Anyone read Contact by Carl Sagan?
I might as well graduate from just reading his quotes on the internet
[QUOTE=TR0U5ERS;28962202]Apart from Terry Pratchett, i'd reccomend:
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a brilliant laid-back funny read, perfect loo reading (i'm not saying that in a derogatry sense mind you)[/QUOTE]Oh god yeah Douglas Coupland Fucking rocks. My favorite book of his is [img_thumb]http://inseansopinion.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/the-gum-thief.jpg[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=TheBrokenHobo;28537458]I was going to but I always post it in every book thread.
Oh fuck it.
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My favorite book of all time. I recommend it for everyone.[/QUOTE]
I actually liked Ender's Shadow better.
currently Im reading
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and id reccomend
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seriously michael crichton is a beast.
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the movie is shit. read the book.
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Isaac Asimov was soo far beyond his time its astonishing and any one of his books proves it. But this series stood out to me. I just cant see how something this advanced was written in the fucking 50's.
I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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The Coldfire Trilogy is freakin' amazing. I'll go over the backstory here.
So, a few thousand/hundred years from now, the earth becomes extremely overpopulated and we're forced to search for other habitable planets. One of the many ships sent out ends up crash landing on a habitable planet, but they are unable to contact any other vessel or Earth to inform them of their discovery. The only native animals of any import the survivors find is a furry cat/rhino species called the Rakh.
After a few nights on the planet, which they name Erna, they find that their nightmares are beginning to spring to life. Now there are vampires, and wolf monsters, and all sorts of nasties running about at night time terrorizing them. Well, this one guy decides that he's gonna blow up the ship and all of the technology in it one night as a sacrifice to the planet to get it to accept them. He does, it "kinda" does.
Fast forward a few hundred more years. Humanity has gained the ability to manipulate the same force which brought their nightmares to life and called it the fae. Only some people are able to though, and are called Adepts. Of course, the technology is now at about the same level as around the 1700's.
A man (An adept, no less) named Gerald Tarrant gets the idea that if he re-creates earth's church and gets enough of the population of Erna to believe in a single, omniscient, non-present entity, the fae (following the will of the people, as it is easily bent) will cease to respond to human emotion and thought. He does recreate the church, but he becomes obsessed with seeing his plan through to fruition. Unfortunately, he has a few heart attacks. This leaves him in a terrible state of mind, and in order to see his plan through, he sacrifices his family to a dark entity of the fae. This contract essentially turns Tarrant into a vampire, although he figures out he can feed on emotion (fear in his case), just like a creature of the fae.
The story of the trilogy actually takes place about 5-6 hundred years after this.
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Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman
One of my favourite books ever. It's about a supervillain named Doctor Impossible who is on his 13th Doomsday device plot, and is beginning to wonder why exactly he keeps trying. Very Watchmen-esque in its deconstruction and reconstruction of the superhero genre.
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I think someone made a thread on it ages ago
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Also a damn good book.
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Just started reading the un-abridged, 1200+ page version, wish me luck.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;29306995]Anyone read Contact by Carl Sagan?
I might as well graduate from just reading his quotes on the internet[/QUOTE]
I did I did!
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Simply the best American novel.
Hey mastermaul, have you finished reading No Man's World yet?
I'd like to know your opinion on it (it is a fairly decent book IMO).
[QUOTE=Dopey Trout;29300266]Does anyone have any recommendations for books in a similar style to Twin Peaks/Alan Wake/Twilight Zone etc?[/QUOTE]
Maybe check out The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. It's about a woman uncovering some old conspiracy about some rivalry between mailing companies or something and it has the surrealism and mystery of Twin Peaks and the Twilight Zone.
Reading Catch-22 right now, reading books by Hemmingway next.
[QUOTE=Erebus.;29309488]Hey mastermaul, have you finished reading No Man's World yet?
I'd like to know your opinion on it (it is a fairly decent book IMO).[/QUOTE]
Not yet.
I'm pretty much at the first encounter with an enemy in the new world, I've been more wrapped up with Gaunt's Ghosts.
Half way through The Lost.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;29307936]I did I did![/QUOTE]
Just ordered it off Amazon. :buddy:
[QUOTE=ze spy;29312080]Reading Catch-22 right now, reading books by Hemmingway next.[/QUOTE]
Good book :buddy:
[QUOTE=Turnips5;29306995]Anyone read Contact by Carl Sagan?
I might as well graduate from just reading his quotes on the internet[/QUOTE]
Don't read Cosmos, you might as well just watch the series because he just narrates the entire book.
Just finished Lucifer's Hammer. Fucking amazing, the amount of work that must have went into this...Damn fine read.
Slaughterhouse-five was the first Vonnegut book I've read, it was fantastic along with the rest of his novels (all of which I would highly recommended). I am currently reading book 2 of Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, and it's simply fantastic. He discusses evolution and the folly of Man's large brains, and you learn more about the narrator than just his service in Vietnam.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;29306995]Anyone read Contact by Carl Sagan?
I might as well graduate from just reading his quotes on the internet[/QUOTE]
That book is literally the closest thing I have to a bible.
I'm reading "amusing ourselves to death" by Neil Postman.
An outstanding book, truly thought provoking.
im currently reading "a farewell to arms" by Ernest Hemingway and will be taking a tour of his house in key west on monday.
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Discuss.[/QUOTE]
Whats that book about?. My English teacher told me to read it last year but I couldn't get a copy.
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Discuss.[/QUOTE]
Good book. Strange that it's Vonnegut's most popular. I prefer Cat's Cradle. Very good regardless.
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[QUOTE=flyschy;29385302]Whats that book about?. My English teacher told me to read it last year but I couldn't get a copy.[/QUOTE]
About a guy who becomes unstuck in time.
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Discuss.[/QUOTE]
Oh Kurt Vonnegut, so amazing in your humour. I love this book, and Cat's Cradle, but I always lean towards Slapstick as my favorite, I liked the story a lot better in it, and thought it was hilarious.
Vonnegut is still my favorite satirist.
Hey guys, I've been wondering if anyone can point me to a Military Sci-fi book similar to Starship Troopers. I'm hoping to catch up on some reading during summer break.
[QUOTE=Swilly;29389270]Hey guys, I've been wondering if anyone can point me to a Military Sci-fi book similar to Starship Troopers. I'm hoping to catch up on some reading during summer break.[/QUOTE]
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Fucking agreed. All of the books in the Ender universe are great. I've read enders game, speaker for the dead, xenocide, children of the mind, and ender in exile.
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Of vonneguts books I've only read Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. I think I like SH5 much more but Breakfast of Champions is way funnier.
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As much as I love Vonnegut's books, though, I have a hard time staying interested in them. His prose just doesnt really pull me in. Usually I can spend a whole afternoon reading but I end up taking Vonnegut books in little 20-minute pieces.
I wish amazon and libraries had some kind of deal for kindles where the library buys the e-book, and it can be put on kindles, and then it self deletes after like 2 weeks or whatever. I doubt it would happen, but it would be pretty cool.
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I've read ender's game, but not the sequels. I was also thinking of buying hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy complete series on my kindle since it's only $10. My brother had to read the first one for school a while ago and it looked pretty good.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;29399430]I wish amazon and libraries had some kind of deal for kindles where the library buys the e-book, and it can be put on kindles, and then it self deletes after like 2 weeks or whatever. I doubt it would happen, but it would be pretty cool.
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I've read ender's game, but not the sequels. I was also thinking of buying hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy complete series on my kindle since it's only $10. My brother had to read the first one for school a while ago and it looked pretty good.[/QUOTE]
Hitchhikers guide is amazing
[QUOTE=Ender_Wiggin;29397944]Fucking agreed. All of the books in the Ender universe are great. I've read enders game, speaker for the dead, xenocide, children of the mind, and ender in exile.[/QUOTE]
Have you read the Shadow series? It's just as good.
Also, I was wondering when you would show up in this thread.
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