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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 9 months ago

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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2026 Reading Goal

67% complete! Ji FU has read 27 of 40 books.

reviewed The Golden Apple by Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus Trilogy, #2)

Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea: The Golden Apple (Paperback, 1986, Sphere)

"Nausea, then microamnesia, then the laughing jag, then sex. Be patient. The clear light comes …

It's like reading an LSD trip.

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 …

Ernest Cline: Armada (AudiobookFormat, 2015, Books on Tape)

It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring …

Not his best work

,, 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 …