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#26 2003-10-09 8:35 am
Re: I need a book or something, Sarcasm, Satire, Something!
For you and you only - because I love you, Mac Daddy - I recommend Neal Stephenson - especially Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon.
He's a Mac fan, particularly OS X. Read "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line" by him, written several years ago (in 99...?). it's about the platform wars, very, very funny. Obviously outdated and good only for historical stuff, but loads of fun to read. He was surprised that I had read it recently.
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I'll check on both those books, and (hopefully) nothings funnier than tech/fact/comedy all in one.
I'm going to have to make up some sort of database thing off of these suggestions.
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#27 2003-10-09 8:37 am
Re: I need a book or something, Sarcasm, Satire, Something!
For the purposes of book hunting, I thought I'd link to this other thread of mine... just because it shows part of my sense of humour.
Note this isn't the be all and end all of what I like or say at all.
http://www.macaddict.com/phpBB2/viewtop … 040#507040
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#28 2003-10-09 9:46 am
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Re: I need a book or something, Sarcasm, Satire, Something!
Third vote for Terry Pratchett. Also, Small Gods is the best book to read first.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#29 2003-10-09 2:41 pm
Re: I need a book or something, Sarcasm, Satire, Something!
John Kennedy O'Tool wrote only one book.
He tried for years to get it published and couldn't
He got fed up and killed himself.
His mother gave the script to a writer friend, who got it published.
The book won a pulitzer prize.
How's that for satire.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy O'Tool is one of the funniest books ever. Great Satire. Try it, you might hate it.
I concur. Fabulous book. Word is they're making it into a film, with Will Ferrell as the lead.
One of my favourite books is Geek Love by Katharine Dunn. It's about a travelling freakshow, and how beauty and ugliness aren't always what they appear. Funny and sad, with lots of stuff in between.
You might want to also give Matt Ruff a try. Brilliant satire, especially his first two books, [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446606421/ref=lpr_g_1/104-4566833-8199112?v=glance&s=books]Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
[/url] and Fool on the Hill. I haven't read his third book Set This House in Order : A Romance of Souls, but if it's anything like the other two, it's worth it.
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