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« Reply #405 on: December 14, 2009, 08:17:27 AM » |
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If you read 1984, also read Huxley. It's a more, hmm, accurate description of modern society.
You mean brave new world? That guy wrote that in the 20s. Pretty crazy ahead of his time. Though last time I checked people weren't all raised in incubation tubes and sterilized in modern society quite yet. Yes I mean Brave New World, and the way it resembles modern society is the part about feeding us legal "drugs" to keep us busy and stupid. By drugs I mean celebrity gossip and a million ways to entertain ourselves. Socially we are pretty much all at least supposed to be made from the same model, kinda like we were cloned. We are raised in incubation cubes, it's called the education system. |
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« Reply #406 on: December 14, 2009, 01:58:34 PM » |
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Was it just me that found the Brave New World future not that horrible?
By saying this I probably suggest that I've been manpulated by our way of living, but whatever.
Currently reading Douglas Adams The Long Tea Time of the Soul, loving it, think it's a little more easy to comprehend than the first Dirk Genly book, so far. I really need to finish that one too someday.
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« Reply #407 on: December 14, 2009, 02:19:01 PM » |
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Currently reading Douglas Adams The Long Tea Time of the Soul, loving it, think it's a little more easy to comprehend than the first Dirk Genly book, so far. I really need to finish that one too someday.
The dirk gently books are wonderful. even though I'll probably be shot for saying this, I kinda enjoy them more than the hitch-hiker series. Currently reading Anathem, by Neal Stephenson. About a strange post/mid/pre apocalyptic world with convents of mathematicians. |
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« Reply #408 on: December 14, 2009, 04:56:56 PM » |
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« Reply #409 on: December 14, 2009, 05:09:23 PM » |
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Finished Generation A not too long ago, one of the biggest climax killers ever; the rest of it was alright though.
Reading Kite Runner now and can't put it down.
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Madness takes its toll please have exact change.
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« Reply #410 on: December 14, 2009, 05:24:30 PM » |
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That's serious dedication. I'm reading all the Scott o' Dell books I can find. Conquistador adventures ho!  |
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« Reply #411 on: December 15, 2009, 03:55:25 AM » |
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[spoiler]The zebra did it.[/spoiler] |
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« Reply #412 on: December 15, 2009, 06:50:29 AM » |
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Currently reading God's Demon. For a book that takes place in Hell, it's surprisingly empathetic.
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« Reply #413 on: December 16, 2009, 11:05:31 AM » |
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Reading the complete fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. I really want to see or make a game where the player can play games created by characters in the game world. Each of these subgames may contain one or more characters capable of designing their own games. Perhaps the player character learns that he himself is in a game, and must communicate with a meta-player in order to change his own game.
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« Reply #414 on: December 16, 2009, 01:28:17 PM » |
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I'm taking a break from A song of Ice and Fire to read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. All I can say so far is Columbus was a terrible terrible man.
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« Reply #415 on: December 16, 2009, 02:16:28 PM » |
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Just started reading A Clockwork Orange today. After being flabbergasted by trying to translate the first couple of pages, I've really gotten sucked in.
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« Reply #416 on: December 16, 2009, 09:53:45 PM » |
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I finally got around to reading some Lovecraft.
I am now inspired to name my cats after racial slurs.
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« Reply #417 on: December 17, 2009, 03:48:11 AM » |
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I finally got around to reading some Lovecraft.
I am now inspired to name my cats after racial slurs.
WHy man? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME?!?! |
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« Reply #418 on: December 17, 2009, 08:30:30 AM » |
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Finished American Gods a few days ago. It was amazing up to chapter seventeen, then there were two idiotic over-the-top chapters that kind of ruined the whole thing for me.  |
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« Reply #419 on: December 17, 2009, 10:39:52 AM » |
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Finished American Gods a few days ago. It was amazing up to chapter seventeen, then there were two idiotic over-the-top chapters that kind of ruined the whole thing for me. Yeah I enjoyed my time with the book, and the premise was great and for the most part the atmosphere too. But I felt like the main character was just sort of a black hole of emptiness incapable of carrying the plot. I guess I liked Adams' take on the same theme better in The Long Tea Time of the Soul. Anyway, I just finished Night Time, Losing Time by Micheal Ventura which was good but I'd recommend his later book The Zoo Where You're Fed to God first. Right now I'm most of the way through Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. |
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