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Loughborough :S

Not a million miles from here actually. What's the deal awkward? I understand you're a UK bloke relocated to the US?

i want his new book really but 'd have to buy it on import. bah

  Iain C said:

Loughborough :S

 

Not a million miles from here actually. What's the deal awkward? I understand you're a UK bloke relocated to the US?

exactly. born and bred just outside loughborough, met a lovely american lovely and upped and moved here.

Ah that's nice. Anywhere's better than the east midlands, I'm sure.

it has a fond place in my heart. but i'm a yes man.

Orcs by Stan Nicholls

Apparently he's supposed to be the shit in the UK and this is the book that's going to break him to an American audience. Was three books but they omnibused it for this release. Very readable and interesting so far, but nothing groundbreaking. Told primarily from the orcs' pov.

finishing up 'against the day' now, by pynchon. it has been a lovely and magical journey

Buddha Volume 1 by Osamu Tezuka

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlen

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell

nutty...

fuckin'......

shit......

  takeshi said:

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlen

great book, you should read have spacesuit will travel next

Taking the Red Pill - Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix

  beneboi said:

  takeshi said:

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlen

 

great book, you should read have spacesuit will travel next

I'll ask my friend, I'm working my way through his Heinlen collection.

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Time out of Joint by Phillip K Dick

And I learned this searching for my avatar -- do NOT search 'pkd' on google image search.

Is that suppose to be a replicant?

Shostakovich, A life Laurel E. Fay

The Good War Studs Turkel

I've seen more than one person complain about not being able to find PKD books. Are Powells.com and amazon not enough?

I also swing by the Goodwill on my way home from work every few days - I've gotten 7 or 8 Dick novels in good condition there. As well as virtually everything ever published by Gene Wolfe. (!)

Have you heard of Alistair Reynolds?

Bleah.

(yes)

Tell me about your mother . . .

  kaini said:

http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic...0&start=150

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=g...mp;aq=f&oq=

  Dementia said:

Tell me about your mother . . .

When replicant Leon responds to bladerunner Holden’s question ‘let me tell you about my mother ... [shots propel Holden through the plate glass window into the street many floors below]’, the bullets may not offer stories of his mother, but the unmistakable technological phenotype of their impact etches Leon’s military-industrial genealogy in scar tissue over Holden’s damaged body. The point is that, qua organism, the replicant is an orphan, or what amounts to the same thing, has no exclusivist claim to, no biunivocal bit-map of his progeniture, issuing instead from an institutional-techincal matrix and not a couple. Leon has no mother, only a matrix of industrial-military technologies .

the empire never ended

  awkward said:

the kite runner -

just started this as i'm reading yes man with my wife concurrently and shes got behind so shes got first book choice and she had kite runner for college reading and my best mate said it was good. s'good so far.

finished yesterday in a 2 day binge reading session. a real page turner, i actually cared about the coward. i don't understand why thy didnt wear gloves though.

  awkward said:

danny wallace - yes man

being made intoa film with jim carrey too apparently. not sure if thats good or bad but the book is great.

fuck just watched the trailer for the movie. they removed the spiritual side of it - the guy on the bus, and put in a healer or some bullshit. carrey tries to do funny faces :~ and they americanized it. shame shame. why am i still surprised when they fuck shit up?

finished 'against the day', loved it.

just ordered 'mason & dixon'

just finished 'until i find you' by john irving... pretty good.

previously, 'the time travellers wife', superb, can't for the moment remember who wrote it.

prior, 'setting free the bears' also by john irving. one of his weirder books, and apparently a favourite of kurt vonnegut. didn't do much for me except ellicit a bit of a WTF?