who's flowers of algernon by?

and anyone here a fan of pynchon? i just picked up a copy of gravity's rainbow, seems my style.

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fantastic.

I remember reading Flowers for Algernon in middle school. It was beast.

Also film adaptation of Flowers for Algernon = Charly.

finished the court of the air, starting the kingdom beyond the waves

The Good Earth
Of Mice and Men

Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The Big Money by John Dos Passos.

Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy by Richard A. Knaak.

Reading "The Cult of Amateur" by Andrew Keen for my Journalism class.
Summary, on the back cover:
[i]Newspaper revenues are being siphoned off thanks to free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from user-generated programming on YouTube; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, our "cut-and-paste" online culture robs artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors. And in today's self-broadcasting culture, where the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented.[/i]

Hahaha oh wow I'm gonna have fun with this.

Oh btw, the subtitle is: "How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values."

FUCK.

I'm currently reading the Legend of Zelda and Philosophy. I had been wanting to get one of the Pop Culture and Philosophy books for a while and this one seemed awesome. It has some cool things in it, but, to be honest, unless something else comes out that absolutely screams awesome, I don't think I'll pick another one of these up. It's mostly just philosophy 100 with examples of Legend of Zelda thrown in. You can tell who actually plays games and who is just a philosophy professor that read a wikipedia summary of Zelda. I already know what equivocation, slippery slope, hasty generalization, and such are. You don't have to take an entire chapter to explain the basics of argument. Especially when you're using cheesy examples.

In one of the subtitles for a section of the book, it says "Does Zelda really kill Ganon?" and, unless there's a Zelda I haven't played yet where Zelda kills Ganon, I believe they meant Link. Fuck.

However, there's some cool points. Like discussing what is and what isn't technically art, how much importance time plays in the series, relating Majora's Mask to Nietzsche's concept of the Eternal Recurrence, etc.

[quote="h2orowe"]I'm currently reading the Legend of Zelda and Philosophy. I had been wanting to get one of the Pop Culture and Philosophy books for a while and this one seemed awesome. It has some cool things in it, but, to be honest, unless something else comes out that absolutely screams awesome, I don't think I'll pick another one of these up. It's mostly just philosophy 100 with examples of Legend of Zelda thrown in. You can tell who actually plays games and who is just a philosophy professor that read a wikipedia summary of Zelda. I already know what equivocation, slippery slope, hasty generalization, and such are. You don't have to take an entire chapter to explain the basics of argument. Especially when you're using cheesy examples.

In one of the subtitles for a section of the book, it says "Does Zelda really kill Ganon?" and, unless there's a Zelda I haven't played yet where Zelda kills Ganon, I believe they meant Link. Fuck.

However, there's some cool points. Like discussing what is and what isn't technically art, how much importance time plays in the series, relating Majora's Mask to Nietzsche's concept of the Eternal Recurrence, etc.[/quote]

Zelda shoots Ganon to death in Wind Waker, if I'm not mistaken.

Anyone ever read the Star Craft novel series? I have I and II. Pretty good stuff.

I was just re-reading this really good book called "Different".
I recommend it to everyone who likes mafia/action thrillers. It's made by Javier Avila.

field guide to the human experience
the mythical man month
some php&mysql book