Month: October 2012
1995: The Mark of Merlin
(October 17, 2012)I bought this book at an SF auction thing at the University. I remember a bidding war broke out between me and some woman over this book. I’m not sure why. I was just caught up in the excitement. And then it sat on the bookshelf until now. I used to read a lot of … Continue reading 1995: The Mark of Merlin
Papp László Budapest Sportarénában
(October 17, 2012)Who knew that Dead Can Dance had so many fans in Hungary that they had to play a sports arena? I thought the sound was gonna be pretty iffy, but it was the last place in Europe that had tickets available. The sound wasn’t iffy — it was horrible. As Concert Goer Guy would say: … Continue reading Papp László Budapest Sportarénában
1995: Tourists
(October 14, 2012)I do remember why I haven’t read this one. I thought it was a short story collection. I hate short story collections. No, that’s not quite true. I love short stories. It’s just that they take more energy than novels. They’re so compressed. You have to start caring about these characters in a couple of … Continue reading 1995: Tourists
1995: Homo Falsus
(October 12, 2012)Do you remember back in the mid-80s where all books dealt with writers who were writing the book you were reading, or were they? The post-modernity of this book is pretty staggering. And perhaps not in a good way. But that’s just what virtually all literature was like in 1984. This one has not just … Continue reading 1995: Homo Falsus
1995: Ring of Swords
(October 10, 2012)Getting the festival of 1995 underway, I picked the book I knew absolutely the least about first. It seemed like a pretty nice hard-ish SF novel, so why hadn’t I read it already? Now I remember… I had bought it along with a swarm of other touchy feely SF books, and I had kinda gotten … Continue reading 1995: Ring of Swords
Ghost in the Alarm Clock
(October 9, 2012)Yesterday my alarm clock started doing this: Er… a timing issue? It’s freaky!