*geeksquee*

Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age is being made into a miniseries. Sci-Fi did a good job with Dune and Stephenson is involved, so the hope for this is greater than zero.

Robert Anton Wilson died yesterday.

Finished The Age of Spiritual Machines (audio)
Finished All Families Are Psychotic
Finished 1984 (audio)
Started Animal Farm (audio), George Orwell
Finished Animal Farm (audio)
Started Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Started Red Mars (audio), Kim Stanley Robinson

Finished Cryptonomicon in SF.
Started Going Nucular in SF.
Started Quicksilver the day after we got home.
Started The Age of Spiritual Machines (audio) on the way to the bookstore to get Quicksilver.
Started All Families Are Psychotic the same day.

Started:

Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (audio), Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (audio), Douglas Adams
1984 (audio), George Orwell
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

Finished:

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (audio)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (audio)
Miss Myoming

I was up 'til four this morning because I got a stupid bug in my ear about the book hopper -- I want to automagically update its various incarnations from a command line somewhere. And of course I couldn't do it in perl like any truly sane human being, but used C instead (since it's so much better at manipulating text, and all ( Read more... )

I feel a little dirty. A little like I'm cheating. A little sneaky, suspicious, and maybe even downright wrong: last night I added a new book to the Hopper as I bought it, but it wasn't a book-on-paper, it was a book-on-cd.

I'm generally absolving myself of any real feelings of guilt, justifying listening to a book instead of actually reading ( Read more... )

I finished _The Selfish Gene_ today, and I've thrown _The Extended Phenotype_ into the hopper just 'cause it sounds very cool. The general premise is apprently this: just because a gene is hosted by a particular organism doesn't mean that its phenotypic effects are limited to that organism. e.g., a flatworm that parasitizes a kind of snail makes ( Read more... )

The King Must Die, Mary Renault
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Story of O, Pauline Reage
Pyramids, Terry Pratchett (and on to more discworld..)
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski