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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #180 on: February 09, 2017, 12:17:50 PM »
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I am currently working on "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.  I love it, seems very prescient in terms of satire to our current political and socioeconomic climate.  Anyone else read it?

Great book! IMHO you can't go wrong with Neal Stephenson's books, though Cryptonomicon and the Baroque cycle take some patience  :)

I think you're right about its prescience. I read it when it came out in 92, back when the internet was just coming into its own. We didn't even have the Mozilla browser yet.

You might The Diamond Age as well, which he wrote a few years after.

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #181 on: February 09, 2017, 12:33:18 PM »
I LOVED Cryptonomicon... and have been stuck in Quicksilver for eight months. :(

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #182 on: February 10, 2017, 10:04:59 AM »
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I LOVED Cryptonomicon... and have been stuck in Quicksilver for eight months. :(

I think a lot of us have books like that.  I have never been able to get through War and Peace and I spend so long between attempts that I have to start over each time. I use a different bookmark for every attempt so they are all just stuck there like javelins in a contest.

Something that I always find amusing in Stephenson's books is how the stuff he is dreaming up for the future is often easier for me to believe than some of the historical things he describes that actually happened.

I have been so impressed with Noah Hawley's work on Fargo and now Legion, thinking I might track down some of his novels and give them a try.

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #183 on: February 10, 2017, 10:34:49 AM »
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Great book! IMHO you can't go wrong with Neal Stephenson's books, though Cryptonomicon and the Baroque cycle take some patience  :)

I think you're right about its prescience. I read it when it came out in 92, back when the internet was just coming into its own. We didn't even have the Mozilla browser yet.

You might The Diamond Age as well, which he wrote a few years after.

I think next for me is Neuromancer.  Trying to get through some of these cyber punk books I've never read.  That or start the Hyperion series.

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #184 on: February 10, 2017, 01:01:00 PM »
Any forum members joining this fifth CCI book club?  :)

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« Reply #185 on: February 10, 2017, 03:58:32 PM »
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Any forum members joining this fifth CCI book club?  :)

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Wish I lived closer, Encinitas has a beautiful library.

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I think next for me is Neuromancer.  Trying to get through some of these cyber punk books I've never read.  That or start the Hyperion series.

Gibson had some signings at SDCC 2016. In the one I went to, instead of the nice collectibles people usually bring, there were lots of old, beat up, well read copies of his books. Lots of Neuromancers.

Stephenson did a Q&A on slashdot a while back. His answer for who would win in a fight between him and Gibson is great.

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #186 on: February 10, 2017, 09:15:16 PM »
Just bought TRANNY - Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout.  It's by one of my favorite artist and I'm excited to start it! 

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #187 on: February 15, 2017, 08:53:03 PM »
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Just bought TRANNY - Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout.  It's by one of my favorite artist and I'm excited to star it! 

Her interview in the Daily Show last week was great.

Started The Good Father by Noah Hawley. Bit heavy, especially for a parent, so breaking it up with an old archy and mehitabel collection I found.

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #188 on: February 16, 2017, 08:41:46 AM »
Currently reading "Robopocalypse"' but before that I had read the Unwound series by Neal Shusterman... it was a bit unsettling.
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« Reply #189 on: February 16, 2017, 10:00:42 AM »
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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #190 on: February 16, 2017, 03:45:17 PM »
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I think next for me is Neuromancer.  Trying to get through some of these cyber punk books I've never read.  That or start the Hyperion series.

The Hyperion series (By Dan Simmons) is great
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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #191 on: March 03, 2017, 03:28:47 PM »
What are you will I be reading?

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #192 on: March 03, 2017, 03:45:26 PM »
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What are you will I be reading?

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I was so hoping that would be published earlier so I could have bought it for my son's birthday next week. Have you read the other ThrawnZahns?

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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #193 on: March 03, 2017, 04:41:06 PM »
Finished Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.  It was an interesting story...but the style or the writing distracted me...I would call it...overly verbose?  But it was a recommendation from a friend so I pushed through it.  Good an interesting story tho.
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Re: Books - What are you reading?
« Reply #194 on: March 03, 2017, 06:15:33 PM »
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I was so hoping that would be published earlier so I could have bought it for my son's birthday next week. Have you read the other ThrawnZahns?

That would be an awesome gift for an apprentice, Master Jedi!

Yes, have read - and recommend - the Thrawn Trilogy and the Hand of Thrawn (long live the EU).