Any recommendations for books I should read?
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Isaac Asimov:
The Bicentennial Man
I, Robot
Alastair Reynolds:
Revelation Space
Redemption Ark
Absolution Gap
The Prefect
Pushing Ice
Tom Clancy:
The Hunt For Red October
Cardinal of The Kremlin
David Hoffman:
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of The Cold War and It's Dangerous Legacy
Orson Scott Card:
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Vernor Vinge:
A Deepness In The Sky
A Fire Upon The Deep
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[QUOTE=Zombii;29807612]Any recommendations for books I should read?[/QUOTE]
If you mean "which book should I read from this list of books", I personally would recommend Ender's Game
Can't go wrong there
Almost finished with:
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[QUOTE=Beetle179;29808009]If you mean "which book should I read from this list of books", I personally would recommend Ender's Game
Can't go wrong there[/QUOTE]
Nah, those are all books I've read.
It's a shame there's not really more Vernon Vinge. Well, I hear he's been making a "sequel" to A Fire Upon the Deep, but that's still some time away
Finished On The Road from Kerouac last week, loved the shit out of it. Like how the story turns more melancholic and bitter towards the end of the book, everything ends, nobody likes mad men, ...
Now reading The Trial , by Kafka. So far, so good, looking forward to finishing it.
Currently reading:
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So I finished reading Snow Crash the other day.
My, that's a lot of realistic dialogue to steal.
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not sure if the book has been posted but I have to say it is really good, amazing characters and you really get to feel the bond between the father and his son -The bond is a bit too strong at times but I'll let you decide that yourselves-
I like the Hunger Games series. Has 3 books; The hunger games, breathing fire, mockingjay
Just ordered, "Wasting Police Time," off Amazon.com yesterday because it was mentioned in GMF.
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About to start reading Stephen Fry's latest autobiography.
I do recommend The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem.
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In fact I recommend pretty much anything by Stanislaw Lem.
I dunno, I've read some of his short stories and they're pretty boring. I like his ideas, such as humanity's inability to comprehend a truly alien intelligence and other such things, but holy shit are the stories boring.
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Speaking of short stories, re-read some HP Lovecraft ones and rediscovered my love of his works, gonna have to buy one of his collections now.
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the imagery in this is fucking poetic, the characters are so deep and the social commentary is perfect.
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[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;29819192]I do recommend The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem.
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In fact I recommend pretty much anything by Stanislaw Lem.[/QUOTE]
Never read him, but the film of Solaris (the Tarkovsky version) is wonderful.
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While I think Stephen King has written better novels, this one has a special spot in my heart for being the first of his I have read (Read it in 6th grade, IIRC).
Thinner was my Stephen King gateway drug, man that was awesome.
Just finished atlas shrugged. Best book I've ever read, even beats out dune.
Is it wrong that I didn't like Slaughterhouse-5? I just could not get into it, it seemed a bit too 'distant' and the writing just came off as too flat and memoir-y for me.
Finished the Hobbit, half-way done Dracula, then on to 2001: Space Odyssey.
Currently re-reading the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Phillip Pullman
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I thought that was a childrens book till i read Kyell Gold's wikipedia article
Been trying to read [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastalon_salissa]Alastalon salissa: Kuvaus saaristosta[/url]
[quote=Wikipedia]In one famous scene, a character's journey to the mantelpiece to fetch a pipe is told in over seventy pages.[/quote]
Just got Hunter S Thompson "Hell's Angels" in.
The beginning is not as good as "We where somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" but damn it's close.
I just bought the complete hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy for my kindle.
LSD, My problem Child by Albert Hoffmann
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[quote]This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition.
We follow Dr. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD, and listen in as he corresponds with other notable figures about his remarkable discovery.
Underlying it all is Dr. Hofmann's powerful conclusion that mystical experience may be our planet's best hope for survival. Whether induced by LSD, meditation, or arising spontaneously, such experiences help us to comprehend "the wonder, the mystery of the divine‹in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula, in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people."
More than sixty years after the birth of Albert Hofmann's problem child, his vision of its true potential is more relevant, and more needed, than ever. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. [/quote]
Im in the beginning right now, where he explains how he discovered LSD
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[QUOTE=Zombii;29808761]Nah, those are all books I've read.[/QUOTE]
If you like SciFi, read the Old Man's War series.
Alright, finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front.
Easily one of the best books I've ever read and one of the most disturbing as well.
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Great book for when you live in the 80's and can't think of anything to say!
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While I think Stephen King has written better novels, this one has a special spot in my heart for being the first of his I have read (Read it in 6th grade, IIRC).[/QUOTE]
steven king books are awful, but this one was the worst
recently read 'Lord of the Flies'
shit story, shit plot, great meanings.
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