Not in his Image by John Lamb Lash
Fascinating history lesson on early pagan societies destroyed by early Christian zealots then Roman Empire.
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The Secrets of Dance Music Production
Book by Chris Barker, David Felton, and Greg Scarth
such a fantastic book on creating electronic dance music full of wonderful large color pages and examples.
I got around 100 pages into Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob”, but then got sidetracked by this werido (my first Egan), and have consequently swollowed half the book during the xmas days.
I will finish The Books of Jacob afterwards - it started out really great - but then I definitely need to read more Egan!
Any fans of his here? I’d love some recommendations for where to go next with his books.
I just bought that ebook on a whim … haven’t tried it yet … now alerted ….
I keep coming back to the Murderbot series by Martha Wells. I like the books a lot because they’re SF but very much character-driven, which is not always easy to find. And they’re short!
(Slight digression: As I read it, there’s a sense of ambiguity about the lead character’s gender—does a bot have gender?—but I see the new cover of book #1, tied in to Apple TV, makes the character look like a generic male. Not the image in my head …)
Just finished this one:
“The practice of not thinking”
Excellent Japanese Buddhist take on modern life.
Some very Elektronauts/music sphere topical sections on ownership, wanting more etc. A very interesting book.
It is tons of very geeky fun! 
D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers… written in 1913.
I got the three volume set of Tolkein’s collected poetry from my wife for Christmas, I’m really looking forward to digging into it. I try to only read one poetry book at a time otherwise I never finish stuff, so I have to finish reading the harold bloom poetry anthology I’m currently working on before I can really dig into it, but there was some great stuff when I skimmed it.
The audiobooks of these are really good, too.
Just reread Anthony Beevor’s WWII history books, very well written, very detailed, but becoming all too educational sadly.
Santa brought me The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (delving into a big fantasy series for the first time since Joe Abercrombie’s First Law books began), Wool by Hugh Howey (love the Silo TV series), The Collapsing Wave by Doug Johnstone (second of three books in an entertaining sci-fi series set at home in Scotland), and Big Shield by Mile Florio (we watch PFT Live religiously). I also got the limited slipcase edition of the Carlos Ezquerra Judge Dredd collection, which I will lose myself in tomorrow.
Happy reading whatever you have in front of you, Elektronauts!
I’ve only read this one and Quarantine, about 20 years ago when I was really on a hard scifi trip, but enjoyed them both enough to keep the paperbacks on my bookshelf.
Thanks! It goes on the list!
Thanks for the tip. I just picked up the audio for Murderbot #1, will be a nice way to revisit the books later.
A good audiobook is hard to find, and worth its weight in gold. So far my favorites are Hammett’s RED HARVEST and GLASS KEY, Marlon James’s BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS, the Rob Inglis version of LORD OF THE RINGS, and Springsteen reading his own autobio.
The champ for me is Mark Hammer’s reading of Higgins’ FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, with all the Boston accents.
i just got to the part with the Porter Dance and it may be my favorite scene ive read in a book
I’ll have to check that out. Just looked it up and the cover reminds me of photo I took when going to a Japanese hot spring in 2021 before anyone was moving around during the pandemic. I was the only passenger and the driver was surprisingly happy to see someone riding the bus again.
Also, the bit you wrote about gear reminds me of line I read in a Buddhist book when I first came to Japan. It was talking about desire and said something like “It’s like a dog chewing on bone. You can gnaw and gnaw all day but will never be satisfied”
Basically all of Egan. But Permutation city might be his best and most accessible work.
Just read summaries and pick the ones that seem appealing and marvel at how exactly they fit their description.
Thanks! That’s what I feared! 
Reading Egan is what being high on mushrooms should feel like. Seriously psychedelic stuff.
great quote.
thank you for sharing that photo, that’s a nice bit of personal/shared history right there.
It’s a great book, highly reccomend it.
