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« Reply #340 on: October 13, 2009, 08:06:08 PM » |
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I'm currently reading José Farmer's Riverworld series. It's pretty brilliant stuff, although some eccentricities in the writing style detract from the flow of the books.
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« Reply #341 on: October 13, 2009, 10:28:16 PM » |
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Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. He invented the Choose Your Own Adventure novel!
And when did he do that? 1941: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Forking_PathsAs compared to most fictions, where the character chooses one alternative at each decision point and thereby eliminates all the others, Ts'ui Pen's novel attempted to describe a world where all possible outcomes of an event occur simultaneously, each one itself leading to further proliferations of possibilities. |
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« Reply #342 on: October 14, 2009, 03:04:29 AM » |
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Finished Dostojevski's Crime And Punishment and read The Alchemist the same day as it is a rather short book. Both were very interesting and fine reads. I kind of love and kind of hate old russian literature, can't decide which I do more. Dostojevski was a nice study of the human mind and life in general whereas The Alchemist was more of a book about how one can accomplish anything if one truly wants it. Anyway, both very good and intersting books that I recommend for everyone.
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« Reply #343 on: October 14, 2009, 03:52:20 PM » |
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The Ask and the Answer by PAtrick Ness. The chaos walking trilogy has got to be the best trilogy I've ever read.
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« Reply #344 on: October 14, 2009, 06:44:13 PM » |
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Crime and Punishment
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« Reply #345 on: October 14, 2009, 07:25:24 PM » |
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THE AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE by John Hodgman.
Why did no one tell me about this before?
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« Reply #346 on: October 15, 2009, 02:44:01 AM » |
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rereading "A Theory of Fun" and hopefully ill become a better designer..
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« Reply #347 on: October 15, 2009, 07:32:01 AM » |
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Trying to read Dune and I keep losing interest. Meh.
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« Reply #348 on: October 15, 2009, 07:56:12 AM » |
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I'm doing Eng Lit at university now, so at the minute, for my course:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl (plus 4 or 5 critical texts regarding those poems)
The Vision of Piers Plowman, William Langland
Se Questo è un Uomo, Primo Levi
My own stuff:
Books vs Cigarettes, George Orwell
Selected Essays, David Hume
The Fall of America, Allen Ginsberg
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« Reply #349 on: October 15, 2009, 12:02:11 PM » |
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Just finished Lathe of Heaven, read it in one go in the train. A very nice book indeed.
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« Reply #350 on: October 15, 2009, 01:32:02 PM » |
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Just bought a book for a trip I'm on. Captain Corelli's mandoline. It says on the back that it's ace, but all books say they're ace on the back, I hope it's ace on the inside as well  |
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Havchr works at Tumbleweed Interactive, a Norwegian independent game developer and he likes pizza and football
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« Reply #351 on: October 15, 2009, 05:49:08 PM » |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl (plus 4 or 5 critical texts regarding those poems)
My own stuff:
Books vs Cigarettes, George Orwell
Those are both great. I think Orwell's probably a better essay writer than he is fiction writer (not to say that his fiction is bad; it's great). How's Pearl? Gawain is ace, but I've never read nor heard much about Pearl. |
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« Reply #352 on: October 15, 2009, 07:01:17 PM » |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
A seriously good book, although only about 60 pages long.
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« Reply #353 on: October 16, 2009, 03:12:40 AM » |
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Jerusalem II by Selma Lagerlöf. It's quite old-fashioned in its style, but surprisingly light. It also has an interesting historical value,
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« Reply #354 on: October 16, 2009, 09:13:39 AM » |
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« Reply #355 on: October 16, 2009, 02:30:10 PM » |
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Let Me In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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« Reply #356 on: October 17, 2009, 04:07:28 PM » |
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The Philosophy of Hegel by WT Stace. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens. Buncha PKD books. http://deoxy.org/tcrime.htm Deoxy Thoughtcrime Anyone know other authors that read like PKD, or Neal Stephenson, or William Gibson? |
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« Reply #357 on: October 17, 2009, 04:29:53 PM » |
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Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm still on the first quarter, and I hate that Roark guy.
I need to compile a list with all the books I really need to read. I have missed so many good shit.
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« Reply #358 on: October 17, 2009, 06:13:28 PM » |
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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.
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« Reply #359 on: October 17, 2009, 06:45:40 PM » |
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How's Pearl? Gawain is ace, but I've never read nor heard much about Pearl.
It's good, but it's taking ages to read, partly because of the middle english and partly because I need to take notes on it for an essay. Pah! I prefer Gawain, anyway. |
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