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Go!!!!

[Rick]

Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway.

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Software by Rudy Rucker.

[Phi]

Taste in books changes for me so much. I'll just throw one out that I'm reading now, very catchy.

The Dark Tower by Steven King

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1. The Life of Pi

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy including the Hobbit

1. A Thousand Plateau's - Capitalism and Schizophrenia

1. Parallel Worlds

1. A Brief History of Time

1. Art and Physics - Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light

1. The Count of Monte Cristo

1. The Iliad

1. The Divine Pymander

1. Chromophobia

1. Duration and Simultaneity

1. Cosmic Consciousness

1. The Old Testament

1. The New Testament

1. Worlds in Collision

1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1. The Myth of the Machine: the pentagon of power

1. The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

1. The Foundation of the Generalized Theory of Relativity

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I haven't a lot of time so I'm only putting one down for the moment. Not sure if too many people know about this book as it is not a typical King novel, so I gave a brief summery.

The Talisman - 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub.

This book charts the adventure of a young teen boy named Jack Sawyer. The adolescent hero sets out from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire in a bid to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding an enchanted crystal called "the Talisman."

The premise of the novel involves the existence of a parallel world to Earth, called "the Territories". Individuals in the Territories have "twinners," or parallel individuals, in our world. Twinners' births, deaths, and other major life events are usually paralleled. Twinners can also flip, but only share the body of their alternate universe's analogue.

In rare instances (such as Jack Sawyer's), a person may die in one world but not the other, making them "single-natured" and giving them the ability to switch back and forth between the two worlds if taught how.

[Rick]

1. The Life of Pi

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy including the Hobbit

1. A Thousand Plateau's - Capitalism and Schizophrenia

1. Parallel Worlds

1. A Brief History of Time

1. Art and Physics - Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light

1. The Count of Monte Cristo

1. The Iliad

1. The Divine Pymander

1. Chromophobia

1. Duration and Simultaneity

1. Cosmic Consciousness

1. The Old Testament

1. The New Testament

1. Worlds in Collision

1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1. The Myth of the Machine: the pentagon of power

1. The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

1. The Foundation of the Generalized Theory of Relativity

But have you actually read all these?

[Trip like I do]

1. The Life of Pi

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy including the Hobbit

1. A Thousand Plateau's - Capitalism and Schizophrenia

1. Parallel Worlds

1. A Brief History of Time

1. Art and Physics - Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light

1. The Count of Monte Cristo

1. The Iliad

1. The Divine Pymander

1. Chromophobia

1. Duration and Simultaneity

1. Cosmic Consciousness

1. The Old Testament

1. The New Testament

1. Worlds in Collision

1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1. The Myth of the Machine: the pentagon of power

1. The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

1. The Foundation of the Generalized Theory of Relativity

But have you actually read all these?

What are you implying Rick.... such a stupid stupid question?? Of course.... they are all sitting, well worn out, on my book shelf!

[Hey Hey]

Stranger Music - Leonard Cohen.
Is It Me Or Is Everything Just Shit? - Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur.
The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry.
The Rose That grew From Concrete - Tupac Shakur.
The Lobotomy Club - Clifford Pickover.
Power Unseen - Bernard Dixon.

[Trip like I do]

The Rose That grew From Concrete - Tupac Shakur.

That one looks interesting!

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

Written by Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)

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2. Peter Halley 'The Collected Essays'

[Rick]

What are you implying Rick.... such a stupid stupid question?? Of course.... they are all sitting, well worn out, on my book shelf!

Well good for you. I have tried reading the Old Testament many times and have found much of it to be exceedingly tedious. David's murder of the husband of Bathsheba was quite interesting, however.

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What are you implying Rick.... such a stupid stupid question?? Of course.... they are all sitting, well worn out, on my book shelf!

Well good for you. I have tried reading the Old Testament many times and have found much of it to be exceedingly tedious. David's murder of the husband of Bathsheba was quite interesting, however.

oh, I absolutely agree as much of it is tedious reading i.e. Genesis where they list all the names in geneological order from Adam on down through the generations. But as I was brought up into a french Roman Catholic family I was taught these things from family and from Sunday School and attending church regularly. As I grew older and became less interested in what the Church and traditions had to say about the Old Testament writings, and after taking some theology classes early in my university education (mostly about the Maccabees) I became interested in reading it for myself and interpreting the words for myself. Only then was I able to finally comfortably come to terms with what religion was about and what religion could possibly mean on the grander scale of things relative across many planes of signification, especially in the area of physics!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Maccabees

http://st-takla.org/pub_Deuterocanon/Deute...-Maccabees.html

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The Rose That grew From Concrete - Tupac Shakur.

That one looks interesting!

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

Written by Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)

Notice, the 'grew' in the book title does not have a capital 'g'! One wouldn't notice that if you didn't have the book, maybe ... Interesting eh? Why doesn't it, eh?

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Modernism vs. post-modernism

Authority vs. ?

[Rick]

Modernism vs. post-modernism

Authority vs. ?

Freedom

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Modernism vs. post-modernism

Authority vs. ?

Freedom

no no no.... you mean freedom

[Rick]

Why not freedom?

[Hey Hey]

Why not freedom?

wine-ot fr 'e' dm?

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Why not freedom?

lol.... I can live with freedom too!

[Hey Hey]

Why not freedom?

lol.... I can live with freedom too!

'whole world's gone green ...

Ironing the oceans is the solution to GW!!!!!!!!!!

[Rick]

Ironing the oceans is the solution to GW!!!!!!!!!!

Unless there is some unforseen undesirable unintended consequence, which knowing Murphy's law, is likely.

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The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
A Season in Hell - Jean Arthur Rambeaux
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What Is and What Will Be - Paul Budnik
The Book of Revelations - Some time traveler dude who stoled LSD from Albert Hoffman, and then traveled back to 2000 years ago or so to write his book; and calls himself "John"

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The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
A Season in Hell - Jean Arthur Rambeaux
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What is and what will be - Paul Budnik
Revelations - Some time traveler dude who stoled LSD from Albert Hoffman 2000 years ago or so, and calls himself "John"

These sound like the story of my life - in the same order too! You don't live next door do you? Hang on, I don't have a next door! ( http://brainmeta.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20585&hl= )

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These sound like the story of my life - in the same order too! You don't live next door do you? Hang on, I don't have a next door! ( http://brainmeta.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20585&hl= )

Live next door to you! I have enough drinking problems as it is! Can you imagine the two of us! We''d make the Irish look like choire boys! LOL!

[Phi]

St. Patricks still lingering?

[Hey Hey]

These sound like the story of my life - in the same order too! You don't live next door do you? Hang on, I don't have a next door! ( http://brainmeta.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20585&hl= )

Live next door to you! I have enough drinking problems as it is! Can you imagine the two of us! We''d make the Irish look like choire boys! LOL!

I don't have problems drinking. It's stopping that's the problem! Hic ....

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The Count of Monte Cristo (same translation as Penguin Classics edition) (Alexandre Dumas)
..anything Tolkien (I haven't gotten to his poetry or to the Silmarillion yet, but I translated part of Hamlet into Quenya...)
The Beauty and Magic of Numbers (Calvin C. Clawson)
Neuromancer by W. Gibson
Museum of Terror series by Junji Ito

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Currently reading Michio Kaku's 'The Physics of the Impossible: a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel'.

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Currently reading Michio Kaku's 'The Physics of the Impossible: a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel'.

I wonder why he's never given a TED talk?

[Net Runner Overdose]

1. Uporište - Dragoš Kalajić (Uporište can be translated as Foothold or something like that)
2. A Scanner Darkly - PKD
3. Count Zero - WG
4. Day Watch - Sergey Lukyanenko
5. FaL in LV - HST