/lit/ - Literature

I don't read many comic books, but the last few that I enjoyed were Ultimate X-Men and Civil War.

>>1102935
I really really enjoyed JPod. I plan on reading Microserfs although I heard JPod was just an updated Microserfs. I'd suggest you read All Families are Psychotic, and watch the movie Everything's Gone Green.

Jpod was also adapted into a television series. It only aired for one season but I throughly enjoyed it.

You might like Mirrorshades. It's a cyberpunk anthology written by several authors. I thought it was an entertaining read.

It can be found here for like $2
>http://amzn.com/0441533825

>>1092035
I've had little luck finding downloads of textbooks. Just bite the bullet and pay for your books. Sell them on amazon/ebay before the next semester starts to recoup some of the costs.

>>1090651
irc.undernet.org #bookz
irc.irchighway.net #ebooks
project gutenberg

I like both. Why do I have to choose one or the other?

Engineering student here. I appreciate the arts, some more than others, though I have no interest in being an artist. I also don't think the arts are essential to everyone. For some, art is irrelevant to their lives. I respect that. Different strokes for different folks.

>>1082743
How could you forget the first book you read? I usually remember the first of everything I've done if it was something "monumental" to my life. Being able to read a book for the first time was pretty important to me.

>>1082614
I found a similar collection of PKD Novels last week. Of the short stories of I've read:

Minority Report.
We can Remember it for you Wholesale.
and
Paycheck.

I thought they were all pretty good.

Can you link me to the short story collection you found?

>>1080787
In an emergency it can be used to cut sandwiches.

>>1080746
If the ebook itself has a cover then the cover should show up on the nook.

As for book sources:
irc.unternet.org #bookz
irc.irchighway.net #ebooks
google [book title]+[desired format]
project gutenberg
gigapedia
bittorent
>http://www.anonib.com/BOOKCHAN/
>http://www.nautilus-solar.net/SandyGunfox/books/
>http://www.friedbeef.com/top-10-best-places-to-get-free-books-part-1/

I thought JPod was pretty funny.

>>1074491
I think Neuromancer is only around 200 pages.

>>1074070
Why would you need to come to terms with something that's only theoretical?

>http://www.nautilus-solar.net/SandyGunfox/
>http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
>http://gigapedia.com/
>google [book title] and the format you want
>irc.undernet.org #bookz
>irc.irchighway.net #ebooks
>torrentz.com

>>1073996
I live by myself. I told my mother that an anonymous person from an internet forum sent me a book and she seemed amused.

>>1074009
Could you drop a hint for us non cryptographers? I have an interest in cryptography but no experience aside from decoder rings in cereal.

>>1073911
Wishlist threads usually start with a person offering to gift books. Otherwise it's just a beg thread.

>>1073891
So far I've yet to be killed. I've only posted my list once though. When I gift to people I don't even glance at the address. Not intensionally, though. I generally don't care where it's heading as long as it doesn't cost more than $4 to ship.

>>1073851
I've only seen the film adaptation of Takedown. I didn't like the way it portrayed Kevin Mitnick as some sort of evil villain. I probably shouldn't have seen Freedom Downtime beforehand though, as now I sympathize with Kevin, and hate Tsutomu Shimomura (the writer ove Takedown).

>>1073847
Have you mother check with her instructor to see if there's much difference between the earlier editions of the books. She can save quite a bit by buying used copies of the 8th addition of Exceptional children. If there's not much difference then she could probably get by fine.

>>1073801
I thought /lit/ hated Down Brown?

>>1073814
I've read neuromancer, I'm currently reading snow crash, and Count Zero is what I plan to read after that. I want to read about more traditional hacking though, with keyboards, modems, security exploits and stuff. Not so much virtual reality. Cyberpunk is fine, but I want to read about more traditional hacking.