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DMaximus:
I'm re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. It's a study of values and the differences between the classical, rational view and the romantic viewpoint. Illustrated early on mainly through the analogy of maintaining a motorcycle, the author blends travel novel, his erased past, and philosophy dissertation together to explain his philosophy of quality. Just previous to this I read Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, and it's very interesting to see the influence the Beat Generation had on Pirsig's writing. I highly recommend ZAMM, but I'm much more reserved on Naked Lunch. It's... interesting, but incredibly disjointed and makes little sense as a story. You need to just enjoy the prose, I guess.


My favorite quote so far is:
"Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it." (Pirsig 44)

I'm not really much for vehicle maintenance, but as a Computer Engineer, I see this all the time with the hardware and computers I work with.

We have to have some other readers in the GoIO community. What are you currently reading?

Shinkurex:
Just recently, I bought and read Swallow's book, Arteess: Conflict.... in a night.... I'm not real good at summarizing things, so I will just put the link here:

http://elsewhen.alnpetepress.co.uk/index.php/catalogue/title/arteess-conflict/

It's a great book, that sucks you in from the beginning :))

Swizy:
It's called "he's back" (german book). Bought it because I loved the book cover design. Surprisingly it's has a hilarious parody story in it.

Piemanlives:
I been reading a lot of John Ringo's work lately, I've also got some David Weber queued up as well along with some Brian Jacques (May he rest in peace.)

Gryphos:
I'm about half way through "The long dark tea-time of the soul" by Douglas Adams. like all Douglas Adams novels it's extremely witty and the story is like a Douglas Adams esque take on Sherlock Holmes, mixed in with Norse gods.

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