If anyone feels like book-talk on anything I’m reading or feels like suggesting something that seems in line with what I’m reading, drop me a line!
 Currently Reading
- Ulysses
, by James Joyce
- How to Start and Run Your Own Corporation
- The Mysteries of Mithra
- Ways of Worldmaking
- I Seem to be a Verb
Up Next
- Russian Fairy Tales
Completed
- The Singularity is Near
- The Tipping Point
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- This is It
- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
- Donnerjack
- The Emotion Machine
- Hermes the Thief: the Evolution of a Myth
- Fear and Trembling
- I Am A Strange Loop
- The Homeric Hymns
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I have a friend who loved Ulysses. He quotes it a lot, and then feels superior when no one gets the reference. B-)
It’s pretty darn good so far… can’t say as I’d be able to quote it, but it does alter my internal dialogue’s style for a few hours after I read from it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was ok… seemed a bit off to me though. Maybe I’ve read too much Zen stuff, but this Zarathustra fellow just doesn’t make too much sense to me.
I’m on a Watts re-reading kick…. fun times to revisit such always-obvious Zennisms… Profound… life-non-altering… words of wisdomination.
mmm tasty.
The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
I actually just bought this…it looks incredible but I am in the middle of reading The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Stephenson. What did you think? I am also thinking about picking up The Age of Spiritual Machines, have you read it?
…by the way…how are you?!!! It’s been a while…
Wow time to update this list… among other things. Been letting the old blog fall into disarray. The Singularity is Near is pretty good — it does repeat a lot of what was in The Age of Spiritual Machines, though, so if you read Singularity you might not need to pick up the other.
I’m good, by the way! I’ll email you so’z we can catch up a bit. Hell it’s been two weeks since you posted a comment here and I didn’t even notice it!
So many good books, so little time to read ‘em. Waaah.