Well another night where I can't sleep...alarm clock is set for 5:30am (have to do some work before a meeting) and I'm currently tracking about 5 hours sleep tonight. Weirdest thing is that I fell asleep on the sofa during Cavemen; probably best all round...managing to make a sitcom with no com is quite an achievement...really is dire! Hmm...wonder if I should try a 'proper' sleeping aid?
Anyway one good thing about my inability to sleep is that it gave me some time to catch up on my reading; currently reading Halting State by Charles Stross essentially it's a sci-fi crime drama set in Edinburgh of 2018. I lived in Edinburgh and worked in the software industry there for about 5 years, it's a very accurate book...even down to the recruitment consultant's offices! Highly recommend this book, it's about a bank robbery inside a MMORPG about half way through but as usual from this author it's just brilliant.
Just noticed, this guy is really prolific, in 2006 alone he published 5 books! Anyway, so far I've read a bunch of his books and every one has been great - haven't read the 'Merchant Princes' ones though, seem a bit on the 'crappy Neal Stephenson' vibe. For the record, Neal Stephenson was my absolute favorite author at one point with Snow Crash and Diamond Age (two of the best cyberpunk books ever...well, after early William Gibson) but the whole 'Baroque Cycle' is just slow, boring literary masturbation in my opinion... Cryptonomicon was on the verge but at least it's still readable. I mean Quicksilver is 960 pages about: "Adventure, romance, politics, history, theology, magic, science, money and calculus", makes you want to dig your eyes out with a spoon!
So one for the comments...what's your favorite books?