I’m kind of referencing this book and jumping around rather than reading it cover-to-cover. I actually didn’t realize that it had such a lame subtitle until I added it on here. Hrmph.

Anyone who desires a more analytical background on why I’m such a fuckwit should read this book.

I’ve enjoyed Calvino so much that I’ve decided to branch out. Recommendations have included Eco and Kundera, and I’m starting with Eco because I’m totally unfamiliar with him.

This books is interesting and engaging but not a breezy read. I read David Sedars’ ‘Naked’ before this, so the contrast is pretty strong! (:

UPDATE: Page 145 now and I’m more interested/engaged in the story. One of the comments on the back of the book says that “for all its erudition it moves with the pace of a thriller” or something like that… it’s true!

FINAL: Enjoyable but very long. I recommend reading it as a mystery story and NOT as a elaborate treatise on philosophy.

Reminded me of Bradbury, a bit.. a compelling novel. I don’t know if I want to call it sci-fi though. Much more about anthropology.. but futuristic. Fascinating, anyway.

just finished this… sending to maria (: a fast read, recommended social fiction

I need to know more about nanotechnology

[on hold]

On hold, since I stupidly lent it to a friend before I finished it.

“The novel I would most like to read at this moment,” Ludmilla explains, “should have at its driving force only the desire to narrate, to pile stories upon stories, without trying to impose a philosophy of life on you, simply allowing you to observe its own growth, like a tree, an entangling, as if of branches and leaves…”

It’s just beautiful language, within a completely unique storytelling style.

This book is on hold for a while because I leant it to somebody before I’d finished reading it, since I was also reading several other things and I don’t know, I’m stupid.

read this at the library.. a pretty good book. i was kind of disappointed though because i was going to buy it a long time ago at casco bay books when it first came out because it looked really interesting, and it didn’t live up to my expectations

Re-reading… this series was my addiction when I was a kid. It would be nice if it caught on like Harry Potter! (: Just another high-quality overlooked children’s series.

just borrowed it.. i’ll describe it more once i’m further in