I [I]strongly[/I] recommend that you read the Edge Chronicles at some point. If you enjoy fantasy novels, then these books are simply astounding. The plot, the characters.. shit, it even has amazing illustrations. I think there's 10 of them in 3 different series plus a few one-off books.
Just read Dune. Good book. Are the sequels any good? I've heard mixed reviews.
Currently working my way through Airframe by Michael Crichton.
Before that I just finished Jurassic Park and Timeline for the third time each. Great novels, both of them, but my personal favorite out of all his works is Timeline. His latest book, Pirate Latitudes, is a great read as well, although a bit farfetched in some spots. Shame he passed away, he was a brilliant author.
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This book comes out in October, i may actually look into buying it. The concept seems interesting.
synopsis:
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari*juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off.
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This book comes out in October, i may actually look into buying it. The concept seems interesting.
synopsis:
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari*juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off.[/QUOTE]
I have [I]every[/I] Chuck P book going. the whole 'marijuana overdose' thing is a bit sketchy, but it may be played as a joke.
Yea, the overdose thing got me wondering.
But other than that it looks like it will be a book worth checking into.
the main thing with it that confused me is that Chuck is notorious for doing a fair amount of research when writing his books, Fight club and Snuff prove that the best. The fact that no one has ever OD'd on weed is a pretty common fact, I'd have assumed he would have noted that.
She'll probably find out later in the book that the weed was laced with cyanide or something.
I'm coming up on finishing Children of the Mind for the second time... It makes me sad. I could probably read the Ender series forever. Not as much the Bean saga, but I will still read it again.
Anyone here have read the 'Guns of August'?
I'm taking a sample from the Kindle and so far the drama with in the Royal family and the backstories are pretty good.
[QUOTE=HateThyKing;31269791]Just read Dune. Good book. Are the sequels any good? I've heard mixed reviews.[/QUOTE]
Messiah is definitely good imo. Children didn't hold my attention long enough for me to get terribly far in it, but it didn't for my friend either though he went back and finished it and said it was worth reading. Past that I have no idea.
Finished Evan Tanner series. [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Jy0S68zML._SS500_.jpg[/img]
Any other good character books like this?
[QUOTE=blacksam;31277165]Finished Evan Tanner series. [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Jy0S68zML._SS500_.jpg[/img]
Any other good character books like this?[/QUOTE]
I fucking loved the Dresden files books I read, if that's the sort of character you mean
It has probably(most likely) already been mentioned, but:
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It's basicly about a loser wizzard and a tourist going on a great adventure, revealing anything else would spoil the book.
Start reading this series of books and you won't be able to stop until you're through them all, that is unless you are an illiterate monke-... I mean [I]ape[/I].(Inside jokes all around!)
[b]Edit:[/b] Personal thoughts is that it's amazing.
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;31277195]I fucking loved the Dresden files books I read, if that's the sort of character you mean[/QUOTE]
I tried the first one. I really couldn't get into them.
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I recently bought this, so far it's pretty good. I know comparing a game to a book is unfair but I feel the book has a lot more atmosphere then the game, and the fact that Artyom has NO DIALOGUE in the game just takes a lot from the experience. I'm up to the part were he meets Bourbon, I can't wait to read more in order to see the differences between the game and the book.
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I recently bought this, so far it's pretty good. I know comparing a game to a book is unfair but I feel the book has a lot more atmosphere then the game, and the fact that Artyom has NO DIALOGUE in the game just takes a lot from the experience. I'm up to the part were he meets Bourbon, I can't wait to read more in order to see the differences between the game and the book.[/QUOTE]
People call them demons, I call them bitches.
I ordered [i]Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep[/i], the novel which heavily inspired Blade Runner, a few days ago.
[QUOTE=kevlar jens;31277603]I ordered [i]Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep[/i], the novel which heavily inspired Blade Runner, a few days ago.[/QUOTE]
My friend is in the process of reading that
Just went to Borders for the liquidation sale and got Blood Meridian, The Silmarillion, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, The Atlas of Middle-Earth, the big black, gold-edged hardback Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which looks like a fucking sacred tome, Settlers of Catan, and Rogue Trader
Two of those weren't actually books but WHO CARES
[editline]22nd July 2011[/editline]
Well I guess Rogue Trader semi-qualifies
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;31280115]Blood Meridian,[/QUOTE]
I love this book. People say The Road is gruesome, well...
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;31280115]Just went to Borders for the liquidation sale and got Blood Meridian, The Silmarillion, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, The Atlas of Middle-Earth, the big black, gold-edged hardback Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which looks like a fucking sacred tome, Settlers of Catan, and Rogue Trader
Two of those weren't actually books but WHO CARES
[editline]22nd July 2011[/editline]
Well I guess Rogue Trader semi-qualifies[/QUOTE]
Catan is completely awesome
Also my sister roomate recently bought that Hitchhiker's Guide Tome-book thing too. It's so sexy, every book in the series combined into one big biblical silver-edge book. Hell, the pages are even bible-like in thickness. It's basically THE BIBLE.
Actually turns out that it was a Settlers of Catan expansion whose box looks exactly like the box for the real game except that it says in fairly small text that it's an extension
so I guess I'm now committed to buying the original game at some point
I threw up on my copy of The Diamond Age last night :(
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Basically all the science fiction of David Zindell. I have to take a break from the series otherwise I'll just run out of this awesome stuff too early.
Have some quotes from the books:
• [I]When man took to his bed the Computer, there was great rejoicing, and great fear too, for their children were almost like gods. The mainbrains bestrode the galaxy at will, and changed its very face. The Silicon God, The Solid State Entity, Al Squared, Enth Generation - their names are many. And there were the Carked and Symbionts, whose daughters were the Neurosingers, Warrior-Poets, the Neurologicians and the Pilots of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians.[/I]
• [I]I was given to understand that She manipulated whole sciences and thought systems as I might string words into a sentence. But Her 'sentences' were as huge and profound as the utterances of the universe itself.
[/I]
• [I]'What is a human being, then?'
'A seed'
'A... seed?'
'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.'[/I]
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Hamushka11;31282243]I threw up on my copy of The Diamond Age last night :([/QUOTE]
God dammit.
[QUOTE=Hamushka11;31282243]I threw up on my copy of The Diamond Age last night :([/QUOTE]
Puking on a book always sucks.
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I'm reading this book, which is a collection of a bunch of HP Lovecraft stories.
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This one isn't that great compared to [i]Consider Phlebas[/i] and [i]The Player Of Games[/i] (both of which are the best novels I've ever read, I'd place them above [i]Revelation Space[/i], and that's saying something), but it's still pretty good. Hopefully [i]Excession[/i] will be better.
I'm reading this one :
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I remember trying to read Dune when I was thirteen and I found it really boring and dry. I'll probably give it another chance someday, maybe.
Finished Dracula and am now reading this:
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