i'm hanging around bookwarez shit, trying to gather some summer reading, but it seems theres a lot of shit out there that hasnt been OCRed yet. such as "the terminal experiment" by robert j. sawyer, which won a nebula and i really want to read.

also, i'd like to get my hands on a copy of "the constant gardener" by john le carre. i read about 10 le carre books last summer, so i'd like to look at some of the others this year, heh.

i cant think of any of the other books i was looking for, anyone else have any ideas? this guy robert j. sawyer has a website named sfwriter.com, so i think i'm going to read some of his fav books, also of interest is where he talks about how wordstar is the perfect writer's word processer, he mentions things i never knew about like comments for documents (instead of code, heh).

i am burning up in fascination!

for serious, i need some books to read, i'm thinking of buying a shitty old palm because the screens larger than a gameboy and it has better reading softwarez. meh.

oh i guess i should've mentioned i've been reading ebooks using my gameboy, and this thing called "gameboy book reader" which i'm not going to dig out the URL for right now. it's kinda cool but nothing like a real book, i dunno. i was first able to read cory doctorows disneyland book on it, which was fun. whuffie and shit. r0x0rs.

oh, i guess i should've mentioned i've been reading "heart of darkness" by joseph conrad. it's a pretty convoluted book, especially with all of it's turn-of-the-century high english prose, but it's an interesting aspect of apocalypse now. i dunno. i'm finding it fairly tough reading so i'm not sure how much i'd recommend it for casual reading. my dad teaches it, and i can see why. there are a lot of sections that require group discussion in order to understand fully, which is pretty lame. whatever.

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/12/2003 12:44 AM CST

oh, heart of darkness is available from project gutenburg if you'd like to read it

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/12/2003 12:45 AM CST

I read Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė recently, which is also available from several public domain e-book places. It's very good, Brontė's prose style is possibly my favourite ever. It was a lot easier to read than "Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy, which I read last year. I read Heart of Darkness last year too and found it pretty hard going.

Posted by Jon R from 213.107.224.6 @ 05/12/2003 03:45 AM CST

are you sure? i read tess of the d'urbervilles in high school and i was thoroughly unimpressed.

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/12/2003 06:55 PM CST

Er, sure about what?

Posted by Jon R from 213.107.224.6 @ 05/13/2003 08:18 AM CST

I just finished a Greg Egan book which comes recommended if you like that quantum stuff. 'Quarantine'

Posted by Jon from 81.26.112.119 @ 05/13/2003 10:13 AM CST

are you sure about wuthering heights, it appears pretty geigh

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/13/2003 01:20 PM CST

fuck joseph conrad

Posted by jonc from 68.184.33.243 @ 05/13/2003 02:50 PM CST

Well, uh, yeah. But what does that have to do with tess of the d'urbervilles?

Posted by Jon R from 213.107.224.6 @ 05/13/2003 03:07 PM CST

in my high school class, we had a choice of which book to do our presentation on, tess was one, wuthering heights was another, the theme appeared to be "grrrl power in the 1800s" or something, anyways, the books are forever linked in my head now

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/13/2003 08:18 PM CST

Could you get me a pick of this gameboy book reader? :)

Posted by Jon from 129.234.4.1 @ 05/15/2003 07:37 AM CST