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Just finished Bruce Sterling's Zeitgeist. It's the first Sterling that I've read, and, regardless of what it's shelved under, it's a sociology book all the way. Fuck labels. The G-7 girls are just hilarious, and more exposure would have made it cooler. Leggy Starlitz, while pathetic, is richly contructed; the conversation he has with his daughter before they part, that calls Leggy like he is -rocks. And the Makato(?) interactions are cool too.
Finally got around to reading Pratchet and Gaiman's Good Omen, left me in such a laughing fit that I swear that I can still feel the knots in my stomach when the Japanese One died. At least Heaven has the best choreography.
Book of Dreams I was finished intermittently, it's an anthology, that's how it should be done. In no particular order,
Chain Home, Low
An Extra Smidgen of Eternity
The Mender of Broken Dreams
Volasag and Elet
...all rocked.
Um... Journey to Ixtlan before that, if I remember correctly, it's the only Carlos Castaneda book I've read(didn't know he became Don Carlos later), and was surprised to find that there are like, seven more books following that one - anyone up for recommending us to read the rest? It's cool but, esp when it's written from the first person POV, tends to drag a bit. Whipped through it real fast though.
And there was also a book on the Tremere by White Wolf... somewhere. Like all the books in the series, tends to leave one hanging, didn't get on this book for months after I finished the last one, so much of the plot was lost on me.
Now it's between Ian Sinclair's Slow Chocolate Autopsy(abandoned previously in favour of some ice-cream after the first chapter gave us a headache), Rushdie's Ground Beneath Her Feet, and Michio Kaku's Hyperspace. |
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