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Just got the first of C.S. Lewis's space trilogy books...ya know the group with "that hideous strength," except I forget the name of the one I have. Hmm....
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05-14-2004, 12:57 AM | #22 |
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that would be "Out of the Silent Planet." a good read. "perelandra" is much, much better, though.
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05-17-2004, 02:49 AM | #25 |
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Last book i bought(a month ago) was a first american ed of the silmarillian. Fo' too fitty.
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05-17-2004, 05:30 AM | #26 | |
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For me, I would say, Tad Williams is better. The first book [by hobb] is kind of strange. Though the story isn't bad at all and her chracterization is great. Tad Williams sometimes reminds me of Tolkien and I love the Trolls! I hope Otherland would be as good as Memory, Sorrow and Thorn saga was.
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05-17-2004, 07:35 PM | #27 |
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Thanks Beleg. I was beginning to think that no-one else had read Tad Williams. I think you'll enjoy the scope of the Otherland series. It gets very weird at the end though, which I guess could be construed as weakness. But an enjoyable series, with an interesting/different POV from the usual assortment of fantasy/sci-fi. So far though, it seems to me that his Sorrow series is the better of the two series, but they're both very DIFFERENT.
edit: hey, wow, we have another member from the 'dark continent'. Welcome! Oh, have you read Dune?
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I guess Melko Belcha [Sp?] has read Tad Williams too and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is a favorite of his. Otherland looks nice, though I have to say Tad William's war writing is no where near writers like Sebastian Faulks etc. Memory, Sorow and Thorn I guess is pure fantasy, while Otherland is a fine mesh of Cyberpunk/Cybernatics, Fantasy and mainstream fiction. Quote:
On the risk of being labeled a heretic , I'd say I haven't read Dune mainly because I couldn't get past the first few pages. But now that I have read a couple of other threads [Dune seems to be a favorite of folks here], I guess I'll give it a second, longer try and go on to about 100-150 pages.
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05-18-2004, 03:53 AM | #29 |
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I read the first 3 of the dune series. I liked the first 2 very much.
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Yes, the Otherland series is a bit of a mish-mash. It gets progressively more fantasy-ish as well, which is why I liked it so much. Also, there's a development of cultures that you don't necessarily see in sci-fi/mainstream. It is particularly interesting to follow the development of Xabbu! and Renie's characters - though it was hard to imagine what Xabbu! looked like, I must admit.
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05-18-2004, 01:21 PM | #32 | |
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Hehe, I am liking Xabbu! Although I have to agree that it is hard to imagine his looks. Perhaps part of purpose behind the mention of the Bushman was to generate more intrest in people? Tad Williams did say something to the effect that he would be really happy to see people taking more intrest in them after reading the books. [hugely Rephrased]
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Fishes, goats, same diff.
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I just bought 'The Golden Ass' by Apuleius. It's a classic, apparently. Our lecturer for Virgil and Catullus told us it was good, and you know, I am actually getting into it. Although I still think I spelled Apuleius wrong...
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I just bought "Jane Eyre" by you know who (and no its not Berlioz!).
BoP, your new avvie of the turtle is cute, and ok I guess...but the dragon was much better
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Turtle?... What turtle?
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ok, it was a tortoise then. Dot pretend you dont know...you had it on last night
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I've just aquired Michael Tamelander's Avgörandets Ögonblick: Invasionen av Normandie 1944 (a book about D-day) and Slaget om Västeuropa: Flygkrig, strategi och politik sommaren 1940 (a book about Germany's attack on Western Europe and the Battle of Britain).
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i finally got the books my parents ordered for my b-day (in march ) the last three books in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass- Sinner, Pilgrim, and Crusader! and i also bought the first four Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series (Guilty Pleasures, The Lauging Corpse, The Circus of the Damned, and The Lunatic Cafe) actually, i got all those last week, but i kept forgetting to post it here
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I've just aquired James Lawrence's The Rise And Fall of the British Empire and Warrior Race: A History of the British At War.
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