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Bleeding Edge might be of particular interest to the crowd here because it blends perspectives from at least 60 years of engineering, from the slide rules and r
by jrumbut 4y ago
Bleeding Edge might be of particular interest to the crowd here because it blends perspectives from at least 60 years of engineering, from the slide rules and rolled up sleeves of Pynchon's younger days to open source and web 2.0.
I might recommend The Crying of Lot 49 over it though. It is weirder but also much faster moving.
- low_tech_love 4y agoI really liked TCoL49. It’s a weird feeling, reading I constantly felt like the author was making fun of me, like someone telling an elaborate lie just for the fun of knowing that people are falling for it. But I had so much fun that I just didn’t care; I wanted him to trick me into believing the whole meant something, because the trip was worth more than the destination.
- itronitron 4y agoThat book really opened up history for me, it would be interesting to pair that with 'Lies My Teacher Told Me' since so much of our knowledge of world history is based on third or fourth or fifth hand accounts.
- a_bonobo 4y ago> like someone telling an elaborate lie just for the fun of knowing that people are falling for it I believe Pynchon is the grand master of telling Shaggy dog stories. Norm MacDonald was a huge fan of Pynchon, it feels like they had/have very similar humor.