Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Triple Zero]

just checked wikipedia (it's got spoilers )

seems i was pronouncing it in my head as "high row", not as "here row"

[LMNO]

Ah.  I hadn't thought of that.

[Cain]

Yeah.  I caught the joke, but given the traditional Japanese pronunciation...well it could have been done better.

Anyway, I'm reading The Last Transition

pdf linkie
http://homepage.mac.com/magnant/.Public/TheLastTransition.pdf

Not sure what to make of it yet....

[rygD]

It's good to know I am not the only Neal Stephenson fan (or at least reader) here.

At the moment I am reading the words that I am typing.

I am currently reading The Confusion by Mr. Stephenson and Accelerando by Charles Stross.  Maybe some other stuff I can't recall right now, also.

[Cain]

Anti-Semitism in Britain by Orwell.

[Mourning Star]

Re-reading the Sprawl trilogy

by Mr. William Gibson

Neuromancer
Count Zero
and
Mona Lisa Overdrive

until further notice...

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

On a William Gibson related note: has anyone here read All Tomorrows Parties? I just picked it up and haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

[Mourning Star]

On a William Gibson related note: has anyone here read All Tomorrows Parties? I just picked it up and haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

if I'm not mistaken that's book 3 in the Bridge Trilogy

Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tommorow's Parties

I've not read it yet, but have heard that it is really freakin' good...

but much like Virtual Light and Idoru, it's not the same future as the Sprawl Trilogy...

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

if I'm not mistaken that's book 3 in the Bridge Trilogy

Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tommorow's Parties

I've not read it yet, but have heard that it is really freakin' good...

but much like Virtual Light and Idoru, it's not the same future as the Sprawl Trilogy...

Excellent. Now to get Virtual Light + Idoru. Compulsive book buyer, away! *rides off into a rainbow*

[Mourning Star]

if I'm not mistaken that's book 3 in the Bridge Trilogy

Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tommorow's Parties

I've not read it yet, but have heard that it is really freakin' good...

but much like Virtual Light and Idoru, it's not the same future as the Sprawl Trilogy...

Excellent. Now to get Virtual Light + Idoru. Compulsive book buyer, away! *rides off into a rainbow*

Virtual Light provides a really interesting interpretation to the phrase "God is in the TV"

you'll like it I think...

[Cain]

The Revolutionary Catechism by Nechayev

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp000116.txt

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

The Revolutionary Catechism by Nechayev

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp000116.txt

*reads*



I take it Nechayev wasn't a fan of romantics?

[Jasper]

Tommorrow I pick up my first copy of Macbeth.

Also my first time really giving shakespeare a try.

[Cain]

The Revolutionary Catechism by Nechayev

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp000116.txt

*reads*



I take it Nechayev wasn't a fan of romantics?

I don't think he was a fan of anything, except killing people.  I've only ever seen one mental profile anywhere near his and it belonged to that arch-psychopath Carlos the Jackal, and even he has the shame to retreat into denial when pushed about it.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Brilliant! Who the hell was this twat? Change the word "revolutionary" for "goth" and it gets even funnier.