What book are you reading now?

[feather]

Re: What book are you reading now?

man i have that on my wishlist. isn't the premise something like institutions using gamers to do illegal activities? how's it thus far?

It's actually good once you get around the different points of views. Because it's a near-future setting, the ideas he put forth are already around now, he just took it to a silly extreme. It's basically a conspiracy novel with these hapless characters who were embroiled in some Chinese plot to hack and destroy the EU. The protagonists had been participating in an alternate reality game called Spooks 2.0 (like NIN's Year Zero or Halo's I love bees) and had unwittingly been manouvered by government agencies to do their dirty work. I actually plan on re-reading it.

[Dj Lunchtray]

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I'm working on The world is flat - T.Friedman.

Thats a good read too, although I lost it before I finished it

[Dj Lunchtray]

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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

GREAT book.

currently reading 2012 The Return of Quetzcotl by Daniel Pinchbeck

[tiddles]

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La peste - albert camus
i think the english title is The Plague?

fucking hard read for me

[Localizer]

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Wow that must be before he started on the epic fantasy stuff.

I'm reading Charles Stross' Halting State. A near-future novel about a bank heist in a game like WOW. Difficult to read because it's written in 2nd person so it feels like you're in Penthouse Letters without the sex.

man i have that on my wishlist. isn't the premise something like institutions using gamers to do illegal activities? how's it thus far?

[palmer]

Re: What book are you reading now?

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Elegant Universe.

[Localizer]

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Bertrand Russell - Power

[feather]

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Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination.

[Misspent Youth]

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Lamb: The Story of Christ According to his Best Friend Biff

by: Christopher Moore

[Adzey]

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"no sanctuary" by richard laymon

[Lorn]

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'The Way of all Flesh' by Samuel Butler

[phaeton]

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'the diceman' by luke rhinehart

[Dzone]

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and i would like to add...it's fuckin good !!

[Dzone]

Re: What book are you reading now?

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
By John Dickie

[Misspent Youth]

Re: What book are you reading now?

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman