What are you reading?

[Osiris]

Huh Neuromancer? I'm going to be honest I never really dug it. For me it fell into the same trap as a lot of cyberpunk stuff, it faked depth where there was none.
You can speak all the gibberish about hacking computers you like, if you don't explain how any of it works (and you really need to in this case) then you can't expect anything happening during those sequences to have any real meaning. All I got out of those sequences was the net result e.g. someone had to disconnect, a door is now open etc etc.

Currently reading the Foundation trilogy. Possibly no.2 in my top five scifi (right after "Do androids dream of electric sheep").

[Solanine]

Now whats that supposed to mean?

[7oddisdead]

it means hsugh...whats THAT mean? no idea.


im currently reading the ender books by orson scott card. say what you will about him personally/politically/, dude can write his balls off...that's all I care about

just finished -speaker for the dead- brilliant. on to the next one.

[Hellbringer]

Don't remember if I mentioned it before, but I'm about half way through "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America" by James Bamford. He wrote this book back in 2007.

And the funny thing is that whatever Edward Snowden has leaked was already mentioned in this book. The tech world knew about most of this stuff, but since 1) the tech world doesn't feed the normal news sources and 2) Bamford, as critical as he is of big government and the NSA, isn't a mole or a leak or a spy or whatever.

This book is actually the third book Bamford wrote about the NSA so he seems well versed in some of the hidden workings of them.

[REZombie]

right now i'm reading Brian Keene's Urban Gothic

[Gooer]

I'm on A Feast For Crows - 5th book in The Game of Thrones book. Such a good series....

[MickGinger]

I recently finished...

Neuromancer
by
William Gibson

I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it, I picked it up from the library a couple months ago after I read "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman (really good!) but I never did get more than a chapter into it before I had to return it. I may pick it up again.

[Elisa]

Recently finished Feast/Dance aka combined A Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons read - both books by George RR Martin. I also just finished The Princess and the Queen novella by GRRM. Now reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It's taking awhile but I think I am finally getting into it.

[tonyhind86]

I've got a Neil Gainan audiobook on my phone called "Neverwhere". I began listening, but have since become distracted by The Leviathan Chronicled podcast.

I'm also fully caught up with the Song Of Ice And Fire saga, just waiting for GRRM to release the last two books. And waiting with growing anticipation as the end of the last title ended on a MAJOR cliffhanger!

[Elisa]

I. Heard Neverwhere was good. Let me know. Did you buy it from Amazon or audible? I really like Leviathan Chronicles too. I want to reread the first 3 books of A Song of Ice and Fire now. Yes I'm crazy. For Xmas I received an Ursula LeGuinn novel Dispossessed. So many books so little time.