Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Jul 7, 2017
My #hackerspace is starting a #hacker #BookClub, and I'd welcome suggestions to add to our to-read list. We'll be doing both fiction and non-fiction works that have connections to hacker culture, identity, history, etc.
Show threadMatt Cropp 🌲🌲Jul 7, 2017
The current list drawn from our membership:
-The Cathedral and The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
-Snowcrash
-Neuromancer
-A Hacker Manifesto
-Gamer Theory
-Atlas Shrugged
-My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
-Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
-Spook Country
-The Diamond Age
-Cryptonomicon
-Ready Player One
Show thread⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩Jul 7, 2017
@mattcropp
Having read Ready Player One...
I'd replace it with Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
Ready Player One is mostly about 80s pop culture references, Little Brother at least Hacker Ethics up the plot a bit.
Having read Atlas Shrugged... save everyone some time and do Anthem, or The Fountainhead. Atlas Shrugged is stupid long.
Cryptonomicon is also stupid long, but it's at least funny.
Show threadINACTIVEJul 7, 2017

@Irick @mattcropp

Personally, I really enjoyed Ready Player One. As far as entertainment value goes, it was probably the best book I've read in ages.

Show thread⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩
@deadsuperhero @mattcropp
I have mixed feelings about it. I prefer my science fiction cerebral, and it's much more a romp. I won't say it's not a fun ride, but at the same time it's such a hit-list of references that it can't help but feel supremely derivative to the point of banality.
In that it embodies sort of the asthetification of 'geek culture', boiled down winking nods at canonic texts without really using those texts for any real thematic point.
Jul 7, 2017 at 7:42pmWeb