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shane_tiernan's review against another edition
3.0
This was great but the automatic writing got old after a while. I did actually read it all and I saw the repeating patterns. I'm sure it was RAW trying to reprogram my semantic reality tunnel as in if you read "patterned" gobbly guk long enough it will eventually start to make sense.
I loved the first short story and there were some very cool entries. The problem with reading something like this that's written 30 years ago is that he makes a lot of predictions and it's really disappointing when "it would have been great" but here you are 30 years later and we're nowhere near being there. It's like reading -Fear and Loathing- and hearing about the "high water mark" that was reached before the revolutionary waters sank back to a level of banality acceptable to a majority of the populace.
So it's definitely worth a read but you might want to skip the guk.
I loved the first short story and there were some very cool entries. The problem with reading something like this that's written 30 years ago is that he makes a lot of predictions and it's really disappointing when "it would have been great" but here you are 30 years later and we're nowhere near being there. It's like reading -Fear and Loathing- and hearing about the "high water mark" that was reached before the revolutionary waters sank back to a level of banality acceptable to a majority of the populace.
So it's definitely worth a read but you might want to skip the guk.
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