Comments | brooklynnotes: #798 Twelve Hawk's The Traveler.

brooklynnotes

#798 Twelve Hawk's The Traveler.

Mar 12, 2007 19:15

The Traveler
John Twelve Hawks

I blame brownstargirlActually this is a pretty fun read if you're into high tech thrillers with a touch of science fiction ( Read more... )

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brownstargirl March 13 2007, 00:28:37 UTC

Don't blame me! Blame the Dubai airport and the worst jetlag I have ever experienced!

Nah. It's a page turned with a little bit of Matrix-y politics, where the Good Society consists of hippies with wind power who make their own wine and cob houses. Maya cutting the shit out of everyone is pretty alright, though. At least in Dubai at three in the morning.

dubaiwalla March 13 2007, 02:39:44 UTC

Aieee. What're you doing in Dubai, and how do you know brooklynnotes and frandroid?

brownstargirl March 13 2007, 02:52:12 UTC

I was on my way back to Toronto from Lanka. I fibbed: I was actually on the 3 AM Colombo- Dubai flight where it's twenty guys off to do very badly paid service work in the UAE so remitence can keep being Lanka's biggest GNP, two hippies and two second-generation diasporic kids on their way back. I have no idea what time it was in the airport, just how surreal it all felt. I've never actually met Brooklyn but we're both ex-punks and brokeass new england kids, even if my fam was a deeper shade of brown. Fran's one of the those legendary Toronto lurkers.

and you?

dubaiwalla March 13 2007, 02:56:02 UTC

I know brooklynnotes thanks to homais and optimussven, on whose lists he was already entrenched when I moved to DC. I stayed with frandroid when I was in Toronto over the summer; I met him on another part of the Internet via mrputter, with whom I spent two years in university while living in the UAE.

Guess it's a small world.

bing_crosby March 13 2007, 03:17:46 UTC

I am a little interested in off-grid people, just because I study their technology stuff a little. But yeah, totally escapist, as are all movements that claim they can somehow remove themselves from the society they live in (like my crazy distant cousin who is always going to jail for not paying taxes). Not to mention, wtf is more ON grid than anything involving a sattelite?

So this book is a page turner that has something to do with off-grid living, or is just written by a hermit type?

brooklynnotes March 13 2007, 12:51:44 UTC

it deals with living off the grid (but really only minimally) has some vaguely new age mysticism as well as a critique of modern consumer culture, etc and is written by an alleged hermit.

oh and swords, lots of swords. you might want to read the back cover in a bookshop, it might vaguely relate to what you're doing.

pomo_drunkard March 13 2007, 04:47:30 UTC

Oddly enough, I was given this book just this past week by someone who warned me that they HATED it. So it's within arms reach right now, but obviously, that recommendation hasn't made me pick it up yet.

Have you read any China Mieville? Seems like it might be more your kinda sci-fi/fantasy...

brooklynnotes March 13 2007, 15:38:41 UTC

I thought it was entertaining, but my tastes have degenerated greatly since I started law school, so don't take my word for it.

And yes, I have read Mieville. I like him a lot.

orchid_and_wasp March 13 2007, 19:28:02 UTC

Dude, I don't care how punk you are, "escapists" are worse than "silly hippies".

biblionerd_girl March 14 2007, 02:05:57 UTC

oh god.. I shelved this book a million times and always thought what shite it appeared to be.

i inwardly cringed when I saw you read it...
but I am happy you enjoyed...