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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Kerr] 1
#6331577 - 12/03/06 10:06 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
and have been trying to read Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, but I'm not comprehending it...need cliff notes
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jewunit]
#7435258 - 09/21/07 03:44 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Camus - The Rebel
only twenty-five pages in and I'm enjoying it
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: circles]
#23451551 - 07/17/16 11:36 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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finishing Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
not sure what's next, but i'm going to look for a copy of Count Zero by William Gibson, so i can then read Mona Lisa Overdrive
got a lot of audiobooks to listen to after that
edit: read about 60 pages of Count Zero this morning at the library. 20% through the book and nothing had happened, too many characters loosely introduced. i think i'll be skipping this one. looked at the dust-jackets on some of Gibson's other books and they didn't seem too interesting
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: millzy] 1
#23453037 - 07/18/16 02:00 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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i have Altered Carbon as an audiobook and will be listening to it before the year is over. i'll look into the Peripheral. Neuromancer kind of lost me towards the end, but i've heard good things about Mona Lisa Overdrive, so i figure it's worth a couple days time to get there.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Satyr604]
#23469084 - 07/23/16 11:50 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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i DID read Neuromancer. it was well worth it. it's Count Zero that i read the first 60 pages of and put down.
looked into some of Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, as a follow-up to Snow Crash, but it had lots of mixed reviews
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Connoisseur]
#23539121 - 08/13/16 09:51 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
wasn't really feeling it until the 6th chapter, and now i'm fucking hooked. Vanger is awesome (at this point) 36 years of life focusing on one day
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: RolledUhhp] 1
#23968821 - 12/30/16 06:19 PM (7 years, 29 days ago) |
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i'm working on The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Marakumi. first of his [set of] stories i've read, and i'm blown away and only 2/3 through it. funny, sad, thought-provoking/reflective. great writing style. i can't wait to explore more.
also working on Second Foundation by Issac Asimov. Not enjoying it as much as the first two parts of the series, but i've also not delved into it as hard or frequently as the first two.
one of these days, i'll finish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
about to start reading Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases by Amy Myers
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24094381 - 02/16/17 03:00 AM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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struggling through Count Zero by William Gibson
shouldn't take half a book of almost no seemingly relevant story-content before anything begins to occur, but so it goes. hoping Mona Lisa Overdrive is better
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24095301 - 02/16/17 12:55 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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demiu5 said: struggling through Count Zero by William Gibson
half a book of almost no seemingly relevant story-content before anything begins to occur
Yeah, I hate books like that.
for sure. tried starting this one last year. decided i wanted to do the whole sprawl trilogy, and it's the middle book
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: clock_of_omens]
#24256025 - 04/19/17 01:47 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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read a few books lately, but i'm a few chapters away from finishing Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. this book is intriguing; at times it drags on and has almost put me to sleep (actually did once!), and at other times it's incredibly exciting and the chapter blows by.
i'm likely going to read the next in the series, as i have a copy of all three. i'm hoping the next installment holds my attention better.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#24353950 - 05/27/17 11:52 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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DividedQuantum said: Yeah, I admit that there are parts that drag in places. They're long books, so there are bound to be. But I think the second book is better than the first, and the third one is better the second. They get better and better as you go along.
i've made it halfway through The Dark Forest, and i just can't take it anymore. there have certainly been some interesting/funny moments, but it's dragging on and on.
oh well
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Noodle473 said: I know what you mean. Maybe he is using the stream of consciousness to depict the many amazing and multitudinous things occurring all around the subject 
I kind of like it - it is a very different way of writing from what I am used to but it is so much easier to read than Finnegan's Wake. He doesn't do it all the time - just sometimes he'll float off into a different state of awareness that sheds some light on the subject's point of view instead of remaining stoic.
i tried starting Finnegan's Wake, as Joanna Newsom's album Divers draws heavily from this book. either i need a better-translated copy, or it's just beyond my linguistic capacity
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