Books
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Just finished reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. Enjoyable, but I have mixed emotions about it. Mostly because it felt like it was building toward a more monumental conclusion than it actually had.
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Agreed, but as a geek I still love the darn thing. I love how Stephenson has cross-generational storylines in this and other books. Having Alan Turing as a character is a huge plus too. I think Snow Crash is probably a bit better in a way and I have not read the Diamond Age.
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Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Lanzac & Blain (SelfMadeHero London 2014)…Winner of the Best Graphic Novel Award Angouleme International Comics Festival 2013.....GBP 16,99...an excellent comics for all guys with a sense for the real backgounds of politics and diplomacy...Perfect!
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Only good Tintin btw (reàl good if you're into Class War mag/ socialism/ anarchism/ communism/ anti-sexism/ anti-racism/ anti-poofism and so on)…
http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Adventures-J-Daniels/dp/0951426109
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Lanzac&Blain: A silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry. The fictional eccentric, Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, is France's least likely comic-book hero.
But he is the star of a satirical graphic novel based on the former French prime minister and foreign policy supremo, Dominique de Villepin, which has become a surprise French literary hit,
and Tintin, I like the drawigs and stories…I know that some people like to see phantoms, too much interpretations, not ignoring some special aspects: Tintin in the Congo is forbidden to sell in South Africa and some critics about Tintin in the Land of the Soviets...Herge´s biography mirrors his time
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Just finished reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. Enjoyable, but I have mixed emotions about it. Mostly because it felt like it was building toward a more monumental conclusion than it actually had.
Yeah that was my feeling too. It was building for so long, and then the steam. it just kind of. ran dry. Anathem is probably my fav book by Stephenson. Difficult to get into, but sets up and delivers on point. Snow Crash, is a bit of an easy/relaxed read. Didn't stretch me, light and enjoyable, no less.
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Anathem was great!
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Yeah that was my feeling too. It was building for so long, and then the steam. it just kind of. ran dry. Anathem is probably my fav book by Stephenson. Difficult to get into, but sets up and delivers on point. Snow Crash, is a bit of an easy/relaxed read. Didn't stretch me, light and enjoyable, no less.
I've never read Snow Crash. It's petty of me, but I just can't get past the silliness of naming the main character "Hiro Protagonist".
I also just finished re-reading Dune for the first time since my early teens. A much deeper and richer experience this time around. It's prompted me to try out the others in the series, which I've not read before. I've got to do something to kill time until Patrick Rothfuss finally finishes the Kingkiller Trilogy; although I don't see how he's going to wrap up everything in a single book. I'm just praying he doesn't drag things out like George R.R. Martin. I've given up hope that the Song of Ice and Fire series will ever be completed.
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LOVE Dune, but also haven't read any others in the series.
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I've got to do something to kill time until Patrick Rothfuss finally finishes the Kingkiller Trilogy; although I don't see how he's going to wrap up everything in a single book.
I had forgotten that was still on it's way, dammit, can not unforget again, until next distracted. At least Anathem will keep you busy for a few weeks
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For an interesting view at Japanese history as comics:
Shigeru Mizuki: Showa 1926-39, Showa 1939-44, the third volume 1944-53 will be published soon by Drawn & Quarterly (Farar, Straus and Giroux)
The books are presented in the traditional Japanese manner and is meant to be read from right to left. Shigeru Mizukiis one of Japan´s most respected artists. He lost his drawing arm in WWII to a bomb. He has received almost every every award the comics industry has to offer. -
I've got to do something to kill time until Patrick Rothfuss finally finishes the Kingkiller Trilogy; although I don't see how he's going to wrap up everything in a single book.
I had forgotten that was still on it's way, dammit, can not unforget again, until next distracted.
Is this the sequel to Name of the Wind / Wise Man's Fear?
