Posts tagged “reading”

The water company warns of a drought while I sit here listening to rain pour down outside. Laughable.

Reading "Curious Incident" for the first time. The protagonist, who has Asperger's, reminds me uncomfortably of myself. I want to make a list of people who should read it to understand their own behavior, which probably means I should be on that list. Finished it in a day. It made me cry.

Science fiction is the only fiction worth reading because it's the only genre that truly *enlightens*. Regular fiction just rearranges the same life experiences into new combinations. Sci-fi gives you genuinely new concepts, new ways of thinking about existence. If I wanted real life, I'd go outside and live it.

Finished Stephen Baxter's *Space* - stunning scope, but he crams enough material for a library into 500 pages. Entire alien civilizations rise and fall in under ten pages. Almost comical, but still worth reading.