A story about "In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet/American Space Art Book" — 4 years ago
Mostly silly, but there are a couple of brilliant paintings by someone named Minksy and a nifty intro by Ray Bradbury.
kukkurovaca / Nick
is consuming 8 items,
doing 17 things,
going 5 places, and
meeting 4 people.
I'm currently reading 8 books, listening to 0 albums, watching 0 movies, eating and drinking 0 food items, and consuming 0 other things.
Nick hasn't consumed anything recently.
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A story about "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" — 4 years ago
Close to a century behind its times—the philosophical issues with which it deals are purely nineteenth century, and it is completely uninformed by recent developments; nor does it even deal with eastern philosophy or religion in any significant sense, as one might guess. While the motorcycle maintenance tips may or may not be useful (I wouldn’t know), the intellectual content of this book is pure masturbation.
A story about "This Immortal" — 4 years ago
Good, but not spectacular. Zelazny has done much better with most of these themes—with the intersection of mythology and technology in Lord of Light and Creatures of Light and Darkness, with contemplations of the decline and fall of humanity in, say, Dream Master, with immortality in almost anything…
A story about "Dangerous Visions : The 35th Anniversary Edition" — 4 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
I’ve been meaning to read this for ages. I have a lot of respect for new wave, and this is the acknowledged seminal anthology for same. Recently acquired a beautiful (but book club edition) old copy for just a couple bucks. Only a couple stories in, but so far quite impressed.
