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| adi26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
damn, I'm out of suggestions |
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Hope ur enjoying the academiaa...... |
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| adi26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
heres the amazon description:
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....
kinda like Johnny Mnemonic meets Hackers. |
Definitely sounds interesting but worried that I might not enjoy this as much..too much science in books especially can get annoying. I would definitely go watch a movie on stuff like this though...
Like I dunno how much I would have enjoyed reading Matrix or something like that.... |
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| adi26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Irishaddict
Fiction? Politics?
A couple to get you started:
Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Oliver Sacks - Awakenings
Michael Ondaatje - In the Skin of a Lion
Sophocles - Antigone
Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Chomksy for Politics
Dan Brown, Douglas Coupland for fiction
There's a little bit of everything in there. |
Holy ....thats a lot of readingg you've done...:crazy:
Thanks for the suggestions...:) |
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| Irishaddict |
Greg Bear - Blood Music
I'm not a sci-fi fan either, but this novel is awesome. Was forced to read it in a third year English class and have been recommending it since. |
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| Irishaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi26
Holy ....thats a lot of readingg you've done...:crazy:
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ahaha, that doesn't hold a candle to the whole list. ;) |
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| adi26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Irishaddict
ahaha, that doesn't hold a candle to the whole list. ;) |
The only reading I've done in the last 6 months is called "the Chill Out Room" |
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| adi26 |
Oh and by the way, is there any book around these days similar to Freakonomics which was released this time around last year...
Those kinda topics really fascinate me... |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Irishaddict
ahaha, that doesn't hold a candle to the whole list. ;) |
no kidding eh?
OMG, if one counted all the books ive been reading since like gr. 6, 7 or 8... FACK!
my bookshelf at home is MASSIVE, and thats not cunoting fantasy novels i read in public school that i dont know whut happened to them over the years!
books read are trophys to me :D
i would never lend out, borrow or sell off my novels. theres value in them to me besides reading their content for that first time. :) |
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| slingshot |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi26
Oh and by the way, is there any book around these days similar to Freakonomics which was released this time around last year...
Those kinda topics really fascinate me... |
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
are you interested in just abstract economic theories or business type books in general? |
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| Irishaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
no kidding eh?
OMG, if one counted all the books ive been reading since like gr. 6, 7 or 8... FACK!
my bookshelf at home is MASSIVE, and thats not cunoting fantasy novels i read in public school that i dont know whut happened to them over the years!
books read are trophys to me :D
i would never lend out, borrow or sell off my novels. theres value in them to me besides reading their content for that first time. :) |
lol, we are so alike. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Irishaddict
lol, we are so alike. |
we are! :)
and our collection only contines to ing grow! Usually by atleast 1 novel a month/2months :D
Reading is great. |
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| Irishaddict |
| ^^ hahaha we should compare.. it might take me a while to type it all out though :eek: |
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