Reading
Posted by ungraspiness Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:03:00 GMT
William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. This didn’t feel much at all like a sci-fi(his first book set in present day). More a melancolic post 911 look at the internet culture wrapped up as a thriller. Nonetheless it’s a great read.
Richard Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene. I was not ready for this book. It’s had an incredible effect on my understanding of living things and evolution from an unexpected perspective. In turn it’s also changed the way I view human and animal relations. It’s actually been quite terrifying in some ways to have the curtain lifted on many subjects. No matter what your existing views on religion, atheism, spirituality, biology etc. this book will present some major challenges to anyone who reads it for the first time (or second or third).