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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

jimmy jazz wrote:
Dez wrote:

Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

many cool worlds in the title, but very speculative stuff (maybe too speculative to be called "physics"). be warned wink

Oh I'm aware...That's why I'm reading it mainly.

I read Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos recently and followed that up with Lee Smolin's, The Trouble With Physics, and became totally disenfranchised with physics as a whole. That's why I needed some fantastical speculative writing to get me back into it.

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smile then i understand completely. started reading the feynmann lectures in physics lately, but it's quite demanding if you're just reading it out of interest.

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

just finished Inherent Vice, new book by Thomas Pynchon.
I abandoned Gravity's Rainbow half way through, but this one is very readable, an excellent read in fact.
All about the end of the 60's in LA and other stuff too, of course.
Expected a bit more of the ending though.

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

finished History of fascism while ago and now almost done with this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z9YFAGN0L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I love it!

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reading american psycho just now.
good book.

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

Miracles of Life - J.G. Ballard  autobiography.
What a great man.

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

Finally got ma hands on Rip It Up And Start Again

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World Religions textbook.

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/3855802151_8660496fe0.jpg

Cant recommend this enough

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

teknob wrote:

Miracles of Life - J.G. Ballard  autobiography.
What a great man.

I agree.

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

Balancing three books atm: Watchmen, Jorge Luis Borges - fragments from Fictions/El Aleph, and a book about Mindfulness.

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Sonic Reducer wrote:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/385 … 496fe0.jpg

Cant recommend this enough

Ouhm, I just ordered "Industrial Evolution" from amazon and thought about this one but decided not to buy it.. Now I guess I did something wrong. smile

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deutschmark wrote:
Sonic Reducer wrote:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/385 … 496fe0.jpg

Cant recommend this enough

Ouhm, I just ordered "Industrial Evolution" from amazon and thought about this one but decided not to buy it.. Now I guess I did something wrong. smile

Industrial Evolution looks good though, stick the Wreckers on your shopping list!

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just started:

http://www.rrr.org.au/assets/highrise.jpg

thanks for the tip San, the very first paragraph sounds amazing and pulls you right in.

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

Very funny ...

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http://www.hfertigbooks.com/covers/c7.jpg

i think its starting to sink in

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

jimmy jazz wrote:

smile then i understand completely. started reading the feynmann lectures in physics lately, but it's quite demanding if you're just reading it out of interest.

It's not too bad. There's also Roger Penrose's Road to Reality which is similar, except that it tries to give a short grounding on the math aswell which is crucial for understanding the physics in depth.

Monkey see, monkey do.

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biotek wrote:

There's also Roger Penrose's Road to Reality which is similar, except that it tries to give a short grounding on the math aswell which is crucial for understanding the physics in depth.

Might check that one out as well. Thx for the tip!

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Very funny ...

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expand your total self

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

just finished: hunter s thompson - the great shark hunt

just begun in (second read): alexander shulgin - TIHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved) brilliant book

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onto this. High rise by ballard was probably one of the best things Ive read all year. lookin forward to this

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Re: What are you robots reading right now?

swapping books with a friend at work. He gave me day of the triffids (finished) and Rant - Chuck Palahniuk (reading now).

Must also read all the old ballard books. Drowning world was promising, but it was a one night stand (as in I was at a friends house, and he was reading at the time, so I couldn't borrow it, just read 20 pages or so)

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concrete island is very good so far,

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http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/087/215/400000000000000087215_s4.jpg

so fucking good.

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http://filthyspeakeraddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/discofiles.png

Nice read. Writings by Vince Aletti in which he reviews current ('73-'78) disco records. Interesting.

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