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« Reply #1350 on: June 11, 2012, 09:22:00 AM » |
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I'm also lurking constantly the internet for a good copy of Roadside Picknic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and I am also thinking about buying Head First HTML and later Head First SQL.
There's a new translation that just came out, so go for a new copy! Edit: here it is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613743416/ref=pd_1ctyhuc__wl_03_02 |
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« Reply #1351 on: June 16, 2012, 04:38:08 PM » |
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I just read through Snow Crash, and was blown away. Now I'm keeping up some Neal Stephenson with the Diamond Age.
Non-fiction wise, I'm still reading through Gödel, Escher, Bach after finishing Hofstadter's later work, I Am a Strange Loop. I've been doing a lot of thinking about consciousness lately...
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« Reply #1352 on: June 16, 2012, 07:33:33 PM » |
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I had never read Scott Pilgrim, so I ordered the box set on Amazon. That arrived pretty quickly, and I just dove in. I'm on volume 3 right now, and I am loving it. The humor is spot on.  |
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« Reply #1353 on: June 16, 2012, 08:33:50 PM » |
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Just got the third Mistborn book: The Hero of Ages.
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« Reply #1354 on: June 16, 2012, 10:01:10 PM » |
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Just got the third Mistborn book: The Hero of Ages.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! SO GOOD |
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« Reply #1355 on: June 16, 2012, 11:15:23 PM » |
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Finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, now reading the first Hawkmoon book, "The Jewel in the Skull", by Michael Moorcock. I love the Post-Apocalyptic Sword and Sorcery fantasy sub-genre on principal, and Asiacommunista is the best name for a fictional place.
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This game is: UNPLAYABLE
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« Reply #1356 on: June 17, 2012, 12:13:17 AM » |
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I'm just about to finish Hitch Hiker's Guide 5, then it's Neuromancer time. Also some C & C++ programming books.
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« Reply #1357 on: June 18, 2012, 06:53:54 AM » |
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I'm just about to finish Hitch Hiker's Guide 5, then it's Neuromancer time. Also some C & C++ programming books.
Neuromancer got me hooked on Gibson, just finished plowing through his short story collection Burning Chrome. (Spoilers: It was good) |
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« Reply #1358 on: June 18, 2012, 01:14:27 PM » |
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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Again.
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« Reply #1359 on: June 18, 2012, 01:18:44 PM » |
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Started reading Jeff Noon's Pixel Juice, it's a collection of short stories, he's quite influenced by Borges which shows.
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« Reply #1360 on: June 18, 2012, 09:37:21 PM » |
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Started reading Jeff Noon's Pixel Juice, it's a collection of short stories, he's quite influenced by Borges which shows.
Influenced by Borges? I love Borges! Color me intrigued. Also, I am reading "Predictably Irrational", by Dan Ariely. Absolutely amazing book. |
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« Reply #1361 on: June 18, 2012, 10:09:37 PM » |
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Reading Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood. About 100 pages in so far, and I am enjoying it.
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« Reply #1362 on: June 18, 2012, 11:07:55 PM » |
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Mythologies by Roland Barthes. Interesting book about mass media, culture, language etc.
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« Reply #1363 on: June 19, 2012, 01:23:00 AM » |
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Started reading Jeff Noon's Pixel Juice, it's a collection of short stories, he's quite influenced by Borges which shows.
Influenced by Borges? I love Borges! Color me intrigued. Me too. Copy duly ordered. I've actually just been rereading Borges. 'The Garden of Forking Paths' - he would have been fascinated by video games... Mythologies by Roland Barthes. Interesting book about mass media, culture, language etc.
Barthes too, I think. 'Mythologies' is a brilliant book. I'm reading Georges Perec's 'Species of Spaces' at the moment. It's the first time I've read any Perec and I'm enjoying it. |
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« Reply #1364 on: June 23, 2012, 05:07:12 PM » |
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Just finished the Mistborn trilogy. Amazing ride, full of twists that I never saw coming. The ending was better than I ever could have imagined.
I want a videogame.
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