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digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineI'm out of books to read at the house, and could use some recommendations for things that will entertain, and, hopefully, induce me to write.
What I want: Fiction with cojones, and hopefully some wit. SF, horror, c-punk, nontraditional fantasy, or slipstream. Other genres also keen, but that's where my tastes tend to reside. Science in the vein of COSMOS for non-fiction.
What I don't want: Endless navel-gazing introspection, gratuitous slavery to a style (PoMo, especially), Historical non-fiction, crappy romance.
Recent Reads:
- Christopher Moore[1] (Stupidest Angel, Fluke)
- Phillip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep*)
- Aldous Huxley (Brave New World*)
- Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhoue Five[2])
- Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's series*)
* - Re-reads
[1] - If you haven't read these, and find yourself looking for some light, funny, summer reading, I heartily recommend everything this guy's written.
[2] - I haven't the first fucking idea why this is canonized as being a classic of whatever genre it's supposed to be a towering work of. Nigh unto unreadable, and pretty goddamned boring.
What I want: Fiction with cojones, and hopefully some wit. SF, horror, c-punk, nontraditional fantasy, or slipstream. Other genres also keen, but that's where my tastes tend to reside. Science in the vein of COSMOS for non-fiction.
What I don't want: Endless navel-gazing introspection, gratuitous slavery to a style (PoMo, especially), Historical non-fiction, crappy romance.
Recent Reads:
- Christopher Moore[1] (Stupidest Angel, Fluke)
- Phillip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep*)
- Aldous Huxley (Brave New World*)
- Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhoue Five[2])
- Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's series*)
* - Re-reads
[1] - If you haven't read these, and find yourself looking for some light, funny, summer reading, I heartily recommend everything this guy's written.
[2] - I haven't the first fucking idea why this is canonized as being a classic of whatever genre it's supposed to be a towering work of. Nigh unto unreadable, and pretty goddamned boring.
