Neuromancer is important because of its astounding predictive power. Gibson’s core idea in the novel is the direct integration of man and computer, with all the possibilities and horrors that such a union entails. (via PC World) One of the best books of all time. Definitely time for a reread.
And this is definitely good news:A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year.”The Pale King,” excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming out Monday, is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.Wallace’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown and Company, will release the novel. Little, Brown said in a statement Sunday that the novel runs ”several hundred thousand words and will include notes, outlines, and other material.”Wallace, best known for the 1,000-page novel ”Infinite Jest,” was a longtime sufferer from depression who committed suicide last fall. He was 46 and had been working on ”The Pale King” for several years.Hooray!
I just learned that David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, died Friday, apparently by his own hand.
Of course I watched TNT’s “new hit drama,” Raising the Bar. I loved it!
You know you’re living in a wonderful world when you can just open a web browser and read a chronology of the events in Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Several books in the library have been updated, including In the Shadow of the Law, Uglies, and a very brief bit on Defending the Damned (which I’d still like to review more extensively when I get the time).
Sadly, I just finished reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I say “sadly” because it was such a great book I just didn’t want it to end.
Since I’m supposedly trying to write a Douglas Coupland-like novel for NaNoWriMo I’ve recently picked up Generation X.
Although my last call for reading suggestions appeared to fall on deaf ears (thanks Mackenzie!)
I’ve finished a couple of books that I’d like to write about but don’t know if I ever will. This one was recommended by my sister, and looks great…. Has anyone read it?Does anyone else have recommendations?
