless wordmasturbation...or perhaps it sounds different in french...)
in the case with Saramago (he's portuguese, isn't he?), it could also be that he's perhaps a bit boring(?)
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Just started 'The Three Muskateers' by Dumas. Started to read it on the tube and had a guy next to me say 'You look like a Muskateer'.
Made me smile.
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Made me smile.
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maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
A Canticle For Leibowitz- by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
sci-fi story written in the mid-1950's, about a new (post-atomic) Dark Age,
where generations of angry hordes have put down every scientist and intellectual (angry about the horror and destruction they caused with the Bomb),
and "simpletons" and illiterate hunter-gatherers populate the continents,
with the exception of a few monasteries that's been allowed to hold onto religious tradition and the study of Scriptures and illuminated manuscripts...
a long time ago, at the time of the post-atomic Deluge, a man called Leibowitz (a scientist) was accepted into the Brotherhood of monks, and swiftly became one of the most popular among them- he made the Order into one whose chief goal was to travel around and gather the few remaining books that hadn't been destroyed in the mob's great Simplification, and these should be saved and copied by the monks for generation after generation,
to preserve the last bit of knowledge...
amusingly, it seems like many of these "manuscripts" were actally technical manuals and circuit diagrams...
(which the monks didn't understand, but faithfully reproduced illuminated manuscripts of)
i haven't read the rest yet, but i think i can see where this is heading...
sci-fi story written in the mid-1950's, about a new (post-atomic) Dark Age,
where generations of angry hordes have put down every scientist and intellectual (angry about the horror and destruction they caused with the Bomb),
and "simpletons" and illiterate hunter-gatherers populate the continents,
with the exception of a few monasteries that's been allowed to hold onto religious tradition and the study of Scriptures and illuminated manuscripts...
a long time ago, at the time of the post-atomic Deluge, a man called Leibowitz (a scientist) was accepted into the Brotherhood of monks, and swiftly became one of the most popular among them- he made the Order into one whose chief goal was to travel around and gather the few remaining books that hadn't been destroyed in the mob's great Simplification, and these should be saved and copied by the monks for generation after generation,
to preserve the last bit of knowledge...
amusingly, it seems like many of these "manuscripts" were actally technical manuals and circuit diagrams...
(which the monks didn't understand, but faithfully reproduced illuminated manuscripts of)
i haven't read the rest yet, but i think i can see where this is heading...
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
It is very good... and there's a sequel written quite a bit later called "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" which is well worth reading if you enjoy the first one.maya said:A Canticle For Leibowitz- by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
amusingly, it seems like many of these "manuscripts" were actally technical manuals and cord diagrams...
i haven't read the rest yet, but i think i can see where this is heading...
‘Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma.’
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
yeah, i like it a lot,Lazy Llama said:
the language is appalling, though-
but since it's written about 1953, he's forgiven-
imo american authors are often substandard in their language,
compared to british authors...american english is like a different language,
and one with less subtlety and vocabulary...not always, of course-
but there seem to be a habit of heaping wild praise upon US authors that's successful, many of whom i honestly don't rate at all, and see as merely mediocre...but that't not noticed over there...they seem to think that these people are "brilliant"...
that said, science fiction isn't actually famous for its literary highbrow qualities, anyway...
it's part of the charm...
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I'm reading 'Perdita' by Paula Byrne and its driving me mad.
Its about Mary Robinson, an actress/poet/lover to many famous rich blokes in the 17th/18th century. All that really happens is that she falls in love, acts/rights a play/book/poem and then gets all ill, goes abroad or to Brighton to recover and then comes back to do it all again. Most of the time she's pretty skint too.
It has become very predictable and yesterday I prefered staring into space while waiting for my train rather than reading it.
Its about Mary Robinson, an actress/poet/lover to many famous rich blokes in the 17th/18th century. All that really happens is that she falls in love, acts/rights a play/book/poem and then gets all ill, goes abroad or to Brighton to recover and then comes back to do it all again. Most of the time she's pretty skint too.
It has become very predictable and yesterday I prefered staring into space while waiting for my train rather than reading it.
abandoned the things i'm 'supposed' to be reading and gone for TC Boyle's East Is East instead, because it's a lot of fun (although brilliantly written) and I just seem to love Boyle's books.
citydreams
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The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
- requires us to go beyond our experience in time to attain the level of daydreams, where time ceases to quicken memory and space is everything....
- requires us to go beyond our experience in time to attain the level of daydreams, where time ceases to quicken memory and space is everything....
citydreams
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maya said:i liked it...
(are you reading it in french?
non, mais je pense que I'm going to give up and read the Poetics of Reverie instead
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