anyone read the Bioshock: Rapture book? i ordered it at my local book store. should be there by Friday. its the story of the great Andrew Ryan and Rapture.
Wtf I had no idea there was a BioShock book. Might have to pick that up. How much did you pay for it?
Yeah - I read it a few times myself. lol Another one of Huxley's you might like is The Perennial Philosophy.
$8.99 paperback. i look forward to it. i hope it goes in depth about the discovery and development of ADAM and the plasmids along with the Little Sisters and Big Daddies.
Reading three books right now. American Gods - Neil Gaiman Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson A Farewell To Arms - Hemingway.
Right now, Across the River and into the Trees by Hemingway. Can't really beat his style or insight or flat out skill. If you want some fun shit to read when you're high that'll still make you think, go buy a Calvin and Hobbes book. That shit'll keep you entertained for hours
Just finished a book called "I let you go", pretty good. Currently reading one called "The Lie", enjoyable so far.
Everything that I am currently reading right now. I am in the middle of the book called "The Self-Sufficiency bible" and "When all hell breaks loose."
Bioshock Rapture is just the right backstory for the game series! so far its a good read. got history on the sea slugs that produce ADAM in the game, allowing plasmids possible. the City of Rapture itself would be a great vacation spot! i really dig it.
Time for a re-read. My brand-new, signed 60th anniversary edition. Equipped with a foreword by Johnny Depp. Let's hope a movie gets made soon, eh?
Jeremys Run by GF Gustav A book about some teenage partiers at their friends house when a EMP bomb hits los angeles and the nation. They have to find a way to survive. And get out of Los Angeles. To Utah, a family of Mormon preppers Hmm...IRL I'd have my bugout bag and a old no electronics 650 diesel dual sport and a 60s Suburban. Funny that I actually just spoke about survivalism and prepping with 2 LDS missionaries today I think I'm way ahead of their game, but Jeremys run is still a fun read Edit; Most of the book is pretty true on the scenario that would unfold. Martial law will be declared, anyone in the streets probly will get shot, there will be gangs of marauders like Katrina, and stores/pharmacies/gas stations will be looted. All streets will be a parking lot of fried cars, diseases will spread rampant, etc What's not true? In their book the apartment is under the LAX flight path. They say only a few planes go down. I used to live an hour from LAX. Now I live 4 hours from LAX in the Sierra Nevadas, where most flights are still at cruising altitude. I LOVE going to LAX to the In N Out and watch the big jumbos land. If an EMP were to hit the nation, I'm struck on whether planes could land. Either way, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a flight path. Most planes from little private Cessna's to big 747s have fly by wire systems. Meaning all flight controls like rudder, ailerons, elevator, landing gear are all controlled by computers and electronics. But a million pounds of metal could theoretically protect it? Who knows. I hope we never find out for the sake of humanity. The book really shows how vulnerable society as a whole is.
Oliver Sacks Biography When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.†It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions-weight lifting and swimming-also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists-Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick-who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer-and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
I've profited by everything I read from Sacks. I've read "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" a couple times. The movie Awakenings was pretty good, too. I might get this book. Thanks. This is good sci-fi story that smoothly weaves in a decent amount of biology and neuroscience.