ThunderPeel2001

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Reading: The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctrow and American Vertigo by Bernard Henri Levy

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I'm reading Peter Pan. I found the novel for really, really cheap, and I picked it up. It's excellent.

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I highly recommence 'Lockpick Pornography', a novel by Joey Comeau. If you are in any way interested in heteronormativity, gender, consumerism, read it! Even if you are not, it's still great thoughtful fun. It's really short, intelligent, sometimes explicit, it doesn't paint black and white, and I found the whole story and the characters to be quite believable.

Comeau is one half of the people behind 'A Softer World', an internet-photo-comic-thing you might know. The entire novel is available in PDF-form on his website for free (so you can give it a try right now), or in orderable book-form somewhere on the same site.

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I have "World War Z" by Max Brooks and "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman sitting on my nightstand, but I've been super allergic to reading lately (read: playing Fallout 3 till way past my bed time). I read in spurts usually. One really good book will get my fired up enough to buy 6 new ones and read maybe 2 of them. I cant say I'm intellectually lazy, because the books I read are hardly intellectual pursuits - I guess I'm just lazy. I think the last book I finished was Harry Potter book 5. Ugh!

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I'm reading 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (a collection of many 2600 Magazine issues in a giant volume), and The Diary of Laura Palmer (a novel tie-in to the Twin Peaks TV series).

Hello, by the way.

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Thanks :grin: And I haven't! But it's something I've been meaning to do for years. I really need to. Do you regularly attend?

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Anyone know some really good...err...AI-focused fiction? Anything well-written with some focus on AI and any related moral questions would be good.

Just finished reading Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie. I guess I'm getting really good at logical reasoning because I figured out almost every last tidbit far earlier than she let on. It's no Roger Ackroyd but I can recommend it.

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Currently mainly reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I just started and is extremely well written, and The Hitchhiker trilogy in time for the sixth book when it comes out in October.

Also my girlfriend's copy of the Hobbit is around here somewhere. I should probably get started on reading that.

Please don't kill me.

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On a Murakami kick at the moment. Read Norwegian Wood and halfway through The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Excellence.

Currently mainly reading [...] The Hitchhiker trilogy in time for the sixth book when it comes out in October.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Another_Thing..._(novel)

Wait, what? Leave the poor guy's work alone. I'm tempted to say something snarky about the author, but I never read Artemis Fowl. :erm:

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Wow, didn't see that coming. :blink:

I feel like I should say that this might be a bad idea at this point, just in case it actually turns out to be one when the book gets released.

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I don't even think it needs to be said that this may be a bad idea. Everyone is already thinking it, right?

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Currently reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft.

Amazing story.

Never realized how racist Lovecraft was, but he was still a literary genius. It's just disappointing now, knowing that one of my favorite authors was so ignorant.

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Currently reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft.

Amazing story.

Never realized how racist Lovecraft was, but he was still a literary genius. It's just disappointing now, knowing that one of my favorite authors was so ignorant.

He was depressed and afraid. It's a very difficult lesson to learn that people and the thing they create are different entities, you can be an ahole and create amazing art and be a very nice person and create shit.

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He was depressed and afraid. It's a very difficult lesson to learn that people and the thing they create are different entities, you can be an ahole and create amazing art and be a very nice person and create shit.

I don't think there's any argument with that... it's just a shame that he was such a bigot.

As for HHGG part six.... Ugh. That author must be very brave or very stupid... If it gets decent reviews then I'll pick it up, but I just can't imagine how even Douglas Adams himself would get decent reviews for it.

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On the plus side, this means that I'm going to be reading the Trilogy of Five for the first time since I was about 15. Looks like I've got something to read this summer!

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As for HHGG part six.... Ugh. That author must be very brave or very stupid... If it gets decent reviews then I'll pick it up, but I just can't imagine how even Douglas Adams himself would get decent reviews for it.

And in a way, the book series is just so personal, it is just odd someone would want to add a new part, whether heeding Adams written tips or story ideas or not.

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He was depressed and afraid. It's a very difficult lesson to learn that people and the thing they create are different entities, you can be an ahole and create amazing art and be a very nice person and create shit.

Quoted for truth. :yep:

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