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« Reply #320 on: August 04, 2009, 12:06:33 PM » |
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Just finished Good Omens, it was excellent! :D
Also, a little question: I bought Mona Lisa Overdrive without knowing it was the last in the Sprawl trilogy. Can I read it without having anything about Neuromancer or Count Zero spoiled? Or is it sequel-y enough that I should look read them in order?
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« Reply #321 on: August 04, 2009, 12:18:10 PM » |
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Game Coding Complete. It's aimed at commercial developement with an admitted bias for c++, win32 and directx. But it covers a huge amount of common pitfalls and shows the construction of a complete game framework from the ground up. The author is also very informal and pretty funny at times. When describing resource deadlock he made a the comment "Computers are very patient and will happily wait until the sun explodes."
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« Reply #322 on: August 04, 2009, 12:23:03 PM » |
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« Reply #323 on: October 12, 2009, 12:17:00 PM » |
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This thread definitely needs a revival! (and by that, I mean that I need more book tips)
I just finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and A Fall of Moondust by Athur C Clark.
Brave New World had some pretty nifty ideas, but I didn't really enjoy the book as a whole. A Fall of Moondust on the other hand was excellent.
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« Reply #324 on: October 12, 2009, 12:19:36 PM » |
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I'm reading Just For Fun by David Diamond and Linus Torvalds. It's pretty cool and a neat in-look into Linus' life.
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« Reply #325 on: October 12, 2009, 05:31:47 PM » |
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« Reply #326 on: October 12, 2009, 09:03:42 PM » |
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« Reply #327 on: October 12, 2009, 09:12:27 PM » |
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« Reply #328 on: October 13, 2009, 12:54:41 AM » |
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Reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter for the third time. Been about four years since the last time.
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« Reply #329 on: October 13, 2009, 03:15:46 AM » |
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I just finished The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. Incidentally, I read it in something less than a 24-hour period.
As much as I liked it, I have a feeling that I will never like a book of Auster's as much as I liked The New York Trilogy.
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« Reply #330 on: October 13, 2009, 03:38:12 AM » |
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Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. He invented the Choose Your Own Adventure novel!
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« Reply #331 on: October 13, 2009, 06:07:25 AM » |
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Re-reading The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft for the n`th time. My personal favorite author. I`d love to some day turn his works into literary based short games. Or more interactive-experiences then a `game` I suppose.
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« Reply #332 on: October 13, 2009, 06:08:06 AM » |
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Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. He invented the Choose Your Own Adventure novel!
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« Reply #333 on: October 13, 2009, 06:36:31 AM » |
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The Brothers Karamazov. Only about 100 pages in, so I've got a distance to go. Started it many months ago, but so busy with life that it's really slow going.
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« Reply #334 on: October 13, 2009, 06:47:07 AM » |
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Reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter for the third time. Been about four years since the last time.
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« Reply #335 on: October 13, 2009, 06:52:07 AM » |
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I Sing The Body Electric, by Ray Bradbury. He is an amazing writer and I'm a big fan of his short stories especially. The woman who gives birth to a blue pyramid is my favorite so far, seems like it might be a take on having a child with a disability and the associated difficulties, except with more weirdness.
I tried reading Eternal Golden Braid when I was about 12, too, but I did exactly the same thing and just skipped to the dialogues. Funny.
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« Reply #336 on: October 13, 2009, 06:53:21 AM » |
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I need to get back into fiction books. I pretty much only read non fiction.
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« Reply #337 on: October 13, 2009, 08:06:26 AM » |
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wow, strange coincidence on that dialogues thing also Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. He invented the Choose Your Own Adventure novel!
And when did he do that? i think around the 30s or 40s |
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« Reply #338 on: October 13, 2009, 09:16:34 AM » |
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Just finished Even The Cowgirls Get The Blues. It was the only Tom Robbins novel I haven't read, strangely enough. I think I liked Jitterbug Perfume better... Anyway, making an excursion into The Elegant Universe, and then back to Dostoyevsky maybe.
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« Reply #339 on: October 13, 2009, 11:44:48 AM » |
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The Brothers Karamazov. Only about 100 pages in, so I've got a distance to go. Started it many months ago, but so busy with life that it's really slow going.
I finished it a few days ago, amazing book. It's probably good to take your time with it anyway.  Starting Les Miserables right now. |
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