What are you reading?

[Chankgeez]

reading Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener this weekend probably

Make sure you watch the movie with Crispin Glover after you've read the book.

[Achtane]

Finished No Country for Old Men. I flew through that one compared to the other two books of his that I've read (and also love). It's easier to get into and felt more "organized", I guess.
Anyway, I really liked it. It was not as horribly depressing as the other two.
I've had the movie for a long time now but wanted to read the book first.

[behndy]

sweet. always wanted to read the book. just keep forgetting about it. the movie is very, VERY good. but it's the Cohen Brothers...... dunno if they know HOW to make a bad movie. curious to hear what you think of it, one of the things i've always liked about the Cohenians is how respectful they seem of the properties they work with.

i'm going through William Gibson's stuff trilogy by trilogy. been swamped with CoD and music stuff so i've only been reading a little bit. LOVE that man. such a good writer. really impressive that stuff written relatively so long ago (20 years? 30 for his first stuff?) holds up so well. 'specially in the cyberpunk field.

LURV. HIM.

[jfrey]

Read Bakuman vol. 8 yesterday. Now just have to wait another FOREVER for the next one to come out.

Back to scifi/fantasy novels that have been on hold for a while.

[The4455]

The Adventures of Huckleburry finn, for english calss, I've already read it and Tom Sawyer too, it's good.

[wsas3]

Re-reading one of my favourite sci-fi novels, Stranger In a Strange Land by Heinlein. HIGHLY reccomend it, it will change they way you view yourself, politics and war. Mindblowing shit.

[McSpunckle]

I'm reading "The Omnivores Dilemma"... 'cause I'm a bit of a food nerd, and always kinda liked Michael Pollan in interviews and such. It's really interesting, but maybe too long and you'd already have to be into that sorta thing to like it.

I'll have to thumb through this thread to decide what to read next.

[smile_man]

confessions of a mask.

was re-reading "a personal matter" but then i decided to finish something i hadnt read yet.

[Z*Z*Z]

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell & occasional Petrarka

[Grrface]

sweet. always wanted to read the book. just keep forgetting about it. the movie is very, VERY good. but it's the Cohen Brothers...... dunno if they know HOW to make a bad movie. curious to hear what you think of it, one of the things i've always liked about the Cohenians is how respectful they seem of the properties they work with.

i'm going through William Gibson's stuff trilogy by trilogy. been swamped with CoD and music stuff so i've only been reading a little bit. LOVE that man. such a good writer. really impressive that stuff written relatively so long ago (20 years? 30 for his first stuff?) holds up so well. 'specially in the cyberpunk field.

LURV. HIM.

I've only read Gibson's Neuromancer, what else do you recommend by him?

[behndy]

woof. really everything. um, Pattern Recognition is one of the hardest of his to get into.

All Tomorrow's Parties and Idoru are my favorite newer stuff he did, but i'm a nerd about Japan.

have you read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? a lot of his stuff gets wobbly and pedantic, but Snow Crash is amazing and Diamond Age is really really good too.

also, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

those are (to me) the three most interesting voices in cyberpunk. Gibson is gold, a bit abstract sometimes. Stephenson does the conceptual, thinking man style great. funny as parapalegic whore jello wrestling too. and Morgan is cyberpunk hopped up on 12 eightballs. a smart violence filled landscape of visceral thrills.

i'm a GEEK.

[phantasmagorovich]

woof. really everything. um, Pattern Recognition is one of the hardest of his to get into.

All Tomorrow's Parties and Idoru are my favorite newer stuff he did, but i'm a nerd about Japan.

have you read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? a lot of his stuff gets wobbly and pedantic, but Snow Crash is amazing and Diamond Age is really really good too.

also, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

those are (to me) the three most interesting voices in cyberpunk. Gibson is gold, a bit abstract sometimes. Stephenson does the conceptual, thinking man style great. funny as parapalegic whore jello wrestling too. and Morgan is cyberpunk hopped up on 12 eightballs. a smart violence filled landscape of visceral thrills.

i'm a GEEK.

I'd change preference in favor of Diamond Age, but this gets my full support.

[behndy]

you like Diamond Age better than Snow Crash? they're both awesome, but Snow Crash has the more unhinged odd humor that i dig. kinda a less droll Douglas Adams vibe?

hard to go wrong with either though.

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[Rygot]