RecommendedBooks
Matt recommends
- "Vurt" by Jeff Noon
- if you really like Vurt, read "Pollen" and then "Nymphomation" also by Noon (same world)
Matt recommends Ladefoged's phonetics
Susan recommends Invisible Cities -- looks pretty interesting
~16:34:25 <mac4> you shoudlread "the continuum concept"%%% ~16:34:34 <brainsik> online? book?%%% ~16:34:49 <mac4> I doubt it is online, it was written in the seventies%%% ~16:35:00 <brainsik> i'll add it to my wiki now.%%% ~16:35:14 <mac4> It's basically about how we have been conditioned to resent work, and we consider it something seperate from life%%% ~16:35:31 <brainsik> its not conditioning .. its fact :)%%% ~16:35:50 <mac4> It's a book that makes more sense to read as you are expected a new born, but...%%%
Jesse recommends Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux. This is particularly relevant to our possible trip on the trans-mongolian railway.
Cute chem girl at the Bevin/Lesser party said Ishmael
Lauren says a good book on writing is Bird by Bird
Heather says:
- The sci-fi author i told you about is Alfred Bester, he wrote the Demolished Man and Stars my Destination. Both are short and good====
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Matt says:
- Doomsday Book, To say nothing of the dog by Connie Willis - chaotic timeline
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - androgenous aliens
- Other killer sci-fi by Bruce Sterling
- Schismatrix (get Schismatrix Plus, w/ additional short stories incl. Swarm) - 300 years of posthuman history
- Distraction - futuristic presidential election
- Heavy Weather - weather hackers (sounds dumb but it's cool)
Soren says:
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy. I don't really want to say too much about it, but it's one of the most powerful books I've read in a while. It's the first book I've read two times immediately in a row.
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