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Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:01 pm
by magma
^^ Cheers kay - was waiting for that writeup! When the clocks go forward my reading seems to triple and that was on my list of maybes for when I stock up!
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:13 pm
by cosmic_surgeon
Read this back in 2009, going back to it now - completely different book entirely. Rich and profound. An essential companion to life in today's world I think. Careful and repeated readings required though!
Interesting but short and has a sort of introductory feel to it. Food for thought really, and in some ways its brevity is an advantage. Contains contemporary re-hashes of important notions Dreyfus proposed in more substantial books decades ago - worth reading on that account alone.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:22 am
by SCope13
Contemplating reading Prometheus Rising, but part of me is afraid I'm going to have to put up with a fair dose of nonsense. Thoughts?
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:19 pm
by kay
Just finished reading City at the End of Time by Greg Bear. Was a bit difficult to get into at first but it eventually got going. Plot development was quite slow but sped up at an almost silly rate, and then petered out again at the end. Has some interesting ideas on multiverses and how people can affect it or jump through 'verses. Interesting blend of fantasy elements and ultra far futurism. I thought the ending was a bit of a letdown though.
Reading Olaf Stapledon's collection of short stories from 1949, Worlds of Wonder, now. It was reprinted recently by Wildside Press. Going through the first story now and it's quite good so far!
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:30 pm
by KaveDizzle
I started Reading Battle Royal. I guess its like the Japanese version of The Hunger games but better.
Also has any one read that book that Kode9 wrote?
I found it but its like $30.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:47 pm
by funjamin
Just about to start "The Picture Of Dorian Grey"
Should be a gooden.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:06 pm
by LACE
Funj wrote:Just about to start "The Picture Of Dorian Grey"
Should be a gooden.
for the love of all things good and pure, stay away from the film starring ben barnes!
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:31 pm
by fractal
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:19 am
by JTMMusicuk

its shite, just a load of information about specific synths which i dont have to money to buy
normally cm is decent aswell
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:12 am
by magma
Lack of sunshine in the garden has meant this took far longer than expected, but I've just finished:
Excellent read if you're looking to get a feel for the roots of this culture... it's left me wanting to put a rig together though.

Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:05 am
by finji
I want some more cyberpunk / william gibson esque books, anyone got any suggestions?
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:30 am
by Soiree

best book about tarot ever.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:25 pm
by choc-ice
a book about a group of people who set off to find a mountain bigger than any mountain in the world. the reason nobody has found the mountain is because light curves around it. you have to be at a certain place at a certain time to access it. otherwise, it doesnt exist. really mental book, really short but amazing
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:33 pm
by rexob
Wakaremasu ka?
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:45 pm
by bright maroon
Nebula Awards #31 editted by Pamela Sargent

Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:41 pm
by Devry_Kaneda
finji wrote:I want some more cyberpunk / william gibson esque books, anyone got any suggestions?
Don't wait. Just get it.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:36 pm
by Dub_freak
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:55 pm
by JBoy
the bible, best read in one and a half millenia.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:59 pm
by fractal
finji wrote:I want some more cyberpunk / william gibson esque books, anyone got any suggestions?
rushkoff's cyberia is good
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:02 pm
by fractal
choc-ice wrote:
a book about a group of people who set off to find a mountain bigger than any mountain in the world. the reason nobody has found the mountain is because light curves around it. you have to be at a certain place at a certain time to access it. otherwise, it doesnt exist. really mental book, really short but amazing
this sounds dope thanks!
just reread flatland
probably one of my faves
you can read it in its entirety here ==>
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/