This is thus far my favorite Vonnegut novel. People keep saying Cat’s Cradle is really good, but I have yet to read it.

The cover of this book has a quote from Chuck Palahniuk saying it’s the best book he’s read in a decade. My immediate reaction was to think that this book was going to be very similar to a Palahniuk book. And it is. It employs a lot of the same techniques, which by this point are almost cliches. It’s written pretty well, in some places, better than Palahniuk. It has an interesting non-chronological structure and it’s a page-turner. I read it in a day. It was pretty fun to read, but it didn’t leave me with anything. It failed to make an impression other than that of being a very good imitation of Palahniuk, who is himself wearing a bit thin.

Remixes of The Books’ second album, “The Lemon of Pink” by Prefuse 73. It sounds like Prefuse 73 made tracks using samples of The Books. I was hoping for something more like a fusion of their musical styles. I’ll give it another listen and see if it manages to amaze me.

This movie is a pile of lame bullshit. It goes through such incredible contortions to get to a “twist” ending. And I’ve never seen worse acting from Cary Elwes.

Awesome. I happened to read it right before Tom Cruise started acting like a huge psycho. This book will explain it all. Tom Cruise’s recent behavior makes perfect sense when you read about Scientology. You just have to understand that he’s deluded and insane, just like the founder of the religion, L. Ron Hubbard.
Read it for free online at http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm

It’s a bit dated now, but it’s still really interesting. It really shows you the depth and breadth of manga in Japan. Far beyond porn and Dragonball Z, how about comics about manga editors? Official Aum cult comics? Dada-esque comics with cute cartoon characters that take a drug that makes them forget everything and then remember everything? The only bad part is that almost none of these comics are available in translation. This book has writeups about them, but no excerpts larger than a page or so.

Incredibly interesting. I wish he’d written more.

Erase the movie from your mind. Quite entertaining and fun.

This book is like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern meets The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Hilarious and brilliant.

I enjoyed this a lot when I was younger. I still think it’s good. Diamond Age is better, though. And there really is no comparison to Neuromancer. Geeks might like Snow Crash because it has a more realistic technical detail, but Gibson can write circles around Stephenson.