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All Tomorrows Parties

Gibson, William

[star][star][star][star]

Featuring many characters from Idoru


Brave New World

Huxley, Aldous

[star][star][star][star]

Biting Social Commentary!


Breakfast Of Champions

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

[star][star][star][star]

Etc. and so on.


Cannery Row

Steinbeck, John

[star][star][star][star]

More drinking and good times in Monterey.


Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky, Fydor

[star][star][star][star]

A heady russian jaunt!


Down and Out in Paris and Londen

Orwell, George

[star][star][star][star]

George Orwell - the waiter! - the tramp!


Dream and the Destiny, The

Cordell, Alexander

[star][star][star][star]

One man's journey across China in Mao Tse-tung's red army.


Foulcault's Pendulum

Eco, Umberto

[star][star][star][star]

(The rubber plant is free!)


God Bless You Mr Rosewater

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

[star][star][star][star]

Grab much too much, or you'll get nothing at all


Idoru

Gibson, William

[star][star][star][star]

Fantastic.


Long Valley, The

Steinbeck, John

[star][star][star][star]

Another group of stories centered in Salinas, California


Media Virus - Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

Rushkoff, Douglas

[star][star][star][star]

The old Eriksonian double disassociation


Moon is Down, The

Steinbeck, John

[star][star][star][star]

The Flies conquer the flypaper!


Mother Night

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

[star][star][star][star]

Brilliant black comedy


Neuromancer

Gibson, William

[star][star][star][star]

Really good.


Outsider, The

Camus, Albert

[star][star][star][star]

Murder on the shores of France!


Pulp

Bukowski, Charles

[star][star][star][star]

Funny detective story


Snow Crash

Stephenson, Neal

[star][star][star][star]

Fast paced cyber uh, something or other.


Timequake

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

[star][star][star][star]

Kurt Vonnegut rules!


Tortilla Flat

Steinbeck, John

[star][star][star][star]

Humourous stories about the drunk paisano jobless of Monterey.


Women

Bukowski, Charles

[star][star][star][star]

A good book


Fall, The

Camus, Albert

[star][star][star]

The discourse of a disallusioned soul!


All Flesh is Grass

Simak, Clifford D

[star][star][star]

Strange alien worlds.


Four Days

Buell, John

[star][star][star]

Crime, murder, etc.


On The Road

Kerouac, Jack

[star][star][star]

A bit repetitive


Deadeye Dick

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

[star][star][star]

So so. Not as good as his other books


Parallel Thinking

De Bono, Edward

[star][star][star]

Gives a good overview of his other books.


Prodigal Genius - The Life of Nicola Tesla

O'Neill, John

[star][star][star]

I loved that pidgeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman.


Grapes of Wrath, The

Steinbeck, John

[star][star][star]

The grapes! The Wrath! The breast feeding!


Henry V

Shakespeare, William

[star][star][star]

Not as good as the first four!


Spares

Smith, Michael Marshall

[star][star][star]

Has a well developed main character. Not a very realistic world.


Still Life with Woodpecker

Robbins, Tom

[star][star][star]

Forbidden Love!


Sweet Smell of Psychosis, The

Self, Will

[star][star][star]

Not the greatest book he has ever written, but not bad.


Diamond Age, The

Stephenson, Neal

[star][star][star]

Pretty good, but a bit slow paced.


Anthropology and a hundred other stories

Dan Rhodes

[star][star][star]

A good hours reading


Winter of Our Discontent, The

Steinbeck, John

[star][star][star]

The feel bad book of the year.


Bluebeard

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt

[star][star][star]

Grist for the mill


GenX Reader, The

Rushkoff, Douglas

[star][star]

A collection of articles about generation X compiled by Doug Rushkoff, so-so.


Imajica

Barker, Clive

[star][star]

About 600 pages too long.


Little Deaths

Goldsworthy, Peter

[star][star]

It's like I died and didn't go to heaven....!


Flash Forward

Sawyer, Robert J

[star][star]

The ending sucked, and the rest wasn't all that great either


Maggot, A

Fowles, John

[star][star]

Who is the killer? Who is the mysterious nobleman? Where are my breasts?


Eye, The

Herbert, Frank

[star][star]

One good one about Jorj X. McKie, otherwise bland.


City

Simak, Clifford D

[star][star]

So so sci fi.


Rune

Fowler, Christoper

[star][star]

Ancient runes, blah blah, computer virus, blah blah, world domination.


Difference Engine, The

Sterling, Bruce

[star]

A very bad book. Don't read under an circumstances. Written with William Gibson


Difference Engine, The

Gibson, William

[star]

A very bad book. Don't read under an circumstances. Written with Bruce Sterling


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