What are you reading? - Page 269

Zero History by William Gibson

It's too bad your stomach doesn't share the same quality.

^that is such a good book

just finished The Ordinary Seaman which gives a bit of a darker image of globalization

the gate of angels - fitzgerald

Right now I'm reading a news paper.

I'm not reading it but I just ordered a Kindle. Looking forward to exploiting the free 3G while i'm overseas.

How to live safely in a science fictional universe by Charles Yu And as its autumn here in the antipodes, mind you it went from sunny 24c to bleak rain and 12c overnight, these just arrived from Amazon. Crimea by Orlando Figes Music for silenced voices Shostakovich and his 15 quartets by Wendy Lesser

As great as the movie was... it doesn't even come close to doing the book justice. Highly recommended.

"The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", Neal Stephenson. I read it when it first came out, it's interesting to see how much of what he "predicted" has come to pass.

Incredible book, but Snow Crash pwns it.

The Pale King, David Foster Wallace.

Going through The Walled Garden, by Charlie Merrill.

He used his Merrill, Lynch inheritance to found a high school in Boston, and writes with great candor and wisdom about what running an "alternative school" was like in the 60s and 70s. Great and interesting man. And-- thanks be-- his school is a lot less weird than it was in those days.

True. His whole career post Snow Crash has been one long slide into irrelevance.