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Sythe:
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
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salada:
woo! i'm reading william gibson's idoru at the moment. and also glue by irvine walsh.
well, truth be told i'm not reading either of them, since i'm crazy buried with work at the moment.
Simulacra:
excellent choice on the Gibson piece Salada.
I'm almost finished with "Burning Chrome", also by William Gibson, making "The Difference Engine" and "Virtual Light" the only two books of his i don't own yet. This one is a collection of short stories from much earlier in his writing career. It's kinda fun to look through the short stories and pick out some of the archetypes he uses in his later books.
liberation_party:
I'm currently reading The Decameron (or, more accurately, its introduction with the intention of THEN reading The Decameron), which thus far looks to be a collection of literary porn. Honestly, why must every commentator focus solely on the most controversial aspects of a text in place a round analysis of multiple facets? I'll EVENTUALLY get to the book itself. I doubt each and every story is a censored pit of vice.
I'm also plodding through Plato's Republic, skimming over key sections of Aquinas' Summa Theologica (damned logician-theologian), and have just finished The Odyssey. I've got bookmarks in a dozen more books I don't have proper time to READ, including Dune Messiah, The Tempest, The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New, On the Subjection of Women, The Name of the Rose, Walden, More About Paddington, Notes From Underground, Watership Down, and By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept.
liberation_party:
--- Quote from: KaosPilot ---Although when I'm reading poems for the first time I like to whisper them aloud....anyone else do this?
--- End quote ---
Always, dear girl. Always. Poetry is meant to be read aloud. I just wish I could recognize this when I'm writing.
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