Finished Ian McDonald's 'Brasyl' a couple of days ago, now enjoying Paul MacAuley's 'Cowboy Angels' (hey, it's dedicated to Jack Womack!). Got Neil Gaiman's 'Anansi Boys' to polish off in the next couple of days before the library ninjas come after me...
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Almost done rereading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. I don't know yet if i'll continue directly with the second book, or read something else in between.
Started reading this last night. I'm about two chapters in, it looks like I'll finish it.
This book is more to my liking than Little Brother (2008), which was a racy, Young Adult story. This book has a vaguely Coupland-esque feel to it. I'm liking the Church main character. And, as per usual Doctrow has a grip on the tech.
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Originally posted by Bravus: Finished Ian McDonald's 'Brasyl' a couple of days ago, now enjoying Paul MacAuley's 'Cowboy Angels' (hey, it's dedicated to Jack Womack!). Got Neil Gaiman's 'Anansi Boys' to polish off in the next couple of days before the library ninjas come after me...
had cowboy angels sitting for far too long, i really need to get on to that at some point.
i finished "the select works of t.s. spivet" eventually. it was disappointing. it was very much readable, but felt like it could have been truly brilliant, like it alludes to things that are more interesting, but never really follows through. so yeah, good read, could have been better.
re-reading "a madness of angels" by kate griffin. i read a dozen or so urban/paranormal books last year, of them all this was by far the best. its like gaiman's neverwhere, cranked up, like she took that as a loose sketch and wrote it properly, like she looked at magic in fiction and thought well that all old fashioned how do i make that more contemporary and worth reading?
i have that one and a couple others still to read. for some reason not got round to it. though taking a saturday to just sit and read one of those volumes cover to cover is a delight.
One is fiction, the other is Political Science (maybe Economics). Both are profoundly optimistic about the power of innovation. Where they differ is in the author's apprecation of humankind.
I'm actually enjoying Makers more, having read Hot, Flat, & Crowded. Its because I left Friedman's book being pessimistic about the future. However, the near-future example in Makers is credible enough, despite its dystopian aspects (Hollywood, FLA!) to see that a few people can have a disproportionate effect.
BTW, Edit's posts give me a lot of Florida context.
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Finished the Stieg Larsson trilogy.. I thoroughly enjoyed them, and thought Salander one of the best female charaters in a book for a long time.
Now reading a biography of Primo Levi by Ian Thomson.. Reccomended by a colleague, but don't think I'm in the mood for a biography of this style.. the "he grew up in this house, then moved to this house. His sister has x memory of him". Might pause on it and come back to it at a later date.
I've given up on Oryx and CRake for now. Just reading Not a Good Day to Die. Oryx and Crake seems like a sci fi book written by someone who really doesn't like sci fi.
That's all I can stand, and I cants stand no more.
Finished Accelerando, and now I"m 100-odd pages into The Atrocity Archives, which I'm really enjoying. I'm a big Len Deighton reader from way back, and this is tickling me no end.
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Originally posted by shake: I've given up on Oryx and CRake for now. Just reading Not a Good Day to Die. Oryx and Crake seems like a sci fi book written by someone who really doesn't like sci fi.
Um, Margeret is one of the few authors that actually knows her shit enough to be an actual scientist. Whatever problem you're having with O&C, you should open up a little more. Seriously, Atwood is brilliant.
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Re-read Anathem, which I think is absolutely brilliant. If I may brag a bit, I read it in under 24 hours the first time, so I had the impression I may have missed a bit. Hence the re-read.
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