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About mei've read alot, mostly high brow fancy shmancy sh!te writted by long-dead white guys.
over past 2-3 years I'm on an almost 100% exclusive sci fi kick. it started w. PKD, just couldnt get me enough Dick for months :)
After PKD its been pretty much straight up hard sci fi w. occasional bits (tee hee) of cyberpunk here and there. Well, not so much "cyberpunk" as Stephenson, Gibson & them singularity dudes (like Stross)
About my libraryProlly about 1,000 volumes, mostly shabby as I'm too cheap to buy alot of hardcovers and am not particularly tidy while reading neither.
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I guessed I'm starved for a good geeky book. I liked Popco for the puzzles and teasers. I also liked how the characters all seemed to convey what I would consider the kind of scientific brilliance that taints your personality (turning you into a real geek :-) ). I saw the same kind of characters in Cryptomicon.
The first Scarlett Thomas book I read was "The End of Mr. Y", which I would also recommend.
I admit I was a bit disappointed by how fast the book ended ... there was a lot of buildup and it seemed Thomas wrote a chapter which abruptly closed all the loose ends.
I do think Scarlett Thomas can be inconsistent, but I look forward to her next book.
posted by daysailor at 7:40 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2008
posted by clong at 7:14 am (EST) on Apr 12, 2008