Best computers & internet humor books according to redditors
We found 685 Reddit comments discussing the best computers & internet humor books. We ranked the 101 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 685 Reddit comments discussing the best computers & internet humor books. We ranked the 101 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
They do. Here is Milo's book on Amazon. It has 91% 5 star ratings and 3% 1 star. Clearly Amazon wasn't allowing 1 star reviews from people who didn't read the book, because there would be a lot more than the 10 one star reviews that exist right now.
It really does run on everything!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069289344X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dangero0c-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=069289344X&linkId=d2fc648a907d1ec758d2254675719fdf
I see you found it..
Edit: Book for Reference
Edit, Edit: Encyclopedia for Reference
I put this book is in the restroom at work. [The Onion Book of Known Knowledge] (http://www.amazon.com/Onion-Book-Known-Knowledge-Encyclopaedia/dp/0316133248) It's one of the best toilet readers I've ever had.
> A certain someone's book is coming out.
Yeah. Dangerous
You can always go for the miniature version: https://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Waving-Inflatable-Miniature-Editions/dp/0762462876
according to http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-White-People-Like-Definitive/dp/0812979915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373682094&sr=8-1&keywords=thing%27s+white+people+like every white guy needs a black friend
Whoa what a strange comment to read. Im currently sitting next to my co-worker talking about this new book im reading, Player Paino, depicting a dystopia future due to automation and how it made everyone a slave to the system.
The book was recommended to me after I asked reddit if there were any books that dealt with the subject posted in this comment, if anyone is interested.
I felt like I just stumbled through a glitch in the Matrix...or Morpheus was trying to talk to me...when I read this comment, while I was talking about this new book I was reading, and pulling up that reddit comment to show him how I stumbled across that book.
Edit: Now this article is on the front page...
Somebody should tell the UK biggest book retailer
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/069289344X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500093157&sr=1-1
Amazon!
If you enjoyed watching Fan Boys (and enjoy reading) you should check out Ready Player One. Both
the movieFan Boys andthe bookReady Player One were written by the same dude.Also, his nerd credentials check out. He uses technological/MMO terms correctly without spewing too much made-up bullshit.
Edit: Sorry for the ambiguous wording, I meant that both Fan Boys the movie and Ready Player One, the book, were written by the same guy. As far as I know, there are no plans for a Ready Player One movie.
Bo Burnham's Egghead
Here are the recently published novels we've covered in the /r/SF_Book_Club (you can check out the survey results for these books from the sidebar over there):
This is from Bo Burnham's poetry book Egghead: or You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
The kid is a fucking genius on stage and while I've never read this book in its entirety I'm sure anyone who enjoys his stand-up will love it.
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Well, the video is more about the madness that needed to be circumvented than about the fact it can run Linux, and considering that Linux can run on anything (to the point of mocking), is only natural that the interesting parts of the video are fixed on the PS4.
https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X
for pre-order
I expect the VR community to EXPLODE in participants once this hits the big screen.
If you haven't read the book (or if you have) and like Wil Wheaton... get the book on kindle and add Audible narration ($17.48 USD total). I've listened to it 3 times during my commute to work over the past few months. It's only ~ 13 hrs of audio so it goes by quickly.
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1504549779&sr=8-1
Having already experienced the book, there's a certain expectation...so I'm hoping the movie does the book justice
Well, we hit the 10000 limit. Reserving this comment for the misc. section.
FREE TIME/FUN/MISC.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of War
Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond thanks sjhill
A Quarter Century of UNIX thanks sjhill
A Reading List For the Self-Taught Computer Scientist thanks zinver
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk thanks segamix
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable thanks AgonistAgent
Snow Crash thanks AgonistAgent
Cryptonomicon thanks Mirple
You’re welcome
Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy (Miniature Editions) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762462876/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_y0QkDb2H47W4H
It was also mentioned in Ready Player One, in a key part of the story. Great read btw.
Yeah, it's a novel. I liked it.
Nice! One of my old roommates is black and he bought me the book Stuff White People Like. Sometimes me and my friends will play a drinking game where we flip to a page and if we like the things listed we drink. That is a hard game to stay sober in
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
From Amazon:
> It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
>Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
>And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
> For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century.
Onion Book of Known Knowledge
The best book I've read in recent years.
Ready Player One
It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune--and remarkable power--to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved--that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday's icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes's oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt--among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life--and love--in the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
Not really in the Lovecraft style, but I highly recommend The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. It starts with The Atrocity Archives, followed by The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memorandum, and The Apocalypse Codex. The basic premise is that there's a civil service department run by the British that deals with all of the occult stuff that goes on (the Deep Ones, monkey's paws, etc.). It is sometimes quite dark (gaping maws, dead planets, old gods, ancient rituals), but shot through with a good bit of humor.
Also, there's a (award-winning) novelette by him called, "A Colder War", which you can read online here. It's a fusion of Cthulhu Mythos and the Cold War.
Relevant to the relevant!
By the way, there's a really good sci-fi book about VR. It's called "Ready Player One"
It's different in the narrative, but also touches upon the topic of people becoming addicted to the virtual world. It also contains a mystery that the characters had to solve, which I found to be pretty intriguing. Also, if you grew up in the 80-ies, you'll love it even more.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/069289344X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500093157&sr=1-1
Go read the book
Looking forward to reading Ready Player One, I've been wanting to read that one, glad it was picked. Amazon has it for sale here for only $8 dollars.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, No Country for Old Men, and The Princess Bride also all seem to be fairly cheap buys on Amazon.
Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0762462876/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_F0y7CbYWGGPFF
Here are the ebook versions!
Ready Player One
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - FREE
No Country for Old Men
Princess Bride
Snow Crash by Stephenson is something of a modern classic, and a very fun read. I highly recommend it!
Read Ready Player One.. Great book that was really influenced by gaming in the 80's...well hell all things 80's
If you love Adams do yourself a favor and check out "The Salmon of Doubt."
It's a compilation of his scattered writings, words about him from friends, unfinished tales and such... I can't read the damn thing without either laughing or crying depending on what bit I'm on.
It's always a joy to see some small child or engrossed adult hunched over a 'complete' Hitchhiker's "trilogy" binding in airports and in parks even all these years later.
Have a read.
How to invent everything
It’s a fun read that takes you from prehistoric times to more modern inventions, with all of the discoveries along the way. Granted, it is rather superficial as it needs to be given the amount of material it covers. I found it fun and fascinating!
The premise is that it’s a handbook for a stranded time traveler and tells you what you need to do to rebuild civilization.
But... it's not.
...And why are you so angry?
Edit: If anyone is doubtful, it took me just a few seconds to pull up this piece on Amazon's page for Egghead using their Look Inside feature: screenshot. I'm genuinely baffled as to why so many people seems convinced that this is a work by Shel Silverstein.
Cheaper in the US! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Though you should really go big or go home.
Hoookay.
To start off with, the two mandatory books are:
Neuromancer, by William Gibson: This is the big daddy, the first example of the genre. Especially notable for pre-dating the world wide web, but managing to predict it pretty well. We still use terminology (like cyberspace) coined by him today.
Snow Crash: Snow Crash (in my opinion) is the close to the genre, the book that took everything unseriously enough to lead us into the world of post-cyberpunk. An awesome book, and more readable than Neuromancer.
Movies:
Blade Runner: The visual inspiration for a ton of stuff, Blade Runner is the shit. Make sure you watch the Final Cut, because there are three versions.
The Matrix: Worlds inside computers are huge in cyberpunk, and The Matrix nails it. The aesthetics are pretty good too, given less sci-fi stuff in the computer world.
The Surrogates: Not the greatest movie in the world, and Bruce Willis has hilariously fake hair, but an interesting approach to a cyberpunk world.
Miscellaneous:
Psycho-Pass: The less well-known cyberpunk anime, Psycho-Pass treads interesting philosophical ground, and pairs it with a really fun cyberpunk police procedural. Season 2 is coming out this fall, mark your calendars.
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex: The Ghost in the Shell movie is one of the leading lights of Cyberpunk, but I prefer the TV show for it's more drawn-out, easier to follow narrative. Drop magic into GitS, and you have Shadowrun, straight up and down. This is a must-see for anyone interested in the genre.
Akira: I confess, I haven't actually seen Akira, but it's another classic of the genre. Beware that without having read the manga, there are pretty decent chunks that just won't make sense.
A similar book but a little more directly matching OP's scenario is How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler. It's kind of a fluffy book that doesn't take itself seriously, but does attempt an outline of key inventions that allow advancing civilization more rapidly at each point in time.
But the information in that book is easy to absorb and more or less memorize. I'd want to condense it down to key facts, like recipes for simple chemical processes, etc., and then I'd be tempted to say I'd want some math tables, if I don't have a calculator, but I'm not quite sure how soon I'd need that.
A map of mineral deposits would be pretty useful.
This is that book that's going to be turned into a Spielberg movie and that seems to be very well-liked by /r/books. Amazon's Kindle store has it on sale for the same price, too.
I'm curious about it and will probably still end up getting it as well as another one that always comes up in the other recommended list. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler I'm suspecting what I've got in mind is just too big.
Just finished Ready Player One
Holy shit was this entertaining.
Sounds like Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
Ready Player One
http://www.amazon.com/Onion-Book-Known-Knowledge-Encyclopaedia/dp/0316133248
It's a fucking awesome book
http://www.amazon.com/Onion-Book-Known-Knowledge-Encyclopaedia/dp/0316133248
It was brutal. I wasn't that good. But there were many people who were superb. It was such a pleasure watching them perform.
Here are some sci-fi recommendations (you may have read them already, but I thought I'd offer anyway):
Serious Scifi:
Anathem the "multiverse" (multiple realities) and how all that works
Seveneves feminism meets eugenics—watch out!
The Culture series by Iain Banks, esp Book 2, the Player of Games Banks is dead, but wrote some of the best intellectual scifi ever
Brilliant, Visionary:
Accelerando brilliant and hilarious; and it's not a long book
Snowcrash classic
Neuromancer another classic
Tawdry yet Lyrical (in a good way):
Dhalgren beautiful, poetic, urban, stream of consciousness, and more sex than you can believe
Underrated Classics:
Voyage to Arcturus ignore the reviews and the bad cover of this edition (or buy a diff edition); this is the ONE book that every true scifi and fantasy fan should read before they die
Stress Pattern, by Neal Barrett, Jr. I can't find this on Amazon, but it is a book you should track down. It is possibly the WORST science fiction book ever written, and that is why you must read it. It's a half-assed attempt at a ripoff of Dune without any of the elegance or vision that Herbert had, about a giant worm that eats people on some distant planet. A random sample: "A few days later when I went to the edge of the grove to ride the Bhano I found him dead. I asked Rhamik what could have happened and he told me that life begins, Andrew, and life ends. Well, so it does."
I absolutely love Snow Crash. Very humorous writing without becoming pure comedy. Great plot. Awesome concepts.
My recommendations:
> i will have to check out Neuromancer as it seems interesting.
the movie, Johnny Mnemonic, is also based off Neuromancer, but it's not super great at presenting the themes the book develops.
Snow Crash has a lot of Gibson/Neuromancer elements, but also includes some interesting concepts about language and religion.
here's Amazon links for both of them. $20 well spent IMO.
https://www.amazon.com/Neuromancer-William-Gibson/dp/0441569595
https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958
> "Quality" means nothing without privacy and comfort.
>
> This just feels like separating the rich from the poor even further.
Indeed, just take a standard dystopian sci-fi book and you will notice the poor people living in a container.
Have a little ambition, please.
Snow Crash
Open-world adventure/mystery game split between dystopian west coast and The Metaverse; player gets to move between the two whenever they want. At least two playable characters; Hiro and Y.T., or a new RPG player-character.
Tons of minigames including pizza-delivery, information brokering, skateboard couriering, racing (IRL and Metaverse). Main story could be a sequel to the novel.
Virtual Reality. Swords. Guns. Cars. Skateboards. Italian Mafia. Hackers. Cults. Drugs. Sumerian Myths. Nuclear Powered Robot Dogs. Why aren't you excited yet?
All three of John Hodgman's books (The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That is All) are fantastic almanacs of made-up facts.
Hodgman has a really unique voice that shines through in his writing, and his signature move of CAPTALIZING SOME WORDS for emphasis will always be funny to me - for example:
>DECEMBER 16 1936, PARIS: Walter Benjamin writes his seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in which he argues that ancient works of art, such as sculpture and pottery, have an "aura" that cinema and books, which exist only as copies, do not. Benjamin went on to claim that only he could see this magical aura, and when the time was right, he would tap its energy to fuel the massive PSYCHIC RESONATOR he was developing to halt the rise of the Nazis. IT WOULD HAVE WORKED, TOO, had the Nazis not destroyed his enormous cache of urns.
I think "More" is probably the best of the three, but they all have a through-line where Hodgman charts his path from unknown Apple commercial personality to reclusive millionaire, so the whole series is worth checking out IMO.
Me too. I found this on amazon: Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy (Miniature Editions) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762462876/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_nlHQCbVJFPED9
Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy
Pretty sure this is the same one... I think I’m about to spend $12
You could check out Ready Player One
Have you read Ready Player One? I think the platform they had in the book is exactly what Zuckerberg sees in the Oculus.
From Snowcrash
> Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.
Snow Crash, William Gibson started it, Neal Stephenson polished it and some argue finished it.
Sure!
Cryptonomicon
Snow Crash
The Electric Church
Neuromancer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
That should get you started. :)
[1] [Neil Stephenson] (http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Stephenson/e/B000APS8L8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1342151712&sr=8-1) also delves into Cyberpunk. [2] Snow Crash is probably one of my favorite books.
that it is! https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499643336&sr=1-1&keywords=milo+yiannopoulos
If you find an egg of Cthulhu, do not take it home. Do not stare at it. Do not attempt to burn it in a fire. Alert the authorities (ideally the Q division of the Special Operations Executive) and pretend it never happened.
I really like the Laundry Files novel series by Charles Stross. It's hard fantasy, is very well written, and is quite fascinating.
Basically it follows a British secret agent as he tries to survive various adventures. He works as an IT guy and a computational demonologist in an agency that deals with the supernatural. The idea is that using certain advanced mathematics and science you can breach walls in reality, summon interdimensional aliens (AKA demons), get them to do stuff, etc. If you run those algorithms in your head you run the risk of having the demons eat your brains. If you run them on a computer, you get to be far more powerful.
Here are a couple of free short stories from that universe: http://www.tor.com/tags/Laundry%20Files
Also, here is the first book in the series: The Atrocity Archives
I highly recommend these books. They are very neat, and the series is still being written. The latest book came out this summer - I can't wait for the next one.
Snow Crash
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958
Snow Crash
I think he's hilarious. His book, The Areas of My Expertise is an awesome read.
At risk of self-advertising: the first book in the series, "The Atrocity Archives", is currently on special offer in the USA and Canada for $1.99 as an ebook — Amazon Kindle link here, but it's also cheap on iBooks and Nook right now. (Price will go back up to $7.99 at the end of next week.)
This is to promote the cheapification(?) of book seven, "The Nightmare Stacks" (ebook price just dropped from $13.99 to $7.99 at the beginning of the month) and the oncoming publication of book eight, "The Delirium Brief" (due out in July, will cost $13.99 for the first 9-12 months — if that's too much for you, the price will come down if you wait long enough).
I'm assuming so. Once again, innocent from the kids perspective. You might've been a little hurt (depending how sensitive you were), but I guarantee the mom felt super bad.
My favourite one was being in a book store when my oldest (and only at the time) was like one and a half. I was looking at something, and she was looking at some books like 5 feet away from me, and walked over holding up some book called "What White People Like" (she obviously had no idea), and there was a black person right beside us.
Edit: "Stuff" White People Like (https://www.amazon.ca/Stuff-White-People-Like-Definitive/dp/0812979915)
I don't look actively for rationalist themes in books, so take this as 'books that someone who likes hpmor also likes', and don't spend too much blindly. I do like characters that are at least not obviously stupid, and if the idiot ball is too blatant I will notice, so perhaps at least some level of interest is warranted.
It's all fairly mainstream and recent SF/F.
You might even get a kick out of The Hunger Games or Divergent... And of course 1984 :)
The Martian: A Novel - Sci Fi about a man stranded on Mars and his struggle to survive and be rescued.
Ready Player One - Sci Fi about a virtual world/video game scavenger hunt with the winner becoming the new ruler of the virtual world.
Insert SnowCrash joke here.
Sounds like you might enjoy Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. I think Snow Crash is meant to be in the same universe - it's hilarious but not as dense. You might also like his Cryptonomicon, though it's not technically Sci Fi.
Tad Willams' Otherland Series is Epic Sci Fi with a huge amount of detail. Might be right up your alley.
Dune, Neuromancer and The Enderverse if you haven't already read those.
Well, my favorites are
The Moviegoer
The Road
A Confederacy of Dunces
Rendezvous with Rama
Watchmen
Snow Crash
Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
American Gods
A Clockwork Orange
Preacher
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Akira
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Naked Lunch
Animal Farm
The Sandman
At the Mountains of Madness
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Brave New World
We
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Ready Player One
>Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday’s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline.
The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and more of a fun one Ready Player One
The second time I met Victoria (/u/chooter), she recommended Ready Player One and The Room to me. I'm not sure exactly what that says about her, but it's something good, I think :)
Started reading Ready Player One this weekend and am really enjoying it. I often wonder how technology will steer our culture in the next few years...
If you like to read I suggest Ready Player One
It's a bit heavy on the '80s 'members, but otherwise a fantastic adventure story.
The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge
There's not nearly as many characters as Game of Thrones or Tolkien, so it's not that hard to follow the story line. But as TGSICaptain notes, it requires some extra 'commitment'. It's not a series you're going to read through quickly.
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is shorter and is lots of fun. The story is absolutely hilarious at times.
Here are some quick recommendations from my list of favorites for those who are interested (I hope mods are OK with links to make looking easier, otherwise I'll happily remove them). These books engaged and inspired me and my imagination:
The Alchemist:
>The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.
>Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.
The Three Body Problem is a Chinese Science Fiction novel that has recently become popular in the West thanks to a good translation (I recommend reading my synopsis and not the Amazon one, to avoid spoilers):
>Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project looks for signals in space from alien civilizations. Meanwhile, in the present day, a physicist joins a grizzled detective to investigate why famous scientists are all committing suicide.
Fahrenheit 451:
>Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
The Art of Happiness (by the Dalai Lama):
>Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence you can't help feeling happier.
Snow Crash:
>Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.
The Ender sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) and The Mote in God's Eye all have a lot of soft science. This is probably true for a lot of stories involving first contact.
Edit - Snow Crash deals a lot with linguistics as well.
I think about this kind of stuff all the time!
I’ve had this book on my library wait list forever. Has anybody ever read it?
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LV10Cb072BQ38
I own a first edition copy of "How to Invent Everything"
It's funny and informative, and covers pesky things like electricity and antibiotics.
Hey everyone here is the link for it https://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Waving-Inflatable-Miniature-Editions/dp/0762462876
[](/b36 "I'm glad I got into the show. Can't wait for the next episode.")
That's strangely relevant to The Ultimate Power. The first 5 pages are about how his mother chased him around the back yard with a broom because he would get boners thinking about Ninjas and she would stomp on his ass to make them go away. If you thought that was funny I suggest you read it. He also has a full blown conversation with his dog in the annotations. It's a guilty pleasure book.
It runs on a dead badger, so why not penguins?
So hopefully you read the Night Watch / Day Watch / Twilight Watch books? There's supposedly two more books out there in the series now, Last Watch and New Watch, which I haven't read.
The Markhat series by Frank Tuttle is brilliant fun.
9 Goblins is short but totally worth it. by T. A. Kingfisher
The Night Circus is a whimsical book full of beautiful things, tends to be a bit melancholy.
Most things by Elizabeth Bear are worth reading, as are most things by Connie Willis.
Charlie Stross' Laundry Files are excellent fun with the single, sole, sad exception of the second book which I hated but which other people loved.
The Enterprise of Death is - well. Um, let's just say the woodcut engraving on the cover? Not a metaphor in this book. Does not pull punches.I found it more horrific than a dozen other books labeled specifically as horror, but also more brilliant and more beautiful.
If you haven't got around to reading Ben Aaronovitch's stuff you're in for some good London fun. He's an excellent writer.
The Felix Castor series by Mike Carey is brilliant too.
Only $18 for a hard cover! Grab it while you can fellow 'Pedes! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/069289344X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498537253&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AMilo+Yiannopoulos&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&dpPl=1&dpID=51GWPkjQH4L&ref=plSrch
Coincidentally, I also just learned this yesterday! Read in a book called How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Found on amazon
What he needs is linux, preferably on a SSD, which can be installed on a dead badger so X220 have plenty power to run it.
I mean, you can run it on a dead badger, why not an engine?
Charles Stross' The Laundry Files should scratch this itch. It starts with The Atrocity Archives and is currently up to 9 books. A great kind of Cthulu tale that focuses more on the idea that the universe works in a way you don't want to know about, rather than just "weirdness and crazy people" that too many Lovecraft imitators focus on.
Sadly the second book is the worst in the entire series, but if you want to skip over that one, the entire rest is some brilliant work.
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I loved Ready Player One, written by Ernest Cline and read by Wil Wheaton. It's Sci-fi, with many Fantasy elements.
I just finished this book last night, I listened to it at every moment it was so fun, engaging, interesting, exciting, new, GOOD.
Ready Player One book reviews on Amazon
Ready Player One on Audible
Not so much a reference but the books title.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
I ain't so good at book descriptions but here's some stuff I really enjoyed -
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi: http://www.amazon.com/The-Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585
The author would argue with me about this being SF - Atwood prefers the term "speculative history" I believe - but the entire Oryx and Crake trilogy is very good.
http://www.amazon.com/Oryx-Crake-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0385721676/ref=la_B000AQTHI0_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397411558&sr=1-2 the first book in Oryx and Crake, followed by Year of the Flood and Madaddam
Have you read Ready Player One? Based on the first part of this post, I think you'd really enjoy it.
Ready Player One
I enjoyed it, sort of a Willy Wonka meets Grand Theft Auto V less the killing.
Just finished, "Ready Player One" and it thoroughly entertained me.
Ready Player One is also required reading if you enjoy this space.
Predicted over 50 years ago
I think the best way is to suggest a few that got me into reading. One or two are YA, but well-written enough that I find it as worthwhile a read at 28 as it did at 14.
Ender's Game - Earth Has made contact with an alien species, and... It didn't go well. A program is started to teach a new generation of soldiers how to fight this alien threat. Children are not allowed to be children for long when the future of mankind is on the line. Also, it's being adapted into what is shaping up to be a pretty badass movie.
Snow Crash - Written in the 90's, but it essentially pioneered the concept of the online avatar, and predicted the rise of the MMO. Also, pizza-delivering ninjas. Trust me on this. It's good stuff.
Neuromancer Classic cyber-punk. Most sci-fi is like you see in star trek. Clean and sterile. Cyberpunk is the dirtier side of sci-fi. Organized crime, computer hacking, and a heist on a space station. And Molly. This book is the reason I have a thing for dangerous redheads.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Considered by most to be the very best in sci-fi humor. Lighthearted, hilarious, and I find I can read it in the course of about two days. It is absolutely, completely, and utterly amazing.
American Gods - What happens to the old gods when we start worshiping the new ones? Can the likes of Odin or Anubis compete with our new objects of worship. like television or internet? Remember, Gods only exist as long as folks believe in them. The old Gods aren't going down without a fight, though...
Hope some of these strike your fancy. It's admittedly more sci-fi than anything, but it's all soft sci-fi (Where the science isn't as important as the fiction, so story comes first), and nothing too out there. Please let me know if you decide to try any of these, and especially let me know if you enjoy them. I always like to hear if I help someone find a book they love.
A book. I liked it.
This is the background of "Ready Player One" which is a very good book and shows why some characters have almost moved into their virtual worlds entirely.
Ready Player One
edit: Yeah, it's an angsty teen story, but it does give an interesting glimpse into how the generationally poor may develop a one-sided relationship with commercialized virtual reality.
Nah, I've got a friend who calls herself that. I've also seen it used in Ready Player One, which is a great read, especially if you're old enough to remember the 80s.
Agreed, I also wouldn't want to live in the past, unless your royalty, and even that is fraught with hassles. I want to live in the future on my own Dyson Sphere.
That's why the recent Interstellar movie was so interesting. An ultimately hopeful story written to advance a positive view in Sci-Fi movies, kind of like the Hieroglyph book, yet they still needed a dystopian element to even tell the story. And while there are glaring plot holes in the movie big enough to drive a black hole through, they were needed to advance the story. I still liked both the movie and the book.
Speaking of Star Trek, I wouldn't have my cell phone if some engineer didn't like it so much. Or even the Internet itself if DARPA hadn't been worried about nuclear bombs destroying the infrastructure. What's really interesting his how Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality will change society in the future. Like ReamDe or Ready Player One explore.
I can't vouch for it personally but Ready Player One has been on my to-read list for a while. I've heard from a few different sources that it's really good. Ties in with his interest in video games.
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
If you liked this video, you'd probably enjoy the book Ready Player One.
For those wondering how this was made:
(http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/native-trees-of-europe-template-repository-1779952/).
In Conclusion:
These kinds of renders do take time. A user commented:
> Pretty Certain you just imported a 3D model of a head using Binvox..
And that's absolutely correct. However, that doesn't mean this kind of thing is simple to create! Certainly, this wouldn't be what it is without the help of external software- but the use of that software doesn't mean it can't be respected as a build. Don't say I just imported it-- it took a lot of work!
TL;DR: I used a lotta software and it took a lotta time.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
I try not to watch anything while I eat, it helps contribute to overeating.
For relaxing, I read. I was never a big reader, so I have to force myself to read a lot of the time. Once I start reading, I enjoy myself. If I'm not enjoying it, I'll find a new book. I'll throw out a recommendation -- Ready Player One was a pretty sweet book.
That is not how it is going to happen.
The rift will not be among countries, but between classes inside each country. The filthy rich will benefit from this. The specialized white collar workers of the upper middle class will become richer. The lower middle class will disappear. There will be a huge, unemployed lower class with no work. It will destabilize countries without systems to deal with this.
If you want to read a good version of this, find a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's
Player piano.
If I was going to pick Stross books for their similarity to Snow Crash I would have gone with the laundry series (Jennifer Morgue, Atrocity Archives and Fuller Memorandum). They have same sort of 'playing with the genre' feel and a tendency to play things for laughs.
That's the only book of his I have read.
You can look at basically anything by Gibson if you want the same general setting.
And of course Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are heavily inspired by KWC's culture but the locations are very different.
Yes, we agree, I was satirizing the OP with his "I should take a screenshot"
Someone else is downvoting us.
Snow Crash is a cyberpunk adventure book. It's been a long time since I've read it, but the plot contains (hinges upon, maybe) the idea that an ancient language took the form of forcible memes, words which forced people to act, and then pass the words along. Or something. It's good, regardless.
As opposed to this snow crash?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553380958/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1451837824&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=stephenson+snow+crash
For those who are curious, Milo's "Dangerous" has around 25K sales between hardcover and kindle editions.
Zoe Quinn's "Crash Override" has around 1500 sales between hardcover and kindle.
Grim Jim's "Inside GamerGate" has around 230 sales between paperback and kindle.
All of these numbers taken from novelrank, which pretty much only cares about Amazon sales (ignoring all brick and mortar sales, sales direct from the publisher, and kickstarter/patreon/whatever preorders).
Data so far
https://www.novelrank.com/asin/069289344X
https://kindlepreneur.com/amazon-kdp-sales-rank-calculator/#
5,400 sales Physical
~101 Ebooks per day
That's from Amazon alone we don't know if Milo has managed to actually self publish such that bookshops are doing to be selling it too.
of course, he's white. didn't you get the memo to read the guide?
[relevant book] (https://www.amazon.com/Installing-Linux-Dead-Badger-Snyder/dp/1894953479)
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross, beginning with The Atrocity Archives.
Nexus by Ramez Naam.
Lexicon by Max Berry.
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley.
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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There's the live action anime, Primitive Technology (remember to enable cc/subtitles)
The light novel, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Also try tech uplift, Giving Radio To The Romans, and One Man Industrial Revolution.
This is giving me major How To Invent Everything vibes. In a good way!
If a weird looking, weirdly speaking stranger came into your village and taught your tribe actual useful principles like modern crop rotation, germ theory, celestial navigation, and movable type... why wouldn't you think they were a prophet from God? For all practical purposes they would be!
How to Invent Everything: A Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North.
I just read the book How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North.
It addresses the same kind of thing.
Highly suggest this book, its humorous twist makes it a fun read and it covers how to set up civilization when you (the time traveler) get stranded back in history!
I have a few awesome teen gift ideas, I will post some links to for you. Im sort of know as giver of random awesome things to my neice and nephews. If you can give me some ideas of what he likes I can try to track down more specific things.
These will all be through amazon because its easiest but they can be found elsewhere.
Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy (RP Minis) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762462876/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_T6EXDbE0R87ZK
Ravensburger Disney Villainous Strategy Board Game for Age 10 & Up - 2019 Toty Game of The Year Award Winner https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DLGD9K6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_x7EXDb180973A
Acrylic Dragon Ball Set Z Shenron Action Figure Statue with 7pcs 3.5cm balls and stand https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0793S17T5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_68EXDb2DE13K5
WOWOSS Hogwarts Magic School Badge Wax Seal Stamp Kit Retro Wax Sealing Set Party Invitation Stamps https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LBN1722/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_h.EXDbXJESRC3
Cyxus Blue Light Blocking Glasses for Computer Use, women/men UV Filter Eyewear, Square Eyeglasses Frame, Anti EyeStrain Headache(8082T01, Lightweight Black) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GNO3G48/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HbFXDbZP51PSZ
REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book it's a masterpiece of shitty books.
Stuff White People Like.
Its funny enough to read about stuff like white people like that someone made a book about it (there's a second one too). Source: am white, think its funny, and fit a lot of them
It's good, quality food with a relaxed atmosphere. Also, we brought Stuff White People Like and checked off like half of the things in the book during brunch one day (one of them is brunch, if I'm not mistaken).
It's pricey, but the food is generally pretty good. (Service failed me once, but hey, that happens everywhere.) Get the Devilish Eggs - deviled eggs with crab, smoked salmon, and lobster (separately).
Bo Burnham's Egghead
A poem for dogs:
>Roses are grey
>Violets are grey
>Let's all go chase cars
There are so many other great ones, but I am at work and don't have the book with me. This is the only one I can remember.
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive On Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
I'm a huge fan of Bo's comedy, and he directed the movie 8th grade. This book is full of jokes and thought-provoking pieces, all in poems. It's fantastic, and I think it's exactly what you're looking for.
Reminds me of this poem by Bo Burnham
Sauce
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1455519146?pc_redir=1411927007&amp;robot_redir=1
> It was designed for researchers and enterprise.
"Linux" wasn't designed for anything. People use it for research and enterprise goals, but it's just a byproduct of its flexibility.
I am really confused what you are on about. The car metaphor is apt, and not every restoration is gonna race. Computers can be a tool or a means in and of themselves, doing for the sake of doing. Perhaps you like to install linux on dead animals or collect books, or both http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1894953479/ref=aw_d_iv_books?is=l
Whatever makes it fun for you. I certainly don't find windows fun in any way, but Linux has been a blast for 10 years now for me.
There is one glaring omission from the books list!
Ready Player One is the best cyberpunk book I've read since Neuromancer.
Not only does it have a great plot, great characters, and excellent virtual worlds, but it is as much a love letter to the 1980s as it is a cyberpunk novel. Definitely check it out!
[Ready Player One] (http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ) by Ernest Cline. One of the most talked about books on r/booksuggestions and a fantastic read. Really easy reading, well written and bucket loads of fun.
Oh if you like dystopian, then check out Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Awesome fantasy - Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind. And a really cool non-fiction survival story is The Tiger by John Vaillant, about a man-eating tiger terrorizing a village in Russia.
Totally check out the library, most these days do inter-library loans within counties or regions, so if they don't have any of the above, you can request them for free. Enjoy!
Just finished Orwell's 1984 about a month ago and I'm close to finishing Ready Player One. Both have been really great. As far as spiritual reading, I'm always reading something by St. Josemaría and am currently reading Chesterton's St Francis.
I absolutely loved this book. It is set in the Amazon and is jam packed with action and adventure. Amazonia
Also, I just finished this book last night. One of the best books I've read in a while!
Ready Player One
I love books, reading is one of my favorite hobbies and it's much easier now since I recently bought a Kindle Fire :p
My favorite book series is The Dark Tower series by Stephen King because it does traveling between different dimensions pretty well, and when I finished the series it gave me so many feels :(, feels that still stay with me today. Plus Roland is one of my favorite characters ever. My friends got into the Game of Thrones books, while I got into The Dark Tower series, they called me a loser because I 'wasnt reading what other people where' but the series is so worth it.
I've really been wanting to read Ready Player One I've heard great things about it.
Also I hope you have been enjoying The Hunger Games, I read them all in a one month span last summer!
I dunno, but maybe try Release That Witch. (The translation is not good at all, but it's readable, give it like twenty chapters, y'know?) You could also try The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, The Disaster Diaries: One Man's Quest to Learn Everything Necessary to Survive the Apocalypse and How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler.
Nice symmetry with Game of Thrones on in the background.
I'll recommend Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim series and Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein.
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I can highly recommend [Snow Crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash) (Neal Stephenson, 1992). If you enjoy it you may also want to check out [Cryptonomicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon) by the same author.
I know this is slightly off topic, but let me play Grandma here and suggest some books for you that have gaming influences which you might enjoy. Coincidentally, my nerd book club is reading these three for April:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson, and Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf.
Also, happy late birthday!
Well amazon (Canada) have some of the hardcover with the red cover 1st edition : Ready Player One https://www.amazon.ca/dp/030788743X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pNR.AbYKK38MT
Read "Ready Player One" ? This is how it starts i bet. I wonder what the future brings. VR-goggles and haptic gloves. Haptic-tech is only in the beginner phase yet, but it will come. Then it's all integrated in some huge corp.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
"Ready Player One" is book about a kid world like that.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1395719764&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ready+player+one
Can't blame facebook for trying to make the first go at a Metaverse or Oasis. There is like a 90% chance they either ruin the company or drive it straight into irrelevance, but I might be okay with the risk to reward ratio. Especially since other companies are coming out with VR stuff to compete (hopefully).
to anyone really interested in VR and the future you really must read "Ready Player One" - http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
Good hacker/IT/short stories:
Just recently finished "Ready Player One". A really fantastic novel chock full of awesome 80's pop culture references. Definitely an enjoyable read for anyone who loves video games, John Hughes movies, or awesome hair bands. The audio book is also narrated by Will Wheaton which is pretty great.
Just to start the thread of Ready Player One love.
I realize there is a ton of fantastic sci-fi out there, but this book has stuck with me more than any other book in my collection.
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448
I heard about Ready Player One recently, and it sounds very interesting. It's general theme is dystopian reality with a MMO utopia. I was thinking of getting it to read while traveling for the holidays, but my library doesn't have it :(.
I second the Neal Stephenson suggestion, and I've got to add Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. It's as much a sendup to "nerd culture" as it is an exploration of trans-humanist themes, but it's written with much attention to detail. I couldn't put it down.
Ready Player One. It's about a virtual reality game in the future and a contest that takes place when the inventor of the game passes away. It has a lot of 1980s pop culture trivia.
Edit: here's a link to it on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307887448?pc_redir=1413280970&amp;robot_redir=1
It's from The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, and is hilarious.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316133248/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_wWdJxbVCY3R2W
Best I've ever heard of these is not mine, but worth sharing, this comes from Douglas Adams in his book The Salmon of Doubt
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person is me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table. I want you to picture the scene. It’s very important that you get this very clear in your mind. Here’s the table, newspaper, cup of coffee, packet of cookies. There’s a guy sitting opposite me, perfectly ordinary-looking guy wearing a business suit, carrying a briefcase. It didn’t look like he was going to do anything weird. What he did was this: he suddenly leaned across, picked up the packet of cookies, tore it open, took one out, and ate it.
Now this, I have to say, is the sort of thing the British are very bad at dealing with. There’s nothing in our background, upbringing, or education that teaches you how to deal with someone who in broad daylight has just stolen your cookies. You know what would happen if this had been South Central Los Angeles. There would have very quickly been gunfire, helicopters coming in, CNN, you know… But in the end, I did what any red-blooded Englishman would do: I ignored it. And I stared at the newspaper, took a sip of coffee, tried to do aclue in the newspaper, couldn’t do anything, and thought, What am I going to do?
In the end I thought Nothing for it, I’ll just have to go for it, and I tried very hard not to notice the fact that the packet was already mysteriously opened. I took out a cookie for myself. I thought, That settled him. But it hadn’t because a moment or two later he did it again. He took another cookie. Having not mentioned it the first time, it was somehow even harder to raise the subject the second time around. “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but notice…” I mean, it doesn’t really work.
We went through the whole packet like this. When I say the whole packet, I mean there were only about eight cookies, but it felt like a lifetime. He took one, I took one, he took one, I took one. Finally, when we got to the end, he stood up and walked away. Well, we exchanged meaningful looks, then he walked away, and I breathed a sigh of relief and st back.
A moment or two later the train was coming in, so I tossed back the rest of my coffee, stood up, picked up the newspaper, and underneath the newspaper were my cookies. The thing I like particularly about this story is the sensation that somewhere in England there has been wandering around for the last quarter-century a perfectly ordinary guy who’s had the same exact story, only he doesn’t have the punch line.
I'm 57 and posting about college/jobs, but not about me. Im 57, dropped out of the corporate world in 1993, broke, started my own business, and doing well - I pay all my bills and my checks never bounce.
But posting to all the posts about college/jobs, most likely from the under 40 crowd. The BIG question that must be answered by YOUR generation is "what if we simply don't need everyone to work to provide ALL the goods and services needed and wanted by our society?"
It's only a theory (thus the LIE) that a capitalistic economy forever expands to provide (good) jobs for everyone who wants one.
Computers are in the 2nd half of the exponential curve of chip power, doubling in capacity every 2 years (Moore's Law) since 1958. Computers/robots/machines are now on-net eliminating human jobs.
READ: "Race Against the Machine": http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1333472572&amp;sr=8-1
AND: "Abundance" http://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Future-Better-Than-Think/dp/1451614217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1333472597&amp;sr=1-1
and if you want to read an ancient novel, there's the 1952 book by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "Player Piano" about a society where machines do ALL the work: http://www.amazon.com/Player-Piano-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333781/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1333472653&amp;sr=1-1
This "lie" you've been told is not ever again going to become a "truth"... spoiled milk put back in the refrigerator does not become good again. This "recession" and/or high-unemployment is not just a cycle. True, there have been many "crying wolf" since the early 1800's when British laborers violently protested the automation of sock making, but I for one just don't see how "creating jobs" can happen in a world were we can produce so much stuff and services so efficiently with the aid of a computer.
Bücher, die einen ansprechen, findet man so spannend, dass man nicht merkt, wie lange man schon dasitzt.
Du hast bereits erkannt, was Dir nicht gefällt (Fantasykrams, Zauberei, "Eure Hochwürden"); die Frage ist nun: was gefällt Dir?
Man muss ja nicht den 6'000 Seiten historischen Roman über das Leben einer Wanderhure im Deutschland des 14. Jhd. lesen; man kann auch einen spannenden Action-Thriller mit Weltraumschlachten und klaren Hierarchien lesen!
Ich lese extrem viel Sci-Fi; insbesondere Hard Sci-Fi und Military Sci-Fi (die Genrebezeichnungen müssen Dir nichts sagen; sie sind sowieso unscharf und begrenzen eher, als dass sie helfen).
Richtig gute Bücher (alles sehr subjektiv) ((Im englischen Original im Regelfall besser; wenn du allerdings nicht fließend Englisch lesen kannst macht es keinen Sinn, Bücher lesen auf Englisch anzufangen; mach' das dann in 2 Jahren oder so)):
John Scalzi:
Krieg der Klone
Charles Stross: The Atrocity Archives (leider nur auf Englisch lesbar; deutsche Übersetzung scheint sehr schlecht zu sein). Wenn du IT-Afin bist, ist dies ein MUSS.
Marko Kloos: Sternenjagd Military Sci-Fi ohne den Hauch eines Versuchs, mehr als spannende Action zu bieten. :-)
Charlie Stross' Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue and The Fuller Memorandum) are available on Amazon as Kindle downloads, and I highly recommend them, being a witty and amusing blend of Mythos and James Bond.
Yes, Diamond Age is such a great spiritual successor to Snow Crash. Where Snow Crash has that frantic pace and hyper compressed events, Diamond Age takes its time and describes every molecule of the beauty in the book's events. These two works are such great testaments to Stephenson's skill because it's obvious he worked really hard to make them describe similar themes, but also compliment each other.
Have you seen the new covers? I like them, they do a good job of presenting them as companion pieces.
Snow Crash
Diamond Age
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis (okay, okay, that's 11 books total. But worth every penny)
Or for text book, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Edits: fixed link.
For fiction, you MUST read Daemon and Freedom(TM)
I also enjoyed Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon, though in my opinion the latter was a little bit of a difficult read. Worth it though.
For sheer 'play in the virtual world' stuff, you MUST read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. You'll blaze through that, so follow it up with Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Good YA dystopic future stuff:
The Windup Girl
Station Eleven
Finally, get into Neuromancer, by William Gibson. It's a fantastic--some would say genre-defining--cyberpunk novel.
Then go devour everything Stephenson and Gibson put out there. That should get you through at least the first half of the summer. Happy reading!
Believe it or not there are quite a few good sci-fi books exploring these ideas already. Here is an incomplete list you may want to check out:
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
Since searching wikipedia turned up the Timeline of Non-Sexual Social Nudity(TIL) I'm just going to guess you're you're looking for a more techie true to life rendition of the hacker archetype based on the amazon synopsis.
Based on that I'd recommend:
Cryptonomicon
just.go.read.it.right.now.
It may take a little effort to get into, damn thing is a tomb, but give it a chance. You will not be disappoint.
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Stealing the Network Series
How to Own a Box
How to Own a Continent
How to Own an Identity
How to Own a Shadow
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These are told in a chapter/viewpoint style, each chapter is usually written by a different knowledgeable, and sometimes security famous, security dude. Out of those I've only read How to Own an Identity so far, but it was pretty good and and my guess is that the rest hold up to that standard, so dive in. They are a series from what I understand so reading them in order is probably a good idea, but not completely necessary.
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And then for flair (these are more scifi/cyberpunk-ish; so if that's not your thing avoid):
Snowcrash
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The main character's name is Hiro Protagonist. No seriously. He's a ninja, he's a hacker, he lives in a U-Store-it container, and he delivers pizza for the Mob in a post-collapse USA, can you really not read this book now?
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The Diamond Age
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All about the practical social implications of nanotechnolgy told through the eyes of a young girl, her father, and an assortment of disposable associates.
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The Sprawl Trilogy
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
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I've only read Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive, which were both great, so I'm guessing Count Zero is probably good too.
Similar to Snowcrash in the lone gun hacker sense, except with more drugs a little bit more of a scattered tone.
And if all else fails there's always the DEF CON reading list.
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I started to read more when I was trying to unplug. TV/Netflix/phones can really pull you out of reality, make your brain weak as you begin to lose control of your thoughts. Just try not watching TV/youtube for 3 days...why is it so hard? Are we addicted to screens or are we just lazy. Research neuroplasticity, and how you can make your brain work for you (any how you fall into additive traps when you lose control of your attention). A lot of people on here are recommending meditation, I can't stress how important this is.
Start by reading someting that interests you...check out r/suggestmeabook if you need some help. Also, I can recommend some great books:
Best of luck.
I really liked Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson...
Here you go.
I'm gonna stretch the rules and include some comics on this list:
He claim's his book isn't for sale in the UK
Well he actually did end up with a book deal and unfortunately for us, he was number one on Amazon for a while.
https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1505146717&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=dangerous+milo#customerReviews
He's also written a couple of book, Crooked Little Vein and Gun Machine. Really liked CLV, a detective noir story in Ellis's f'ed up world that we happen to share, and I've just started reading GM, so far I'm digging it...
Crooked Little Vein
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Pleeenty of freaks in that. Well, more like a lot of sexual deviants in that. Fiction
Right now, I'm impressed with Ready Player One .
this is gonna make your blood boil, as it did mine: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Came out in August, 2011. Prodigies in the year 2044 get PhD's in pop-culture of the 1980's in order to save the greatest videogame ever made. Best entertainment value I've read since World War Z. I wrote Ernest Cline to tell him how much I loved it, and the man actually wrote me back. Fellow gunters, unite!
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
If anyone thinks this sounds cool, and can read, you should immediately get a copy of "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. One of the best reads I've had all year.
Wouldn't it be funny is someone HAD a Ruger on their gift list? Wonder how that goes...
Anyway, I suppose of all the things on my list (besides the expensive stuff like mics and the Roku box) I really want to read Ready Player One so it's really desired. However, any of the 80 something albums I have listed are important too!
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X
The first time in a long time I have been so sucked in that after finishing int in 3 days, I wanted to go right back to it. Every child of the 80s I have shared it with, especially those who were extra-nerdy, loved this book.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347860128&amp;sr=1-1
If you want non-fiction, I finished this recently and it is hands down the best non-fiction book I have ever read. History filled with compelling narratives rather than dry dates and facts, Bryson brings the past to life - the story of how Halley convinced Newton to write the Principia even though Newton would rather have been searching for King Solomon's tomb for the dates of Christ's second coming or practicing alchemy is just one example of the wonderful narratives that fill this book.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
Ready player one by Ernest Cline http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/030788743X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1485409240&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ready+player+one
This is one of my favorite books and I think you would enjoy it.
Shaw is a brilliant actor and makes the film, IMHO. it's a shame he died relatively young. btw, check out this book if you haven't already. it's a quick but fun read. based on your responses here, you'd probably like it.
I would like to enter your contest. Thank you.
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Have you read Ready Player One? It is utterly un-put-down-able. I normally don't read for too long at a time but I couldn't put it down on a road trip!
It's about a dystopian future in which pretty much everyone just plays a virtual reality game. After the creator of the game dies his will says that whoever finds his three easter eggs in the game will inherit his fortune. + lots of 80's references.
Ready Player One! It looks so good and you strike me as the kind of person who would just love it. :)
{I don't have an e-reader but the used-er the merrier!)
Any book in my wishlist pretty much, i love reading so maybe this one.
Thanks for the contest!
It looks like we have a lot in common in terms of what we like to read! I absolutely love Heinlein and have read all of his books. We also have Ready Player One in common on our lists.
I think you would enjoy this book for sure. I think it has a similar feel to Heinlein but a little more modern.
Ready Player One is a novel written by Ernest Cline.
>In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
> But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
This is how I imagine the stacks look in Ready Player One.
I kind of need to know more about that Ready Player One arcade cabinet, and I'm more than a little disappointed nobody else has asked.
Read the book (Amazon/Google Play/iTunes) before the movie comes out December 2017. (No referral links used.)
I wonder if this will work with Google Cardboard. I guess it depends on if the heavy lifting is done by the PC or the VR headset.
Metagame
Ready Player One
Snow Crash
Tom Clancy's Net Force series
You might like Ready Player One.
I would recommend my two of my favourite books
Ready Player One By Ernest Cline
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
I hope that you find a book you enjoy. Because Bookworms rule!
Reading The Martian was the most fun I'd had since reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline so you might try that one if you haven't read it yet.
You could also try Wool by Hugh Howey although not as good as The Martian. Sand also looks interesting but I haven't read it yet.
You may like Ready Player One
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
Ready Player One is a good one if you've got an interest in video games and like pop-culture references. It's a dystopian one, so feel free to ignore if that isn't your thing.
It is seriously badass
Also announced that its going to be a Spielberg film, can't wait to see it come to life.
Has anyone read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. One part Willy Wonka one part The Matrix mixed with a side serving of John Hughes? If you like hunting for Easter Eggs this book is for you.
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My favorite book would have to be Ready Player One :)
This book is so exciting, as it's about a video game virtual reality 30 years in the future. The creator of the world was single and had no kids, but he was also the richest man on the planet. Since there was no fair way to distribute his money, his will was a contest.
"Three secret keys open three hidden gates,
wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits.
And if they have the skill to survive these straits,
they will reach the end where the prize awaits."
Halliday(The creator of the game) left this only clue to the world to try to gain his power and money. Six years passed before anyone finally figured out the first clue.
This book touches every gamer's nostalgia and you will want this game as soon as you finish the book. It makes you feel good to be a gamer. :)
Steam ID
Just Cause 2 :D
EDIT: OP, even if I don't win, I highly recommend this book :D
http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/06/03/second-life-oculus-rift-support-ceo-rod-humble-interview-6348
http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/14/4429086/oculus-rift-hd-e3
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http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
We're watching the future happen here, people.
This book is one I recommend to everyone who reads any non-romance genre of fiction with some regularity.
Looking Good, sweetheart, and so will I if I win ;)
If you have any interest in video games or 80's pop culture I highly recommend the book Ready Player One, it was a really fun and engaging read.
I think you'd like Ready Player One, it's steeped in nostalgia and gaming. It's also nice and light.
Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
There is a stand-alone dystopian novel called ["Ready Player One"](http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426611964&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ready+player+one_. Recently read it and pummeled through it in under a day (which is rare for me). I can't explain too much without giving a whole lot away and I haven't read the books that you have enjoyed, but I would recommend it!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553380958?pc_redir=1404734999&amp;robot_redir=1
Snow crash
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0441569595/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1404785560&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=SY200_QL40
Neuromancer
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307887448/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1404785598&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=SY200_QL40
Ready Player One
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Found it. It was The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: https://www.amazon.com/Onion-Book-Known-Knowledge-Encyclopaedia/dp/0316133248
Thanks for your help everyone!
Five and a half, really.
If you enjoyed the first three, I would wager that you will enjoy the remaining books. I would agree that they are not as amazing as the first few but they are still very funny.
You can grab the complete edition for under $15 on Amazon. I would also recommend Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the Salmon of Doubt. It's a half completed Dirk Gently book with additional writings of Adams what was put together after he passed away.
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You are very welcome to my opinions about taking a group out for an activity(fan, fan, fan). We may be so very close in our views but that just enhances the slight difference in the angles we can see at. My bet is we'll find that difference in angle complimentary on most days.
>...saying someone would enjoy telling me what to expect from a particular activity I was concerned about organizing is new and very motivating.
This is a powerful one, really. Something I'm not sure I've taken enough advantage of. Just think of the floods I can suddenly write when you ask about sailing. It might be part of that principal that I've found almost universal - people want to talk about themselves and the activites we love and water-love are part of that self yet just separated enough to no be too revealing. A person who is inhibited about self-disclosure will usually be completely open when discussing the subjects of their enthusiasm.
>It makes so much sense to do something myself a few times and then invite others to what I’m already comfortable with.
:) That way you get to be the one who can share what to expect, pretty cool, huh? Though with that said, it seems to me that the right group of people should make joint discovery of some new adventure even better than being alone. You are good at understanding others, so I'm sure you'll be able to choose the right paths with the right groups.
>I agree completely about letting others be responsible for their own happiness. I just need to nudge my heart up to where my head is on the matter.
One of the hardest things to do. Knowing and Feeling can defy "being synched up" so hard. Maybe it's a function of the fact that it's not always one or the other is actually right. Let's call this another case where the angle of a complimentary personality's view might help convince your recalcitrant heart. You can provide others all the reasons and motivations in the world to be happy but it really is completely up to them to take that final step, if they don't it isn't your failure.
>Are you less comfortable about some conversational situations than you were years ago?
No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I mean to say that as the conversation degrades (imagined or not)due to my errors then my discomfort increases, spiraling the situation downward in my mind.
>I’m not positive of what you’re saying in the vague version[of how you acquired your trade].
Yeah, that bit is kinda jumbled. I think I can straighten it out and remain just the right level of vague but not right now. It will take a bit of time to put together so I'll defer it for a while. If you would rather hear it sooner or I don't address it due to poor memory, just let me know and I'll set aside the time to do it right. Deal?
>>I could be unfit to ply my trade if my honesty were in doubt.
>That seems to be true about all of the legitimate trades I’m familiar with...
And you are correct. In my case I would be, in essence, legally barred and unemployable.
>...operations I’ve dabbled in for fewer years brought the benefits of widening my skill set and allowing me to meet diverse groups of wonderful people.
It is just plain inspiring to hear your positive take on things,including your life in the mines. The way you benefit while providing benefits to others, seemingly no matter what. That's quite a story of mining you have to share, even in the short and vague version. Do you think your current mine will wind up with you in the historian's seat once again? Do you think you might be willing to occupy it for a longer or shorter period?
>... I see one [a parental figure] in Lost too, though, because that person for me is Locke.
That is a very good point and an angle I hadn't fully seen. It must be nearing time for another viewing, I'll just put that in my schedule :D
>Maybe the lighter element in Firefly arises from...opposite of what the Oceanic 815 survivors could ...Maybe there are flights-of-fancy elements to character interactions in Firefly that mirror their ability to fly, and determined groundedness to some of Lost’s characters’ relationships because they are stranded.
All of this! AND, I now think, the fact that the ability to fly or not is present fully reflects a (possibly consciously decided) philosophy of the fictional world presented. The titles alone provide an instant tone for the story being told <--- that feels like a bit of a revelation to me right now, hm. =|
>Maybe the best story tellers ask how the story has always been told and how the elements that speak to our tribal hearts can remain while the vehicle for delivering them is shaken up and turned on its head.
I think you've got something there. I wonder how often said storyteller actually ask themselves that question. It seem some probably just live the question-- seeing all things shaken and turned. If you haven't had the opportunity to read The Salmon Of Doubt then it probably belongs on what I'm guessing is your already impossibly long list :)
That is an excellent Adam's favourite quote! I could go to my bookshelf, take down the right book and find it in context with hardly an effort at all :) I don't have one that springs to mind, too many choices. If I do find a temporal favourite, you know I'll share it.
(on to your original "part two" of this particular, supposedly single message which actually flows and blurs with all the amazing and wonderful journeys you've taken me on in this simple text)
The Atrocity Archives, by Charles Stross
British spy novel meets Lovecraftian horror, same first-person dark witty supernatural adventure horror as John Dies at the End. There's a whole great series of these books and theyre a ton of fun.
Top 5 off those shelves would be:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Alt History detective novel by a Pulitzer winner
http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832
The Atrocity Archives - Lovecraftian spy thriller and IT hell
http://www.amazon.com/Atrocity-Archives-Laundry-Files-Novel/dp/0441016685/
Books of Blood - A compilation of Clive Barker's nasty little 80s horror anthologies
http://www.amazon.com/Books-Blood-Vols-Clive-Barker/dp/0425165582/
Perdido Street Station - Steampunky fantasy with excellent worldbuilding that's apparently a good example of the New Weird, whatever that is and however it differes from the Old Weird
http://www.amazon.com/Perdido-Street-Station-China-Mieville/dp/0345459407
American Gods - Gaiman's mythology based urban fantasy; a modern classic
http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0380789035
As for the Weird Tales collection, it's Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors. It sets out to present the best tale from each year of the magazine's original run. Published in 1988 and edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (as if the eldritch gods didn't inject enough unpronounceable names into the mix) you've got everyone from Isaac Asimov to Seabury Quinn to good ol' HPL himself with "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-32-Unearthed-Terrors/dp/0517661233
Not quite the $1 deal I got from the library sale, but not as outrageous as some of the out of print prices on Amazon.
Just remembered another set of books that I very rarely see mentioned. Author is Allan C. Weisbecker and he's only written 3 books, but his first 2 in particular are really great. They are written in a 'memoir' style and are mainly accounts of personal experiences, with some fictionalized/hallucinated tidbits interspersed. But there are tons of ideas presented regarding quantum physics, time and a whole range of 'meta' concepts from a psychedelic perspective. Besides all of that they are both extremely 'fun' & quick reads.
'In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfers Trip Beyond The End of The Road'
'Cosmic Banditos'
Cosmic Banditos
I picked it up in a used book store several years ago. It's a hilarious and bizarre story of a drug smuggler who becomes fascinated with quantum physics.
Also, that mashup was fantastic. Thanks for sharing that! And thanks for the contest!! Disney is the best. :D
Every single one of these books has something different to offer you from the genre of scifi. Those three at the top are great entries into the genre. As what I perceive to be "deeper cuts", allow me to suggest my four favorite scifi novels:
Cheers!
I really liked An Agorist Primer by Konkin. Quite concise.
Complete Liberty is another good one (it's in the sidebar --> ).
I also enjoy the graphic novel Escape From Terra.
One of my favorite books is Snow Crash. It's not really a good book for advocating anarcho-capitalism, but the system in the book is essentially ancap, and it's just a fucking awesome book.
My other favorites have already been mentioned.
Edit: Ah! I forgot No Treason! Spooner dominates the constitution.
I'm going to chip in Stephenson's Snow Crash should be on the list, as well as Gibson's Neuromancer.
> Would you say that a virus is a type of machine?
Yes, I would, though whether it's a living machine (or an agentive one) is much more controversial. This is addressed extensively in the Moreno & Mossio pieces I linked you to before, and I know that Estrada has a paper coming out about it soon as well (I recently reviewed the submission). You may also be interested in looking into Tibor Ganti's concept of the chemoton, the theoretically simplest cell, and its associated literature.
>Would you classify a language as a machine?
I don't think 'machine' is exactly the right word. I think language is a kind of "social technology," intended to scaffold our innate cognitive processes and extend our ability to do information processing, somewhat like how Lev Vygotsky thought of education's role during the zone of proximal development in childhood learning. Language works by piggybacking on our innate (i.e. biological) abilities to reason and work with abstract concepts, allowing us to transform significantly more complicated tasks into the kinds of semantic manipulation tasks we're good at. Andy Clark has a great piece called "Magic Words" that elaborates on this thesis.
>As in, a kind of mind virus that infects homo sapiens, a kind of terminal mental illness?
This sounds a lot like Richard Dawkins' meme theory. Dawkins postulated memes as the mental or cognitive analogue of genes: small units of self-replicating information, responsive to selective pressure, and able to spread from organism to organism. There have been a lot of criticisms of the analogy since Dawkins came up with it in the 70s, and most people don't take it terribly seriously as anything but a metaphor these days. I'm not sure it's quite right to see language as something like this in any case; natural languages are far too complex to be thought of as memes themselves, though they may contain memes, and certain languages may make the spreading of certain memes easier. I certainly don't see any reason to think that language is something like a "terminal mental illness." That is, it seems to me that language is, if anything, a monumentally helpful adaptation: the sort of thing that's let humans be as successful as we have been. This whole line of discussion reminds me a lot of Neal Stephenson's fantastic 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, in which the plot revolves almost entirely around the idea of a "mind virus" spread through the linguistic manipulation of certain deep pathways in the brain. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do so immediately--it's a really great book, and it touches on a lot of the points that seem to interest you.
As to your point on education, well, I agree in some respects. I'm highly critical of a lot of what goes on in contemporary education, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that I'm an educator myself. Your critical view isn't as radical as you might think. I get the sense that you're rather young (that's not a criticism!). If you can get your hands on it, I suspect you'd enjoy Jerry Farber's classic piece of educational anarchist literature from 1970, The Student as Nigger. I enjoyed the hell out of it when I was in high school, and it led me to a lot of interests that I still pursue today.
I'm halfway through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I really like it so far! It's set in a not-too-distant future wherein people live both in reality and virtual reality, and everything belongs to or is a corporation, including the US. Hiro Protagonist ["'Stupid name.' 'But you'll never forget it.'"] is a freelance hacker attempting to get to the bottom of a dangerous drug/virus called Snow Crash, which is transmitted virtually but unusually has near-fatal effects in real life. Obviously there's a lot more to the story, but I like it for its unique premise. Stephenson makes some really intriguing intellectual connections, and I love his dry sense of humor. Check out the Amazon reviews, but watch out for spoilers, even in the editorial reviews (seriously though? So unprofessional).
Snow Crash
I reference the character Raven in Snow Crash. He carries with him a nuke set to go off should he die. It's in the best interests of those around him to keep him alive.
As long as the US gov't is more fearful of the contents of that insurance file, they'll do everything they can to keep the nuke from going off. It's pretty safe to assume that Assange's "nuke" will go off if he fails to check-in to something periodically. The US is best letting him check-in.
Snow Crash
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It is good but I almost got annoyed by the amount of nostalgia/references it makes. I kind of wonder how much I would have liked it had it not thrown around all the references. It was entertaining though. I think I liked Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson better to be honest (except the ending).
Bonus for some: I got the audio book from audible read by Wil Wheaton...so if you're a nerd that might be your cup of tea.
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958
It'll be easier if I just link you to the collection of message board posts, that have been formatted for easier reading;
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958
Archives for the links in comments:
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Here's an amazon link to it:
https://www.amazon.com/Mohammeds-Koran-Muslims-Kill-Islam/dp/154262780X
While we're at it, Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos:
https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X
> It has more to do with Participation Bias, than anything else.
Exactly. If you check the reviews for Milo's book, Dangerous, it's actually sitting at 4.9/5, higher than Hillary's 4.8/5 rating.
So it's obviously not an agenda being pushed, otherwise why rate Milo's book higher?
Juste pour éliminer quelques préjugés sur the_donald vu que j'y jette un oeuil régulièrement depuis presque deux ans:
Le reste vu de l'extérieur est exact:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/67871m/statistics_and_polls_on_islam_around_the_world/). Anti-migration de masse en Europe, surtout car c'est une immigration illégale de masse, tout l'inverse de "légal et patriote". En bref ils sont pour l'assimilation et non le multiculturalisme.
A résumer je dirais que le point commun de leurs positions est la défense et l'opposition à tout ce qui détruit ou fragilise l'Etat-Nation, porté par un patriotisme passionné.
Si vous aimez la politique américaine il faut lire ce sub, ça contre le blabla des mass médias. Par exemple j'y ai compris que le fameux "muslim ban" qu'on a vu partout n'a rien de "muslim". 6 des 7 pays du Moyen-Orient ne sont pas mentionnées dans le décret de Trump. Ils ont été sélectionnés des années avant par l'administration Obama qui avait déjà mis en place un filtrage serré pour des raisons de sécurité. Il suffisait simplement d'aller à la source et de lire le décret. On reste libre de son opinion mais elle est au moins basée sur une source et non les médias.
Et je vous passe toutes les aventures, memes, pseudo-enquêtes politiques et judiciaires qu'a faits et subis ce sub polémique où se côtoient réflexion et connerie.
Voilà c'est ma perception de the_donald !
There is a book called "How to Invent Everything" that, supposedly, will help you restart civilization after the apocalypse.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded/dp/073522014X
You may be interested in the book, How to Invent Everything: A How to guide for a Stranded Time Traveler
I think this is it
Good advice, will TIL. Sidebar: Are you Robert Hamburger? If so, can you please just take all my money?
I think I found the bait
They're the same people that bought this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-White-People-Like-Definitive/dp/0812979915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335564082&amp;sr=8-1
Companion Book
Over 10K? Fancy!
Well he does have a poetry book coming out in October.
I read it, it's pretty good.
I prefer John Hodgman's The Area's of My Expertise. He's like an older, wiser Trey Hamburger.
It's also endorsed by the Church
orof Satan.Different animal, but it did remind me of this great book.
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1894953479/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
I know you specifically asked for not fiction, but the book Ready Player One is great, and people in the VR industry are working towards building similar worlds.
"Ready Player One" is an awesome book - I couldn't put it down!
This would be my choice!
I'm stuck at work for 10 hours today and 12 hours tomorrow so any extra reading material would pretty much be a god send. Haha. I can only read so many trashy free books at a time. Gotta break up the monotony of it all.
This book was recently suggested to me and I'm really curious to read it. I've heard quite a few good things about it.
I've been dying to read Ready Player One!
I don't think you wanna live through me this weekend, it's pretty boring, I'm probably just gonna play video games all weekend. Happy Friday
Thanks for the contest!
[This book] (http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&amp;colid=1BGV2L2FWNXQM&amp;coliid=I2OARYCHD7XAVK) looks great. Its "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. It looks like a great post apocalyptic novel.
I'd toss in a few plus add links for those who have Kindles
Awaken Online,
Life Reset,
Dungeon Born,
Dodge Tank,
Sufficiently Advanced Magic,
and I believe Ready Player One also fits the LitRPG description.
I'm going to have to recommend Ready Player One. The book was an AWESOME read!
well don't do ASOIAF, the kingkiller Chronicles, Dresden, or the Gentlemman bastards unless you like unfinished series.
I reccomend
The White House Boys This happened about 45 minutes from my house. I dont really read biographies, but this .. wow..
The Wool Omnibus It's actually 3 books of books in this series, but it works as a standalone. It's about a post apocalyptic world and all of humanity lives in a silo
Tortured dreams it's the first book of the dreams and reality series, basically a sociopath chases down serial killers
Ready Player One By now you should know what this is about
Rewinder Ever wanted to change history? this is for you!
Happy to!
Awaken Online is an awesome example.
You might have heard of Ready Player One - Spielberg is producing the movie. IMO that one is one of the best books (for nerds) ever, but it is only considered to be 'light LirRPG' book.
I love this book
Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science!
Leviathan Wakes, Ready Player One, and Wool are probably my top 3.
Considering the clarifications made already, there has been something similar made already
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/
Though I imagine that would be incomplete.
Depending on the type of collapse, we could and would lose a lot of information, all cutting edge research (since that's mostly preserved digitally), though that would be less important, since we'd have to rebuild the machinery in order to use it.
As someone else mentioned, seed banks are a good start as well. As far as knowledge itself goes, there are two books I'd recommend, The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization (linkhttps://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047) which I have read and is interesting in an entertaining way, and even somewhat useful; and How to Invent Everything (link https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded-ebook/dp/B07B2LNVBY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1543607051&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=how+to+invent+everything) which I haven't read yet, but is a similar idea. This one I have read, and it's kinda cool.
To get an idea for how difficult it will be to restart manufacturing at our current level, you may want to also check out The Toaster Project (link https://www.amazon.com/Toaster-Project-Attempt-Electric-Appliance-ebook/dp/B007N209P4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1543607108&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=toaster+project) where someone tries to build a cheap toaster from scratch, and how impossible it is.
Ryan North is a bona fide amazing dude. He's also made:
I think you're taking his words out of context and/or not understanding the full context. He's very controversial which can be seen by his book name, so I'd take his words with a grain of salt. Before you actually try to claim he's such and such you should read his book. Even in his book (which I proudly own), he says he likes to piss people off, he goes on to say that gays used to push social taboos, now they're just normal people. I'll find the exact quote from his book if you'd like.
There’s this book I was looking at Amazon the other day: How to Invent Everything : A Survival Guide for The Standard Time Traveler by Ryan North here
Take this.
Unless you have this book:
How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller by Ryan North
Edit: I should have read the rest of the comments, first - someone else already mentioned this book.
how to invent everything
This book would help
https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
I was looking for the wallet card, but found this
https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded/dp/073522014X
Edit : Here it is, the cheat sheet
https://i.imgur.com/2psNjiL.png
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GgpWDbET3F5JR
I haven’t bought it yet, but I think that a similar book might be:
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_1SU0DbEHTXWKK
It’s worth seeing if it covers any areas that you are thinking about.
There’s a pretty cool book on exactly this subject.
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller
https://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Waving-Inflatable-Miniature-Editions/dp/0762462876/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=mini+wacky+waving+inflatable+tube+man&amp;qid=1566518556&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=mini+waky+&amp;sr=8-1
Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762462876?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Haven’t splurged yet but I intend to buy a mini wacky wavy inflatable tube guy from my campus bookstore sometime this semester.
I believe it is this toy if you are jealous like me...
Mini wacky waving inflatable tube guy. Enough said
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762462876/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ClcPCbJ3VT6VK
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
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It is with great honor and duty that I hereby present your royal highness Sir ARMStrong: The Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy
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With Sir ARMStrong at your side on your desk, you'll always have someone close by that would not hesitate to make you smile and start your day(or end it) on the most glorious of highest notes.
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And as if that's not enough. Sir ARMStrong would remind you of everyone on RAOA that is always there to help anyone in their time of need.
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Viva La Vida
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Viva la ARMStrong!
I was just thinking that!
http://www.amazon.com/REAL-Ultimate-Power-Official-Ninja/dp/080652569X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418153292&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+real+ultimate+power
His son is also an author: http://www.amazon.com/REAL-Ultimate-Power-Official-Ninja/dp/080652569X
https://www.amazon.com/REAL-Ultimate-Power-Official-Ninja/dp/080652569X
I used to love this book.
Or this one perhaps?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080652569X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficialni-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=080652569X
Reading this book is my favorite way of chasing off melancholy. Plus you get to learn about ninjas.
Reddit needs to send this book to Glenn so he doesn't get tripped up like this again!
My go-to gift for all occasions is a humor or recipe/how-to book from Half Price Books and a couple small, related, items.
Examples (not necessarily for a book club, but things I've done/seen/thought of):
Jello-shot recipe book with shot glasses from goodwill and a box of jello
Cupcake recipe book with cupcake liners and sprinkles
A coffee book with a mug and some coffee
Stuff White People Like with coffee, a Wes Anderson dvd, and a Buddah figurine
The Field Guide to North American Males and binoculars
The Book of Awesome
A book on how to survive a zombie apocalypse and I think I gave her a zombie doll or something
A book on knife fighting and a couple fake knives (my father gave this to my brother)
A container gardening book with a flower pot and gardening gloves
Well studied, good sir. I appreciate that you at show us a bit more sensitivity than others.
Others: Things White People Like
I didn't really know what was wrong with Starbucks until I read "Stuff White People Like". It's the perfect mockery of "petite bourgeois" culture in America. Starbucks plays to its every delusion masterfully.
So your youth was in 2013?
And his new book "Egghead" came out a couple weeks ago.
The Areas of My Expertise
To be fair, John Hodgman once put out a book of complete world knowledge...and then he released two more.
You have to throw about £3 at it but green laser ponter would be cool.
Or maybe I Am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert.
And you can never go wrong with a classic.
Edit: I almost forgot both book by John Hodgman are great.
The Areas of My Expertise: A Compendium of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Myself
More Information Than You Require ( Paperback )
I suggest looking into becoming a PenTester for security companies. There's also this once you can install linux on a dead badger, you will be an advanced hacker.
If you like Stross and that kind of techie humor then you'd love her book. Similar in concept to the laundry novels but corporations rather than intelligence agencies get their hands on the unspeakable terrors.
You could install it to a dead badger. I actually have this book.
Sent from my dead badger.
https://www.amazon.com/Installing-Linux-Dead-Badger-Snyder/dp/1894953479
The Lord Darcy series was started in the '60s so you're looking for dead tree editions.
Start your search here (googl link because reddit hates parentheses).
The Atrocity Archives is Charlie Stross's Laundry series.
For all your computational necromancy needs.
Someone wrote a long story on 4chan called "Stranded in Fantasy". A group of people from our world get pulled into a D&D-style fantasy world and try to survive.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Stranded_in_fantasy
And this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but check out "The Atrocity Archives". It's a combination of Lovecraft-style horror and Dilbert-style bureaucracy.
The Laundry Files series
Modern day Lovecraftian horrors, secret agents, government agencies, science, occult, etc. Written by one of my favorite sci-fi authors, Charles Stross.
The Laundry(UK) and The Black Chamber(USA) are two government agencies tasked with covering up, containing, or eliminating Lovecraftian horrors. I'm just finishing the first book, and I love it.
If you guys like the idea old school games and easter eggs (and love to read), check out the novel [Ready Player One by Ernest Cline] (http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ)! Basically a dystopian sci-fi novel set in the future, but has all the 80's gaming pop culture references you can imagine. Very similar to Ender's Game. I couldn't put it down.
edit: formatting
Ready Player Oneis a funny tour through geek humor wrapped up in a neat storyline that is full of mysteries. Hey and at 16 bucks an hour!!!
Rats Saw God, Kindle is OKfor me if I win.
Wow super awesome contest!
I've heard a lot of good things about Ready Player One
Pecksniffian
Bacon Pancakes suggests that I would also find [this book] (http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&amp;colid=C5PBU8NSZ95H&amp;coliid=I24QZTO9LSMJ0L) interesting
If you haven't already check out Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Its an ode to early gaming and the 80s in general. Adventure is a key plot point.
Kindle work?
Last: Skin Game by Jim Butcher
Now: Shogun by James Clavell
Next: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
and I assume you also use the amazon.com marketplace on audible? (ie audible.com and US dollars). If that's true I would guess your settings are set up for amazon.com kindle books too, if you can buy kindle books on .com and use the whispersync feature (again it would charge you in USD).
An easy way to check is to go to amazon.ca and see if you are able to buy a kindle book. My guess is, it wont let you and say you have to go to amazon.com (obviously unless you have been changing your country settings recently).
Because yes, I am very sure that it doesnt work with an amazon.ca account. The audible.ca rep I spoke to said as much... although I guess they dont always give customers the right information.
What I found out is you can change your country settings for Kindle though, in your amazon account management. And so I just had to give it a US address and it transferred my books over without issue. And because I already had the book on audible.com (I assume) whispersync started working. In the future if I want to use whispersync I will just switch my country back to Canada to buy the kindle ebook (so I pay CAD with no conversion fees) and then switch back to use whispersync. Unfortunately I think I would be stuck paying USD on audible though, from what I can tell.
Hopefully they do implement whispersync in canada, I think its a good feature and definitely a reason for me to buy kindle ebooks over kobo. But to be honest, unless its a quality narrator/cast for the audio book, with all the hassle that it took me I will probably just stick to ebooks and using my iphone's screen reading ability to read the book to me. Its not as good as an audio book but its a lot less hassle. Until they bring the whispersync feature to canada properly anyway.
Have you read Ready Player One?
Ready Player One?
Yes
https://smile.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ
Spielberg didn't do the book cover.
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ
Try Ready Player One. It's about a world that's become obsessed with this virtual game, but there's a conspiracy and an interesting dynamic between online personas and real life. If you like audiobooks, Wil Wheaton narrates. (BONUS! The ebook is on sale for $2.80!) and if you have any passing interest in SF, definitely read The Martian. It has math in it AND I DIDN'T EVEN CARE IT WAS THAT GOOD. Basically, an astronaut gets left behind on a mission to Mars and must survive on his own...
Just finished reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (awesome read btw) and that video makes it feel like the beginning of the Oasis. Looks pretty cool.
Ready Player One It takes place in a bunch of places, but it's fast-paced and lots of fun.
I feel this way about Ready Player One RIGHT NOW. I read that book in a cafe in one sitting. Started in the morning, didn't know I'd be exiting at night, and I miss being part of a place that doesn't exist.
I want to read Armada by Ernest Cline because I really enjoyed Ready Player One. I know it won't be as good, but I feel like it would still be interesting. If you haven't read Ready Player One yet, I highly recommend it.
If you like Wool I highly recommend Ready Player One.
If you enjoy 80's culture, video games, or dystopian futures you'll love it. Wool was actually recommended to me because I liked this book so much.
Good news, there’s a book that addresses this exact problem: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler.
Crooked little vein?
http://www.amazon.com/Crooked-Little-Vein-Novel-P-S/dp/0061252050/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406418280&amp;sr=1-2
i couldn't find jagged little pill, but this guy is a work horse for writing, so its easy to miss?
Crooked Little Vein.
I see you're in about half of my subreddits too. Have you read "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline? It's probably the best Scifi book I've read in 10 years. http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X
There should be 4 posts up there, but thanks for the advice. I'm in the middle of Ready Player One, and I'm feeling inspired to get back into writing... not sure why this didn't take off, but I had an outline with quite a few ideas to continue with.
All of you need to put down the controllers for a few hours and read this book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
Umm. you do realize this is exactly how the book Ready Player One started right? if any of you havnt read it already. do yourself a favour. :). Pretty much, the majority if the planet is educated like this in the book.
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Hey Wil, how does it feel being an elected official in 2044?
here is where you can buy it
I think the internet will be far more ubiquitous. In the not too distant future the idea of having to sit down in front of a box with a mouse and keyboard to interact with the web will be considered quaint. This is already happening with the rise of smart phones and tablets, but those devices basically perform the same function but remove the unnecessary hardware.
The web will be more seamlessly woven into your everyday life. It will be embedded in the technology you interact with. Think Augmented Reality and Heads Up Displays, but on an accesible consumer level. It will be more experiential, possibly moving more towards a virtual reality. The VR that the book Ready Player One seems quite plausible.
Ready Player One.
Have you read Ready Player One?
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Prime eligable products cost the same as the same product from another supplier plus shipping. Amazon basically builds in the shipping cost and claims that you're getting free shipping.
Gotcha, I totally understand. I don't think your assessments are incorrect! PS I also loved A Monster Calls.
I always recommend from Marcus Zusak - I Am The Messenger. He wrote The Book Thief, which got a lot of traction (because of the movie) but this is an earlier work with I think more gravity/character development, and a good bit of humor. It's about this kid who's an underage cab driver, kind of a loser, and starts getting these cards in the mail, putting him on a bunch of missions, all the while wondering who's responsible, and why. A bit fantastical, but also grounded.
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Ready Player One crushes the atmosphere/setting, but if you're not into video games/VR as a theme, it might not be as interesting. However, my 65 year-old mom knows nothing about video games and she liked it, too, if that means anything, haha.
Relevant book: Ready Player 1
One of the main characters lives in an RV, from where she taps into the virtual reality universe.
It's one of the best scifi books I've ever read, btw. Highly recommended.
OH MY GOODNESS they are so cute!!! :3 I have a little chihuahua/rat terrior mix named Pookie :)
Young Adult is great! I really enjoy dystopias as well! If you're interested in trekking down that path, a few good Young Adult/Dystopias are The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Giver. I also highly recommend Ready Player One and The Handmaids Tale :D
Ready Player One?
I love books too, but struggle soooooo much with them. Meds seem like they are helping a little bit, as does scheduling a specific time of day (when the meds are working) to read. I'm trying to read for 15 minutes before lunch. That seems to be working, and I'm hoping that eventually I can build up to an hour.
Ready Player One has really held my interest! I might be able to finish it!! WOO!
Ready Player One is a fine choice for a young adult. Little bit of romance but nothing crazy. https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0
It caught me off-guard too. A buddy who also reads and loves Suarez's work, IM'd me one day asking if I got my copy yet, assuming I had pre-ordered. Needless to say I was on Amazon within 5 minutes.
If you liked Daemon and Freedom, check out Ready Player One.
Ready Player One reference? Needs a Z, but I bet it is since he's a good parallel to Halliday or the Great and Powerful Og.
Sorry...that would help, wouldn't it...
Little Big Man is a historical fiction told from the perspective of a 111 year old man who recounts his time as a young boy moving west, then living with the Cheyenne, and then back with whites again. Along the way he meets all kinds of characters and figures. Think 18th century Forrest Gump (written a while before Gump though). I always used the Dustin Hoffman movie when I taught history but never read the book.
Ready Player One is a young adult novel set in 2044 where most of the population lives within a virtual reality gaming world and the real world has fallen to ruin. Within the game, its creator (a 1980s child and pool culture junkie) had created a quest to inherit his billions after his death. The story follows one, then a group of young players as they race against a mega-corporation to complete the three levels of the quest and earn their billions. It wasn't too bad since I got just about all the references and it wasn't wholly predictable as YA books can be, even if it was a light juvenile in parts with the writing.
Been looking into this one. Heard there was a movie being made also. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307887448/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=2V8XJ4ANWV155&amp;coliid=I1UAPN3PRPMCB8&gt;
I've heard a lot of great things about Ready Player One but haven't gotten the chance to read it myself yet! I'd love to join said Reading Rainbow!
Movie: Headhunters. Don't let the subtitles deter you from watching this.
Song: Levan Polka
Book: Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline?
If you think that's depressing, you should(n't) read Ready Player One.
Ready Player One
You guys should check Ready Player One. It is essentially somewhat of a depiction of this picture. The world has gone to shit and they use video games and virtual reality to go to school and pretty much live a second life. The book is amazing in my opinion and written very well.
I'm not going to call any of them "literature", but I've read and enjoyed a bunch of new-ish books recently.
Read Ready Player One.
http://readyplayerone.com/
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http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
That is the future. Right there. Oh... maybe some political stuff might be different, and I think the tech will actually be better than in the book - unless we blow ourselves up, or suffer an economic apocalypse - I am convinced that the gaming life in this book is what we will see and experience.
Boys don't cry (title from one of my all-time favourite songs =D)
In a Year of 13 Moons (warning; REALLY triggering even from me, a pre-hrt woman who can't even cry when she is sad 9/10)
Paris Is Burning
The Crying Game (another triggering film)
The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Ma vie en rose
All about My Mother
Wild Side
Becoming Chaz
Tomboy (2011)
Beautiful Boxer (2003)
Soldier's Girl (2003)
The Badge (2002)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Princesa (2001)
M. Butterfly (1993)
The Crying Game (1992)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Here's a comic and book if you'd be interested in reading them:
http://www.amazon.com/Flutter-Vol-Hell-Can-Wait/dp/1484085957
About a cis lesbian who has the ability to shapeshift, including into a male, and has a huge crush on a straight girl to the point that she pretends to be a man, believing that she would be able to have a "straight" relationship that way. She isn't trans, at least not identified as a trans man since she identifies internally as a woman even when taking on a male body. If she's non-binary it doesn't seem like the series is intending her to be. Still its a good story and a decent ending for its first volume. It also has a side plot that could be inevitable in real life at this point: a rally of bigotted right-wingers trying to ban same sex marriage in the USA. It's second volume is kindle only on amazon so far so i haven't read it yet, but hopefully its as good as the original.
http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Like-Me-Jennie-Wood/dp/0692238069/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=0DBX3BECWSV19086RCVF
She also made A Boy Like Me, a novel about a self-identified trans man, though this isn't scifi or fantasy like flutter is. Very sad at times, even for a trans feminine person like me who wishes i could switch places with him...
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1445063355&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=ready+player+one
I know this post is 2 days old, which puts it in some sort of reddit graveyard, but I'll add my thoughts.
First, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan is the definitive "modern" cyberpunk novel so check that out for sure.
Also, for more of a "5 minutes into the future" cyberpunk, check out the Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam. The third book in the trilogy won the Philip K. Dick Award if that means anything to you.
Another series I liked, which has a great dark humor to it, is the Avery Cates series by Jeff Somers. Seriously, just read the 'About the Author' section at the bottom of that page to get an idea of the humor.
Have you read William Gibson's The Peripheral? It's a neat update on Gibson's cyberpunk vision now that the world has changed.
Someone else recommended Cory Doctorow. I actually think Little Brother is his best work, though it's young adult so prepare yourself for that.
Finally, I feel weird recommending this, but if you were a child of the 80s, have you read Ready Player One? It's pretty polarizing in this sub since you either love it or you hate it, but it is a popular modern cyberpunk novel.
If you haven’t read the book yet, ready player one is one of the best books i’ve ever read. It revolves around the idea that the world is in dystopia and almost everyone lives their life in the OASIS.
I think anyone who likes sci-fi and games and such should read it, oh it also has alot of refrences to the 80’s
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448
Thanks alot for the giveaway!
Ready Player One.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448/
Ready Player One
by Earnest Cline
I'm not sure if anyone else has recommended it on this sub yet, but I will say that if you love FireFly, then you will love this book!
Probably too late to this thread but relevant question:
Has anyone read Ready Player One? A friend recommended it for post-grad school applications fun reading but I made the mistake of starting it 2 days ago when apps are due this Friday and I'm so hooked I'm spending my lunch breaks reading it instead of editing my essays.
This might help ease the transition for you
If you like stuff like this, I recommend reading Ready Player One! by Earnest Cline (also available in audiobook read by Wil Wheaton).
Ready Player One; you're welcome.
I've owned about a quarter of these books since high school, and I read two to three books a week, so your math isn't far off! I'd say I'm closer to maybe two thousand books, maybe 2500. I want to get an accurate count at some point! I also want to catalog them so that I can tell what I own without having to call home and have my SO tell me if I've forgotten (I forget pretty often). Just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. But someday!
Ready Player One is set in the near future, in the year 2044. It's a dystopian novel that deals with a virtual reality world. The guy who created the world died, and whoever solves his puzzle gets ownership. The puzzle is solved through a bunch of easter eggs hidden in the world, all of which involve 80's pop-culture and video game references. The first couple of chapters are kind of slow, but by about a quarter of the way in, it just sort of hooks you. I finished most of it in one night before passing it off to the SO. He's not a big reader, but he practically inhaled the book. We've been buying copies from my store when they come in, and just handing them out to friends ever since.
Indy is surprisingly graceful. He corners on a dime! My SO actually nicknamed him "Indy 500" because of his speed, although I'd say the cornering ability is more akin to that of an F1 car. Scott, on the other hand, has some slight brain damage and is pretty derp. He doesn't know how to retract his claws all the way, so they stick to the area rug in the living room as he walks across it. And his tail throws him off balance a lot when he flails it around, so he falls off the furniture when he's excited. Aw, dog! What's his (her?) name? What kind of dog? Also, dog tax.
So jealous of your weather right now! Mid-seventies is perfect. It's been in the forties and fifties this past week. 38º right now, but that's because it's five AM. Sleep is totally important! I don't do mornings. At all. Like, if I'm awake before noon, it's because someone's paying me to be. (Side note: maybe the military isn't the best idea for someone who likes to sleep in late, dude.) Field training should be interesting, if nothing else! Accepted for what?
Pressure cookers can be fun! Slow cookers might be what you're after, in the beginning. Pressure cookers can lead to accidents like this if you're not careful though. Slow cookers don't have, y'know, pressure, so they cook slower (hah, words), but it's the same principle. I've got a slow cooker, but I'm a little nervous to pick up a pressure cooker just in case! Don't want to lose my security deposit on this apartment so spectacularly. XD You should totally ask him! I bet he'd love to teach you. What kind of food does he make?
Yeah, dude, it was a pretty sad thing to watch. The guy stole a book that we paid $100 for, which we priced at $400 (Sex, by Madonna-- unopened, still in the mylar wrapping, and in perfect shape), and he got $20 for it at a pawn shop. I checked online and it doesn't look like the guy has any more convictions after that one (this was in 2013), so there's hope. His defense attorney gave a story about how the guy was abused by his father, made to steal just so he could eat... I don't doubt it. Coming from that sort of background, it's no wonder he'd turn back to theft whenever times were tough.
Jesus, our government sounds kind of like my store. We've spent so much money replacing the broken, leaky AC units that half our computers are still running WinXP while connected to the internet. Thankfully, with PCI compliance, at least they're not the POS terminals! Those are running Win7 and have no internet access. Hooray for F-35s?
Oh man, I've heard so many good things about The Witcher series! I've been meaning to pick them up, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm re-reading Discworld because SO is supposed to start them soon and I want to refresh my memory a bit. Next on my list is The Blood Mirror, by Brent Weeks. It's the fourth book in the Lightbringer series and it's a really well-done fantasy series. You should check out the Night Angel trilogy by the same author; it's good, and it's finished so you don't have to wait.
Holy crap I'm watching DS9 right now too! I'm halfway through season six! The SO and I started watching it together a few months ago, but I've been on leave because of my hysterectomy (I go back on Friday, woo!) so I powered ahead of where he last saw. Been trying to catch him up this past week. We also just finished Stranger Things, which was phenomenal. Highly recommended, especially if you liked The X-Files at all, or suspense-type stuff. After that, I don't quite know what we'll end up watching. Maybe we'll pick up Voyager? Or we might go back and actually finish TNG. I've seen lots of bits and pieces, but we never watched like, full seasons in a row. The SO grew up watching it with his dad, and has the science officer badge tattooed on his chest! I'm trying to catch up to what all he's seen, I guess.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
book basically about that.
Yea, this reminds me a lot of that book "Ready Player One". Great read by the way.
Sounds Ready Player One-esque. I'm personally not interested in the game within a game concept. Just gimme an efficient menu and let me play my game.
>but for any other activity that you normally do with other people in the same room: Wii-type multiplayer games, sports, movies, etc. I really don't see it happening because the headset cuts off your communication with everyone around you.
It doesn't have to. Small microphones are ubiquitous (e.g. built into laptops) and the ultimate headset would have integrated headphones. Current VR is just now getting enough attention and funding to play with different ideas. The Valve VR headset has front mounted pinhole cameras and two spatial recognition anchors (called lighthouses) to allow you to move in a 3D space. Imagine if watching a 3D movie with someone was less like watching a screen in a theater (even a virtual theater) and instead placed you IN the movie, letting you walk around the 3D animated people like a holodeck. Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No. Unprofitable? Absolutely not. Technology is getting even more lightweight, so bulky, awkward plastic headsets will soon be able to slim to near-earbud level portability. And, once we can meet up both in person and over distance - as easily as we make calls at home and on foot - it may replace cell phones, Google Glass, VR headsets, and others with a sort of super-combine telecommunication.
For more on virtual worlds bringing people together: Second Skin
For more on Valve's VR Headset: Valve Demonstrates the Future of VR Better Than Anyone
For one possible future where VR is as I've described: Ready Player One
You might like some of the following for your summer book adventures:
The Lies of Locke Lamora - if you like this one, then there's a second book in the series. I think it's shaping up to be a trilogy, but I can't recall off the top of my head. It's low fantasy, clever and occasionally snarky, with some fun intrigue and good action. It keeps up a decent pace, which is great.
If you enjoy magic realism at all, I really liked The Hummingbird's Daughter, which is about a young woman who becomes a saint. I found it to be really fascinating. It doesn't exactly qualify as magic realism, but it's fairly fantastical so you can't read it as realistic either.
The Passage was an interesting read, although I didn't finish it before I had to return it to the library, so the ending might suck :P It was a really neat blend of vampire mythology, science, and the apocalypse though, and I did make it about halfway through before I had to return it.
Finally, Ready Player One was a really neat sort of blend of space opera and adventure quest, with some good nostalgia thrown in for fun. Everyone basically lives in OASIS, which is a virtual reality sort of place, because the world is ugly and gross. This kid is taking part in a contest that everyone in the whole world takes part in, and it follows his progress. I thought it was really neat, anyway.
I'm going to ponder a bit more, and see if anything else strikes my fancy as something you might like. I love recommending books to people :)
Please tell me you've read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Maybe Ready Player One by Ernest Cline? He's writing a sequel, but I really think it can stand on its own. Here's an Amazon link so it shouldn't be spoiler-y.
Don't worry, SAO inspires my interest in virtual reality too. Well, I was already intrigued by the idea of a "virtual game" from way back when I read the Greed Island arc in HxH, but SAO made be dream bigger about virtual technology. I'm doing Comp Sci right now, with a concentration in Human Computer Interaction. Not sure if I'll be the the VR field some day, but it's a step closer to technology that inspires me.
I recommend checking out this book, Ready Player One. I don't really read much, but this was recommended to me and I ate through it like no tomorrow. It showcases a virtual reality system much closer to what's possible today versus SAO's nervegear design.
(They kind of did, and I liked it.)[https://www.amazon.com/Onion-Book-Known-Knowledge-Encyclopaedia/dp/0316133248]
Правильно бути радикальним атеістом. Почитайте The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. http://www.amazon.com/The-Salmon-Doubt-Hitchhiking-Galaxy/dp/0345455290
Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. Specifically, although the entire book is good, the chapter "Is There an Artificial God?" where DNA goes into a talk about God and why it is a artificially constructed idea. Also "Interview, American Atheists" is a good chapter.
That would be Player Piano. http://www.amazon.com/Player-Piano-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333781
Books:
Capital in the Twenty-First Century: http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X
Player Piano: http://www.amazon.com/Player-Piano-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333781
Manna: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: http://hpmor.com/
Videos:
Martin Gilens & Benjamin Page: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/kj9zai/martin-gilens---benjamin-page
Dancing Girls of Lahore- Louise T. Brown
Player Piano- Kurt Vonnegut
Read Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.
Does this sound right?
Incredibly late to the party... but right now I'm reading The Atrocity Archives - by Charles Stross. If you like well written sci-fi, Lovecraftian interdimensional horrors, and computer science, this is the book for you.
One of his other novels, Glasshouse, might be my all time favorite book. It's pretty easy to read sci-fi, has some awesome new concepts, and surprisingly really delves deep into gender issues. The last part kinda threw me but it's really well done and a very well presented.
try Charles Stross' Atrocity Archives. fun stuff. :)
For flights I usually go with something lighter, I find I have a hard time getting into complex books on flights.
So, in that spirit I recomend The Atrocity Archives
Or anything by Malcolm Gladwell if you feel like something pop.sci.
Charlie Stross sounds like just the ticket:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/buy-my-books/buy-my-books-us.html
I would suggest this to start, short and sweet, funny & dark:
http://www.amazon.com/Atrocity-Archives-Charles-Stross/dp/0441016685/
Also, what others have said about Iain M Banks and his Culture Novels - they're pretty awesome; Consider Phlebas isn't a bad place to start.
Damn, those tricky vampire hosting companies. If you enjoy the idea of a mix of supernatural with computers I wonder if you might enjoy reading The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. It's the first book in a series.
But as far as adventure, Robert E. Howard's classics are imo still the best in pulp adventure fiction.
Very similar story in Cosmic Banditos. An on the lam drug runner robs a physics professor and takes up the cause of applying quantum physics to his drug running world.
The link is to buy it at Amazon to keep this thing topical.
Mick Farren - The DNA Cowboys
Its got is all, fellowship, drugs, adventure, sex and buckets of general weirdness. Kind of DarkTowerish.
Allan Weisbecker - Cosmic Banditos
I had lots of awkward moments in public, trying (and failing) to stifle laughs. Great stuff. Worth it for the intro alone.
M. John Harrison - Light
This novel is unlike anything else I have read. That Harrison squeezes three stories in to this slim volume is a work of wonder.
John C. Wright - The Golden Age
If you like the Culture Novels, you will probably really like this.
Jeff VanderMeer - Veniss Underground
Disturbing and dark. Still haunts me.
Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker
It's the story of a hilarious, drug-fueled path of insanity and violence burned through South America that makes Hunter S. Thompson look like Jane Austen. Also, it will teach you a surprising amount of quantum physics.
A.C. Weisbecker - Cosmic Banditos
Victor Gischler - Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
Have you read this book? because you should...
I'll add a couple to this list:
Snow Crash - without giving too much away, many parts of it deal with how religions evolve and borrow from older ones, and ultimately equates it to a mental virus. I've never been able to verify how much of what Stephenson wrote is true on his facts, though he does say he cited things appropriately in his book.
Space by James Michener. It's a historical fiction, following many different people from the roots of the space race in WWII up through the space shuttle, throwing in fictional characters into real events to show what it was really like as America emerged out of WWII from many aspects in our culture. One character in particular, Leo Strabismus, is a con-man of sorts, and is used to show the rise in evangelical denominations and the anti-science/we-have-the-answers-already paranoia that began to rise as a result (oddly directly following the huge push and fascination in science and a keen interest as a nation in "what's out there")
It's all about the karma!
Karma, It'll get you one day.
$0.01 used Paperback plus $3.99 for shipping!
no love for snow crash?
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1314195084&amp;sr=8-1
For some reason, this whole story reminds me of Snow Crash.
Annnnd here we go again. I'm doing this with all books, just because.
Allegiant
Berenstain Bears
Calvin and Hobbes
Dune
Edgar Allen Poe collection
Fahrenheit 451
Gulliver's Travels
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Julie of the Wolves
Kite Runner
Little House on the Prairie
Machine of Death
Neverending Story
Omnitopia Dawn (The book I'm reading now, actually!)
Pilgrim's Progress
Quarter Share (Also available free as a podiobook!)
Room
Snow Crash
[Tell-Tale Brain](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=tell-tale brain&sprefix=tell-tale%2Cstripbooks%2C222&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Atell-tale brain&ajr=2)
Uglies
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Watership Down
Xenocide
Year Zero
Zen and the Art of Knitting
SNOW CRASH SNOW CRASH SNOW CRASH. Freaking loved this book. If you take only 1 book away from my suggestions it's Snow Crash. https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467723357&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=snow+crash
Pizza Delivery guys are hardcore.
Snow Crash! Keywords: ninja, cyberpunk, hackers, augmented reality, linguistics, religion, malignant memes, corporate-run America
Also, Petersburg, by Bely. Ulysses + Metamorphosis + House of Leaves?
I prefer this book... Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Snow Crash
No, I'd like to pick it up though.
This it?
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418667641&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Snow+crash
Have you read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? It's a SciFi novel but the narrative is heavily based upon the Babel narrative and Sumer language. It'd be a very fun read for someone interested in the topic (obviously the facts are bent a little bit). No question, just think you'd enjoy it!
It's roughly what happens in the first chapter of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Good book, I recommend it :)
In California of the near future, when the U.S. is only a "Burbclave" (city-state), the Mafia is just another franchise chain (CosaNostrastet Pizza, Incorporated) and there are no laws to speak of, Hiro Protagonist follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology to help thwart an attempt to take control of civilization
Here is a list of some of my favorites so far:
Snow Crash is a beautiful book, with Neal Stephenson being one of my favorite cyberpunk authors. Anathem is also a great book by him.
I highly, HIGHLY recommend getting the book, as it's only 10.20 + 6 day free shipping from Amazon right now.
I'm always happy to get any kind of roleplaying book. Would really enjoy this Pathfinder one.
Or, if you're wanting more traditional books, I really need to read Snow Crash.
For those details, read Snowcrash, Hiro Protagonist is the prototype of a professional pizza courier: delivers pizza, saves the world.
I haven't read that myself, but based on the description and notes elsewhere in the thread I might recommend these:
Click "first pages" on the left and enjoy.
has anyone gotten a chance to read milos new book dangerous yet?
currently out of stock must be selling like scones
https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/069289344X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1500093157&amp;sr=1-1
I saw the number 20,000 somewhere. His publisher was expecting 100k or something though.
Yes you can buy it at amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/069289344X/
I feel super bad and you've made me feel bad. Here's where you can buy that shitty book they "burned"
https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X
> It's not much different from a movie that claimed that the Earth was flat & that people said it was round as a conspiracy
That would be a fine premise for a movie. In the right hands, it could even make for a great movie. Playing with what the audience thinks it knows and turning that on its head, even if you're doing it with bullshit, is a classic storytelling device.
> or someone playing a game like WoW just to find an in-game Walmart.
So, the inevitable film adaptation of Ready Player One, then?
I mostly get audio books.
The books this year.
Have you read this book? because you should...
Nahhh
Bro I bought the pre-sale of Milo's book because freeze peach. Her folx would castrate me for "normalizing hate speech".
It's Breitbart, but still what? Here, let me Google "milo yianopoulos book" for you and click the 2nd result which is Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X
Just in case Amazon takes off the #1 Best Seller in Books tag anytime soon I have a screen cap too
> Jeff Bezos
I had no idea who this guy was until I googled it, funny since Amazon only sells books here.
I just scammed this guy to get my free Audible audiobooks, just like the true anarchist I am :)
Halfway into listening to [Dangerous] (https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X) ;)
For the lazy:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded/dp/073522014X/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/080652569X?pc_redir=1396777763&amp;robot_redir=1
You've got to be kidding. If you are offended by this... you need to go encounter some real adversity in life.
For reference, [THIS BOOK] (https://www.amazon.com/Stuff-White-People-Like-Definitive/dp/0812979915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1527642636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=stuff+white+people+like) inspired me to make this starterpack. I see you're trying to make the subreddit better, but come on man... this is just overkill.
Gotta love Bo Burnham! if you want his book you can get it here
Bo Burnham's Egghead is what you're looking for. Here's a clip of him reading poems from it in his special.
A time traveler already stole your idea: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B2LNVBY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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I should be pretty schooled on white people. I read this book after all, http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-White-People-Like-Definitive/dp/0812979915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1371538679&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=things+white+people+like
> universally acclaimed is unfounded
> ny times bestseller
> http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
> umad
i checked and they are full of conservative people praising the book & there are no top reviews from liberals criticizing it.
[The Cost of Our Silence: Consequences of Christians Taking the Path of Least Resistance ] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1622452712) 4.8 stars
ERADICATE: Blotting Out God in America: Understanding, Combatting, and Overcoming the Anti-Christian Agenda 4.3 stars
Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America 4.7 stars
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left 4.6 stars
Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism 4.7 stars
Understanding Trump - Newt Gingrich 4.8 stars
Dangerous - Milo Yiannopoulos 4.9 stars
most liberals have more work to do than write negative reviews for tripe that can be found on any facebook comment section. see, that is the difference ; most conservatives detest and loathe liberals while most liberals want to convince conservative to let progress happen.
but sitting and stewing in your echo chamber has made you believe that liberals are evil baddies
If you haven't read Ready Player One I highly recommend it. I learned so much about classic arcade games (more 80's but still great) from this book.
ALL Gamers should read this.