AroundTheFur

@hikaizer: Hey you're pigeons are cute, they have that little spiky thing on their heads. Oh and your possums are a total trip.

Brian Crecente

so how hot was it in aussie land

D3Anon

@hikaizer: Pigeons= Rats of the sky.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

I'm just finishing up a literature seminar that is completely Murakami (my professor is one of the translators, Professor Gabriel), and I gotta say, I'm glad the seminar author was a good one. I really liked Kafka on the Shore (though Johnnie Walker SUCKS), and Hard-Boiled Wonderland is probably one of my favorites.

A Wild Sheep Chase is also really good, imo.

Tsuzu

hikaizer

NaryaMithrandir

StolenName

Glad you had a good time on vacation, too. I never thought about Austrailia being a Vacation Hotspot for me though. I'd totally go to Japan first and foremost and see their countryside (who know maybe even call up godzilla...i bet he's a fun drunk too!). Don't worry Ash, i'll keep him away from Osaka...

Jesterhead369

Zyzex_Remix

Kudos for finally reading Snow Crash ;)

squirrelz

Brian Crecente

haggen

reddevil

jimb213

timebombtimmy

Brian Crecente

dead_red_eyes

kingofallcosmos

D3Anon

jacksinn

Also LOOK AT ALL THOSE PARROTS. How many did you end up bringing back for a contest prize? I'll be preparing by counting them now, over and over, until I can recite how many of them there are in my sleep.

I wanna win a parrot. ;)

ampersande

mtvernon

Welcome back Crecente, no one could've taken your spot. As Krotan and I kept spouting yesterday, one does not simply walk into Mordor.

WallaJoy- Snorlax?

tehFluffz

Shiryu

TheDragon

Gibson is best served when he doesn't spend so much time musing about far flung technology and Texas catheters. That's why Pattern Recognition is probably the best work he's done.

As far as Murakami goes, I can't see the appeal. I read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and was thouraly unimpressed. There was some good stuff going on, but it was mostly a mess. I know it's translated but come on. I'd much rather read Gabriel Garcia Marquez or David Mitchell (who admittedly draws some inspiration from Murakami).

Agies

I saved having to search ;)

Lot Krotan

watch the how to pronounce Crecente and Kotaku video, you'll get it.

Lot Krotan

WildVulture

Lu-Tze

tk.

I must invoke the "flying cars" notion here, as the internet still is nothing like what the past thought it would be (though it sounds like Second Life is getting there).

As for William Gibson, he always seemed overrated. I read him because all the references in Stu Hamm's song titles (see Black Ice) but I wasn't really impressed. I gotta thank him and Philip K Dick for inspiring one awesome album though, if nothing else.

Haruki Murakami, who I also read at the same time as Snow Crash, is awesome. I envy Ashcraft's ability to read it untranslated. Wwwwwwwwww.

Guest Editors are cool and all, but you guys would be better off getting Gabe and Tycho to be guest editors, IMHO. I think wit is more important than journalistic cred, for Kotaku.

Not to downplay any of your writing abilities, far from it. It's how you guys write that attracts readers.

"Kotaku: Come for the news, stay for the weirdness".

Billkwando

Mike Fahey

Welcome back Crecente!

Norellicus

Agies

And yes, the parrot image is classic for the pirate Crecence we know and love. Glad you had fun! :)

huginn

creid

Culebra

Ahh makes me happy to be Australian *sniff*.

muscrat_01

Welcome back. The guest editors were nice though.

Lot Krotan

Slint

Slint

LittlestLamshi

El-Suave

黒天使

I have to agree with you, Australia is a great place to lose yourself and one of the few countries you fall in love with the moment you set foot at the airport.

About Snowcrash, like someone mentioned before, a Cyberpunk book without a flat ending will destroy the universe, Gibson and Sterling are masters of keeping you enthralled for days just to kill the vibe with the ending, but glad you liked it. I miss the games that were influenced by Cyberpunk like BloodNet.

I have Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World but never finished it, gonna give it a try next time I fly.

zoesch

LittlestLamshi

LittlestLamshi

Sorwah

Also, Welcome back. Did you get through Customs with that bird on your head?

stevekeene

BloggyMcBlogBlog

ruslander

Islandkiwi

And folks, prepare. Be sure the last picture here will be used later for counting torture. I'm sure there's a gazillion parrots in this picture if you just set your screen brightness to a very specific value. Be wary of the trees for instance, it's actually clusters of parrots.

McKack

Islandkiwi

Snow Crash: Just to finally get to the bottom of the whole Hiro Protagonist stuff... yes, tragically late. Good book, flat ending.

well, is a Neal Stephenson books. Clouds are white. Water is weet. A Neal Stephenson books must have a poor ending, is something about the rules of the universe. Obviusly we need to abolism the Copyright rights, and rewrite a final for the book. With nowdasy laws, will be illegal.

maybe NS books are not novels, but something like a "manual"/"personal journal". And no one journal has a good ending. And don't even try to get a good final on a Manual. (like "Manual: How to clean your garden")

"The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" has things right on the title. But "Snow Crash" is more pfun.

Tei

Should you decide to read something else anytime soon, might I suggest Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan? It's an incredible book; beautiful, very visceral and incredibly well-written. It gets a very strong recommendation from me.

Kiriphii

ruslander

tkshredder

FyroniK

Couldn't agree with you more felt the same way about Neuromancer, there were some great ideas in there but the narrative structure falls flat towards the end.

Also, welcome back!

DaiMacculate

ShinobiFist(PSN-XBL)

joe

also, look out! there's a parrot on your head!

Hoboman725

NPC