Maker of strange noises and devices for the proliferation of such. He/him. Read dates before 2024 are approximate.
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25% complete! noisenerd has read 3 of 12 books.
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and …
@Meljoann Hi! Up until now I've only read The Lathe of Heaven, which I did really like. Been meaning to read more for awhile now, recently found this and The Dispossessed at a nearby used book store, definitely looking forward to them. Really loving this one so far! Her writing style is so cool.
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and …
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in …
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in …
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in …
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story …
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story …
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story …
A very quick read, as much of the book (as the name implies) is made up of short notes and observations that don't even take up a whole page. Not a complaint, just pointing it out.
Contains some great observations about music and our relation to it, as well as the corrupting influence of capitalism and consumerism on music. Also contains some good short pieces (but longer than the notes that make up most of the book) from the author concerning his recording work, mostly to do with what I suppose you would call folk music in places such as Rwanda and Pakistan.
Where I take issue with the material is pretty much any time modern technology comes up. While I agree with many of his observations concerning the commodification of music in the modern era, some of the things he says about the technology itself come across (at least …
A very quick read, as much of the book (as the name implies) is made up of short notes and observations that don't even take up a whole page. Not a complaint, just pointing it out.
Contains some great observations about music and our relation to it, as well as the corrupting influence of capitalism and consumerism on music. Also contains some good short pieces (but longer than the notes that make up most of the book) from the author concerning his recording work, mostly to do with what I suppose you would call folk music in places such as Rwanda and Pakistan.
Where I take issue with the material is pretty much any time modern technology comes up. While I agree with many of his observations concerning the commodification of music in the modern era, some of the things he says about the technology itself come across (at least to me) as the old "digital bad" argument, rather than any kind of real examination of the issues around modern music consumption. Some of this is understandable considering the author's background, but I just don't think this kind of thing is helpful to anyone.
This might seem a bit harsh, but I was really hoping for more out of this book in this regard. That said, I didn't hate it. Also, some may get more out of it than I did.
In the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically advanced …
