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Dag, on 18 March 2010 - 06:47 AM, said:
Still willing to take another chance with him though and moving on to "The Scar".
The Scar is probably his best book, so if you don't like that then it's likely time to try another writer
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 08:31 PM
Still willing to take another chance with him though and moving on to "The Scar".
The Scar is probably his best book, so if you don't like that then it's likely time to try another writer
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 09:05 PM
caladanbrood, on 18 March 2010 - 08:31 PM, said:
Dag, on 18 March 2010 - 06:47 AM, said:
Still willing to take another chance with him though and moving on to "The Scar".
The Scar is probably his best book, so if you don't like that then it's likely time to try another writer
But his endings always seem abrupt and unfinished. I really enjoy every other facet of what he does, but the endings bother me. Perhaps it is intentional, I don't know.
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 09:14 PM
Yeah, I have the same problem, especially PSS. Reckon the other 95% of the books makes up for it though
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 10:28 PM
It's the same way I feel about Dan Simmons.
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 10:39 PM
Currently, various short stories in GALACTIC NORTH by Alastair Reynolds in a preparation to read his Revelation Space series. So far it is blowing my mind as some of the best space opera sci-fi I have ever laid my hands upon. GREAT stuff!
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 10:53 PM
Halfway through "The Fires of Heaven" by Jordan.
Have to say, I'm so ridiculously glad I finally took the time to start reading WoT, it really is a brilliant series - I've been absolutely hooked since I picked up book 1, it's immense.
Have to say, I'm so ridiculously glad I finally took the time to start reading WoT, it really is a brilliant series - I've been absolutely hooked since I picked up book 1, it's immense.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 03:20 AM
QuickTidal, on 18 March 2010 - 10:39 PM, said:
Currently, various short stories in GALACTIC NORTH by Alastair Reynolds in a preparation to read his Revelation Space series. So far it is blowing my mind as some of the best space opera sci-fi I have ever laid my hands upon. GREAT stuff!
I've yet to read Galactic North, but make sure you don't miss his Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days novellas (available in a single volume) also set in the RS universe. Fantastic stuff, especially the first one.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:52 AM
I read most of the Foundation series. They're awful to my modern sensibilities. You can tell Asimov is only writing these because his publisher made him. Wooden characters, an inability to really go into much depth anywhere. The concepts within may have been groundbreaking at the time, but have long since been surpassed in all fields of literature.
Ugh.
Now reading a biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who was a Polish military engineer that came over and basically allowed the Colonies to win the Revolutionary War by being a super-competent engineer and excellent at finding and constructing defensible spots quickly. It's pretty awesome so far and I've just gotten to the point where he's gone back to Poland where he would later become a national hero. The dude's life is incredible and he comes off as perhaps one of the finest human beings in Western history. I recommend the book not only for the story of him, but for rather interesting looks into politics and key figures of American and European history. It's called the Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution.
Gothos would probably know about him from school and all.
Ugh.
Now reading a biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who was a Polish military engineer that came over and basically allowed the Colonies to win the Revolutionary War by being a super-competent engineer and excellent at finding and constructing defensible spots quickly. It's pretty awesome so far and I've just gotten to the point where he's gone back to Poland where he would later become a national hero. The dude's life is incredible and he comes off as perhaps one of the finest human beings in Western history. I recommend the book not only for the story of him, but for rather interesting looks into politics and key figures of American and European history. It's called the Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution.
Gothos would probably know about him from school and all.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 03:17 PM
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 05:55 PM
QuickTidal, on 18 March 2010 - 10:39 PM, said:
Currently, various short stories in GALACTIC NORTH by Alastair Reynolds in a preparation to read his Revelation Space series. So far it is blowing my mind as some of the best space opera sci-fi I have ever laid my hands upon. GREAT stuff!
Which one is that? I do love Reynolds' stuff, but remembering what happens in which book can sometimes be tough!
I've finally started chapter 2 of Gathering Storm. It's not even bad, I'm just completely blank on what happened in the previous book. The only thing I remember about is was that it was better than the few before it... and that bloke died. The country bumpkin one with the treachery?
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 09:46 PM
Reading Ender's Game at the moment. About 120 pages in (Ender's recently joined Rat army), and starting to enjoy it immensely, a bit to my surprise as I'm not really that into sci-fi as I am fantasy.
I assume that someone on here has read the entire saga, and I'm wondering if it's worth it? I was surprised that it was a series as I thought it was a standalone book. Not really prepared to delve into an additional 6 books as I'm planning to read at least one, if not all three, of Karl Pilkington's books as well as a complete first re-read of MBotF before tCG comes out.
Sanderson's WoT-book is on the list as well.
I assume that someone on here has read the entire saga, and I'm wondering if it's worth it? I was surprised that it was a series as I thought it was a standalone book. Not really prepared to delve into an additional 6 books as I'm planning to read at least one, if not all three, of Karl Pilkington's books as well as a complete first re-read of MBotF before tCG comes out.
Sanderson's WoT-book is on the list as well.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 10:23 PM
it's a stand alone book, really. You might want to read Speaker of the Dead, which is decent. After that Scott Card stopped writing books as he was murdered by Aztec Illuminati and replaced by a German character actor who'd promote views more appropriate for the upcoming revolution.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 10:46 PM
caladanbrood, on 19 March 2010 - 05:55 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 18 March 2010 - 10:39 PM, said:
Currently, various short stories in GALACTIC NORTH by Alastair Reynolds in a preparation to read his Revelation Space series. So far it is blowing my mind as some of the best space opera sci-fi I have ever laid my hands upon. GREAT stuff!
Which one is that? I do love Reynolds' stuff, but remembering what happens in which book can sometimes be tough!
It's got The Great Wall of Mars (first appearance of Galiana, Nevil and Felka) which does a fair job of introducing Conjoiners, and then there is Glacier which is kind of murder mystery a century old, and then The Spy On Europa which was wordy, but cool, and now I am on Weather which is doing a good job of introducing me to Ultra's. I've a few more to go, then I'll read The Prefect and after that Chasm City and then the RS trilogy. past that I'll do the other short stories and novella's.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 03:04 AM
I'd advice you to read Chasm City first. In my opinion the Prefect is by far Reynold's weakest book, several levels behind any of his other work.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 09:33 AM
Morgoth, on 19 March 2010 - 10:23 PM, said:
After that Scott Card stopped writing books as he was murdered by Aztec Illuminati and replaced by a German character actor who'd promote views more appropriate for the upcoming revolution.
Meh, he just spouts the same ignorant crap any "traditionalist" does. Nothing that can't be cured by getting caught soliciting a male prostitute in a church bathroom while snorting coke, "praying away the gay", and a swift kick in the nuts.
Man what a douche. Think I'll stop with Ender's Game as I don't want to give him any more money than I have.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 02:38 PM
Morgoth, on 20 March 2010 - 03:04 AM, said:
I'd advice you to read Chasm City first. In my opinion the Prefect is by far Reynold's weakest book, several levels behind any of his other work.
My problem with that is getting my hands on a copy. Toronto is dry for Reynolds work mostly...I could order it I spose, but I am gonna be out of book before it comes. Hmmmm....I do keep hearing how awesome Chasm City is though...
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 02:46 PM
Speaker For the Dead is a much better book than Ender's Game. (Ender's game was actually rewritten from a short story to function as a prequel for Speaker.) After reading Speaker, though, you'll likely want to know how the story ends, which requires reading Xenocide (pretty good) and Children of the Mind (not so great, but it ends the series nicely.) Everything else with the "Ender" label on it can safely be avoided.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 02:47 PM
I finished The Name of the Wind last night, and it was phenomenal. Can't wait for Day Two, whenever that comes out. Next up (finally!) is Dust of Dreams.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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