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Current book recursion nest state
I think this is everything but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that I'm leaving something out.
I am a Strange Loop: Borrowed from Zarf. Quite thought-provoking. I find myself reflecting often on the metaphors of mind that Hofstadter presents (and then tells nigh-innumerable parables about). That said, I stopped reading it after I bought...
Spook Country: Purchased at a signing event at the Brattle. I like it, but like all of Gibson's recent stuff it's not very grabby. On my recent train ride to Jersey I re-read the most recent 50 pages or so to re-contextualize since my last stopping point, and I barely remembered any of it. My reading this actually interleaves with...
Imajica: The first of two novels I bought at the Big Chicken Barn while vacationing in Maine last month. Probably I should have read this when I was 16, but some of my friends had been bringing it up in recent conversation, so what the hell. I was all right with it until about halfway through, when it starts to become clear that the only female character (who, because this is a Clive Barker novel, represents all of womanhood) is actually as much of a weak-willed twit as she seems. Seriously, I assumed that she was under a villainous enchantment, until the writing took turns that suggested otherwise. So I hang it up for a while, and that leads to...
Jhereg: The other Chicken Barn book, and another that I should have read as a teenager. I hadn't even heard of Brust until this decade, actually, and I think it was through![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tahnan or temvald slavering over him at a game night? Does that make sense? Anyway, started this today. Seven pages in. Hooked. We'll see. It's short, so if any other books wanna wedge into this one, they'd better act fast. (I borrowed some crazy Martin Gardner books from dougo the other day but they're just kinda hangin out right now.)
I am a Strange Loop: Borrowed from Zarf. Quite thought-provoking. I find myself reflecting often on the metaphors of mind that Hofstadter presents (and then tells nigh-innumerable parables about). That said, I stopped reading it after I bought...
Spook Country: Purchased at a signing event at the Brattle. I like it, but like all of Gibson's recent stuff it's not very grabby. On my recent train ride to Jersey I re-read the most recent 50 pages or so to re-contextualize since my last stopping point, and I barely remembered any of it. My reading this actually interleaves with...
Imajica: The first of two novels I bought at the Big Chicken Barn while vacationing in Maine last month. Probably I should have read this when I was 16, but some of my friends had been bringing it up in recent conversation, so what the hell. I was all right with it until about halfway through, when it starts to become clear that the only female character (who, because this is a Clive Barker novel, represents all of womanhood) is actually as much of a weak-willed twit as she seems. Seriously, I assumed that she was under a villainous enchantment, until the writing took turns that suggested otherwise. So I hang it up for a while, and that leads to...
Jhereg: The other Chicken Barn book, and another that I should have read as a teenager. I hadn't even heard of Brust until this decade, actually, and I think it was through
tahnan or temvald slavering over him at a game night? Does that make sense? Anyway, started this today. Seven pages in. Hooked. We'll see. It's short, so if any other books wanna wedge into this one, they'd better act fast. (I borrowed some crazy Martin Gardner books from dougo the other day but they're just kinda hangin out right now.)
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