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Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de
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67% complete! Ji FU has read 27 of 40 books.
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Ji FU reviewed The Golden Apple by Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus Trilogy, #2)
It's like reading an LSD trip.
3 stars
There is 0 break in the story, for whatever story there is, between The Golden Apple and Book 1 The Eye in The Pyramid. I guess that's one reaosn why since at least the 90s Illuminatus! has only been printed as one single volume containing the whole trilogy.
There is not much I can say about this that I didn't already say in 2022 when I reviewed The eye in the pyramid: The writing style is out there; the character who makes up the first person prose changes with no more than a single paragraph break; I feel it is like what reading an LSD trip would be like. Part of me wondered what it would be like to read while on drugs, but I was going to start doing drugs just to find out.
Without the description of the black mass it wasn't quite as …
There is 0 break in the story, for whatever story there is, between The Golden Apple and Book 1 The Eye in The Pyramid. I guess that's one reaosn why since at least the 90s Illuminatus! has only been printed as one single volume containing the whole trilogy.
There is not much I can say about this that I didn't already say in 2022 when I reviewed The eye in the pyramid: The writing style is out there; the character who makes up the first person prose changes with no more than a single paragraph break; I feel it is like what reading an LSD trip would be like. Part of me wondered what it would be like to read while on drugs, but I was going to start doing drugs just to find out.
Without the description of the black mass it wasn't quite as offensive as the first. Peronsally I could not have read all three books one after the other. My brain just needs time to heal from all this.
In many places, including on the cover itself, this book is classified as Science Fiction, but it's not science fiction at all in any way. Not like a "But Star Wars isn't Science Fiction, it's a Space Opera" way but there is nothing in the plot related to changes or questions about science. I mean sure there is a submarine on the cover, and there is like one scene that take place aboard the submarine "Leif Erickson" but that's it.
I'll finish the Trilogy, but it will probably be another 3 years before I do.
Ji FU started reading From Poverty to Prosperity by Arnold S. Kling

From Poverty to Prosperity by Arnold S. Kling
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a …
Ji FU started reading M*A*S*H goes to Montreal by Richard Hooker (MASH, #13)

M*A*S*H goes to Montreal by Richard Hooker, William E. Butterworth (MASH, #13)
Hawkeye and Trapper John assume unlikely roles as "fathers of the bride"—and US-Canadian relations may never be the same! To …
Ji FU replied to Ezra Tellington's status
@Tellington ain't that the truth
@Tellington ain't that the truth
Ji FU finished reading The Golden Apple by Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus Trilogy, #2)

The Golden Apple by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea (Illuminatus Trilogy, #2)
"Nausea, then microamnesia, then the laughing jag, then sex. Be patient. The clear light comes next. Then we can discuss …
Ji FU rated The Golden Apple: 3 stars

The Golden Apple by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea (Illuminatus Trilogy, #2)
"Nausea, then microamnesia, then the laughing jag, then sex. Be patient. The clear light comes next. Then we can discuss …
Ji FU reviewed Armada by Ernest Cline
Not his best work
3 stars
,, i liked armada, but not nearly as good as clients other works that I have read including Ready Player one and Ready Player two. It really put me on a roller coaster of emotion, but not the good kind. At the beginning I had a strong Ready Player One feeling, which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written. However is the story progressed I found that I really kind of got lost there the characters pointing out how dumb the antagonists were didn't help much either. Eventually I thought it could be better if the ending was good and then I thought of a way that the ending could have been awesome. The ending ended up being very different from what I thought and I was incredibly …
,, i liked armada, but not nearly as good as clients other works that I have read including Ready Player one and Ready Player two. It really put me on a roller coaster of emotion, but not the good kind. At the beginning I had a strong Ready Player One feeling, which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written. However is the story progressed I found that I really kind of got lost there the characters pointing out how dumb the antagonists were didn't help much either. Eventually I thought it could be better if the ending was good and then I thought of a way that the ending could have been awesome. The ending ended up being very different from what I thought and I was incredibly disappointed though I'm thought that I had a hold of it and was disappointed that I was wrong.
Ji FU replied to kurt congdon's status
@vdubgeek@bookwyrm.social how was it?
Ji FU started reading Letters to Star trek by Susan Sackett

Letters to Star trek by Susan Sackett
Letters to Star Trek is a reference book first published in 1976. Edited by Susan Sackett, at the time the …
Ji FU started reading Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow

Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Mann
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and …

Armada by Ernest Cline
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one …
Ji FU finished reading Armada by Ernest Cline

Armada by Ernest Cline
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one …



