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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Behind My Head

posted by on October 23 at 14:56 PM

For Regina Hackett:
-1.jpg To begin with, these books are right behind my head at this moment. To middle with, these books are frequently only a meter away from my life. To end with, this is how I read the books of my life: “I skip, I look up, I dip again.”

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You should check out Snow Crash, Charles.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 23, 2007 3:14 PM
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Snow Crash is fucking good. I agree.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 23, 2007 3:36 PM
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Both Snow Crash, and it's sequel in all but name The Diamond Age are amazing works of fiction. Snow Crash even made the list of the Time Magazine's top 100 books written in the 20th Centrury.

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

Posted by Joh | October 23, 2007 3:49 PM
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Ditto, sloggers. The book is a lot better than those effete philosophical tomes. Not ponderous like the later offerings from the author. Or Mudede's endless endoscopic scrawlings.

Posted by Crow Snash | October 23, 2007 3:50 PM
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Charles, I've seen that firetrap of a cubicle you call an office - just be careful not to bump those books with your head, lest the entire stack come crashing down and crush you to a pulp.

Also, I would highly recommend not hiding under your desk during the next "big one"; nobody will find you underneath all that for at least a month!

Posted by COMTE | October 23, 2007 4:17 PM
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Buried under a pile of Barthes, Gibson, and Nabokov—is there any other way Charles would want to go?

Posted by Eric Grandy | October 23, 2007 4:35 PM
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Maybe some Stravinsky.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 23, 2007 4:37 PM
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Looks to me like the reading list of an intellectual dilettante.

Posted by Hunky Dory | October 23, 2007 4:46 PM
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The lyrical prose of Neuromancer is like poetry and it's pure creativity is timeless. The Audio Book version read by William Gibson will blow your mind. The audio book was never professionally released on CD and my tape version broke but I have pirate version of MP3s from a Russian fan site. That right there is in flavor of the book.

I met William Gibson at a book signing the very day that I moved to Seattle.

I liked Snow Crash but I had a hard time taking it seriously since it was obviously a sarcastic farce. "Hiro Protagonist" come on...

Posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com | October 23, 2007 5:15 PM
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Cough..

http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html

It is a damn shame they don't publish the audio book any more. Gibson sounds like a beatnik poet on it.

Posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com | October 23, 2007 5:19 PM
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word on snow crash. stevenson is a brilliant mind. cryptonomicon is also a fantastic, hilarious read, exploding with ideas.

couldnt get through the first book of the latest series, though. there are several thousand pages total in his baroque cycle.

Posted by jz | October 23, 2007 5:32 PM
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Bill Gibson also has a great speaking voice. Plus, unlike Spider Robinson, he has a very droll sense of humor, with a voice to back it up with.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 23, 2007 5:40 PM
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Snow Crash is a pastiche of the cyberpunk genre, while also being one of the better novels in it.

Posted by supergp | October 23, 2007 9:54 PM

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