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Originally posted by Trogdor:

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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.

I concur, couldn't get more than 30 pages into it. Felt like a rehash of a rehash.

If I'm being honest, I don't think he's much of a writer.

Archie: Nice quote.

i liked sterling's "island in the net". think i should read it again,

now readin "steep approach to garbadale" by iain banks.

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Originally posted by UberDog:

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Originally posted by Trogdor:

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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.

I concur, couldn't get more than 30 pages into it. Felt like a rehash of a rehash.

If I'm being honest, I don't think he's much of a writer.

Archie: Nice quote.

Non-gamers shouldn't include gaming as part of their story because they include the very most superficial stuff. And gamers shouldn't include gaming as part of their story because gamers can't fucking write or do anything else besides game.

Expanded Universe, Robert Heinlein
" . . . [T]ake his lollipop away and spank him with it." [chapter PRAVDA means TRUTH]

No More Secondhand God, R. Buckminster Fuller
"For most simply through paradox / Do I usually discover truth."

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Originally posted by Trogdor:
Non-gamers shouldn't include gaming as part of their story because they include the very most superficial stuff. And gamers shouldn't include gaming as part of their story because gamers can't fucking write or do anything else besides game.

True.

I'm using an estimate for car repairs as a bookmark, which I thought was appropriate.

And I thought you were using the book for not getting the car repairs estimate wrinkled.

Currently reading Murakami's After Dark, which is the last book I bought. I've read Kafka and the Sheep Chase and I recall some one telling me there ia an order after the Sheep Chase. Any instructions as to which to read next?

well, in general i don't think it makes a big difference what order you read murakami. but "sheep chase" and "dance, dance, dance" are the two that are directly related.

i've spent this weekend's reading time on gilbert hernandez's first contribution to teh current love and rockets editions - heartbreak soup. its great. got the second sitting to follow it. and picked up the third of both jamie and gilbert's stuff this afternoon.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:
Non-gamers shouldn't include gaming as part of their story because they include the very most superficial stuff. And gamers shouldn't include gaming as part of their story because gamers can't fucking write or do anything else besides game.

I wrote Charles Stross an email thanking him for using "grep" in a sentence without explaining it!

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Originally posted by yer.andreas:
And I thought you were using the book for not getting the car repairs estimate wrinkled.

Currently reading Murakami's After Dark, which is the last book I bought. I've read Kafka and the Sheep Chase and I recall some one telling me there ia an order after the Sheep Chase. Any instructions as to which to read next?

You should read Wind Up Bird Chronicle next in my opinion.

I loved halting state, in fact I love stross I've read all his stuff and was happily surprised to find his new book Saturns children in a shop a few days back, I thought it wasnt out for a few months!

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Originally posted by jdotaku:
I loved halting state, in fact I love stross I've read all his stuff and was happily surprised to find his new book Saturns children in a shop a few days back, I thought it wasnt out for a few months!

I just ordered Saturns Children, so my not liking HaltinG StatE didn't hurt Stross too badly as far as book sales go. And I can't say I didn't like it at all. I did finish it. Just didn't think it lived up to the hype.

I finished "The Names" by Don Delillo yesterday.

I think it is the most beautiful, well written, intelligent, insightful, empathetic and original novel I have ever read in my short life.

Has anyone read this?

The lead up to and last chapter left me weeping, reeling, astounded....

I immediately began reading it again.

There is an entire world in there.

well, shit, man. How can I not read it now? Ordered.

I bought it cheap, at value village, not knowing what to expect. I have read four of his novels, and each one is wildly different. The atmosphere and emotions, not to mention the geography and history in this book absolutely floored me.

Ordered it as well.

You are a Delillo shill now, Boog. get your kickbacks while you can.

Well, Ellis wasn't paying his bills. I had to read someone...

Besides, I bought the book for $2.oo at Value Village and can sell it to a used book store for $4.oo.

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Well, Ellis wasn't paying his bills. I had to read someone...

Besides, I bought the book for $2.oo at Value Village and can sell it to a used book store for $4.oo.

You mean when he kept being unable to log on to his site?

Or do you mean Brett Easton?

How to did Brett not pay his bills?

Is he doing coke again?

bad, Bret, bad boy!!!

Yeah, I was making a bad Bret Easton Ellis reference.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Besides, I bought the book for $2.oo at Value Village and can sell it to a used book store for $4.oo.

seriously? seems the used book market here is collapsing.