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Sugar Frosted Nutsack
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Mark Leyner
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, April 20, 2012
"--not realizing that his microphone was still on--" INTRODUCTION You are about to begin reading a review of Mark Leyner's novel "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack." Relax. Let all your other concerns fade from your mind. Watch them drift into the outer-most recesses of your psyche, where you can objectively view them at a distance, with detached curiousity. II. No, wait -- you skipped part "I." III. You were always like that in high school, weren't you? You seem the type. Renting "For Whom the Bell Tolls" on VHS, and watching THAT instead of READING Hemingway's original for your assigned book report, and never giving the matter a second thought after you got your "B-" grade on it. IV. Well, here's a "second chance" for you: to really DIG IN, and -- V. Stay with me here, people! VI. Okay, so you're drifting -- à la the short-attention span of most of today's youth -- so I'll keep it ... VII. ... brief, okay, HELLO? VIII. It's called: "THE SUGAR FROSTED NUTSACK," okay? IX. Yeah, he KNEW what HE WAS DOING, DIDN'T HE, calling it that! (Got your ATTENTION, and all!) X. "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack" will get, hold, and do NEW things WITH your "attention": bend it, shape it, do handsprings, stretch it out like rubber (or, at least, like those "Plastic-Man" toys from the '70s), leaving you: more adept, more adroit, and more thoroughgoing a "thinker." CONCLUSION BUY it! (It always feels swell to be totin' round a new, of-the-moment, fresh-smelling hardcover novel ... don't it?)
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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David Foster Wallace
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, April 20, 2012
(He painted himself into a corner -- don't let him take you with him!) The broken-up, fractured thinking on "display" here -- though, truthfully and unfortunately, it's rendered as a shared "experience" -- is of the "long form" nature, so it might not be all that easy to discern, at first glance. BUT: If you look at the title, even, this sort of "self-survey" [written by a MAN, is it not?] is, of course: "self"-DEFEATING . . . since YOU can NEVER be one of those "hideous" men. (Or CAN you? And 'round it goes ... um, see what I mean? Like ... RIGHT AWAY?) I only read into the first few chunks of "Eternal Joke" [his mammoth, 1100pg.+ "opus" ... wait, did I get the title right?] but, I had to put it down once the "cause" of the tennis player's weird, unrealistic, you - have - to - take - it - on - faith - because - it's - so - "profound" ailment was "revealed" [eating really bad MOLD means a person would be unable to TALK ... kind of? ... for the most part, except in a "weird" way, with squeaks & squeals, like a sea lion? (Beat.) WHAT'S that now?]. PLUS: the whole "Year of the Glad Trash Bag"/"Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment"/etc. device was too labored -- "Oh ... that's like the Chinese 'Year of the Rat,' or something?" -- since that frame of reference is just, say, ONE ITERATION AWAY from being immediate enough to Westerns (i.e., his AUDIENCE -- unless one's in some sort of "appropriate" self-flagellating mode ... I guess ...?). Similarly here, this book (which I not only read all the way through, but, pre-read, ALSO recommended to the "Book Club" my Team at Westlaw was starting at the time; my Team Coordinator soonafter suggested to me -- after one of my fellow [married, female, 20-something] copyeditors plowed through the thing -- that maybe my "tastes" weren't shared with the rest of the staff) sucks. "The Depressed Person" story goes 'round & 'round -- clearly in an attempt to "mimic" an actual depressed person's thought processes (duh!) -- but, it completely AVOIDS the fact that, terrible as it may sound that "depression" is a DAMPENER of experience, not REALLY an "experience" in itself. Skip it. ----------------------------- HERE'S WORKS BY SOME '90S FICTION WRITERS/ESSAYISTS THAT'LL MAKE YOU WANT TO GO OUT & READ MORE; HOLDS UP ALONGSIDE CINEMA & MUSIC [THE OTHER TWO MOST POPULAR MEDIUMS OF OUR "LORE"]; AND "FITS" WITH THE DECADE'S CULTURE: [1.] Life After God by Douglas Coupland (1995) [2.] Letting Loose the Hounds: Stories by Brady Udall (1998) [3.] The Exes: A Novel by Pagan Kennedy (1999) [4.] Gun, With Occasional Music: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem (1994) [5.] Slackjaw: A memoir by Jim Knipfel (1999) [6.] Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (Public Works Trilogy) by Matt Ruff (1996) [7.] Mall by Eric Bogosian (2000 -- well, close enough, right?) [8.] Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk (1996) [9.] American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991) [10.] Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner (1993)
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Long Emergency Surviving the End of Oil Climate Change & Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty First Century
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James Howard Kunstler
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, April 13, 2012
Think of not as a "book" but, simply, a "source"!, Like reading Bruce Sterling[*] and Cory Doctorow[**], reading Kunstler one gets the sense that most other "critics" are, sadly, stuck in "first gear"! Who could've predicted the 2008 economic crash? Um ... anyone who dissected the housing market bubble in 2005, or read a book about someone who did! [HINT HINT!] Precious-sounding protests to the contrary, human "ingenuity" is NOT what's going to be found to be "lacking" in the times ahead -- but, simply, human "scope" to deal with the very real -- and hardly "scalable" (to use a crucial Kunstler word) -- problems that've been taking root under our feet since, well, before most of us were born! As Thomas Pynchon says in "Against the Day", "It was the end of something--if not his innocence, at least of his faith that things would always happen gradually enough to afford time to do something about it in." You've been WARNED, kids! (No hard feelings, or nothin' ... but we're all gonna get to know our "friends & neighbors" real well REAL soon!) ----------------------------- [*] "Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years," say, or "The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier," or even his novel, "Distraction" [**] "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future," say, or "Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century," or even his novel, "Little Brother" The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier,
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah
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Dan Savage
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, April 13, 2012
He has NO CLUE what he's talking about! But since he's a gay man -- and, by implication, therefore "more sexually active" -- he's somehow more "qualified" to talk about Sexual Relations in an open forum ... which is great for him (sure beats TEMPING to pay the bills!) but not so great for the rest of us (i.e., everyone else living in the wake of the "cultural mores" he's shifted: encouraging cavalierness as a modus operandi). I say this because: (1.) I firmly believe it is all but IMPOSSIBLE to give "sex advice" in an open forum; advice about EVERYTHING ELSE, until you get there, sure ... but, sex? On the one hand, something like a 12-point bulletin should cover the fundamentals, and on the other ... you REALLY DO HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH EACH AND EVERY TIME! Hence, his responses tend to fall into two (2) categories: "flippant" (i.e., "How'd that happen? Don't pull that crap with me! Of course YOU KNOW, silly!") and "pro forma" (i.e., "Well ... just SAY SO to the other person! It's easy! Find the time, occasion, way of putting it ... and integrate it into conversation! Q.E.D.! You're done!"). The possibility that he could be stepping all over the rawest of raw nerves is, of course, a CONSTANT possibility, but one he hasn't really had to acknowledge -- since, of course, that would be to admit he's doing a THERAPIST'S work, rather than following in the baloney-&hooey-trails that had been "blazed" for him by Dr. Ruth [wrinkled granny, thus "exempt" from being in the trenches herself] and Xaviera Hollander [a former prostitute & madam, who had "numbed" herself adequately enough to be "qualified"]. Look at any letter he gets -- week in, week out -- and try to identify the point at which: "Okay, you need to go back and address THIS, before you even articulate the rest of the question in a pseudo-anonymous letter to a 'Pop Counselor'" ... I can all-but GUARANTEE you can always find the "better question" point in each ... which is, of course, STILL not to say you'd know what the "solution" (or possible "solutions") would be, now, is it? (2.) Secondly, the "pot kettle black" phenomenon which can afflict any person burdened with a human psyche (that means YOU and ME, too, kids!) invariably comes into play with his skittishness about exhibiting any enthusiasm for male sex w/women, and ... oh, what's that you say? Making comments about how he "doesn't particularly want to hear about cunnilingus, [he] just would like to know it's being done, like charity work in foreign countries" doesn't APPLY to him, since he's (stridently, publicly, and professionally) gay? Yeah ... NO KIDDING, right? That's why the "schtick" doesn't ultimately, work; no "straight" guy would ever be "allowed" to make a living (at a nice cushy alternative-weekly office, of course; CERTAINLY NOT "cold-calling" cretins at the only job you can find!) giving "sex counseling" [c'mon, let's call a spade a spade] to "lesbo" gals ... which goes to show, right? [See: the "start completely from scratch" point made above; all ya'all not had the experience of finding it HARDER to just MEET people after graduating college, say? Yeah: welcome to REAL LIFE! Dan's EXEMPT: don't mind HIM, ya'all!] Thus, his comments about Lynn Shelton's "Humpday" -- indicting "straight" guys for being skittish about being considered "bi" -- aren't just disingenuous or hypocritical, they're holding the rest of society (or, alternately, counter-cultural society) to a standard of "boundary loss" he exempts himself from. (3.) What "straight" guy wouldn't like to have MORE sex, anyway? [Henry Rollins once made a typically-self-effacing, "grass is always greener" joke in one of monologues about how "if I was gay, I'd be g*****g l**d ALL THE TIME"!] Of course, being born -- at ALL -- means you get the "problem set" you're born with; gay men may, indeed, be MEN, and therefore more quote-unquote "WILLING" as partners than "straight" guys may find women to be ... but that's not for NO REASON, correct? In FACT: that's for reasons upon reasons, converging & disparate, depending on the circumstance. [Yeah, that tells you a LOT, right? Sorry kids: that's ADULTHOOD!] As such, the birth of these weird, "permission-giving" concepts such as "GGG" [which is, of course, nothing less than a way of saying: "I'm nice!" and, oddly, seems to mimic the more soul-crushing tendencies of the military, CIA & other such organizations in its transference of accountability into the neat "basket" of an acronym] have served a REAL NEED, alright: "cover" ... but only for those who TAKE it (and, uh, FALSELY, of course!) IN SUM: Let's face it, everyone ... you can't be DEADLY SERIOUS and "blithe" at the same time! (Sorry, Dan! I know you "knock one out of the park" everytime you "step up at bat," but that's only because there's NO WAY -- given the way your column is "limned" -- that anyone could articulate (or, "pitch") it to you differently! That said, we'll leave aside the WEIRDER "issues" ... your very odd lack of "wariness," for example [having people write to you with the salutation "Hey, f----t!" is SO odd, and I'm sorta surprised nobody complained enough for the first four (4) years you were doing it [or whatever it was] and let it go THAT long ...
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Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchons Novel Gravitys Rainbow
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Zak Smith
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, April 13, 2012
Unlike J.T. Leroy, THIS is a "hoax," properly speaking! Sorry to burst everyone's bubble (I haven't seen many reviews with this high an average on Amazon, truth be told), but: there's no evidence whatsoever -- despite the convenient "title" -- that Mr. Smith actually had the attention span to plow through the whole thing. There's no mention of I.G. Farben (the REAL company which predetermines Lt. Tyrone Slothrop's life), the Hereros (the African tribe -- the "unfinished business" -- who launch the 00001 rocket on the [American] reader's head), or the "Bell" in the mineshaft Slothrop goes down (fictional-IZED, not "fictional," as it turns out) in the "Introduction" Mr. Smith provides; just some ranting & drooling about how "hard" he worked, before milking a contact's ability to get him in the business of starring in pornographic / debasement / defilement films, as result of his newfound "fame." Truth be told, I can't make heads nor tails of Smith's illegible, inexpressive chicken-scratch; my best guess is, he glanced at EACH PAGE -- one at a time -- and figured he'd get away with professing to show what happens on "Each Page," without any respect to narrative continuity or actual plot events. If this is true -- and only checking the text of "G's R" against THIS book will suffice, not personal testimonies by the "author" of this claptrap -- Tin House Books needs (at LEAST!) to pull it from it's place on the shelves aside Pynchon's novel(s) in every Barnes & Noble & other indie bookstore in the country. I mean . . . what's next? "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of . . " Fight Club and Atonement, too, without reading THOSE, either? Sheesh!
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Cats Cradle
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Kurt Vonnegut
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, April 13, 2012
He shoulda stayed in college! There's no such thing as "ice nine," nor could there ever be; "Bokononism" isn't so much a half-baked Buddhism or Taoism as it is a smug excuse for pseudo-enlightened Westerners to laugh at others behind their back; Mona's probably the most "pedestalized" and least realistic woman character I've come across in literature of this pedigree; etc. Take all the pretensions out (those listed above, and the wall-to-wall others) and the propulsive force of the novel ceases to exist. I read this in college and was underwhelmed, to say the least (at the Univ. of Chicago, I might add -- and, while the Common Core science requirements sure were hard, *I* didn't drop out and invent my OWN!). Only later did it dawn on me that the shared "smugness" was part of -- nay, the very CRUX -- of its "appeal." Save your time & money. Read Pynchon's "V." -- published the same year -- instead, and you'll have so many "guns" in your psyche fired you'll be set for life!
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These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories
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Jim Knipfel
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, January 27, 2012
Don't get me started 'bout this one! I kept having to put the book down and "collect myself," it's so funny! Jim Knipfel is a brilliant, wryly-observant writer, and, while the "wry" part of that last often tends to outweigh the "observant" in all-too-often a case, Knipfel manages to pack in paragraph after paragraph of evolving, expanding, wider-range extrapolation in each of these semi-humorous, semi-tragic "fairy tales." (Well, alright ... only the chicken story is really & truly "tragic," but ... it made me sad!) You'll have "trouble" getting through this if you read this aloud to people (start with the "Preface," a "Creation Myth," featuring Satan -- or, um, "Satan" -- as the Head Guy, and see how far you get before everyone "loses it"!). I have no idea why this book didn't make a bigger "splash" when it came out in 2010 [I just happened across it, sitting on the shelf here at Powell's, last Fall], other than the usual "getting on the radar" problems which you probably don't need me to tell you about. Just as well ... if YOU pick it up, I guar-ron-TEE it'll make a really, really big "dent" in YOUR life, and you'll wonder how you ever got along with out it, why no-one ever thought of this before, and why all these tons & tons o' folks around you don't know about it Ah well ... such is the satisfaction of "knowing better"! CAVEAT [albeit, in this case, of the "opposite" kind than usual]: You may want to "test drive" the thing before you read it in public (like a coffee shop, say). You start cracking up, people might look at you with a "Wha?" look on their faces, and you'll just have to be like "Sorry, sorry, I'm just ..." (hold forehead with hands) " ... it's just ... " (coming closer, but then cracking up again) " ... ahh ..."
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Nameless
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Ramsey Campbell
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, January 21, 2012
You won't forget this one! Ramsey Campbell is what you might call "Horror's best kept secret" ['cept, there was never any INTENTION to keep him secret!], or a "horror writer's horror writer" [if you check out the back covers of his books, you find the likes of Clive Barker, Stephen King, and Peter Straub all but falling over themselves, trying to out-do each other in praising him; a phenom. I've only ever encountered elsewhere with Wm. S. Burroughs, whose books feature the likes of Joan Didion & Anthony Burgess, praising HIM to the High Heavens], but: the fact remains, he simply makes most "horror" practitioners NOWADAYS [Eli Roth, are you reading this? CAN you read?] look like the pansy-ass, sadistic little Nazi wanna-bes they truly ARE -- closer to a Mengele-meets-Pavlov frappé than capable of anything Hawthorne, Poe, or Bierce ever came up with. (Hmm ... I'm digressing a LOT in this review ... better "wrap up" before I lose my audience ...) This book: (1.) Is scary as all-git-out; (2.) Accurately limns the modern-day society we live in (like Stephen King, often credited from bringing the Horror genre from its ghettoization in the realm of "the Catholic" to the realm of "the Protestant"), and PROCEEDS from THERE, rather than trying to back-end or jury-rig a "scary story" that bleeds over into (all-but-inevitable) story-ruining implausibilities; (3.) Get the "LURE" of such cults (over-organized religions; the Cult of the Nazis; "Satan"-worshippers; etc.) so UNCANNILY right that there isn't a WHOLE lot of reassuring space left in the reader's psyche after you finish the book and return to "daily life" . . . REMEMBER, KIDS: "It's only a SCARY STORY..."
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Night Child OSI Book 1
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Jes Battis
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, January 21, 2012
A breath of fresh air in contemporary horror lit! As good an example as any that the "Gothic/Horror" can, at times, be the ONLY venue to deal with human needs & wants which extent beyond the "convenient" -- as well as the workings of power behind the scenes, and their centuries-old history (or, at least, prime the reader for the fact that they necessarily would HAVE a "centuries-old history"). Personally, given that Jes Battis, Mario Acevedo, and Jenna Black (all three favorites of mine) are now writing in the wake of what historical-vampire novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro established -- and she's STILL around & writing at a healthy clip -- I think it's safe to say we are living in an unprecedented time for literature. (Ditto the case with Cory Doctorow getting out there while Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, et al., are still "in the trenches" -- and, for that matter, Ethan Clarke, who I take to be an inheritor of the Aaron Cometbus "punk memoir" mantle.) Kudos to Jes Battis for the kick-off to a great new series (and, yes, the later books are just as superb!).
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In Extremis
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John Shirley
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, January 20, 2012
This is my favorite (pub. in 2011) book I read in 2011(*)! John Shirley's the "real deal" -- which is somehow both an egregious understatement as well as being a statement of fact. Among the "dabblers" in "extreme" fiction laboring [in either prose or film form] nowadays, few use the "genre" to map out psychological states under what you might call "duress" -- but Shirley, somehow, manages to capture these states -- these "thoughts within thoughts," (causally, emotionally, & experientially rendered) -- which is no less significant a boon to the rest of ours's culture than Charlie Parker's coming back with "demi-semiquavers" (which, admittedly, I only know about secondhand, from reading "Gravity's Rainbow"!). Read Shirley and you'll FIND OUT what "darkness lurks in the hearts of man" (and, of course woman) -- because, unlike none-too-many poseurs to name, he MAPS the TERRITORY! Kudos, John Shirley! I say Kudos! ----------------------------- (*) RUNNERS-UP: Emma Forrest's memoir "Your Voice in My Head" and Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Damned." I know, I know: Murakami, Dan Simmons, and Albert Brooks (!!! -- a futuristic novel called "2035"!) all published stuff this year, but ... well, I'm TRYIN' to keep up, o.k.? (I'll have to catch 'em in paperback!)
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Rule Britannia
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Du Maurier, Daphne
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, January 10, 2012
This book is "funner" than most political books & more insightful than most treatises! As usual -- speaking now as a ("practicing") fiction writer -- Daphne du Maurier leaves the rest of us "at the post." The sheer (seeming) effortlessness of her output is truly astonishing; they all are written as "page-turners" (i.e., stories to read "on the beach," or what-have-you), but she never fails to include every last pertinent social/economic/psychological consideration. One gets the sense she has a "well, why would you leave them OUT?" attitude towards her writing. Here, the "plot" centers around an attempted take-over (or, "annexing") of the United Kingdom to the United States, under the new moniker "USUK." As the Madam (called, simply, "Mad") of the household around which the action centers states early on in the parable: "Undoubtedly, this has been in planning stages for months, with bankers on both sides in agreement." [I'm paraphrasing, quoting from memory; I don't have the book on me, at the moment.] Yeah. No kidding. Things have really changed since '72 (the year this book was published) haven't they?
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Inherent Vice
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Thomas Pynchon
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, January 10, 2012
This book is -- dare I say -- the single greatest bit of sleight-of-hand in the 'Literature with a Capital L' section! Personally, I think he's been waiting his whole life just to write that book (y'know: "PLOP! Here ya go!"). It's simplicity is elusive & pleasurable & manages to not "shy away" from any of the darker elements of the '60s w/o being a bummer (hence the quote used on the paperback ed., calling it a "throwaway masterwork"). It certainly has some of that "marijuana humor" he & his Cornell pal were so "tickled by, in inverse proportion to the availability of that useful substance" (to quote from his "Introduction" in "Slow Learner"). The three consecutive paragraphs where the reader follows Doc in his "spacing" what had just recently happened ("No, we just ATE the food, Doc!" "No, it's o.k. to leave .. we DID pay!") just killed me! [Not verbatim quotes there, but ... so SUE me! I guess I must have SPACED them, too!] ALSO: A great introduction to Pynchon for the neophyte, since "The Crying of Lot 49" does, admittedly, end rather abruptly!
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Distrust That Particular Flavor
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William Gibson
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, January 10, 2012
This book isn't just a great introduction to the World's Premier (so-called) Cyberpunk author, it marks our entry into an era where essays of this caliber can be sustained. T0 WIT: Gibson's careful delinations -- in none two few of these essays -- of how the "muscles" of the psyche have their own rules of operation mark a BREAKTHROUGH in rationality in Western Culture. Want to do something? Great. You've got to "want your wants." Think Google makes things "possible"? True enough. But -- as Wm. Gisbon himself has stated elsewhere -- "you've got to have a search for it"! (Paraphrasing from memory, here, but, come on: how "off" could I be?) "No-one book can tell you the whole story," as the man says near the end of "Count Zero" [1996] (another paraphrase -- so SUE me, o.k.?), but some can better than most ... particularly in their *EVIDENCING* of this life/cognitive truth. What can I say? Gödel would be proud! (BUY it! Learn how to choose your "lenses"!)
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