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Picked this book up today as well. I haven't delved too far into it but it's incredibly interesting so far.Commodore Whynot":2mfbq6pr said:
Also, I picked up "Stuff White People Like" and (though technically it's not a book) "The Onion: Our Front Pages". They're both great (with the former being surprisingly accurate @_@ ) and The Onion is fantastic as usual.
I'm currently reading Shrodinger's Kittens by John Gribbin. A step up from brief history I guess. It's interesting so far if a bit too verbose.
Finished A Brief History of Time and I understand a lot more what people are going on about in terms of Quantum Physics now. I never even knew it had to do with particles rofl. It's interesting stuff.
Finished A Brief History of Time and I understand a lot more what people are going on about in terms of Quantum Physics now. I never even knew it had to do with particles rofl. It's interesting stuff.
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Ya. Have you read his new book yet? "The Greatest Show on Earth"? I've started it: probably the most concise version of what it is.
I just got finished reading a book called Infoquake by David Louis Edelman.
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Overall, I think this was a very interesting book. The concept was original and I enjoyed how you're slowly eased into the world that Edelman created in this novel. It can be a little dry at times, but for those of you who enjoy thinking about a possible route humans and businesses will take, you'll definitely enjoy it. The story itself was just so-so and the main character is way too "perfect" for my tastes, but it's the theories, ideas, and directions that humans took in Infoquake that got me interested. I honestly don't see myself buying the next book in the trilogy (MultiReal) simply because I've gotten most of what I personally liked out of the story (how the government and businesses work), but that's just my personal taste talking. :P
I picked up Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams while I was in Borders a few days ago, but I didn't buy it for whatever reason. I was certainly enjoying the book, however, so I'm considering going back and buying it.
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Overall, I think this was a very interesting book. The concept was original and I enjoyed how you're slowly eased into the world that Edelman created in this novel. It can be a little dry at times, but for those of you who enjoy thinking about a possible route humans and businesses will take, you'll definitely enjoy it. The story itself was just so-so and the main character is way too "perfect" for my tastes, but it's the theories, ideas, and directions that humans took in Infoquake that got me interested. I honestly don't see myself buying the next book in the trilogy (MultiReal) simply because I've gotten most of what I personally liked out of the story (how the government and businesses work), but that's just my personal taste talking. :P
I picked up Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams while I was in Borders a few days ago, but I didn't buy it for whatever reason. I was certainly enjoying the book, however, so I'm considering going back and buying it.
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I'm starting to read To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. I'm only a chapter in but I'm really liking it so far. I have to read it for class, yeah, but it's actually a really good book.
The book is really good, though the court scene is where the climax takes place. Overall, its a good book that describes racism during that time period. o:
I just read Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn.
Scarlet Letter was meh. It had some really good symbols and themes, and the characters were somewhat refreshing, but it kinda got old. Nothing really happened during those pages of reading. o:
Hucklerberry Finn was good. I liked what aspects of society it criticized and it did it in a satirical way. Though, the ending, though I thought was good, was kind of sad, as Huck's character development kinda gets flushed down the drain. Huck is probably one of my favorite characters in a book, and is in the stands with McMurphy, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. o:
I just read Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn.
Scarlet Letter was meh. It had some really good symbols and themes, and the characters were somewhat refreshing, but it kinda got old. Nothing really happened during those pages of reading. o:
Hucklerberry Finn was good. I liked what aspects of society it criticized and it did it in a satirical way. Though, the ending, though I thought was good, was kind of sad, as Huck's character development kinda gets flushed down the drain. Huck is probably one of my favorite characters in a book, and is in the stands with McMurphy, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. o:
reading scarlet letter when i was 14 was what actually got me really into writing. i'd always been interested in it but that book put me over the edge. why? because it was so incredibly boring, and i hoped that, maybe one day, i could write something that was written as well, but just wasn't as fucking boring.
i'll probably never get there but whatever I do will def be less boring either way!!!!!
i'll probably never get there but whatever I do will def be less boring either way!!!!!
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