Roy Tang

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Reply to visakanv's tweet:

@visakanv can you give some summaries of the books you listed? :p

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@roytang Satan Burger is just really absurd, bizzaro, unsettlingly surreal, like a Dali painting with words

Sideways Look At Time is about how our modern relationship with clocktime is just one very limited, impoverished way of making sense of time, imposed by authority

@roytang GC is an autobiography of a really crazy childhood that was both beautiful and terrible, very feral and wild. The reader will feel both jealousy and pity

UI is a fun walk through concepts from physics and information theory to parlay with consciousness and existence

@roytang SMF is about the discovery of the human brain; Zimmer manages to really zoom in and out from the specific science and individual players to the cultural and societal contexts of the time

Ogilvy was a smart man with taste, charm, opinions, a mischievous streak & lots of gd sense

@roytang The Chocolate War was a bleak, depressing fiction story about teenage boys at a catholic (?) school – and the politicking that happens at multiple levels. Like Mean Girls, but for boys, and just utterly desolate