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    Reading's slowed to a crawl. Last year I read:

    - Haruki Murakami's "Underground", about the Aum Shinrikyo subway attacks in 1995. A Buddhist cult gassed the Tokyo subway using Sarin. This is a collection of interviews with victims, and uninvolved cult members.

    - Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland, and the End of the World" - Scifi/Fantasy novel. Don't want to say much more than that. It's a good idea to go into that one blind :)

    - Aubrey Wood's "Bang Bang Bodhisattva", A queer cyberpunk mystery. Underrated.

    - William Gibson's Bridge and Sprawl trilogies entire (Again). Old favourites. I love them.

    - Started but haven't yet finished "Noli me Tangere", the first novel by Jose Rizal, second president of the Philippines and revolutionary martyr.

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    Dad gave us a crapload of gardening tools. I'm talking like a hoe, rake, spade, edger and fork. We got a community gardening plot so they'll see use! There was also a hamper with various cheeses and spreads and things, too many to list.

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    Cormac McCarthy died, aged 93. (Author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, and Blood Meridian.)

     

    Massive loss to literature. No-one wrote like him. Once in a century talent and completely unique.

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    Based on the novel "The Peripheral" by William Gibson (2014)

     

    "Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own."

     

     

     

    Loved the novel. High hopes for this, although I learned that GreatDismal wasn't able to be on set for a lot of filming owing to health issues.

     

    There had never been a truly good William Gibson adaptation. (I personally love Johnny Mnemonic tho.) Studios have been playing whiffleball with the Neuromancer rights since basically 1984. Here's hoping!

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    I didn't really have a problem with the subs tbh. I'M BUILT DIFFERENT and just attributed the weird phrasing as being hacker cant. They're talking weird because they're future crims talking future crimes in argot.

     

    I might be wrong, maybe the translation was just shit and I parsed it anyway.

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