]]>MegaMantra wrote:The real question is, however, have you read The Diamond Age?
now i have to =]
It runs a lot deeper beneath the surface than Snow Crash did, and it isn't quite as overtly fun, but it's unmistakably Stephenson, and his imagination just runs wild with the far future (as opposed to the day-after-tomorrow of Snow Crash).
]]>The real question is, however, have you read The Diamond Age?
now i have to =]
]]>reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. goes slowly.
fuxter wrote:reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. goes slowly.
My favorite book of all time. Without question.
Great minds think alike. It's just fun in ways that nobody else can seem to match. Through the Looking Glass for the digital age.
The real question is, however, have you read The Diamond Age?
]]>reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. goes slowly.
My favorite book of all time. Without question.
]]>This Smirnoff Ice I am nursing is quite good.
How is...I don't even...?
Playing through all the Donkey Kong Countries.
Trying to decided whether I hate the new RUSH album or not.
Watching Spaced.
]]>i don't watch much but i like to read manga. trying to finish tropical citron , ultra heavan, and planetes at the moment. plus i usually snag the new gantz translations as soon as theyre released.
oh and ive been playing lsd: the dream emulator and have been trying to figure out how to play nethack without dying constantly.
Manga is pretty cool
I've been keeping up with the (painfully slow but hastily translated) releases of "It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular!", if my avatar is any indication. Comes highly recommended. I've been meaning to give Planetes a look for some time, I'll have to get on that I guess.
The LSD dream emulator looks...well, kinda crazy. I don't know if it's the good kind of crazy, but it's got that going for it at least.
]]>I watched War of the Roses theother day. It's a great movie, even though it's kinda old.
Keep reading homestuck forever and ever.
AAAAND I played and beat Castlevania, Dawn of Sorrow. Order of Ecclesia was better.
And I read 1984. :B
]]>Just recently read "1984", super fantastic; it's both exciting and thought provoking on a massive scale. I'm in the middle of "Brave New World", "The Diversity of Life", "The Stand" and some others. All are very good so far. Also just read "To Kill a Mockingbird". Very good, but it's way too simple and not in depth enough to be the masterpiece some people make it out to be
1984 churns my stomach. There is only one fact in which I take comfort:
The Inner Party draws its members from the ranks of the Outer Party, those who have been purposefully brainwashed. O'brien speaks of the ultimate victory of Big Brother and the Party, but neglects to mention that the logic behind the processes that were/are used to control the populace will be lost upon those who are already under their sway. A brainwashed member of the Outer Party will not really be able to grasp just how total their victory is when their frame of reference doesn't extend any farther than the purview of the Party's history (which is, to them, eternal and immortal). O'brien knows of the time before the Party, and so he can grasp the nature of the power he wields, but the next generation will be so intellectually and emotionally stunted that their capacity to enjoy or understand that power will be limited in the extreme.
ANYWAYS, Brave New World is similarly great. Despite its simplicity, I still really like "To Kill A Mockingbird" as well.
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