What are you reading?

[kbit]

Whole bunch of philosophy readings on love. Read Aristotle and Hume earlier tonight.
For pleasure, gonna start this soon.

[jfrey]

[RR Bigman]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[behndy]

just finished rereading Y The Last Man. i love that series, but the way Vaughan ends it makes me want to uppercut him in his perineum if i ever meet him. so fucking MEAN.

[Achtane]

I finished 1984.

[behndy]

i dina like 1984 that much. like, a lot of the ideas are GREAT, and kinda scary how reflective of how some things are now. it just kinda bored me the way it was written i guess?

gah. the whole second half of the last Y is just gut punch after gut punch. i'm kinda an emotional sap anyways, but i cry at least three or four times finishing off that book. always want to just stop reading right before the Bad Times.

DAMN YOU VAUGHAN!!

[kbit]

I finished 1984.

I just finished that a few days ago.

I was also a wee bit weary of the way it was written at first, but it was kind of a nice change of pace compared to other books I usually read.
I enjoyed the imagery a lot; I kept imagining Oceania as a hybrid between the worlds of Killzone & Half-Life 2.
Is that sad?

[Achtane]

I finished 1984.

I just finished that a few days ago.

I was also a wee bit weary of the way it was written at first, but it was kind of a nice change of pace compared to other books I usually read.
I enjoyed the imagery a lot; I kept imagining Oceania as a hybrid between the worlds of Killzone & Half-Life 2.
Is that sad?

Nah, that's about accurate. HL2 is definitely inspired by it.
Never played Killzone

I liked it. The ending was "hnngggggg" but not unexpected. I'm glad it wasn't a cop-out.

[kbit]

Yeah I kept thinking there was going to be some uprising or something and I'm very glad there wasn't.

[kaboom]

got this for muh b-day:
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

[behndy]

hee. huge fan of Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore (of course). Gaiman telling the story about how Moore gave him the nickname Scary Trousers -

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=337-ycZz6IM[/youtube]

[mdjphillips]

Invincible by Robert Kirkman.

[smile_man]

the marbled swarm.

it's of different from dennis cooper's other stuff, i don't know how to deal.

[Achtane]

This is the post that allowed me to stop reading Neuromancer. I wanted to like it, but it just isn't happening.

Honestly I would encourage the guy reading Neuromancer not to finish Neuromancer. If you arent already captivated by the sexy adventures of the cool hacker in the wild and beautiful cyberscape you aren't gonna find anything worth your time at the end. Except for more goofball 80s orientalism.

I get why it struck a chord with people when it first came out. I mean it would be fun to be able to imagine that the internet was gonna be this wild new frontier of data and form divorced from the grounds of biology, physical shape, or a single overarching culture, instead of a place for fat young consumers to trade porn of their favorite cartoon characters.

[behndy]

hurm. i just reread that trilogy and it was still lots of good time fun happenings. but it WAS one of the first cyperpunk things i ever read and blew my junk open. for me it holds up decently, but mebbe i'm biased.

what'd'ya not dig about it Achty? felt hokey?