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Lucky Peach. Also a book on associative learning. For fun. Cause I'm a dweeb. I want to start up a fiction book alongside, but I'm not sure which one, because there are too many on my shelf. I will probably end up picking one randomly.
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« Reply #1041 on: August 21, 2011, 04:49:53 PM » |
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I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter. Hofstadter walks you though his research on how consciousness functions and how it manifests itself. It's fun stuff if you're interested in theories of the mind, and less intimidating to pick up than Godel Escher Bach.
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« Reply #1042 on: August 21, 2011, 08:51:06 PM » |
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I picked up A Confederacy of Dunces and Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger. So far I like Hunger, but I loved his other book 'Growth of the Soil' much, much more.
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« Reply #1043 on: August 26, 2011, 07:02:45 PM » |
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Well, I just finished The Great Gatsby, so I will probably be going back the monolithic Dark Tower series.
Hopefully I will find a copy of House of Leaves soon.
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« Reply #1044 on: August 27, 2011, 11:47:39 AM » |
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The original Battle Royale, and still working on Crime and Punishment. Both are... visceral.
I love reading books that have had a clear effect on modern media. Recently finished Roadside Picnic and Paradise Lost.
Also recently refinished Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, which is an excellent book I never fully understood when I read it when I was younger.
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« Reply #1045 on: August 28, 2011, 07:49:47 PM » |
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Finished reading Sophie's Choice, currently reading Tokio Blues, just wondering how much time do you spend reading a day?
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« Reply #1046 on: August 28, 2011, 07:57:39 PM » |
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A History of The Internet And The Digital Future by Johnny Ryan
...reading it for my media class.
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« Reply #1047 on: August 28, 2011, 09:56:39 PM » |
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Just read Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
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« Reply #1048 on: August 28, 2011, 10:23:38 PM » |
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I'm reading A Game of Thrones, it's great so far.
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« Reply #1049 on: August 28, 2011, 11:18:36 PM » |
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli
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« Reply #1050 on: August 30, 2011, 07:00:58 AM » |
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I finished "The Rise of Endymion" and enjoyed it more than "Hyperion" but less than "The Fall of Hyperion". I also finally finished reading "Green Mars", which I like better than "Red Mars", and I've just started on "Blue Mars".
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Please help TimW, a longtime promoter of indie gaming everywhere and an old friend of TIGSource, to write about indie games full-time. One's True Self: the essence of a book being edited from Chinese into English.
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« Reply #1051 on: August 30, 2011, 11:07:50 AM » |
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli
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« Reply #1052 on: August 30, 2011, 03:51:24 PM » |
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Ink, which is the second part of The Book of All Hours, by Hal Duncan. It's this sort of weird, totally-out-there speculative fantasy thing with a whole bunch of alternate reality versions of the same set of characters. The narrative leaps between wildly between their stories, sometimes on a paragraph by paragraph basis, and not always in chronological order. So it's pretty confusing. Yet, somehow the whole mess manages to tell a coherent story. It's actually kind of satisfying, in a weird sort of way. There's a moment of satisfaction when you realize, "Oh, this guy must be a local instance of THAT guy!" And then you kick yourself for not noticing the obvious phonetic similarities between their names.
Also, a lot of Tintin. Tintin is pretty straightforward. He beats up the opium dealers, and then he recovers the stolen relic. Usually in a desert or jungle.
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« Reply #1053 on: August 30, 2011, 04:38:30 PM » |
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ooo... Asterios Polyp, I haven't had a chance to read that one yet.
I definitely recommend. The design and art alone are just.... mindblowingly good. |
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« Reply #1054 on: August 30, 2011, 05:40:49 PM » |
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Agreed. I got to see some of the original art in a gallery space. Just stunning.
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« Reply #1055 on: August 30, 2011, 05:49:25 PM » |
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The original, Icelandic copy of Mırin (English title Tainted blood) by Arnaldur Indriğasson. I had actually read a few chapters before, but it was a while ago now, so I decided to start all over. I couldn't get through the first page before my creative desires took over from getting in touch with the sexy language, and I got in the mood for some conlanging. So far, I've only spent my time checking out Proto-Germanic verbs, though, haha.
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« Reply #1056 on: September 01, 2011, 12:43:10 PM » |
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The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. I picked it up because the book cover art looked familiar. (and of course it was 50% with borders going out of business..) Figured it was going to be about Spaceships and stuff, turns out it's wizards and spells so far. I was pleasantly surprised.
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« Reply #1057 on: September 01, 2011, 04:08:21 PM » |
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Nice, Jack Vance.
He's where Dungeons and Dragons (and by extension, every game with "rpg elements" there ever was) got its magic system from.
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« Reply #1058 on: September 01, 2011, 06:17:23 PM » |
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House of Leaves.
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« Reply #1059 on: September 01, 2011, 07:01:13 PM » |
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Just moved to my new city of Leeds, and there are many used book stores filled with treasure. Picked up some Aldous Huxley books printed in like the 30s, and a Murakami collection which I loved.
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