Awesome! I'll check out yours and five you too! You deserve all the high fives that exist in the world! o/*\o (that's two people high-fiving each other and there was a little impact between their hands like a little burst of awesome).
I really like books in which robots take over the world. Wetweb and Robopocalypse were about that! But the former was gradual nonviolent takeover while the latter was violent takeover. The Windup Girl is about robots again, but so much more than that. The robots in that story are slaves to the humans, and there's themes touching upon culture, ethics, socioeconomic status, business and economy, science, and humans messing up nature. If you want to think, Windup Girl is good. If you want to be entertained and/or frightened, the other two are good.
Smallworld was bizarre and interesting, about a very very small planet and the family that lives on it. Very eventful planet, it is. There's a jail cell cube spacecraft from which one can never escape, and it was supposed to float though space for eternity... but accidentally lands on their little planet. There are some really odd religious themes in this book, and it's really funny in a very weird way. Eventually you realize there aren't any religious themes at all. It's weird to explain, and all the funnier and more ridiculous for it.
And Story of My Life is fascinating, especially for me analyzing Helen Keller's acquisition of language, her acting-out behavior, her sensory deficits, the nature of her education, the compensatory strategies she used, the efforts of her caregivers, the accommodations her teachers and professors made for her, the history behind sign language and braille... you get the idea! I'm reading it as a speech-language pathologist would, and I'm glad I have that knowledge base because it makes me appreciate her amazing achievements all the more.
Yes, I have penned my own few original songs! They are all very special, because I don't compost originals for just anybody! I can count how many original ones I've made on one hand... *counts* There's 5, and Zephmellownoid is among them. :3
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I really like books in which robots take over the world. Wetweb and Robopocalypse were about that! But the former was gradual nonviolent takeover while the latter was violent takeover. The Windup Girl is about robots again, but so much more than that. The robots in that story are slaves to the humans, and there's themes touching upon culture, ethics, socioeconomic status, business and economy, science, and humans messing up nature. If you want to think, Windup Girl is good. If you want to be entertained and/or frightened, the other two are good.
Smallworld was bizarre and interesting, about a very very small planet and the family that lives on it. Very eventful planet, it is. There's a jail cell cube spacecraft from which one can never escape, and it was supposed to float though space for eternity... but accidentally lands on their little planet. There are some really odd religious themes in this book, and it's really funny in a very weird way. Eventually you realize there aren't any religious themes at all. It's weird to explain, and all the funnier and more ridiculous for it.
And Story of My Life is fascinating, especially for me analyzing Helen Keller's acquisition of language, her acting-out behavior, her sensory deficits, the nature of her education, the compensatory strategies she used, the efforts of her caregivers, the accommodations her teachers and professors made for her, the history behind sign language and braille... you get the idea! I'm reading it as a speech-language pathologist would, and I'm glad I have that knowledge base because it makes me appreciate her amazing achievements all the more.
Yes, I have penned my own few original songs! They are all very special, because I don't compost originals for just anybody! I can count how many original ones I've made on one hand... *counts* There's 5, and Zephmellownoid is among them. :3