Gish on 22/10/2009 at 02:53
Quote Posted by Andarthiel
The Diamon Age by Neal Stephenson. Borrowed it fro a friend as part of my latest obsession with -punk books. It's very interesting and has some intriguing characters. The nanotech is pretty cool and I like the re-emerging cultures they have in it.
I've been meaning to get that one for awhile now, it'll definitely be on my next Amazon order. I'm currently reading The Knight by Gene Wolfe. He's one of my favorite authors, but some people are put off by the fact that he likes to use unreliable narrators...
june gloom on 22/10/2009 at 04:46
Every time I try to read Stephenson I just end up frothing at the mouth. All his books are these bloated sacks of boring bullshit about completely unrelated details, a bunch of esoteric history, and shitty endings. Snowcrash was a post-modernist trainwreck and it's only been downhill from there.
I've come to the conclusion that at least 60% of the people who slobber Stephenson's knob have never actually completely read one of his books.
Fuck Neal Stephenson.
PeeperStorm on 22/10/2009 at 04:59
I've read a few Stephenson books and for the most part they were ok, but I gave up on The Diamond Age halfway through because I just wasn't enjoying it at all.
Gene Wolf is one of my favorite authors, but I can't read his books quickly like I can most others. They require that you think about what's being presented if you don't want to miss important things.
suliman on 22/10/2009 at 19:33
Yeah, Ray Bradbury is pretty much the best. I'm working on translating The Illustrated Man now(another great book, but this one is all science fiction), and it's only when you read his stuff slowly and think about every word that you get how good the guy really is.
D'Juhn Keep on 22/10/2009 at 22:30
Just started to re-read The Odyssey. I find myself thinking on Homeric language, which is slightly weird.
I read The Road recently. Jesus CHRIST it sucked
june gloom on 22/10/2009 at 22:49
I loved The Road :(
I finished Patient Zero. Not a bad book, though I don't see myself rereading it often.
Trying to decide on Fahrenheit 451, The Man Who Was Thursday or A Scanner Darkly, all of which I've read before but I have no new books to read.
demagogue on 22/10/2009 at 23:12
.,_.
(o") - bai moar buks
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PeeperStorm on 23/10/2009 at 01:11
The Man Who Was Thursday: James Bond on acid in the early 1900's with Deeper Meanings. And lots of great quotable lines. What's not to love? According to IMDB there's some sort of movie or TV show (no details) of the same name currently in production.
BTW the only reason that I read it the first time around was because it was quoted several times in Deus Ex.
june gloom on 23/10/2009 at 01:27
Same.
Stitch on 23/10/2009 at 03:30
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I loved
The Road :(
That just means you have excellent taste, The Road is incredible. Ignore Iggles.
Just finished Robertson's actually pretty great The Testament of Gideon Mack, and am now 100 pages into Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase.
