getting ready to jump into neal stephenson's new book, Reamde.
he says it's "just a thriller" no fantastical elements, but it's neal stephenson.
we shall see.
What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
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a straight edge for legends at
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lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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I can't help it. Every time I see "Reamde," I read it as "Readme". I wonder if that was deliberate on the marketers' part. 
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Apparently I'm rereading Outlander. Saw it when I loaded all my Reader books onto the Nook, opened it to make sure it worked, and, well... 
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heh. i see Remade. i heard him pronounce it. ream-dee. no clue what that means but i reckon i'll find out.aliantha wrote:I can't help it. Every time I see "Reamde," I read it as "Readme". I wonder if that was deliberate on the marketers' part.
oddly, i read Snow Crash (which i LOVED) and The Diamond Age (which i only liked) and started Cryptonomicon (which i couldn't get into and put down after a couple chapters and never picked back up) but really haven't read anymore neal since then. i always figured i'd get back around to reading more or attempting Cryptonomicon again. he's such a quirky guy and writer that it seems worth it to try again, but i knew Reamde was coming out cause it'd been advert'd on kindle store and when i read the blurb it seemed like what i'm in the mood for just now.wayfriend wrote:I happen to be reading Anathem by NS for the first time. So far it's better than I had been led to expect. Didn't know there was another book out after that one.
(honestly, after reading all 16 of lee child's jack reacher books, i really want more reacher but as the rolling stones are wont to say....well you know. heh)
LOL!! hilare. but am i to understand you never read it before???? if that's the case WOW are you in for a ride!!aliantha wrote:Apparently I'm rereading Outlander. Saw it when I loaded all my Reader books onto the Nook, opened it to make sure it worked, and, well...
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Psssst....Lucimay, "Reread" implies one has read before, heh
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Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
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Several things:lucimay wrote:
(honestly, after reading all 16 of lee child's jack reacher books, i really want more reacher but as the rolling stones are wont to say....well you know. heh)
The Rolling Stones wrote:Can't get no... satisfaction
Can't always get what you waa-ant... but if you try sometimes... you just might find... you get what you neeed!
But it's alllll riiiiight now, in fact it's a gas!
Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
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Quick! Someone get the salts!wayfriend wrote:Orlion wrote:Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Honest to God, I loved Snowcrash so much that I re-read Cryptonomicon because I thought surely it couldn't be that boring, I MUST have missed something.Orlion wrote: Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.
Alas, I was wrong.
And Anathem, I just think he's flat our wrong on the parts that are a lecture to the reader calling them stupid if they don't agree disguised as a story, and of the vast array of good conflict/ideas that could have come from the premise he chose all the most boring ones...though they were marginally just naturally more interesting than the ones in Crypto...therefore a marginally more interesting book.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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erp.sindatur wrote:Psssst....Lucimay, "Reread" implies one has read before, heh
Orlion wrote:Several things:lucimay wrote:
(honestly, after reading all 16 of lee child's jack reacher books, i really want more reacher but as the rolling stones are wont to say....well you know. heh)
The Rolling Stones wrote:Can't get no... satisfaction
Can't always get what you waa-ant... but if you try sometimes... you just might find... you get what you neeed!
But it's alllll riiiiight now, in fact it's a gas!
all of which apply.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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