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Cool thanks, I'll check it out.

I recently got sidetracked by Vernor Vinge (the guy who wrote the original paper on the Singularity), and I have read 'A Fire Upon the Deep', and am now reading 'A Deepness in the Sky'.

Really good sci-fi, I strongly recommend them. His writing is somewhere inbetween the style of the classics like Asimov and Clarke, and the moderns like Reynolds, Banks and Simmons, but his creativeness is greater than most of the other modern writers I've read, and he manages to bring together his stories in a more coherent way than, say Reynolds, for example.

I just ordered Snow Crash. Hope its good. I haven't read this type of fiction before...

7zark7 wrote:RANT by ChuckPalahniuk.

How is it? I forgot it came out this month.


He will be in town on Monday so hopefully I'll be able to get a signed copy. :icon14:

xer0s wrote:I just ordered Snow Crash. Hope its good. I haven't read this type of fiction before...

If you can get past the first couple of pages, it's pretty awesome. Stephenson has that weird thing some writers have where he really stumbles with his style at the beginning of his books

imo of course

i thought snow crash was pretty lame when i first read it... then i realized it was written in 1991 - aka, pre-interweb explosion. now i wish i hadn't given it away

I read half of SnowCrash and put it down. I thought it sucked.

I got the impression that it wasn't marketed to my demographic -- if I had read it as a 13 year old who was just breaking on to the scene of being a crazy haxxor I think I would have enjoyed it more.

TBH, thinking back on it now, there were some things in it that stood out as original for its time, and tempts me to go back and finish it.... But then I remember how I nearly laughed at all the quote-unquote cybar-slang and not-quite-techno-babble.

Reading World War Z for the second time this year after having read the Ender saga. I agree with the sentiments voiced here regarding Card: Ender's Game is a true classic, but the others flounder somewhat and feel pretty generic.

Just read book 1 & 2 of The Walking Dead too. Loved book 1, and book 2 was great, but I wish they hadn't changed the artist

R00k wrote:I read half of SnowCrash and put it down. I thought it sucked.

I got the impression that it wasn't marketed to my demographic -- if I had read it as a 13 year old who was just breaking on to the scene of being a crazy haxxor I think I would have enjoyed it more.

TBH, thinking back on it now, there were some things in it that stood out as original for its time, and tempts me to go back and finish it.... But then I remember how I nearly laughed at all the quote-unquote cybar-slang and not-quite-techno-babble.

That's it, I'm revoking your nerd card. :icon33:

What year did you read it btw?

'Infidel' by Ayaan Hirshi Ali

R00k wrote:


What year did you read it btw?

'02 maybe? Not long ago at any rate. I thought it was a great book, but I'll admit I'm a huge Stephenson, Gibson, and Sterling fan.

I've heard a lot of good things about Stephenson. After SnowCrash, I decided to pick up Quicksilver because it sounded like it was more up my alley, and I wanted to give the guy a shot.

I've read maybe 100 pages of that one so far, but it's wearing me down. It seems like nothing is really happening. His style is interesting, but when you're talking about cloaked encounters between alchemists (the backstory to which I still don't understand), it's hard to keep my attention.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something key, or if I'm just too dense to follow the story. =\

Maybe I should have picked up Cryptonomicon instead of Quicksilver.

Haven't read quicksilver (though it's been on my to-read list for ages now) but cryptonomicon is great.

I'd offer to swap copies for a while... But shipping a book to dutch0land is probably more expensive than buying it. =\

Naked Lunch by William S burroughs
Neuromancer by William Gibson

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Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

Finished King Lear and Fifth Business, now onto Razor's Edge.

I strongly recommend reading Fifth Business. I'll probably even check out the rest of the Deptford Trilogy.

i doen want to ruin my clearity of thinksing ey.

if i learn something , i may take it for granted and not think

R00k wrote:I've heard a lot of good things about Stephenson. After SnowCrash, I decided to pick up Quicksilver because it sounded like it was more up my alley, and I wanted to give the guy a shot.

I've read maybe 100 pages of that one so far, but it's wearing me down. It seems like nothing is really happening. His style is interesting, but when you're talking about cloaked encounters between alchemists (the backstory to which I still don't understand), it's hard to keep my attention.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something key, or if I'm just too dense to follow the story. =\

Maybe I should have picked up Cryptonomicon instead of Quicksilver.

About ninety percent of the Baroque Cycle is boring twaddle, Cryptonomicon is genius from cover to cover, Snow Crash is hilarious, and the Diamond Age was very thought-provoking and great at wrong-footing the reader over what sort of book it actually is.

7zark7 wrote:RANT by ChuckPalahniuk.

Just finished RANT.

I really liked the oral biography format he uses.... ITs still your standard Palahnuik.... but he takes his formula to a new level, this time baseing the novel in a distopian future. And alot of interesting stuff about the concepts on time travel. and I love the idea of PARTY CRASHING. Its like a fight club with cars.
I'm not gonna say its my favorite, cuz its not. ( Diary is) But I liked it alot better than choke.

The Horse's Mouth -Joyce Carey

Just finished Speaker for the Dead (sequel to Ender's Game).

Just Finished: Flowers for Algernon
Finishing: Cowl
Up Next: Singularity Sky

Sinner - Sara Douglas.