Back To Literacy
| A few months back I noticed I seemed to be having trouble articulating my thoughts, which is important because no matter what people say about, at least they have to admit that "I speak so well." One of my friends, who is always flaunting her literacy in my face told me I need to read more. So I decided to pick up a book that wasn't written by Wrox. And the latest Takeshi Kovacs book, Woken Furies, had recently come out on paperback. Good timing.
I don't know why it took me so long to read this book but I'm happy to say that I actually finished it yesterday. I really like the future world that Richard K. Morgan has created and I flew through the first two in the series but for some reason this one took me months to get through. Maybe it's because of this project at work. Luckily, the trip to Greece got me back on track. If you like sci-fi, I would definitely recommend the series so far. It's set a few hundred years in the future and there is technology that allows people to transfer their consciousness to a piece of hardware called a cortical stack. It's like a backup of your brain. So if anything happens to your body, you can just transfer to another body. It really makes you think about what defines you as a person and if that can be separated from your body. And even if you save your consciousness, can you save your soul? The main character is a smart-ass mercenary who gets into various adventures and as the story continues we learn more about the alien race that left technology behind that man encounters as we move further out into the galaxy. Now that I'm back on the path to literacy, maybe I can get through my next book - The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer - in less than 5 months. |    |