eugene Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 a chapter from "the birth of the clinic" by fuckoult, if he didn't already die of aids i'd wished it upon him. why would anyone write something in such pointlessly convoluted way for scientific purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 rude. also, cunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ex-voto Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 rude. also, cunt. agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Matter by Iain M. Banks Part of the "Culture" sci- fi series. Brother introduced me to this author, and although it isn't AMAZING, it is fairly creative/thought provoking for a sci-fi book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The Vampire Armand, Ann Rice I bought this for a dollar on a whim from a Thrift Store, having only read Interview with the Vampire. I have to say this might be the gayest book I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kokeboka Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The Restaurant At The End of The Universe, by Douglas Adams. It's not as funny as I thought it would be, but it's fun nevertheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Good shit. Historically accurate, bloody as fuck, great characters.. Matter by Iain M. Banks Part of the "Culture" sci- fi series. Brother introduced me to this author, and although it isn't AMAZING, it is fairly creative/thought provoking for a sci-fi book. I read Look to Windward a long time ago and it was one of my favourite books, I've been meaning to read them all for far too long now... Thanks for reminding me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 On new kindle touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 now reading: just finished : foundation was a little meh for me. the setting seemed cool enough but you don't get a close enough look at anything or become vested in the characters (at least i wasn't). do the other books expand in more detail or are they just more small veins of asimovs galactic history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 "gave up" on finishing You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers, and replaced it with Slapstick by Vonnegut, which I'm enjoying a hell of a lot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 foundation was a little meh for me. the setting seemed cool enough but you don't get a close enough look at anything or become vested in the characters (at least i wasn't). do the other books expand in more detail or are they just more small veins of asimovs galactic history? Just finished it recently as well, I had read the rest of the series but not this one. The rest of the trilogy invests more on the characters, I think, but they're all made up of "small veins of asimovs galactic history", and foundation and empire's first half is super boring, they're all hella cool, tho. the sequels and prequels of the original trilogy are definitely more detailed and character centric. --- I'm halfway through 1Q84's third volume and I still have no idea what is it about, it seems to be permanently building up to something that never happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 i want to return to stanislav lem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 this is my current reading-on-the-go list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 now reading: I read the second book when I was younger, really good memories.. going to start at the beginning when I'm done reading A Brave New World.. just finished the Death Gate cycle, pretty decent fantasy. enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 when i was a kid.. *takes seat by the fireplace* take a seat by the fireplace will you.. when i was a kid, i lent ex-voto my copy of Voyage to Arcturus earths shifted, moved in their courses and eventually collided or disintegrated... and then ex-voto started reading the book.... son, that's how cosmic its timescale is. he also trashed my copy of stephenson's cryptonomicon. now we mostly read academic literature... but back when novels ruled the sky, robocop carrying ghosts up mountains, sup doing a backflip on a spike with CUP watching from the afterlife muttering "one love". that's when supspension of disbelief was knig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) currently reading the Lilith's Brood series by Octavia E. Butler. Absolutely fantastic. Truly great. Only on book one but man. So good. other than that i just re-read snow crash and tried to re-start the baroque cycle but i wasn't feeling up to it. will probably read the diamond age after i'm done with lilith's brood because fuck i love that book. also read some non-fiction book about a lady who's mom was one of those munchausen by proxy people and almost killed her and that was depressing but not all that good. and a book about queer transgression in medieval english lit. and a dance with dragons. didn't really care for it, GRRM seems to be letting shit slide. and before that it was our magnificent bastard tongue which was interesting but nothing i didn't know. there were more but i dont feel like continuing. Edited January 8, 2012 by disparaissant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 when i was a kid.. *takes seat by the fireplace* take a seat by the fireplace will you.. when i was a kid, i lent ex-voto my copy of Voyage to Arcturus earths shifted, moved in their courses and eventually collided or disintegrated... and then ex-voto started reading the book.... son, that's how cosmic its timescale is. he also trashed my copy of stephenson's cryptonomicon. now we mostly read academic literature... but back when novels ruled the sky, robocop carrying ghosts up mountains, sup doing a backflip on a spike with CUP watching from the afterlife muttering "one love". that's when supspension of disbelief was knig A Voyage to Arcturus, mmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 currently reading the Lilith's Brood series by Octavia E. Butler. Absolutely fantastic. Truly great. Only on book one but man. So good. other than that i just re-read snow crash and tried to re-start the baroque cycle but i wasn't feeling up to it. will probably read the diamond age after i'm done with lilith's brood because fuck i love that book. also read some non-fiction book about a lady who's mom was one of those munchausen by proxy people and almost killed her and that was depressing but not all that good. and a book about queer transgression in medieval english lit. and a dance with dragons. didn't really care for it, GRRM seems to be letting shit slide. and before that it was our magnificent bastard tongue which was interesting but nothing i didn't know. there were more but i dont feel like continuing. The Diamond Age is seriously underrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 fuck yeah, we're doomed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 finished up lilth's brood, it was amazing. now reading perdido street station by china miéville also been reading bits and bobs of sister outsider by audre lorde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A/D Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 The Diamond Age is seriously underrated. not by me! haven't read it in years though. currently: dense & well-researched book on currently existing solutions for planet problems. still towards the beginning; there's some very cool stuff in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Franklin Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 still working through Infinite Jest side project of The Moral Landscape by sam harris. really enjoyable book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx About a 3rd of the way through. Had a great beginning but definantly starting to slow down. Very sad story Edited January 16, 2012 by Danny O Flannagin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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