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Insatiability: A Novel in Two Parts

Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:45:17 +0000

Insatiability. The defining term for the twentieth century. The ontological definition of consumer driven markets. Or rather, the ontological definition of a human in a consumer driven market. The novel Insatiability: the dictionary of the ontological definition of the human in a consumer driven market designed by the urge towards technocracy. Unfortunately, theres not much demand for this definition, nor is there much demand for the Truth in perspective… the demand is for consumption of perspectives, but not the perspective about the demand for consumption of perspective, which is why this book is so hard to find! grrr… – reviewed by apocalypse

The Drowned World

Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:27:17 +0000

Best of all Ballard books. An early one, and out of print currently. Strange fever dreams, like Thomas Manns Death in Venice, but, unlike Mann, Ballard never ignores science. This is about a reptilian fever dream in a post-warming world, where all of humanity has retreated to some small islands north of greenland, and send out reconnaissance patrols of military scientists to reclaim and save what they can of human history and knowledge. RIGHT! Meanwhile, brains retreat into the neadrathalic core from which we all grew (except for those who just showed up one day because God spread some seeds, meal crumbs stuck in his flowing white beard off a velvet painting in gold glint hanging on the wall of a small church in Las Vegas), and.. but I cannot say more. Natures plan has sworn me to silence. Awesome book. – reviewed by global warning

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:13:17 +0000

Nothing like post apocalyptic Monks to cheer one up. An argument could be made that monks took us out of the middle ages, or at least helped something of ourselves survive the period. But perhaps, it has just prolonged our suffering? These are metaphysical questions, best left to priests and jesuetical dreamers and profits (sic). The real question from this book is, if tehre are future monks looking back at us, then what did our monks from the past do when they looked upon the previous past? Perhaps everything they saved is merely fiction, and the truth of pre-monk-times is obscured behind their distortions. Gotta go think about this… – reviewed by monkman