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phantasmagorovich wrote:

MrNovember wrote:

BitchPudding wrote:Yea that book looks rad. Surprised J. didn't have a Big Muff for his pedal. lol

That's what I thought too
Definitely added that book to my list

The amazon comments all stressed that it's not about gear, so it kinda makes sense no one put any attention to the "correct" pedal. I would've thought a Moogerfooger would be mandatory for Frusciante as well.

Plus they're all plugged in backwards. I don't think the illustrator was fussed.


Finished Ubik. Pretty good.

Can't decide whether to read All The Pretty Horses or some more sci-fi

more sci-fi

I just started Authority, the souther reach pt.2. So far I like it even better than pt. 1.

I love how bleak Cormac McCarthy is, it may as well be in space. I haven't read All the Pretty Horses yet though.

cloudscapes wrote:Currently going through Terminal World (Alastair Reynolds)

I've got everything he's written. He hits a great blend of enough physics to make you feel smart, enough drama to keep you hooked without it being overly dramatic, well written mostly but not verbose. And of course big stories that never really careen out of control or into boredom.

</fanboy>

Currently rereading LotR. Gotta get my yearly dose.

Chankgeez wrote:more sci-fi

I'll probably do the Foundation Trilogy, but I'm reading Will Self 'Umbrella' first.

Currently nearing the end of Rick Strassman's 'DMT and the Soul of Prophecy'.

His first book, 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule' was all data and facts - a solid read, but dry at times. His second book 'Inner Paths to Outer Space' was entirely conjecture with no basis whatsoever - interesting, but masturbatory. This one falls somewhere in between. He uses accounts from his first book, and compares them to prophetic Hebrew scripture in an attempt to explain that the prophetic states described in the Old Testament may have been in part caused by endogenous DMT release. It's somewhat convincing, but ultimately improvable.



I'm rarely one for novels, but next up, I'm gonna start Brion Gysin's 'The Process'. I've heard it's a bit of a counterculture classic.

goroth wrote:

cloudscapes wrote:Currently going through Terminal World (Alastair Reynolds)

I've got everything he's written. He hits a great blend of enough physics to make you feel smart, enough drama to keep you hooked without it being overly dramatic, well written mostly but not verbose. And of course big stories that never really careen out of control or into boredom.

</fanboy>

Same, love his stories! I think I've read most of his better known stuff. The revelation space series, pushing ice, house of suns (my favorite, probably), some of the shorts. Really imaginative, and I love the sciency stuff too.

just started fred hoyle "the black cloud"

Just finished this. Love the movie and always wondered about the book but it proved difficult to track a copy down. Glad I did: really nice prose, tight, no wasted words, great story.

Just finished Terminal World, now thinking about what to read next..

started Proxima, Stephen Baxter

like so many other hard sci-fi works from the greats, absolutely fascinating concepts and worlds, and incredibly boring/1-dimensional characters and dialogue.

That is the one thing I find hard to cope with sometimes with my love of sci-fi. I tend to go on sci fi binges then "serious literature" binges for pretty much exactly that reason.

Right now I'm reading



Maybe 1/4 of the way through, it's such a pleasure to read and it has such a wonderfully evocative style. She's a fantastic storyteller and I'm absolutely hooked!

Alistair Reynolds is one exception, I feel, who can deliver both fascinating sci-fi concepts, hard physics etc, and keep story, characters and dialogue as interesting as "real" literature.

I will definitely check him out, thanks for the rec! That description is exactly what I'm looking for in sci fi.