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JohnBem
Posted 2016-03-02 8:02 PM (#12872)
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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		Just finished reading my first book for the Punk's Not Dead reading challenge: Rudy Rucker's Software. I wrote a brief review of the book, so my (slightly) more cohesive thoughts can be found there. Here I'll just say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I found it to be entertaining and weird and thought-provoking. Some bits of mental flotsam that drifted through my brain as I read Software: The famous Cartesian proposition "cogito ergo sum"; a lyric from the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus": "I am he as you are he as you are me/And we are all together"; Carl Hiaasen (because a large portion of Software takes place in Florida and a lot of odd things happen there); Cheech and Chong (there's a character called Sta-Hi and he lives up to the name); the line "feed your head" from Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"; and Isaac Asimov (because he is name-dropped, but the robots have overcome his human-chauvinistic dictums). So, yeah Software churned up my brain a bit. It is a wonderful read, a trip, a blast, a gas. If my brain is a backup-tape copy and my body is a robot replica, am I still me? Deep thinking amid the humor and the weirdness. Very good book.

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