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Bendito · 23-07-2008, 06:06 PM

Another one I've read was a re-read for me, but I did a bit of a write up for my old website first time around.

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I've started reading (damn near finished) a new book that apparently "took Russia by storm" and was translated to english for my reading pleasure. It is Headcrusher and it's actually written by a pair of russkies, Alexander Garros and Aleksei Evdokimov, or Garros-Evdokimov. It's about Vadim, an average guy living in Riga, Latvia that is having trouble adjusting to his country's new-found love of capitalism. He sees trend-i clones walking around everywhere and decides he could do it too. So he goes to work for a major bank and it all seems to be going well until he snaps and kills his boss. Next bit is a little spoilerish.

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"In fact the putrefied sublimational essence of the Net is best demonstrated by the Net itself. What makes up the overwhelming - overwhelming! - majority of information posted and circulated on the Net? Porn. Naked bums and tits," (the reptile slapped his furniture in agreement)" (The Reptile-Vadim is lying on a couch made of "a whole gang of unmistakable mega-whores") ""by the bale, the tonne, the gigabyte. Seventy percent of total traffic. And of the other thirty percent, twenty percent is just plain NONSENSE. Nonsensical forums. Ludicrous chat rooms. Texts that are a total waste of space. A meaningless mish-mash of weak-witted wordage. Just think about it: for centuries now, ever since humanity invented scientific and technological progress for itself, since about the time of the Renaissance, it's been scrabbling, clawing, clambering it's way towards the Internet. And there it is, the crown of evolution, the first global, instant, free, uncensored means of communication in the history of Homo Sapiens, an inexhaustible reservoir of knowledge, a planetary nervous system... A portrait, cast from our own selves, so to speak. A generalised portrait. And what face do we see in it? The face of a mentally retarded, juvenile sex maniac. A lewd idiot. Congratulations! Humanity, my friend, I'm Proud of you!"