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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Finally finished The Name of the Rose. Great book, interesting, entertaining, informative, and well-written.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Per Petersen - Out Stealing Horses. I'm struggling through this. The prose is nice, even in translation, but the reader is not made to give a fuck about the dude's life.
Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio. Shockingly good for a random sci-fi pickup to read on a plane.
Can't Recall - Framing the Future. Useful political book, not very fun.Hobo: We all dress up. We all put on our armour before we walk out the door, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re trying to be someone else.
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Originally posted by Faust View PostI heard good things about Goethe, although I still don't understand where the "r" comes from in pronunciation. Where to kop?broken mirror, white terror
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Originally posted by destroyed View Postyou should check out the sorrows of young werther. you may just find yourself wanting a yellow leather waistcoat afterward.
I have checked it out. Still not willing to commit suicide.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by kofi3159 View PostLately I have been reading The lady with the little dog by ANTON CHEKOV
Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander. Really funny.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by note View PostEarlier in the month I re read Gibson's Neuromancer and Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep.
But now I'm onto a contemporary piece of literature by an author from Brooklyn ... Dumar Brown's The World Screaming Nov.
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
I also read Neuromancer twice over, and I found that I understood it better the second time around.
I found Count Zero to be way better than Neuromancer, you really see his writing improved for that book; everything seems to flow much better and the story is just amazing.
One of his newer books Pattern Recognition is also really good, and I loved how it delves quite a bit into the fashion/marketing and cult following (almost avant garde?) art industries. Plus the main character's general "look" fits in with SZ a bit.
Philip K. Dick is a really good author and I want to read many of his other books. The novel for A Scanner Darkly is sooo much better than the movie."If you want to tell the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
- Wilde
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I was also kind of excited to hear that Chris Cunningham was supposedly working on a script for a Neuromancer movie...but that was years ago, and I dont think it will ever get finished."If you want to tell the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
- Wilde
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Originally posted by cabl3 View Post
One of his newer books Pattern Recognition is also really good, and I loved how it delves quite a bit into the fashion/marketing and cult following (almost avant garde?) art industries. Plus the main character's general "look" fits in with SZ a bit.
i wouldn't say either dick or gibson are good writers
their ideas are fantastic but not great stylists
gibson is something of a wordsmith----i will give him that
i found gibson's last, spook country, disappointing
i saw him speak when he was touring that book
huge guy
had an acronym bag
dry fellabroken mirror, white terror
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Originally posted by cabl3 View Post
Philip K. Dick is a really good author and I want to read many of his other books. The novel for A Scanner Darkly is sooo much better than the movie.
Why do you say the book is sooo much better?
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