DanC_84

Happy birthday! Sorry to hear you weren't feeling the best for it, hope things pick up.

Yeah I tried to simplify things as much as I could. My mind is a simple place, it likes simple things. I didn't get to read any of 'A Certain Slant of Light' today! Crazy, its the first day I haven't read a book in a long time. Anyways I'm totally stuffed so I'm off to get some sleep. Hope you have a good day.

I got the machine code stuff, or at least I think I did, haha. Thoughts determine how things actually right? Even in retrospect? At least, that is the main thing I got out of it. I probably missed like a million dimensions of that set of ideas, I suck. Whilst I found it all pretty cool to think about it did just spin me out completely. I'm not the type of person who thinks a great deal about that type of thing, I guess being male does that. But yeah, it is all cool stuff. Stuff that I previously held no interest in whatsoever and am now curious about.

The epilogue, I had no problem with it. I can see where those people who think it was a cop out are coming from I guess, but I liked it. To me, it was kind of like just to reaffirm the fact that really, we don't know anything.

Good morning. It is almost 10 here and I am still working. Horrible stuff.

No, I didn't ever dislike the main character at all. I appreciated her brutal honesty and the ease with which she fell into total hopelessness. Sometimes I think books miss the mark in that respect. Sometimes things are just shite and thats the way it is. She was often brutal with her assessments and I really liked that. You know how sometimes all kinds of horrible stuff can be happening and the heroine will somehow find a way to be hopeful. That just doesn't ring true for me, its not realistic. Things suck, you feel like ****. Sometimes it is as simple as that. I also like that she just recognised what she had to do, and did it. Like the money for sex ordeal. She just identified that she needed to do it and even though she didn't want to she just went through with it. So no, I never disliked the main character at all.

You're a great chick Roxi, screw whoever it is that doesn't like you, they're morons. They are probably just intimidated by your intelligence, I know I sure as hell am after finding out you got all the stuff in Mr Y!

Also mate, sorry to hear you've had a shite day. Hope you feel better soon.

One of the concepts I found to be most interesting was the whole "machines could develop consciousness" theory. That really spun me out for a while. I was thinking about it and then I was like, "sh!t, maybe they can!"

Other thoughts on it:

I don't know, it was a really crazy book. Sometimes I felt like all the theorems about atoms and life formation and all that mental stuff was just flying over my head and I was just going to end up getting lost in it all but then other times I understood the concepts and just thought they were really cool. The whole "there is a God or a multiverse" thing for instance I found really cool. I found myself having to reread some things to try to understand them. As I said, I plan to re-read it.

The story itself I really enjoyed, the ending was cool also. I really liked the main character. I like main characters that are really imperfect and brutal about it like that.

So yeah, it was a really good book but I think I would have got more out of it if I had a stronger base knowledge of a lot of the scientific concept. It did get me thinking about concepts that have previously held no interest for me though, which is definately a good thing.

Haha, you kind of laid the hard word on me there Roxi! Here is what I put in my booklist thread:

I finished 'The End of Mr Y' over the weekend. Crazy book. It really makes you think about a lot of things, how they came to be, how they actually are, etc. I think it might have helped a little more if I had a stronger science base to work from, but I'm pretty sure I got the gist of the main concepts. Overall I found it to be a really cool book, I rated it 8.5/10.

Aside from all the science stuff I actually found the main character to be pretty cool. I really enjoyed her constantly brutal assessments of herself and her life, I think it helped the novel as you start to really get behind her plight. I think I will re-read the book again at some point in the not too distant future, as I think I may be able to understand the scientific concepts a little better the second time through.