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IT'S A CRAZY WORLD AINT IT?!?!?!?!??!
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Difference Engine sounds very cool.
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My world is, anyway.Originally posted by monolith94
IT'S A CRAZY WORLD AINT IT?!?!?!?!??!
"Alphane Moon" is one of my favorite Philip K. Dick books, and one of the few of his that I personally regard as being genuinely crazy.
PKD has a great quote in which he says that he looks at some of his books and sees wonderful representations of the point of view of the mentally disturbed, and other times he looks at them and sees that they're the product of a disturbed mind, his own. Not to say he's truly crazy, of course.
There are some truly bizarre ideas in this book, such as the linking of hebephrenics and the idea of the "Wandering Jew" in literature. And if you step back and look at the plot of this book, it's just outright nuts."We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John PrineComment
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I've read two volumes of PKD short stories, but have yet to tackle his novels.Comment
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God, y'all are gonna make me read Snow Crash after all.
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It's actually more interesting than the description makes it sound, and Stephenson is more of a spiritual father to the better post-cyberpunk writers than either Gibson or Sterling, IMO. He uses a lot of humor and clever wordplay in the book, but there are a lot of great ideas, as well.Originally posted by JohnT
God, y'all are gonna make me read Snow Crash after all.
"We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John PrineComment
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^BUMP!^
Still tied, I see."We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John PrineComment
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Once again, it is down to me and Lonestar. Israelis, Finns, commies, I need your help!
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I'm a commie, chegitz guevara... but I'm with Lonestar. Sorry.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Once again, it is down to me and Lonestar. Israelis, Finns, commies, I need your help!
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As the moderator, it's hard to be neutral about any but my own selection... dammit.
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Snowcrash is balls off funny.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Can we avoid the ballot stuffing that went on last month? If people aren't going to read the book then they shouldn't be hit up for their vote to throw one book over the top.
Just my opinion.
"We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John PrineComment
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Oh good, Moon is leading. As I said last month, if we discuss it I'll bring up an interesting theory about the ending which I heard from David (son of Milton) Friedman."THE" plus "IRS" makes "THEIRS". Coincidence? I think not.Comment
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The thing is, I just convinced my Real Life© SF discussion club to do Snow Crash for June as well. Dammit, how do I get myself into these positions?Comment
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Now if SnowCrash wins, you'll only have to read one book.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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