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| 19 Mar 11, 7:43 PM nikohl UK, 4 yrs  |
With the M - definitely Against a Dark Background. Without the M - The Bridge is weird but good. Complicity is less weird and less good.
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| 20 Mar 11, 12:53 AM Dekkard 14 mths |
no M: The Wasp Factory - fabulous. agree with The Bridge D -----------------spidery-scrawl----------------- | ||
| 20 Mar 11, 9:00 AM Sarcasma 4 yrs |
Aside from uni books (which I won't list cause it may make people want to poke their eyes out...): The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer. Have finished Hominids, nearly through Humans and soon will start Hybrids.
In general, Sawyer is my current favourite sci-fi author | ||
| 20 Mar 11, 10:54 AM Hooded_Claw UK, 5 yrs |
Just started The name of the wind | ||
| 20 Mar 11, 11:09 AM nexus7 4 yrs |
I've just finished 'The Fuller Memorandum' also by Charles Stross. As you say he does have a rapier wit. Before that I read 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin. An intersesting take on vampires with no teenage angst involved. Do you want to check your hit points before or after I slap you? | ||
| 2 Apr 11, 12:59 AM Empress_Martine UK(HA), 2 yrs £       |
Right now I am about to read: Servants of the Supernatural, The Night Side of the Victorian Mind by Antonio Melechi,its about victorian seances. Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts by Sophie Page and Holistic Home,The Homemaker's Guide to Health and Happiness by Maxine Fox. http://empressm7.uboot.com/ http://www.socialkink.com/empressmartine Vampire, pro/lifestyle ts dom and switch. Age play mummy/aunty/AB ,medical play,domestic, energy and outdoor specialist. "Beyond the government,above the police . | ||
| 2 Apr 11, 2:04 AM Christina1394 UK(BS), 3 yrs |
Aha, I knew if I waited long enough I'd be able to post: I'm currently reading "The Soul of a New Machine", which is about the creation of a Data General minicomputer. It also happens to be amazingly well written: it belongs right alongside "Where the Wizards Stay Up Late" and "Hackers". It also doesn't hurt that it reminds of the sort of project I'm working on right now! | ||
| 2 Apr 11, 2:13 AM Intelligencia UK(GU), 5 yrs |
Currently reading 'What the dog saw' Malcolm Gladwell 'Symmetry' Marcus Du Sautoy 'Smoke and Mirrors' A collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman (Brilliant) Recommend The Damnation Game - Clive Barker (Exquisite sadistic horror) Blink - Malcom Gladwell Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov 'Fern Hill' Dylan Thomas Avoid
any period drama but I think that's more just personal taste. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge, where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T S Eliot Edited 2 Apr 11, 2:14 AM by Intelligencia | ||
| 2 Apr 11, 7:24 AM aphenine UK(N), 2 yrs |
Currently reading: 'Whipping Girl' by Julia Serrano (a good summary of gender politics) 'Self Made Man' by Nora Vincent (a woman spends a year as a man and then writes a book about it) 'The Constitution of Liberty' by Fredrich Hayek (I thought I could do better for the neoliberalism article on Wikipedia than what's there - big mistake) Tamuli - David Eddings (rereading, fantasy series, lots of fun banter) Recommend:
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern and Crystal Singer books - I love her ability to make the fantastical into sci-fi.
Jack McDevitt - Two series of hard mystery-based sci-fi that have enjoyable characters, archaeology and human culture.
Joel Shepherd, Cassandra Kresnov Novels - Best sci-fi description of a future networked society I've come across, with a really decent handling of what it means to be human by exploring the defection of a smart android killing machine to the other side after the war is over. Oh yes, the setting had seriously awesome urban planning too, and handles what the world will be like when the Indians and Chinese take over Avoid: Steven Donaldson's 'Gap' Series: This is the other series he wrote. A space pirate captures a space yacht, kills the parents, takes their oldish girl, installs a chip that allows him to control how she feels, then repeatedly rapes her. That's just the start of the first book. Strangely it wasn't so bad I couldn't finish it (I couldn't get past the rape scene in Thomas Covenant either). Kinda like a train wreck, I knew it was going to be bad but I had to know how it ended, just so I could see how bad it actually was. | ||
| 16 Apr 11, 9:41 PM Sorceror UK(HU), 9 yrs |
Just finished - The Second book of General Ignorance (QI) (very good in parts), Simon Debag Montefiore's "Young Stalin" - fascinating. Would recommend: - "We need to talk about Kevin" - Lionel Shriver, shiv nasty. "Watership Down" - Richard Adams, England's "Iliad". "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee, evocative and moving. "It" Stephen King, I think it's his best novel "Trainspotting" Irvine Welsh, even darker than the iconic film. "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey, even if you have seen the movie "Maus" - Art Spiegelman, the Holocaust rendered on a human scale by making the Germans cats and the Jews mice. "A Clockwork Orange" Anthony Burgess, still relevant. "The Iliad" Homer, thought provoking. S.x.
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