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Walk a mile wearing somebody else's mind. Or somebody else's dog's mind.
I started this book after reading Don DeLillo's Underworld, and Idaho felt almost like a continuation of that book.
I suspected Ruskovich was giving a more legitimate perspective of the psychological makeup of her female characters.
There's a bit of a drought at one point where isolation and suffering seem to be the main themes. Finally enlightenment appears for one of the characters. This was the high point of the book and redeemed the suffering. We don't get to see too much of the enlightened perspective, but I guess it's ok not to beat us over the head with it.

Well deserving of its spot on The Guardian's 100 list.

Fun to memorize the introductory programs.

This book can be a central hub for making a "crazy wall" for understanding the world up to 1960.

The author performed some magic with this book. But there is a point at which you can stop reading and imagine your own ending. Hopefully you'll know when you get there.

Continuing research for my punk philosophy.
Early in the book there is an introduction to Leibniz, so I am also making another pass through Monadology.
The book promises to offer alternatives to the philosophical paradigm that is coupled to Newtonian physics.
My interpretation of the Newtonian paradigm:
Dumb particles moving through space, trying to mind their own business... Observers coldly observing the observables... God watching his creation.
I'm guessing that the alternative may be a universe of infinite connectedness... where nothing happens in isolation.

Entertaining ride from the tranreal life of Rudy Rucker.
The narration by Scott Grunden is excellent. Surprising that he hasn't narrated more books in this genre.

This is a key piece of the "quantum rendering" puzzle.
It provides the motive and a method to "think differently" ... to see a wholeness in constant transformation, rather than a bunch of particles moving independently and obliviously, according to some mechanical program.

I'm hooked on this series for the dry wit. What the world needs now is more annoyingly competent heroes.

Required reading for any conspiracy theorist.
The shortest book on alien-human contact you will ever read.
As the author mentions, the book does not provide any evidence, and does not reference any evidence that aliens have contacted humans.
For some, this book may be a piece of a puzzle. For others, it could be seen as interesting speculation on how communication might actually occur between aliens and humans, and possible motives for such "cooperation".

Maintenance dose of Serge-infused Florida.

Wild. Magical.

Like many US citizens, I prefer insulation. I avoid real news.
Establishment media realizes this and gives us plausible news that won't makes us feel bad about ourselves or our country. The result is that we're floating on our backs in a pool of total bullshit.
Read this book and take a look under the surface.
Without real journalism, and people willing to read it, we can only pretend to have democracy.