what are you reading?

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currently reading this http://amzn.to/19p5GLC

It's about the history of CGI animation. Pretty dry in tone, but still interesting!

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Just tried to find this thread via search, didn't happen, "reading" doesn't find it

Anyhow, last night I finished this in one sitting.



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0881 ... UTF8&psc=1

It's not available new, there was going to be an edition in the SF Masterworks series, but it never happened, which was annoying. I took the cheapest offer there was there, £4.25 plus P&P, which after the P&P is about the same as a new paperback on supersaver delivery, it turned up looking quite old but not hardworn.

If you can find a copy at a reasonable price it's well worth reading, it's set in a nebulous dystopian future, as imagined in the 1960s. It's written as the diary of the main character, which is a little annoying as that trope usually is. It's mostly pretty coherent, but there are infrequent fairly short passages that are a little like William Burroughs on a more coherent day. It is full of literary references and there were a couple of new long words I didn't know the meaning of.

[Firefox]

Finished "Ready, Player One!" the other day. I enjoyed it, but I can't help but feel that whilst its nice to read such an obviously shameless tribute to 80s pop and gaming culture, setting so much of it in certain very famous movies of that era did feel a touch... hey, make your own stuff up now and again?

This!

I actually loved it and found it to be a complete page-turner, but I did think it was bordering on plagiarism at times.

Still, I'm glad I read it!

(Didn't realise until just now, but the author is also the writer of the film Fanboys from a few years back.)

[F-ZeroOne]

I haven't started reading it yet, but have just picked up "All You Need Is Kill", by Tom Cruise... I think...

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Read this:

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0575 ... UTF8&psc=1

Which was okay, perhaps a bit predictable but not excessively so.

then this:



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099 ... UTF8&psc=1

Which was three stories in one book. The stories seemed to me to be about how a chess game looks like poker from a pawns point of view, but with witches, vampires, warlocks and the like as the players/pieces.

[Portland]

Finished "Ready, Player One!" the other day. I enjoyed it, but I can't help but feel that whilst its nice to read such an obviously shameless tribute to 80s pop and gaming culture, setting so much of it in certain very famous movies of that era did feel a touch... hey, make your own stuff up now and again?

This!

I actually loved it and found it to be a complete page-turner, but I did think it was bordering on plagiarism at times.

Still, I'm glad I read it!

(Didn't realise until just now, but the author is also the writer of the film Fanboys from a few years back.)

I give it a re-read every now and again, geek-tastic

[OochyKoochy]

It's not available new, there was going to be an edition in the SF Masterworks series, but it never happened, which was annoying. I took the cheapest offer there was there, £4.25 plus P&P, which after the P&P is about the same as a new paperback on supersaver delivery, it turned up looking quite old but not hardworn.

If you can find a copy at a reasonable price it's well worth reading, it's set in a nebulous dystopian future, as imagined in the 1960s. It's written as the diary of the main character, which is a little annoying as that trope usually is. It's mostly pretty coherent, but there are infrequent fairly short passages that are a little like William Burroughs on a more coherent day. It is full of literary references and there were a couple of new long words I didn't know the meaning of.

This is the book that Philip Dick thought was an encoded message to the CIA from Disch. He accused Thomas of being a spy. Dick wrote him letters pointing this out. The extreme levels of paranoia or intelligence sought by Dick are certainly very interesting.

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<my review of Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch>

This is the book that Philip Dick thought was an encoded message to the CIA from Disch. He accused Thomas of being a spy. Dick wrote him letters pointing this out. The extreme levels of paranoia or intelligence sought by Dick are certainly very interesting.

Weird, I hadn't even heard of that.

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I was given the first two seasons of HBO's Game of Thrones on DVD for Xmas.

I sort of liked it, so I just read the whole lot of currently available books, took me the best part of two weeks. I've probably forgotten most of the plot already (it's what I do).

There are one or two minor differences between the books and the TV, but not that much, and obviously the second series is not current. The books are a lot cheaper if you buy them one by one.

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CostCo had all of the books shrink-wrapped together for ~33 quids when I was in a few days ago.

I was tempted, but I decided I'd wait until they stop making the TV series. It's not like I haven't got enough books already on my to-read list.

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CostCo had all of the books shrink-wrapped together for ~33 quids when I was in a few days ago.

I was tempted, but I decided I'd wait until they stop making the TV series. It's not like I haven't got enough books already on my to-read list.

It's £4 per book on Amazon if you're careful of which edition and seller. Mostly Amazon themselves are the cheapest, but the last one comes in one volume with less than £4 p&p from another seller, for circa £26 total, it would be £28 if you take the last as two volumes (it is very thick as just the one (and the others aren't thin), though with a small font they manage to get the page size down).

I think it's going to take at least two more books to finish this properly, more if he splits books into multi-volume works like three and five.

[supermario]

Just finished Necromancer which was excellent - Now onto Game of Thrones (£30 for all for me)...

[Firefox]

Just finished Necromancer which was excellent

The sequels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are a little bit different but also excellent, as is the same-universe short story Burning Chrome in the collection of the same name.

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Just finished Necromancer which was excellent

The sequels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are a little bit different but also excellent, as is the same-universe short story Burning Chrome in the collection of the same name.

Nope.

Unless he misspelt, it was not Neuromancer.

[Firefox]

Shit, you are quite right!

So, Necromancer: Pretty good book, eh?

(Must stop skimming forums whilst doing other stuff on the other computer...)