What are you reading? Oct 15, 2014

by plf515 for Readers and Book Lovers

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 at 4:30:02am PDT

In this series I note what I am reading and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes, on Sundays, I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.

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Just finished

Now reading

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan. An admiring look at a somewhat neglected president. Well written but could have been cut somewhat from it's 700 pages.

The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone. About recursion; quite a bit about the Game of Life that was invented by Conway.

Gridlinked by Neal Asher. Far future SF, part of the polity series. Pretty good but a little confusing

Just started
The Peripheral by William Gibson. I got this before publication from a book review group. As usual with Gibson, he drops you in the water and tells you to swim. Complex SF on two intertwined timelines in relatively near future America. Fairly dystopian.

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