Eighth Post!

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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

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Re: Books

[(Anonymous)]

My personal (and very biased) reviews on some of these recommendations:

1. The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu). I didn't really care for the alien portion of this book but I liked the depiction of the Cultural Revolution.
2. A Sand County Almanac (Aldo Leopold). I read this for class and enjoyed it a lot, surprisingly. It's like a more accessible, more modern Walden.
3. Neuromancer (William Gibson). The first sentence of this book is iconic. The rest of the book goes downhill from there.
4. Seveneves (Neal Stephenson). At this point, Neal Stephenson should be banned from writing women until he actually talks to one. He's trying to do something feminist here, but the female cast is genuinely the most insufferable, unsympathetic group of characters I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

Re: Books

[(Anonymous)]

Neuromancer disappointed me for a bunch of reasons, the main one being that the title made it sound like it was going to be about a necromancer with a computer. I didn't hate it, but I didn't find it worthy of the hype, either.