Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix
8 best books like Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix (Glenn Yeffeth): Across the Nightingale Floor, Bangkok Tattoo, Galveston, Arctic-Nation, The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Be What You Wish, Blacksad, L'Enfer, le silence
Across the Nightingale Floor
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1573223328 |
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden,...
| Author | John Burdett |
| ISBN | 1400032911 |
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A farang–a foreigner–has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make...
| Author | Nic Pizzolatto |
| ISBN | 1439166641 |
Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, a dark and visceral debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston by a young writer with a hard edge to his potent literary style. On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that...
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 1596878185 |
This is the third in the Blacksad series I am reading, this one the second volume, though the order doesn't really seem to matter. Start anywhere. I liked the first one best, in part because the characters as animals approach was so well done, and it was so fresh for me; I liked the fourth volume less well....
The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers...
It is my belief that all men can change the course of their lives. By our imagination, by our affirmations, we can change our world, we can change our future. I have always preached that if we strive passionately to embody a new and higher concept of ourselves, then all things will be at our service. Most...
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 1596878177 |
Meet John Blacksad, a cat in the shadows. Imagine New York as a city of criminal rats, jazz-playing gorillas and rhino thugs. Enter a mystery where the suspects have tails. Find out why comics' biggest names are wild about one of the freshest graphic novels in years—a 2005 Eisner and Harvey Award nominee....
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 2205063138 |
Années 1950, La Nouvelle-Orléans, où la fête de Mardi Gras bat son plein. Grâce à Weekly, un producteur de jazz dénommé Faust fait la connaissance de Blacksad. Faust demande à ce dernier de s'occuper d'une affaire : un de ses musiciens, le pianiste Sebastian, a disparu. Il n'a pas donné signe...
