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Belated Summary:
(You get time to read when there's no internet and you're cooped up in a hotel room) Martin Amis: The Information - Another novel documenting a loser sliding out of control, but a good read; Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Water - Another excellent Ripley thriller, less chilling than usual; Douglas Coupland: JPod - Actually adored it. I guess you'd expect that. It's about computer nerds who are writing a game, so, to an extent, I'm the target audience. Yes, I liked it and appreciated the prime number and pi jokes. You'll laugh. I did actually spend some time looking for the bogus prime, just in case he's done something obvious, but I didn't find it. I did, however, devise cunning plans for finding it (and the missing place of pi) via a couple of small programs.Leaving the in-jokes aside, though, (and you can leave them aside because it's a very fat book and you still get your money's work) it's a grotesque over-the-top comic novel. Shallow characterisation? Yes. Deeply meaningful? No. Zeitgeist Quotient? 91%. Fun? Absolutely. Pohl and Kornbluth: Gladiator-at-Law - Not as good as I remembered, but classic sf neverthe less. Le Carre: A Most Wanted Man - A welcome return to classic spy skullduggery, after the rather disappointing Mission Song. |
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Reading Borges collected Fictions and plugging through Anathem from time to time.
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Finished Green Mars. As others already warned me, not an easy read, it's very... well, detailed, but worthwhile nonetheless. I'll need to check with the library to see if they have Red and Blue , but I think I'll pick up something lighter for now.
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 Duma Key, my first Steven King novel for over 20 years. I'm enjoying it. |
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Finished "Kitchen Confiddential", like "Fear and Loathing" in the kitchen.
Started "Falling Man" by DeLillo. Head bloodied yet unbowed. |
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A friend of mine lent me Barry Humphry's "More Please", but I grew bored with it fairly quickly and gave up after a week's commute with it - I found myself much more interested in the daily suduko in the newspaper.
Started Siri Husvedt's "The Sorrows of an American" on the train today and am enjoying it much more. |
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I found the Borges fascinating, but I think I was often missing the point. |
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I really liked "Kitchen Confidential" ************************** @GreatDismal: Crowd-sourcing about 11,000 people on a simple question makes Google look like a small public library in 1964! |
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Just finished that a week ago, liked it a lot. Very intense and very detail oriented. Followed it up with John Updike's 'Terrorist' Which was surprisingly meh overall. There were some good parts, but the characters are a little one-dimensional. And although there are some plot constructs that are a bit much to take, the end scene is pretty fantastic. Seems like he started with that scene and tried to build background to fill it in... Picked up the second America library Philip K. Dick collection last week. Halfway through "Martian Time-Slip". It's not my favorite of his so far, but the rug is starting to be pulled from under the narrative in that familiar PKD way... ________________________ What else would hunters do? |
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doktor sleepless - another one of the pieces that warren ellis seems to be churning out for avatar at the moment. they seem to give him a pretty free reign, but not sure how that works out in quality sometimes. i really want to like this, there is a lot of cool stuff in it. but something just isn't working. part of it is the art certainly, i'm not a fan, some of it works, but some of it is just so off-putting and not how i pictured it. there is a whole subculture called the grinders, who pretty much seem to be womack's ambients when described, but when encountered seem to be pale shadows of the idea.
ex machina - book 2 - by brian k vaughan of "y the last man" fame. had been kind of putting this off because its sort of super hero, and a lot of the time i'm piss sick and tired of damn super heroes. but its a guy who has an alien encounter that lets him talk to machines. having tried to be a hero, he decides to run for mayor of new york instead, figuring that he can make more of a difference that way. so its part science fiction, part super hero, part political, part alternate history. its pretty smart, and enjoyed these two books so far, with the third sitting in my to read pile, as the seventh has just been printed. |
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I loved it, and will be reading the rest of his books shortly. Head bloodied yet unbowed. |
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I've been picking up the monthlies on this one. I prefer Ivan Rodriguez's art over Juan Jose Ryp's who worked on Ellis's Black Summer, but both of them are too busy for my liking. Paul Duffield (FreakAngels) is sometimes too simple, but his flooded London splashes make up for that. Of all the Warren Ellis stuff I have read I think Mike Wolfer worked best with him on Gravel. Now that I have finished Anathem, I'm not sure what to read next. I have Hofstadter's I Am A Strange Loop, but I think that might mess with my head too much after Anathem. I'm still too scared to open Rumble Strip again, so I think I will be hauling around Dave Gibbon's Watching The Watchmen as the bits I have dipped into have been fascinating. |
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ironically i think preferred the art in black summer. though again there was a certain pinch of salt/i want to like this more but its not his best work. its frustrating, i was really really enjoying desolation jones and fell, and those are the two which are sitting in limbo.
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Generation Kill - So this is the book the TV series is based on. Very good too. If you see the TV series though, I'd say you get about 90% of what happens in the book. It was a very faithful translation to film.
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Kitchen Confidential is great. I also read A Cook's Tour and it's highly entertaining. Gotta love the Bourdain. ------------------------------------------ Looking to escape reality at every turn. |
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Come ON! Mission Song is WONDERFUL! about interpreters rather than ... ehem... nerds (can't get into Coupland... so what am I doing here? Trying to learn.) |
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Tristessa by Kerouac.
Head bloodied yet unbowed. |
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Now I'm mixing some SciFi and "noir": reading again "The Atrocity Archives" (CS) and "Agosto" by Rubens Fonseca. BTW, reaging again both books.
Oops... misplaced... we are in November... |
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