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2006: What are you currently reading?

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Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:34 / 22.07.06

I think I managed the introductions of Godel, Escher, Bach okay, then was lost when I got round to the actual chapters.

I've just finished The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. I'd read The Gunslinger and found it tedious, but then heard that this was a common reaction to the book so decided to give his Dark Tower series one more go. And I'm glad I did. I think part of the problem with was that Roland wasn't that interesting a character, in Drawing... he's more alive, even when he's close to death. It drags for a while about two thirds of the way in but has a satisfying climax and, interestingly in my partial reading of King, hints at what might turn out to be an interesting relationship between Roland and Eddie.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith next.

23:57 / 22.07.06

I'm reading all these books about old men dying, lately, with the exception of In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, because Stoatie recommended it upthread and that reminded me that a friend had loaned me his copy quite awhile ago, and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, which I'd been meaning to read for a long time and a friend loaned it to my partner-in-crime so I nabbed it. I liked both ok, although I began to crave, particularly in the latter, an actual female subjectivity.

So why I then turned to Everyman by Philip Roth, I don't know, but it is short and powerful. "Upbeat" is one word that will never be used to describe this little book. It definitely is exploring that sense that, if you live to an old age, eventually your biography becomes your medical history, which is to say, your encounters with your own mortality. How we're all, basically, doomed to be at some point, should we be lucky enough to live long, western, medically-supported lives, to be completely obsessed with the deterioration of our own flesh.

So now, still on the dying old men theme, I am about halfway through Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and it is as quietly gorgeous and moving as anything I've read. She takes about 10 years to write her books, her earlier one is the marvel Housekeeping, and her prose is perfect, poetic. Here the main character is a dying pastor in Iowa writing a letter to his son, which I realize must not sound promising, but it's amazing.

04:17 / 23.07.06

My mom leant me the first three Artemis Fowl books to read while I'm stuck in the Middle of Nowhere, Massachusetts for the next few days. And I think that they're really fun so far.

13:26 / 24.07.06

The Artemis Fowl books rock the fucking house. I even deciphered the secret message at the bottom of each page, a different cipher for each book- geek heaven! The perfect antidote to Harry Potter, a teenage evil genius.

Kiltartan Cross

20:56 / 26.07.06

Platform by Houellebecq

There's a certain detachment in the prose and I'm wondering if it'd feel like the same book to a Frenchman or French speaker.

Anyone read it in the original French? Care to share your opinion?

I'm reading it now (slowly!). Insofar as I'm able to tell, it seems well-written to me; there's a flow and distinct style to the prose, and some of the descriptions of people have been brilliant; certainly aided by it all being extremely rude. I'm not sure whether I like it, though; the central character isn't particularly appealing to me.

The Night Watch was good, and after starting out pretty much as the film did it went on to diverge in pretty much every way possible - and mostly for the better, I thought. I had my turn to wonder about nuances in translation; I got the feeling that some cultural references had been altered away from the Russian. (Did they, for instance, say "like a Green Beret" in the original? "Spetsnaz" is recognisable enough, innit? Who knows?) Anyway, it was also a little difficult to tell if the constant introspection, which seemed a bit heavy-handed, was accidentally or deliberately overpowering. The plot was complicated, but not especially subtle; the description was good, and certainly left me with a feel for the city, although whether it resembles the real Moscow is anybody's guess. All in all, though, I really enjoyed the read, and I'll be looking for the sequels.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:55 / 27.07.06

Reading Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found In Saragossa. It's fabulous, as you would expect a book written by a man who shot himself as he was convinced he was a werewolf would be.

Only 200 pages in - it's a lengthy, travellers-tell-tales story reminiscent of the Decameron, say - and already there's cabbalists, gypsies, succubi, undead brothers who walk around causing all manner of bastardry, Walloon guards, bullfighters and others.

It's great. It's selfconsciously framed, but so's The Canterbury Tales, and it's tops too.

This is one of those books I'd always meant to read, and now I'm very glad I did. It's a public-transport-smile-inducer.

11:46 / 27.07.06

I started reading The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe for the first time and I'm having trouble getting into it. It's not what I expected, and the narration is astonishingly stilted. There's a lot of praise for this work, however, and I'm going to keep trying.

Also, I remain at the same spot in The Sound and Fury as my previous post.

Finally, I have read 45 pages of Stephen King's Cell which I got for super-cheap new.

With two jobs, it's hard to have energy to read. I am watching lots and lots of movies though. I saw The Searchers for the first time. Wowee.

Disco is My Class War

15:42 / 27.07.06

I read an amazing number of novels while I was travelling in Thailand, some 'holiday reading' and others to get me to sleep in the midst of crazy Bangkok traffic. Bangkok has the best seocndhand bookshops I've ever encountered anywhere. Some highlights:

Q, by Luther Blissett. Luther Blissett is the pseudonym of four Italian autonomist writers who write novels collectively. It's sort of a thriller, I guess, et during the Reformation, and it follows various protests, peasant uprisings, early attempts to wreck capitalism as well as the putting down of those uprisings and the strategies seized upon by thre Catholic Church in its bid to retain economic, cultural and political power. Amazing but wordy.

Anne Rice, aka A. N. Roquelaure's The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. Picked this up secondhand. Some perv told me to read it a long time ago, said it wasn't the corny het D/s porn you'd expect from someone as mainstream as Anne Rice. I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. Surprised at the sexiness of the writing and the emotional complexity of the protagonist, which builds thoughout the book.

John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener Again, trash, but very classy trash, anti-capitalist trash. Le Carre even has a go at aid agencies as well as traditional British diplomacy, multinational pharmaceutical companies and so on. The love story is a bit on the odd side, but I like how the novel takes apart the racism/sexism/homophobia of expat communities.

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood Should be required reading for anyone who wants to write prose for a living. I saw it after seeing the movie, and was stunned at how completely Capote removes himself from the narrative. A class act in emotional compartmentalisation. But genius writing, nonetheless.

Now I am home, haven't been to the library in seven weeks, and have nothing to read.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

00:53 / 28.07.06

Haha! I'm in the middle of Sam Delany's Driftglass collection, and love "The Star Pit." After that comes PKD's Ubik (finally, I found a copy) and then there's a Shirley Jackson haunted house thing.

Might start a more-general-than-Dhalgren Delany thread once I'm done the book.

21:08 / 01.08.06

My boyfriend recently introduced me to Neil Gaiman's work, and after finishing Good Omens and MirrorMask, I've just started on Neverwhere. Absolutely amazing stuff. This man is a literary genius.

I'm also forcing myself to re-read Ethan Frome, a book that I once hated but am now slowly coming to enjoy.

21:57 / 01.08.06

I started reading The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe for the first time and I'm having trouble getting into it. It's not what I expected, and the narration is astonishingly stilted. There's a lot of praise for this work, however, and I'm going to keep trying.

Mattisse: The biggest Gene Wolfe fans I know* says that it's easier to get accustomed to Wolfe's writing style with his "Wizard Knight". I tried reading Book of the New Sun myself and got about 100 pages in before I was distracted by another novel and ended up returning Wolfe to the library largely unread. Its premise was interesting but the prose wasn't gripping enough to keep me going.

I'm reading Wizard Knight right now, however, and it's a solidly entertaining fantasy novel. The prose feels much more vital than Book of the New Sun and I'm just ripping along the pages. It convinced me to give Book of the New Sun another shot (once I can find a copy again).

*And they are rabid about the guy. "One of the top 5 living American authors" is how quite a few of them described him. I'm not sure I agree, but so far the Wizard Knight has me hooked.

Kiltartan Cross

23:30 / 02.08.06

Reading Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found In Saragossa. It's fabulous, as you would expect a book written by a man who shot himself as he was convinced he was a werewolf would be.

This was sufficiently convincing to make me invoke the powers of Amazon and temporarily abandon Plateforme, which I've been making slow progress through. And damn if it isn't just as cool as you'd expect. It's difficult to discern much about the author - other than his strong command of the form! - as throughout the book we meet characters espousing and arguing with conviction views from points all over the religious, political, occult and moral spectra. There are points where the story gets mind-boggling difficult to follow - as when one character (himself within a fictional manuscript in a novel!) tells the story of another character telling the story of another character telling the story of another character, all those stories nestled like so many layers of brackets in an equation. There was a point near the end which had me skipping over the text for a couple of pages - something I never do - as it went into full-on Biblical X begat Y mode - and the ending itself was a slight let-down; but, seriously, only a let-down after the excellence of the main body of the book. Very good indeed.

Not wanting to go back to the French, I've now skipped onto Archer's Goon for a breather.

11:01 / 07.08.06

Zipped through Merlin Coverley's wee introduction to Psychogeography in an afternoon- a great read if a little repetitive.

Currently inching my way through Diary of a Nobody and Naked Lunch which I am doing out of a sense of duty as, having recently graduated I realise that my acceptance in interview was mostly due to my passionate defence of the book which I had, at the time, not read from cover to cover. Shame. Shame on me. Pooter's a giggle though, nice break from all the hanging and necrophilia.

Most exciting though are the two tomes I have set aside for my imminent travels: John Cowper Powys' Weymouth Sands and Frazer's The Golden Bough. I'm hoping the two will in some way compliment each other but most of all I'm jsut game for a big read.

Janean Patience

21:16 / 07.08.06

Can I advise everyone not to read Joe Queenan's Queenan Country? It's an unhilarious travelogue of the UK. I've quite liked his writing before but man, this totally sucks. It's available in those discount The Works shops (UK) so be careful. You might buy it by mistake and then there's 240 pages to get through, and an hour of your life you'll never have again.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:27 / 08.08.06

Alvin Schwartz's An Unlikely Prophet: A Metaphysical Memoir by the Legendary Writer of Superman and Batman was a cracking little book and a great read. All about Buddhist tulpas and Superman, with a little questing thrown in too.

I've now moved on to Craig Murray's Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror about his time in Uzbekistan as Britain's ambassador.

Kiltartan Cross

00:42 / 09.08.06

Consider Phlebas, Iain Banks. It never really struck me before just how overt an allegory the book is for the Islam / West situation; I'd picked up on it before (of course - the book opens with a quote ("Idolatry is worse than carnage" from the Qur'an, after all*...) but it never really hit me before. It's positively Dune. Player of Games next, of course, etc. to the end.

*Which being different to the verse in my copy led me onto a very lengthy quest to attempt to discover the original wording and try to maul a translation myself. Al-fitnatu ashad-du minal qatl; to which the best I can get is "The (disruption/unrest/wrongness) is (harder/worse) than killing". Which is (perhaps) not so bad. It seems to be a very commonly quoted thing.
(Fitna)

23:49 / 09.08.06

I've been scanning the thread for a mention of Cormac McCarthy. I didn't see one and thought I would introduce this writer. He's so good, he really is worth a mention. Just before writing this I found Stoatberry Switchblade's piece on him with which I agree totally. To The Crossing, All The Pretty Horses and Cities Of The Plain can be added Blood Meridian and one that stays in my mind, Child of God, with the central character, Lester Ballard, God's (or the Devil's) prototype for mindless evil, but none-the-less, a truly memorable character. I guess this last one is not to everyone's taste. I lent it to a friend who was put off by the distancing of the prose. It's some time since I read it but I think I know what he means although it didn't have the same effect on me and it's not something that can, in my opinion, generally be levelled at McCarthy.
Once, lounging on a beach in the Algarve with my wife, with all the time in the world to kill, I read her the fight scene in, I think, The Crossing. Normally, she would have told me politely to get stuffed, but she was entranced and not by whatever reading skills I brought to it, but purely by the prose. A truly great writer.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:12 / 10.08.06

I've got Blood Meridian up next to read, and I gotta say McCarthy truly does rock.

04:26 / 10.08.06

I was this close to buying Cormac's newest book (now out in paperback) but I haven't read anything but comic books in two months and I feel guilty buying new books. Apparently, the Coen bros' newest flick is an adaptation of the new Cormac yarn. That would be something.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:54 / 10.08.06

Apparently, the Coen bros' newest flick is an adaptation of the new Cormac yarn.

Crikey. That should be several kinds of awesome, to say the least.

lonely as a cloud...

13:41 / 11.08.06

After something of a fallow period, where I couldn't really concentrate enough to read much, I've got through Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks and Dark Water by Koji Suzuki in the last week or two.

Feersum Endjinn was the first Iain M. Banks book I'd read (although I had read most of his non-M, non-sci-fi books), and I enjoyed it a lot. I haven't read much sci-fi in a long time - as a genre, it tends to annoy me, especially when the author makes up words for various bits of technology and whatnot just for the sake of it (my own opinion). Banks did a little of that, but not enough to annoy me, and the story was quite satisfying (although the end disappointed me somewhat). He juggled three or four different storylines well, IMHO, giving enough detail, depth and page-time to each without overly concentrating on on or two.

Dark Water is a collection of water-themed short stories by Koji Suzuki (author of The Ring), the first of which was adapted into a movie, which has since been given a Hollywood remake. It's a decent collection. The stories aren't as satisfying as his novels, but I thought they were well written, and I liked the fact that some of them kinda stop short, leaving the reader to imagine what might have happened next.

At the moment, I'm reading Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. I like Williams' work, especially his earlier epic fantasy trilogy, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. The setup for Shadowmarch is ludicrously similar to his previous work, but the characters have enough depth to make it a worthwhile read, if you enjoyed MST. So far, anyway, I'm only a hundred or so pages in.

23:11 / 11.08.06

Just finished the first four pages of 'Politics' by Adam Thirwell. I gather he's a fellow of All Souls college, Oxford.

So my contention is this; all right, I wasn't *clever* enough to get into Oxford - I had ten, no, twelve pints of lager the night before my interview, I was awash in a sea of ale, otherwise I'd have cruised it, for sure. Everyone says that, but for once, in this case, everyone's wrong. My ideas were too futuristic for Oxford at the time, basically.

But still, I can't help feeling that Thirwell's tiring, ghastly material is clear evidence of the flaws in the entry process - if a two bob clot like that is afforded a scholarship, then it seems as if Nookie Bear may as well be handing out the wad.

Kiltartan Cross

23:39 / 13.08.06

Apparently, the Coen bros' newest flick is an adaptation of the new Cormac yarn.

I read that quote, and for one second my heart leapt at the idea that someone, somewhere was filming Neal Asher's (trashy but likeable) Gridlinked. Oh and alas. As I'm working my way through Banks' Use of Weapons I may just divert to Asher's The Skinner next before Excession; Sniper would give any of Banks' wise-cracking drones a run for their money, and the lovingly-crafted ecosystem of Spatterjay is both hilarious and horrible.

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08:09 / 15.08.06

The Vellum, by Hal Duncan. I just finished it, so I'm in that stage of not being terribly articulate about it. It invites comparison to Zelazny's Books of Amber, with elements of Snowcrash and queer sexuality stirred in. But one of the draws for the Books of Amber was, I think, that the characters are anchor-points for all the worlds change; in Vellum the characters shift as much as the worlds. The writing style shifts, too, but calculatedly, with the voices of the changing narrators. It's not hopelessly confusing, but I found myself wanting to take notes. Certainly one does not for a moment believe that the sides in the war are simple. However, there are a few points where a certain portrayal of the Mad A-rab Terrrrrist became a bit much. There's a general anticolonialist narrative, but the author doesn't seem self-reflective about the impact of colonialism on the archetype that he uses (IMO) carelessly. An enjoyable read for me, and I'll be reading the second one when it comes out. Warnings: bombast slightly tempered by a sense of irony about it, hamhanded effort at current political relevance, borrowing from every known mythology ever, doesn't entirely make sense to me yet, occasionally bludgeons the reader with a symbolism stick. Recommendations: portrayals of gay male sexuality which are neither the focus of the story nor unsexed for "sensitive" readers, characters are engaging and certainly not static, moves along, a reasonably original treatment even if the themes are familiar, epic, unpredictable, avoids simplistic good and evil.

Kiltartan Cross

22:24 / 15.08.06

I note with interest that Amazon.co.uk's reviews of Vellum are perfectly polarised between one-star and five-star.

13:18 / 21.08.06

The Demon and the Angel by Edward Hirsch. As the subtitle implies, I thought it was going to be more of a study on sources of artistic inspiration (I'm going through a dry spell and saw the book), but so far it's been more of a critical essay on Federico Garcia Lorca and Lorca's ideas about what he calls "duende". Don't get me wrong, it's very interesting, and hopefully it'll branch out later into Miles Davis, Motherwell, etc. Anybody else read it?

16:30 / 23.08.06

I haven't posted since finishing White Jazz by James Elroy- which was fun but IMHO nowhere near his best novel- a shame really cos i loved that it was set in the same world as LA Confidential but the stacato prose just ended up pissing me off and wanting it to end.

Since then i've been reading lots of modern popular fiction- The Time Travellers Wife provided an easy read at the start of summer- great on the tube or lazing in the garden, a bit of a heartbreaker and suprisingly engaging. I want to hate any book with the Richard & Judy book club seal of approval but find myself begrudgingly admitting that they often recommend good books. We follow the story of Henry and Claire- told as two seperate points of view- he is suffers from a disorder that makes him time travel- she first meets him as a child- when he's her adult partner- it cleverly criss crosses through time telling a strange and sad story- pretty good actually.

I just finished the John Peel 'Margrave of The Marshes' which was brilliantly written and left me feeling very sad and gutted that the man ain't around anymore and the book never got fully realised. His half is written with the voice of Peel behind it- and Sheila's half is fully of great insights and anecdotes- I particullarly liked the idea of family outings to see Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror. If your a peel fan and haven't read it yet i can only recommend it.

I'm now reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffran Foer- his follow up to Everything is Illuminated- i'm shooting through it and kindof enjoying it. It tells the tale of a 9 year old who lost his father in the twin towers and his bizare logical viw of the world. It kind of feels like a blend of Everything is illuminated and The Curious Incident of the Dog- so far so good...

04:43 / 25.08.06

I'm 120 pages into Cormac McCarthy's newest novel and I'm loving it. It's very Coen-esque, while at the same time being very John Ford-The Seachers-esque.

Kiltartan Cross

12:11 / 25.08.06

Excession, Inversions, Look to Windward.
I love all Banks' Culture series, but Inversions is my particular favourite, though it does require you to've read the others to pick up on exactly what's going on. Justice, vengeance, bastards gotten, and the "oh my, is that a -" feeling from the first page onwards.

Vellum
Well now; much the same as Id, having finished the book, I find it difficult to describe. Still.
I have never seen a novel which seems to make so many different references to other books. It seemed like every few pages there'd be a nod to someone or other, generally, some other British (and particularly Scots) writer, or to random mythology from all over. I'm not usually that good at picking up on references first time round, but Vellum bludgeons you with them. For instance: near the start we're introduced to one "Guy Reynard" - ok - who is referred to as a fox - ok, that's good enough for my wee brain; later he is referred to as "Guy Fox" - da-ding!
I didn't find the "mad A-rab terrorist" bits especially grating, actually, although I agree that the attempts at political relevance were uninspired. What I really didn't enjoy was the insertion of all the cyberpunk and nanotech; just didn't work for me, somehow.
That aside, though, I found it very enjoyable; loved Puck, enjoyed the Lovecraft style archaeological expedition bits, liked the descriptions of the concept and practice of the Cant, and all the mythology vibes. Dig it.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

17:41 / 25.08.06

Obviously most people on this board are going to trust Craig Murray's Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror more than the official government line when it comes to the War on Terror. But it still managed to surprise me as to exactly how full of shit the British Government is. It also startled me that in the book Murray seems surprised and a little confused as to why his wife objects to him taking on a local girl as a Mistress. It's also interesting that the Foreign Office's list of reasons why he should be sacked include fictitious charges of alcoholism but make no mention of him having a mistress! Truly, theirs is a different world...

Still, now I'm reading As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade by Mark Thomas. I think it's him recounting the things he's talked about in various of the TV and stage shows. At the moment it's the bit where he poses as a PR advisor and suggests Indonesian generals admit they torture people...

19:24 / 25.08.06

I haven't had as much reading time as I used to, and even then, it's usually review books some publisher wants me to read that i might never have picked up otherwise, or things I'm scanning and only half-read as I edit. :-(

I've finished a few good ones, though (and a couple bad ones). I finally read Ubik, which was the only PKD novel I didn't finish before HS. I read Kingsolver's "poisonwood bible," which was so vivid I think I'll probably carry it around for a long time. I've picked up Eco's Queen Loanna (SP?) but haven't managed to work up enough interest yet. I read the first chapter (mostly) of "the expected one" and truly, I have not seen worse writing in actual print form...I wanted to rinse my eyes in draino to erase that lapse in judgement. I read Bloom's Lucifer book and that was very enjoyable. I'll spare the details of the Cornwell novels and other side trips, but I'm in desperate need of some comics or short stories if anyone has recommendations?

Kiltartan Cross

15:08 / 28.08.06

Currently reading Michael Scott Rohan's The Anvil of Ice, first of his Winter of the World sequence (also The Forge in the Forest and The Hammer of the Sun, plus some related but unnecessary prequels). Rohan's great skill, evident in all his books, lies in his intricate and careful blending of myths from around the world; the sequence combines elements of Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Inuit and Finnish myth, plus a reasonably solid dose of scientific speculation and smithcraft, to paint a picture of ancient societies in peril before the advance of the Ice. Throughout, characters and situations are almost-but-not-quite archetypal, always with some twist or other, and there are moments when (echoing the myths on which the story is based) there's a brutality to equal George Martin. And without giving anything away, the final showdown (in The Hammer of the Sun) is, ah, spectacular, unusual, and as far as I'm concerned, exquisite.

I really can't recommend them highly enough. If you like myths, if you like fantasy, get hold of them (although, I fear, you may have to trawl Amazon's secondhand section to find them).

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:37 / 01.09.06

As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade by Mark Thomas was an entertaining and undemanding read, if you watched the Product and have seen a number of his stage shows then about 3/4s of the material will be familiar, but that doesn't stop it being amusing and infomrative, and there was some new stuff too. And if you plan on going on any demos, take a bottle of olive oil and pour it over yourself when the police approach, makes you a bugger to hold on to apparently.

I'm now reading Everyman by Philip Roth. I'm not a huge fan of his as I find it rather cold in large doses but it's a small novel and not bad.

Also reading Gloom Cookie which is hilarious.

13:53 / 04.09.06

I finished No Country For Old Men and it was glorious. So complex. There's a lot happening in that book. I will be making a thread for it.

My supervisor and his family have been pushing George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire on me for months, so I picked up the first two books A Game of Thrones and something else for cheap at a used bookstore. Fantasy is not really my cup of joe, but I'll give it a try.

I'm halfway through Olympos after taking a long break from it. It's nearly as exciting as Ilium and I'm pissed that not all of my questions are going to be answered. It's the same with The Fall of Hyperion, in which not everything is clear.

I also got The Hours cheap at a bookstore and I'm going to try and get into that.

(By the way, I gave up on Gene Wolfe, I gave up on Stephen King's Cell and I gave up on Shogun (for the second time in my life). It's hard to read with two jobs and no energy. In fact, this is probably my tenth post in three months)

13:13 / 06.09.06

Neuromancer

I started this book when I boarded the plane for India. By the time I reached my destination I had finished. It was a good read, something to make the flight go real fast. I guess I was a bit of a cyberpunk back 15 years ago when I tried to complete my I.T. degree in programming and I have always been a bit of an amatuer fururist. I liked the way it flowed, the pace and the style of writing that didn't really spoon feed you explanations of memes from the future, it let you figure it out for yourself. I didn't really try to guess what was going to happen, I just went along for the ride.

I might even go and buy his latest, "Pattern Recognition" but I got a few to finish reading on the shelf when I get home.

I just bought a book on Indian Vedic Mathmatics, I WISH my grade 8 maths teacher taught me maths this way, I find this so refreshing. I might have even stayed at Uni and finished my programming degree???

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