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Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:21 am**

Dr. Dos wrote:Brave New World was neat

You can buy Soma in the drug stores in River City Ransom

Brave new world was crap!

http://huxley.net/

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:10 am**

maybe you should form your own opinions.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:24 am**

Ando wrote:
Zephyr wrote:The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. Eww. No. Don't read this. It's not worth it.
Now you're saying this because you're a Mormon, right?

No, actually, the religious stuff really didn't bother me at all. I actually was enjoying the book as I was reading it, but looking back realized that there was almost no real substance; no major theme; no lesson or anything to take from it. It was just an exciting story. Books like this bother me.

And I hate doing something that everyone else has done.

Flimsy - suggestion noted. I've heard of that book before; will probably read.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:32 am**

Oh, I see.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:09 am**

i quite liked the opening chapters of brave new world (the whole forced social structure thing is seriously freaky, i liked it), but once the scene shifted over to the colonies or whatever i lost interest and stopped reading. so there!

the da vinci code is basically the grown up version of harry potter- it's not bad, and it's a decent enough read, but it gets all the love over superior material because some suit said so. nuts to that

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:14 pm**

The davinci code is a neat idea, but the book reads like it was written for geriatrics.

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:20 pm**

I just read Accelerando by charles stross. It's about nanites, contact with aliens, AI, and weird familial intrigue. It's badass and I recommend it to everyone.

Also, that anti-brave new world page flimsy linked to had a link to this:
http://www.herbweb.org/psychofeline.html

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:19 pm**

Zenith Nadir wrote:so i'm up to part 7 of house of leaves and i read the whalestoe asylum letters in the appendix, which are weird as hell (they're the letters johnny truant's mother sent him after she was sent to the asylum after trying to do him in; she is totally "off one's cake"). i also read all that shit about echoes in part 5, for some reason.

also; the edition i have is the monochrome one so "house" is in grey rather than blue. does this affect reading a whole lot or is it just less colourful? PLS HALP

I got House of Leaves some months ago because I had often heard it compared to the Silent Hill video games, which I like. But I didn't really like House of Leaves. I really wanted to, because it has some very fun and original elements, but I felt that something went wrong in the execution, and I ended up skimming more and more as I went along.

In other news, I just got Flight: Volume 3, and I like it a lot.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:26 pm**

I'm reading a book called A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Doesn't sound too interesting does it? It's actually not too bad. It's part of this One Book One Campus program the university I'm going to is doing. All of the staff and students at the school are supposed to read it. Supposedly reading this book means we will all talk about it together and become best friends or something like that.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:10 pm**

The thing i dount like about the davinci code is that he says all historical papers are true and unedited. Ummm..... Not true.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:12 pm**

I have several books I should read right now. I've got 1984 lying around somewhere, and that's the book I'd like to be reading, but I should probably do the summer reading first.

Our school has one book asigned to every student. In a sense that's better than most where you have to read like 17 books and write essays and shit, but you really have to question the logic of a school that makes that one book "Frankenstein." :hmmmm:

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:18 pm**

Probably because those old movies don't tell the whole story.

For my school we get a choice of like 4 books, but if you take non-retard english you have to read them all.

so I need to read

A Doll's House
Fahrenheit 451 (which I already read)
Anthem
Oedipus :freud:

:madtom: :kjorteo:

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:25 pm**

I read Oedipus when I was barely 16 years old, in high school.

To this day it's still one of the most original and disturbing books that I have ever read.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:38 pm**

Is Oedipus the one where the guy sleeps with his mom or something?

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:47 pm**

yes! Hence my :kjorteo: which doesn't exist. :sadness:

does though

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