I’m reading A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge. It’s my first Vinge book and was published 1992. How did I manage to miss this author all these years? I remember leaning back after the first forty pages, stunned. So many interesting ideas! The tone is cool and emotions don’t seem to be his forte, but unlike many cyberpunk authors, he doesn’t try to pass off style and WordMagic for cool ideas. His ideas *are* cool. Well, I just finished part one of the book, let’s hope he can keep it up.
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
I feel old.
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I think it’s strange giving books away, at least some: they tell my life: what I used to read, to like, how I changed , or not 😃, over the years.... They are mirror of my life. For me giving a book to someone is giving him or her a small insight of mySelf,sharing something which is dear to me. I could never give a book without thinking to whom it goes and if it will be respected or even cherished. It’s very personal... So I think I wouldn’t be able to just send away my books. I really hope that one day, after my passing, my kids would go through my books and remember: ha, that’s how she felt, that’s what moved her, that’s what she was interested in.. And then they would pick one out to keep with the feeling that’s the one which reflects best what my mom was... I downladede the book you talked about. I wonder if I will like it. Sentences are short and vocabulary seems not very elaborated... It’s not so my style... But we’ll see... Here a book I liked, though it tokk its time to get the nack of it: The poisonwood Bible, from Barbara Kingssolver.
– mom 2006-10-05 19:09 UTC
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Well, I admit that I’m not giving away the books I loved just yet. For the moment, I’m listing the books I will definitely never read again, because they were either too bad, too boring, or too ordinary to merrit a second reading.
Oh, and please feel free to write in any language you want. Some of my pages are in German, after all. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2006-10-05 19:47 UTC