Lurgen
25-02-2005, 05:01 PM
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Might be old news (it's been available for ages, but I can't find anything on the front-page archive about it), but you really should read this book. It's well written, funny, original and FREE:
http://craphound.com/est/download.php
Nobody gets excited about beating traffic on a back road that’s always empty. But get on the M-5 after a hard day at work and drive it at 100 km/h for two hours without once touching your brakes and it’s like God’s reached down and parted the Red Seas for you. You get a sense of accomplishment! Most of the time, your car stereo’s gonna play the same junk you’ve always heard, just background sound, but sometimes, ah! Sometimes you’ll hit a sweet spot and get the best tunes you’ve ever heard. If you put a rat in a cage with a lever that doesn’t give food pellets, he’ll push it once or twice and give up. Set the lever to always deliver food pellets and he’ll push it when he gets hungry. Set it to sometimes deliver food pellets and he’ll bang on it until he passes out!
This guy writes great fiction, so if you like what you read try and scrape up the cash to buy a copy. His first story was truly amazing, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is one of the most original pieces of science fiction I've ever read and EST looks to be even better.
Might be old news (it's been available for ages, but I can't find anything on the front-page archive about it), but you really should read this book. It's well written, funny, original and FREE:
http://craphound.com/est/download.php
Nobody gets excited about beating traffic on a back road that’s always empty. But get on the M-5 after a hard day at work and drive it at 100 km/h for two hours without once touching your brakes and it’s like God’s reached down and parted the Red Seas for you. You get a sense of accomplishment! Most of the time, your car stereo’s gonna play the same junk you’ve always heard, just background sound, but sometimes, ah! Sometimes you’ll hit a sweet spot and get the best tunes you’ve ever heard. If you put a rat in a cage with a lever that doesn’t give food pellets, he’ll push it once or twice and give up. Set the lever to always deliver food pellets and he’ll push it when he gets hungry. Set it to sometimes deliver food pellets and he’ll bang on it until he passes out!
This guy writes great fiction, so if you like what you read try and scrape up the cash to buy a copy. His first story was truly amazing, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is one of the most original pieces of science fiction I've ever read and EST looks to be even better.