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Bruce Sterling’s “Islands in the Net”. I’ve tried to read this book twice now, but have never got beyond the first 100 pages. Something else has always happened in real life, so to speak. It’s the kind of book I normally really like. It’s just that I’ve read “Neuromancer” way too much, and that probably doesn’t help. I’ll get through the book this time.

It's "glow in the dark" ?

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Finally started reading Mieville (starting with perdido street station) then on to scar and neal stephenson's political thriller (title escapes me right now)

That is how I picture the Old Man in Spook Country.

I keep thinking I feel similarities in Faulkner's and Gibson's writing styles. My problem pinning it down is probably that it isn't there.

I find both enchanting. That's similar enough.

Faulkner uses an 'unreliable narrator' vehicle that I think WG would thrive with. Of course, he's thriving without it, too.

Faulkner writes very well about weak people too. Weak, selfish, lazy, cowardly people, who the reader likes, nonetheless.

I remember feeling a little sorry for Chrome, but WG separates the good guys from the bad guys pretty consistently.

read the second of the new editions of the love & rockets collections over the weekend. read the first one (maggie the mechanic) about october, then picked up the next three in january. they are such slabs of books that they can be intimidating, but sitting at the weekend and reading them cover to cover is very satisfying. this one was "girl from hoppers", the second of jaime hernandez's collections, follows well from "maggie the mechanic". the other two i have by gilbert hernandez, who i took longer to get into than jaime.

Started reading Halting State by Charles Stross. It's a bit of a weird read, and i haven't yet decided if i actually like it or not.

Little Brother - Man, if you read only read ONE book this year... the story is pretty cool, although definitely aimed at a young adult audience. But most importantly, it runs down the what-if of letting your government use terror of terrorists to cow you into giving up your freedom and privacy. And then it proceeds to provide recipes for counter-acting such an event.

Just fabulously interesting and fun stuff, imho!

i loved little brother.
its funny talking about it as young adult,
some of the torture/captivity scenes are pretty heavy going.

Hmmm, maybe I'm confusing my "book ratings". I checked again and it is "Young Teen" or something like that on Amazon.

At any rate, didn't make it any less awesome of a read for a middle-aged adult, lol...

oh its definitly pitched at "young adult", but that conjures an idea of something light weight. which we agree it isn't.

A little bit further into Halting State and i'm really starting to apreciate the writing style. So i'm warming up to it.

Trying to choose a holiday destination

Almost finished with SC again.

Reading The Mask of Nostradamus and Gods, Graves and Scholars for research.

Also have a stack of other research materials.

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
A little bit further into Halting State and i'm really starting to apreciate the writing style. So i'm warming up to it.

It took a while to grow on me too, but eventually I really liked it.

I just finished Thank You For Smoking, which was pretty close to the movie, but I read it anyway. I like Christopher Buckley's satire.

Finished SC again. Now I am reading about Oetzi the Iceman and have begun The Erasers.

Also began PR again.

I think I have a Gibson problem.

Seriously, next thing you know I'll be trying to score Memory Palace out on these dangerous Chicago streets.

Sunshine (2004) by Robin McKinely

Horror/Fantasy. A quick light read in the supernatural becomes part of the real world genre. Similar back story to Kim Harrison's Hollows series.

I'm actually enjoying it.

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A little bit further into Halting State and i'm really starting to apreciate the writing style. So i'm warming up to it.



It took a while to grow on me too, but eventually I really liked it.

I just read that Stross is at work on the sequel.

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
A little bit further into Halting State and i'm really starting to apreciate the writing style. So i'm warming up to it.

I dunno. I didn't like it. Seems like everything is done to stay in or extend a genre. Almost formulaic.

I thought it was very flat.