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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2007, 07:15:27 PM »
I'm reading The Gilded Age by Mark Twain.  I'm 100 pages into it and I still don't know what it's about.  He keeps killing off main characters and switching into new storylines.

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2007, 08:12:58 PM »
Mark Twain was a genius, made piles of sense but was also hilarious.
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2007, 08:29:32 PM »
and he was good friends with the extreme genius in your avatar Tachyon.

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2007, 09:22:27 PM »
True dat, as I recall he had a rather interesting experience with a certain device against Tesla's advice and had some bowel malfunction as a result...
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2007, 07:14:09 AM »
i remember that it was a platform that just vibrated very fast that you could stand on.  Tesla was awseome you should read some of his books too.   well, like his bio and lifes work.

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2007, 01:12:05 PM »
I have, as well as a cool old copy of "My Inventions" collected from [some oldschool radio magazine].
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #21 on: January 01, 2008, 12:57:08 PM »
Cheech Wizard (first two volumes) - Vaughn Bode
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #22 on: January 08, 2008, 05:42:34 AM »
I've read through Neuromancer countless times. I started reading it when I was only 11. I figured it as the greatest book ever written. A sci-fi world that's no inhabited by aliens who want to eat your skulls, or some exotic whore who wants to screw you or a space princess.

Many moons pass. I keep the same book and never actually bother to look it up on the net for any other of his writings. Don't ask why, I just didn't. A book that when I read it had come to a complete and total end turned out to be a three parter.

Recently I've read through William Gibson's Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. All three of which I suggest reading when given the chance. To this day I'm still heavily intrigued and amazed by the fact of how well Gibson wrote the net as a future every-man's thing. Everyone uses it now and it really doesn't show signs of ever leaving the radar. Very interesting books to say in the least.

Today however I'll be wandering around the sci-fi section and picking up a random book. Or maybe finally read some Philip K. Dick and see why he's the big gun of the old sci-fi world. Either way, I'm going to get my acne ridden geek on.

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2008, 09:11:40 AM »
I'm going to have to chime in here and state for the record both Count Zero and Mono Lisa Overdrive are better then Neuromancer, however Neuromancer does have a better title.

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2008, 10:40:36 AM »
Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation - G. Kipper.

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2008, 09:32:06 PM »
The Poetic Edda, written billions of years BC by unknown Norse skalds.
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2008, 10:05:23 PM »
Stephen Colbert's "I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)"
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2008, 01:37:01 PM »
The onion's "Our Dumb World" (buy this)

Abbie Hoffman "Revolution for the Hell of it"

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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2008, 03:07:53 PM »
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Re: So what books are you reading?
« Reply #29 on: January 23, 2008, 04:06:39 PM »
The onion's "Our Dumb World" (buy this)

Abbie Hoffman "Revolution for the Hell of it"

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