What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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I tried reading the great gatsby it.is.so.fucking.tedious i can't relate to the characters i really just want to slap them.
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I read this in two days:
http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-ebook/dp/B0 ... 206&sr=1-1
If you enjoyed William Gibson's Neuromancer, you'll enjoy this.
http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-ebook/dp/B0 ... 206&sr=1-1
If you enjoyed William Gibson's Neuromancer, you'll enjoy this.
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I'm on page 240 of a small town murder mystery. Author has dropped enough hints for me to know the long dead hockey coach was a kiddie fiddler. Eventually we get to know what was on the 8mm film.
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Is it any good? to me, that guy still is the one who made up the Gith people and Slaadi for D&D, one of the greatest additions to that gameverse ever, in spite of the shit other people have done with it.
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Stross is very good but maybe not for everyone. Try the first bit on Kindle and see if you like him.
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Svartalf, re: Accelerando - I get the impression that he's throwing a lot of technobabble at the page to impress and fill space. But mixed in with that are a lot of legitimate ideas that are extensions of real science and hypothetical science - lobsters uploaded to computers, Dyson Spheres, etc. I was 20% into the book before a real story started to emerge, and even then most of the characters aren't very likable. Is it any good? Hmmmm... It's interesting in a weird way, and now that I'm past the halfway point I'll finish it. But I think it could have been shorter and tighter.
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Finishing kiddie fiddler coach murder mystery. I gave it 3 stars. If I have to give up half way thru, it gets one star.
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Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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For Christmas my mother got me The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sounds interesting
http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman- ... the+Madman
http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman- ... the+Madman
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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My ratings are here, but mostly CDsTero wrote:I'm on page 240 of a small town murder mystery. Author has dropped enough hints for me to know the long dead hockey coach was a kiddie fiddler. Eventually we get to know what was on the 8mm film.
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I'll probably finish this today. . .
Then move onto these two. . .
Ed bought me a pile of books for christmas!
Then move onto these two. . .
Ed bought me a pile of books for christmas!
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Wait, hang on. The Remains of the Day, by the author of...The Remains of the Day
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I noticed that too!tattuchu wrote:Wait, hang on. The Remains of the Day, by the author of...The Remains of the Day
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Anna see if you can fine Koestler;s Act of Creation and Ghost in the Machine.
Brilliant, insightful and funny. An intellectual tour de force that blends our biology with our joy at a joke or a poem or a science Eureka moment all as single spectrum
Seminal books for me.
Brilliant, insightful and funny. An intellectual tour de force that blends our biology with our joy at a joke or a poem or a science Eureka moment all as single spectrum
Seminal books for me.
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Thanks, I'm just starting Darkness at Noon now but I'll definitely go check those two out on goodreads.macdoc wrote:Anna see if you can fine Koestler;s Act of Creation and Ghost in the Machine.
Brilliant, insightful and funny. An intellectual tour de force that blends our biology with our joy at a joke or a poem or a science Eureka moment all as single spectrum
Seminal books for me.
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