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Anyone reading printed books?
aBc:
I read all of the time!
Read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Wiliam L. Shirer
when I was nine years old. Took me forever to actually read
and enjoy any non-fiction. But now I can’t stop.
Anyone read any Thomas Pynchon? (Gravity’s Rainbow or V.?)
Or maybe Tom Robbins? (Still Life With Woodpecker or Jitterbug Perfume?)
And of course… all of Kurt Vonnegut’s titles.
How about Philip K. Dick? “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”?
Off to pick up a copy of “Earth to Moon” by Moon Zappa today.
Have only read a few books via an iPad - and then only
because I couldn’t find particular titles in print.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLoNGRVeC7Y
robespierre:
I was 17 when I read Gravity's Rainbow and 18 when I read Infinite Jest. You could say they had some kind of pernicious influence on my development.
MigMac:
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How about Philip K. Dick? “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”?
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Read many of his visionary books. "Do Androids..." and "A Scanner Darkly" among my faves.
ceratophyllum:
Cixin Liu's Three Body Trilogy (in translation): Without going too much into spoilers, I'll say these are some of the most original hard science fiction books I've read in a long time, combining the horrors of the Cultural Revolution with the Fermi Paradox....
Stephen Baxter's Manifold books and other speculative near- and far- future science fiction. The best British science fiction writer since Arthur C. Clarke. Except for his historical fiction which I find a bit tedious.
Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space: speculative hard science fiction but with a peculiar west country, space operatic flair, and some gross body horrors thrown in.
Rosetta:
These "take a book, leave a book" nooks certainly exist in my town, most often around schools and neighborhood community areas (the playground, pool, etc.).
As far as digital goes, I have never been one for e-books, never ever.
Reading to me is often an escape from the pixelated world, and the baggage and distraction that it can bring. For this escape to be successful, the printed page is always a prerequisite.
Sure, e-reader technology is convenient and impressive, but is there not always a cost to convenience? So far it's been environmental health, mental health, privacy...
So I will keep my printed books, and thankfully I don't think they are going anywhere.
Currently going through my backlog of late 90s/early 2000s web/interface/graphic design coffee table books, which are always of particular inspiration when I venture back onto the computer. My library also includes some art retrospectives, pictorial reviews of architecture, philosophy, non-fiction, and more.
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