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Am I the only one that hates starting a series and then not finishing it? It annoys me when I get 2 books in and get bored. Maybe I should just stop reading series.
I also can't get into reading currently, I've only read 60 pages in a month.
Due to a recent internet drought, I've finished:
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One per day over the last three days.
Children of the Sky: Good bridge novel between AFUtD and the next one (obvious cliffhanger ending)
Ready Player One: Full of clever 80s references and obscure videogame trivia, a fun read, probably the most fun I've had reading a book that isn't The Culture.
Neuromancer: Took it upon myself to finally get around to reading "classics" of Sci-Fi, confusing as fuck, but action-y and overall pretty damn good and interesting. The ending confused the fuck out of me though.
Neuromancer is fucking great. It's one of my favorite books.
I read Miss Lonelyhearts before I am am now reading Tropic of Cancer.
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[editline]26th October 2011[/editline]
This book is so cynical and depressing and I love it.
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Both of these books, they have such a unique lexicon and syntax, it's very unusual and, I don't want to say confusing but something more like, abrasive.
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;32976337]Neuromancer is fucking great. It's one of my favorite books.[/QUOTE]
It was really good but holy fuck it was confusing as hell.
Just picked up:
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Total page count: 1700
TRD page count: 1100
AGaDB page count: 600
Banks is like my favourite Sci-Fi author ever, but TRD looks very promising. 1700 pages of my favourite subsection of my favourite genre.
Mmmmm
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This one came in today, one of the best books I've read this year.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter co-authored a novel?
I need to look into this!
Ever since I read Stephen Baxter's [i]Moonseed[/i] (below), I've really been hoping he'd write another book. I looked at the summaries of the other books in the "trilogy" [i]Moonseed[/i] belonged to, and they didn't really appeal to me. I need to see what this book is about.
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In other news, I just finished reading Greg Bear's [i]Legacy[/i], pictured below. It took me until I was about three-quarters of the way through the book to realize it was a prequel to a series, though. I don't know how I missed the "A prequel to..." right on the book cover all this time... I blame the pretty picture capturing my attention. :v:
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It was... okay. It took me about a hundred pages before I started to like it (mostly because he didn't really explain anything in the beginning; I think this is because it was assumed we knew all this stuff, since it's a prequel :v:).
By the end of the book, though, I wanted to get the other books and see what happens, so obviously it wasn't bad. :v:
I finally got my grubby little hands on this baby, though. Just now started the third chapter. I'm so excited. I've heard great things about the book, saying how the book is even better than the game adaptation, which in my opinion was excellent.
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It's game over, homo sapiens!
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;32986710]Holy shit.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter co-authored a novel?
I need to look into this!
Ever since I read Stephen Baxter's [i]Moonseed[/i] (below), I've really been hoping he'd write another book. I looked at the summaries of the other books in the "trilogy" [i]Moonseed[/i] belonged to, and they didn't really appeal to me. I need to see what this book is about.
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He coauthored this series with Clark as well, it was alright:
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[i]Voyage[/i] and [i]Titan[/i] are must-reads if you're into hard sci-fi with real hardware. [i]Titan[/i] is my favorite book of his by far.
Coming in close second are [i]Flood[/i] and [i]Ark[/i]. Both deal with the accelerated flooding of the Earth due to seismic shifts that open up massive underground oceans, and the second follows a one-shot, multigenerational interstellar mission to an Earthlike exoplanet.
Has anyone read Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle series? The first two are insanely well thought out and have 3 intertwined plots that cross over a lot. It may sound cliché, but they're two of the best books I've read.
Does anyone know of books like Generation Kill? Just finished it and I loved it.
[QUOTE=Xybjj;32987438]Does anyone know of books like Generation Kill? Just finished it and I loved it.[/QUOTE]
Jarhead is the only book that springs to mind. Both Great books in their own right.
Just Finished a Clash of Kings.
[QUOTE=myalt22;32987689]Jarhead is the only book that springs to mind. Both Great books in their own right.
Just Finished a Clash of Kings.[/QUOTE]
Next up you've got the best book in the series (in my opinion)
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;32987744]Next up you've got the best book in the series (in my opinion)[/QUOTE]
I have just been so damn absorbed in them. I finished a Clash of Kings in 3 days.
Hnnng I need to buy the whole series so I never have to pause to go to waterstones and get the next one.
Reading a book about a dwarf.
I like it.
The Dwarves is the name of it.
So good..
[QUOTE=john_pelphre;32981194]I read Miss Lonelyhearts before I am am now reading Tropic of Cancer.
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[editline]26th October 2011[/editline]
This book is so cynical and depressing and I love it.
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Both of these books, they have such a unique lexicon and syntax, it's very unusual and, I don't want to say confusing but something more like, abrasive.[/QUOTE]
I got Miss Lonelyhearts from the library along with another Nathanael West book, The Day of the Locust. You should really check that one out.
Fun Fact: Nathanael West died in a car crash rushing to the funeral of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;32999141]I got Miss Lonelyhearts from the library along with another Nathanael West book, The Day of the Locust. You should really check that one out.
Fun Fact: Nathanael West died in a car crash rushing to the funeral of F. Scott Fitzgerald.[/QUOTE]
The version I have actually has The Day of the Locust attached to it. I read Lonelyhearts first because I'd heard marvelous things about it, but I'll check on The Day of the Locust too then.
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What are some other good Stephen King books? I've read Dreamcatcher, Salem's Lot, The Stand, Duma Key, and the Just After Sunset, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew, Night Shift, and Everything's Eventual collections. They were all great, imo.[/QUOTE]
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One of his best since a long time.
Been reading this:
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It's amazing so far, reminds me of Alastair Reynolds' "Galactic North".
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;32862684]I didn't really like Ringworld... The Ringworld Engineers, on the other hand...[/QUOTE]
I didn't really care much for the Ringworld series as novels; the concepts, on the other hand, are great.
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I finally got my grubby little hands on this baby, though. Just now started the third chapter. I'm so excited. I've heard great things about the book, saying how the book is even better than the game adaptation, which in my opinion was excellent.
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It's game over, homo sapiens![/QUOTE]
It had some spelling error and grammar mistakes but the story is amazing.
I almost shed a tear [sp]at the part under the Kremlin[/sp]
Finished a game of thrones. I'd give it a 2.5/5. The writing was great, and I appreciated the plot for the sheer epicness it presented. However, the book lacked a soul. Too many POV shifts too rapidly gave half the cast minimal development, while the other half simply came off as unlikeable or died/fled just as I was getting to love them. Somehow the events seemed strangely detached and worn, like the author was just going through the motions, and the sex scenes were excessive and disgusting.
Well written, but left me feeling like I was watching the events through a thick glass window. Still getting the sequel though.
welp just read Damned by Chuck Palahniuk in one sitting while shivering violently from a fever. Fucking good book though
I've heard a lot about Watership down. Do you think its worth checking out?
Reading A Game of Thrones. I really like it so far.
I also started The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier, but it's kinda boring.
snape kills dumbledore
[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;32868577]This was excellent, well written and deeply moving. (I cried during Rue's death scene.) The sequels however... sucked. The second goes nowhere, then resorts to rehashing the first book's plot except its really lame, and in the third Katniss becomes the biggest fucking tool.[/QUOTE]
I must be the only person in the world to really enjoy the third book. Why does everyone hate it?
Currently reading
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What Anthony is doing with language in this book is just excellent.
Makes me laugh every time I read "millicents" as police men out loud. I quite viddy it.
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Just finished this, loved it. Though, I would have preferred that [sp]Red hadn't found a letter, hell if he didn't even find the rock. That he'd keep trudging along, clinging to the memory of Andy and all he'd done, all that chipping away at the concrete as his inspiration for living.[/sp] Seems a lot more real than what actually happened.
Now reading this:
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It's a dope book. It's informative, insightful, humorous, and paints a more human picture of Jobs. It describes how his charisma, charm, intensity, and focus were actually derived from other people and that he used to be kind of introverted, and how people close to him speculated he had narcissistic personality or bipolar disorder. He's seriously anti-social with a tinge of Asperger's I swear (super obsessive about details). You get to see in detail how huge of an asshole he was, but it also shows how he would throw [B]fits[/B] and [B]cry[/B] in arguments occasionally. I had no idea he was sensitive that way. I thought it was fucking weird and funny at the same time. (He [I]was[/I] capable of being nice though.)
On the positive side are his accomplishments. In the book, Steve Wozniak acknowledges that Apple's products wouldn't have succeeded without Jobs. His vision (perfectionism and technology for the masses), determination, and fierceness (i.e. securing key negotiations) really built Apple's success. And what makes his accomplishments all the more grand, is that a lot of time people thought his ideas would fail or flop, yet Apple ended up profiting astronomically.
Also there's lots of zings and funnies. Here's one:
[QUOTE]Murdoch and Jobs hit it off well enough that Murdoch went to his Palo Alto house for dinner twice more during the next year. Jobs joked that he had to hide the dinner knives on such occasions, because he was afraid that his liberal wife was going to eviscerate Murdoch when he walked in.[/QUOTE]
I just finished reading Ender's Game today. It was really good, I don't know why I haven't read it until now.
Re-reading Lord of the Flies. Good book.
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