>Ok, here's one back at you. Ever read "The Origin of the Brunists" by Robert Coover?
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As a matter of fact, I pulled it from my library about a month ago to put in a stack of stuff I wanted to re-read. For some reason rereading Canticle for Leibowitz reminded me of it. Since you reminded me I've added Stand on Zanzibar to the pile ( I am looking at Wingrove's Chung Kuo stuff but am afraid to get started on a 5000 page commitment <g>)

I am currently finished Gore Vidal's Julian. I've also just discovered Kage Baker and am working through The Company series. Wish I had more time. Clients very needy right now and I hate to turn down VFP work since it has to subsidize my crawl up the .Net learning curve


>>Okay, we were separated at birth. You are the only other person I know who knows John Brunner.
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>>Also recommend "The Stone that Never came down"
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>>>See if you can find yourself copies of "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up" - most especially the latter. both by John Brunner.
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>>>>I recently read:
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>>>>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303653X/ref=cm_pdp_rev_itm_img_2
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>>>>Although not a book about state control per se he still makes a great argument that we need not fear an Orwellian world but rather a Huxleyian one. Although Orwell was right about many things he was wrong, argues Postman, about needing to fear the state. It was Huxley who foresaw that it was the mind numbing apparatus of mass-media that would turn us all into sheep.
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>>>>But thanks for the recommendation - I have added it to the list.
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>>>>>>I don't know who Oceania
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>>>>>My recommendation for the week :
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>>>>>http://www.amazon.com/Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/0465030505/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231377314&sr=8-1
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>>>>>>>>>>I think the twit filter should hide every message where the twitted person is involved, either as orginal poster or recipient of another post.
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>>>>>>>>>I am advocating a oubliette function, where selected oublieees could be removed from all searches and any memory that they ever existed ! ( and, of course, their photos would never appear atop Lenin's tomb )
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>>>>>>>>>We have always been at war with Oceania !
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>>>>>>>>Doesn't that already occur when someone is banned? :)
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>>>>>>>But that's more like everybody twitting the person. Or were you talking about war with Oceania? ;)
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