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Post by ogx on Nov 20, 2012 14:33:31 GMT -5
Right now: William Gibson - Neuromancer. I'm only in the beginning, but this seems awesome.
Previously: Hannu Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief. This guys first book, and i really liked. I really recommend this for anyone into hard and complex scifi, already ordered the next part.
Dan Simmons - Children of the Night. Some of Simmon's stuff is just superb (Hyperion, Endymion, Song of Kali) but this was barely okay. The Historian is a lot better book if you want to read something with Vlad Dracula.
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Post by ryan on Nov 26, 2012 19:07:47 GMT -5
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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 27, 2012 12:19:58 GMT -5
Picked up The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom at a used book store the other day, I'll probably dive into that next since I just finished Letters from the Earth that same day.
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Post by thelampincident on Nov 27, 2012 12:24:48 GMT -5
Just finished 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. Pretty fucking great book, I found the ending a bit hard to take in (curveball after curveball), but well worth the time.
Nothing to do now but bring it back to the library and find something else to occupy my time with.
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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 27, 2012 12:31:10 GMT -5
I didn't know there was a novel, I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so maybe I'll try and read it first.
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Post by geeheeb on Nov 27, 2012 15:25:57 GMT -5
Arthur C Clarke man. Inventor of the communications satellite!
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Post by swilliam on Nov 27, 2012 16:47:19 GMT -5
I didn't know there was a novel, I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so maybe I'll try and read it first. ultra noob.
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Post by thelampincident on Nov 27, 2012 16:51:24 GMT -5
I didn't even know there was a movie until I had already started reading the book and other people were telling me about it.
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Post by Torch the Mall on Nov 27, 2012 18:23:18 GMT -5
The more you post from this series, the more I am reminded to get started, even though I really don't use a lot of my free time for recreational reading anymore. I've played the Legend of Drizzt board game a few times since you first started posting these in this thread.
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Post by yeastydeath on Nov 27, 2012 23:12:44 GMT -5
I didn't know there was a novel, I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so maybe I'll try and read it first. ultra noob. I literally know nothing about this movie other than there's long pretty shots of space and apes killing each other.
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Post by ryan on Nov 28, 2012 8:39:40 GMT -5
The more you post from this series, the more I am reminded to get started, even though I really don't use a lot of my free time for recreational reading anymore. I've played the Legend of Drizzt board game a few times since you first started posting these in this thread. Haha I rarely, if ever, used my free time for reading until I started this series and now I find myself preferring to read over watching movies/tv etc. Shit is addicting and I've found every book so far to be a very enjoyable read. You should totally start, it's an awesome series.
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Post by thelampincident on Nov 28, 2012 10:19:28 GMT -5
Speaking of series, I started reading 2010: Odyssey Two yesterday... right after finishing the first one, I just went straight back to the library and exchanged it for the sequel, haha.
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Post by monollectif on Nov 28, 2012 11:10:34 GMT -5
im gonna have to read the book, cuz the movie wasnt great IMO. and its way too fucking long for nothing i find
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Post by thelampincident on Nov 28, 2012 11:17:02 GMT -5
The book was a pretty easy read, only took about a week or so. 235 pages, I think.
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Post by monollectif on Nov 28, 2012 11:21:21 GMT -5
yup think im gonna borrow it from my buddy
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Post by pep on Nov 29, 2012 4:14:37 GMT -5
I think the movie is amazing. Maybe I should snag the book.
Just finished 3rd collection of RASL by Jeff Smith. I can't wait to finish that. Next up Echo by Terry Moore
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Post by BigSeth on Nov 29, 2012 11:05:41 GMT -5
Will tells me that reading the book makes the movie better (and make more sense)
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Post by swilliam on Nov 29, 2012 17:04:22 GMT -5
Will tells me that reading the book makes the movie better (and make more sense) the movie was just bonkers until I read the book. The book adds a plot to the visual experience of the movie.
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Post by pep on Dec 10, 2012 20:27:27 GMT -5
Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan is pretty good. And just about any page could be scanned and put up on the This Rules And Is Not A Goddamn Twitter Updat thread.
Also just finished 3 Julie Doucet books and I think I'm in love.
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Post by flesheater on Dec 10, 2012 22:44:36 GMT -5
I'm stuck on Bukowski. Vulgar, offensive alcoholic. Love it. Just started Factotum, and Love is a Dog From Hell is on the way along with a few other books.
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Post by thelampincident on Dec 11, 2012 3:52:47 GMT -5
Finished 2010 and started 2061 today in the Odyssey series!
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Post by ryan on Dec 11, 2012 8:28:23 GMT -5
Normally I wouldn't post an image this big but the artwork for this book is so rad it warrants it. Would LOVE to get whoever did it to do some album art in the future... though I'm sure it'd be ungodly expensive.
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Post by yeastydeath on Dec 26, 2012 15:09:08 GMT -5
My family actually listened to me this year and bought me books. Looks like I'll be busy for a while. Picked up:
The Waste Land and other Poems - T.S. Eliot Dialogues and Essays - Seneca Nero and the Burning of Rome - Tacitus Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power - Steve Coll Modern American Usage - Bryan A. Garner The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita - Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
I also bought The Art of Cooking with Vegetables - Alain Passard for someone else, but ended up keeping it.
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Post by ryan on Dec 26, 2012 15:40:58 GMT -5
Last book in the Sellswords Trilogy, then it's on to the Hunter's Blades trilogy! Though I think I'm going to read the second book in the Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss first since a friend loaned it to me and I'd like to return it before too long.
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Post by britleryouth on Jan 16, 2013 2:09:39 GMT -5
Mostly have stock in The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. It's about a social psychologist in 1959 who gets 3 individuals with paranoid schizophrenia from different parts of Canada and America who all hold the same belief that they are the one and only God. The premise of putting them all in the same ward is to see if one with a delusion of being and entirely different person will hold said belief or if it will be challenged to change when confronted by others with same delusion.
And then I'm also trying to find time to enjoy Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.
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