Just finished Pynchon's Vineland and
Barabasi's Linked Pynchon is brilliant. I'm also working on Gravity's Rainbow which is a lot less accessible. I enjoyed Vineland. I often found myself laughing out loud at some of the incredibly perverse notions he drops along the way. I didn't read too deeply into it but wouldn't be suprised if the whole thing was a fable about hippy-ism, etc, between the 60s and the 80s... Linked was an interesting, fairly light look at the evolving science of networks -- computer, human, financial or otherwise. Its really interesting that all of these things seem -- at first glance, anyway -- to have similar structure. Lots of pointers to the literature if nothing else. Still in progress: Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
The Cichlid Fishes (Barlow) To buy (or not): Daniel Dennett has a new book out. I've found him to be pretty agreeable in the past but he seems to want to give us free will in this one. I'm skeptical. There's the new Gibson novel. Hunter Thompson has new book as well. Looks to be part autobiographical and part commentary on 9/11, etc, etc. Bruce Sterling has a new book out. Another "history of the future" or something ... wank wank. | 
