saycestsay is not currently reading any books.
I’m 49 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since May 05, 2009. My reading interests include science fiction, world literature, mystery, and folktales.
Books
- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard finished
- Metamorphoses Volume I finished
- Paradise Lost finished
- Anabasis finished
- The Tempest finished
- The Crab that Played with the Sea finished
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Art and Craft of the Machine finished
- Ulysses finished
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
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Accelerando finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Masterpieces of Western Art finished
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Wikipedia Tour: Space finished
- Poems of John Keats finished
- Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour suspended
Posts
Accelerando - Accelerando
Lots of good stories here, unique visions of the world that could be; told in a nervous, disconnected style I am just unable to appreciate, this might be the last Charles Stross I attempt to read. Hugo winner, however, so plenty of other folks appreciate his style.
Wikipedia Tour: Space - Space
Nothing here I didn't already know, but lots of pretty pictures and good basic review of what's out there.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Benjamin Button
Rather dyspeptic view of someone who had something special and through vanity and lack of emotion (connected to high-class status?) wasted it and wasted away. Relied on others for help all his life. Perhaps an idea of the interconnectedness of everyone; still, the story is offfputting. Haven't seen the movie.
Art and Craft of the Machine - Art and Craft of the Machine
Makes sense as a spoken lecture; well-organized and taking flights of fancy to describe how machinery can uplift art and by extension humanity. Read this for steampunk literary roots!