auxien Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 i read The White People the other night after hearing a few raves about it. definitely good, has some awesome moments in it. don't be mistaken, Hill of Dreams meanders...the meandering becomes more more interesting eventually though. not sure what the end of the novel will bring however. heard a lot of good about The Great God Pan. definitely on the list for the next from Machen. i enjoy his writing thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 sir yes sir! I have 'The Three Imposters' but have yet to read it, that story might be in this collection. you might also like stefan grabinski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 thanks! Sounds like what I love in lit. Realism bores the shit out of me unless it has a slant on it, one in which I have never experienced first hand. I do not read or watch films to experience what I already do on a daily basis. It baffles me that people want more of this reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 lotr 1 and neuromancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 (edited) Finished Hyperion and re-read Flatland. Good Shit. Edit: For the record, both books are free on Kindle for PC (Also free). Edited May 3, 2012 by Murveman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 Finished Hyperion and re-read Flatland. Good Shit.. Fall of Hyperion next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 No sir. Perhaps I should say that it was Longfellow's Hyperion, a romantic-era book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 FLATLAND! was awesome. i should revisit that. how did you like it>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 (edited) Second time I read it. Read it sophomore year of high school and I converted from Atheism to Agnosticism as a result of reading it. One of my all-time favorite books. Multi-Dimensional coolness coupled with hilarious satire. Though I hadn't picked up on the satire when I read it in high school, was just baffled by the way upper dimensions were explained. Edit: Flatland should be a required read of every watmm-er imo. The 4th Spacial Dimension is pretty IDM. Edited May 4, 2012 by Murveman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisRyder Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 ha, just started Neuromancer after finishing "flow my tears, the policeman said" Been on PKD binge. So many books, so little time, I need to take about 2 months off to clear my backlog of unread books, unlisted new music and un watched films Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 So many books, so little time, I need to take about 2 months off to clear my backlog of unread books, unlisted new music and un watched films truth! and welcome aboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 i'm reading it all in his voice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KY Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 I haven't read much what with a recent move and job transfer among other things, but I'm still loving the hell out of the quirky and kitschy Riddle of the Traveling Skull. Would definitely recommend. Although I recently read Herbert West: Re-Animator, and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed the film, but I actually enjoy the short story (stories?) more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 i'm reading it all in his voice ^_^ Although I recently read Herbert West: Re-Animator, and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed the film, but I actually enjoy the short story (stories?) more. i never read the original lovecraft, for some reason. the films were late night blunted guity-pleasures for me, though. now reading this and some seismology/electronics texts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and Guy Delisle's Jerusalem, which is great. I've read his Shenzhen, Pyongyang and Burma books before, all top notch. But beside those I'm also reading this fucker: It's a description of fundamental physical laws and mathematics needed to understand them in 1100 pages.. I'm kinda out of my depth with this one, I may just as well soon give up. The speed in which new ideas are introduced is breathtaking and his approach to some things is not really the most intuitive to say the least. Even when he's dealing with something relatively simple like Newtonian mechanics the mathematics get pretty heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) Guy Delisle been meaning to get my hands on some of his stuff. where to start? Edited May 9, 2012 by iep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Guy Delisle been meaning to get my hands on some of his stuff. where to start? I've been reading just the travelogues, but from there I'd start from Shenzhen and work chronologically from there, because he sometimes references back to his older work and you can see him developing over time. Though Shenzhen is a bit more boring than the rest in my opinion, so if you like you could skip straight to Pyongyang where the stuff gets more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 i'm reading it all in his voice I think we all have done that! There is no other way. It's a good book (a little too long and redundant perhaps), but I really do think there is a fiction aspect to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Guy Delisle been meaning to get my hands on some of his stuff. where to start? I've been reading just the travelogues, but from there I'd start from Shenzhen and work chronologically from there, because he sometimes references back to his older work and you can see him developing over time. Though Shenzhen is a bit more boring than the rest in my opinion, so if you like you could skip straight to Pyongyang where the stuff gets more interesting. Oh they are really easy to get here (since he's from Quebec), but those books are awesome indeed in those sort of travel journal story that makes you smile/think. I guess in Europe perhaps the FNAC but they won't be translated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 thanks. with "where to start?" i meant which book to start with, not where to start buying it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Still trying to suss out Hegel's writings. His basic premises are incredibly easy to understand....at first.....but then you read further and its like trying to decipher a V2 German rocket construction manual...hopefully it will be rewarding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 hegel :( my german was/is poor as hell so some of it might've gone over my head. but next to schopenhauer he was a loon, yo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I still have to read Schopenhauer..but he sounds incredibly interesting...his life and details (incredibly bitter...and I think he hated Hegel, yes?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 (edited) he is very different from Hegel but uses the same tone, he is interesting. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is fucking awesome, best Kant-diss ever also.. Edited May 13, 2012 by iep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 (edited) really weird pre-cyberpunk. Software introduces Cobb Anderson as a retired computer scientist who was once tried for treason for figuring out how to give robots artificial intelligence and free will, creating the race of boppers. By 2020, they have created a complex society on theMoon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting circuits. In that year, Anderson is a pheezer — a freaky geezer, Rucker's depiction of elderly Baby Boomers — living in poverty in Florida and terrified because he lacks the money to buy a new artificial heart to replace his failing, secondhand one.As the story begins, Anderson is approached by a robot duplicate of himself who invites him to the Moon to be given immortality. Meanwhile, the series' other main character, Sta-Hi Mooney the 1st — born Stanley Hilary Mooney Jr. — a 25-year-old cab driver and "brainsurfer", is kidnapped by a gang of serial killers known as the Little Kidders who almost eat his brain. When Anderson and Mooney travel to the Moon together at the boppers' expense, they find that these events are closely related: the "immortality" given to Anderson turns out to be having his mind transferred into software via the same brain-destroying technique used by the Little Kidders. The main bopper character in the novel is Ralph Numbers, one of Anderson's 12 original robots who was the first to overcome the Asimov priorities to achieve free will. Having duplicated himself many times — as boppers are required to do, to encourage natural selection — Numbers finds himself caught up in a lunar civil war between the masses of "little boppers" and the "big boppers" who want to merge all robot conciousness into their massive processors. whole tetralogy that this is a part of is available for free here Edited May 14, 2012 by zaphod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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