what are you reading right now? - Page 27

Arathorn · 01-14-2003, 04:37 AM

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Originally posted by BeardofPants
Dune! Dune! Dune! Dune!! Dune!!! Dune!!!!

"Sci Fi's answer to LOTR"

BeardofPants · 01-14-2003, 05:22 AM

Did I mention Dune?

Seriously though: hitchhikers is good in a down right silly way, A Brave New World is good in a creepy, scary, distopic way, but Dune is seriously life changing. You get the same feeling at the end of Dune that you do from reading LOTR... that tingling down your neck... that feeling that something big has just happened... A sense of a whole world at your fingertips.... Gotta read it again. Definately the best piece of sci fi I've ever read.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 01-14-2003, 05:25 AM

Still have to read Dune. Hmm, I think I'll add that to my summer reading list. . .

BeardofPants · 01-14-2003, 05:32 AM

Hey, speaking of recommendations, I still have to read American Gods. I started reading it in Borders the other day, but then one of the staff started giving me funny looks.

Arathorn · 01-14-2003, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Did I mention Dune?

Seriously though: hitchhikers is good in a down right silly way, A Brave New World is good in a creepy, scary, distopic way, but Dune is seriously life changing. You get the same feeling at the end of Dune that you do from reading LOTR... that tingling down your neck... that feeling that something big has just happened... A sense of a whole world at your fingertips.... Gotta read it again. Definately the best piece of sci fi I've ever read.

Yeah, societies are now like antfarms to me.

I need to get past page 150 in American Gods. I wish I hadnt started on The Hobbit again. it slows me down. Maybe later.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 01-14-2003, 06:00 AM

BoP, Arathorn--

read American Gods! read it, read it!

I'll get started on Dune if you do. . .

RosieCotton · 01-14-2003, 12:19 PM

Okay, I just joined this thread, and don't really have time to go through 27 pages, so if you could recommend one or two really good sci-fi/fantasy books or series, what would they be?

Rosie

Grey_Wolf · 01-14-2003, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by RosieCotton
Okay, I just joined this thread, and don't really have time to go through 27 pages, so if you could recommend one or two really good sci-fi/fantasy books or series, what would they be?

Rosie

Here's a list of good Scifi and Fantasy books:

Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality (Scifi/Fan-series)
Steven R Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle (Fantasy)
A A Attanasio's King Arthur-books (Fantasy)
A C Clarke's Rama-series and Odyssey-series (Scifi)
Terry Brooks' Shanara-series (Fantasy)
Both David Brin's Uplift-trilogies (Scifi)
Patrick Tilley's The Amtrack Wars (Scifi)
Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars and an antology called The Martians. (Scifi)
Michael Moorcock's Swords-trilogy (Corum-books) and The Chronicles of Corum (Fantasy)
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time-series (Fantasy)

AND, OF COURSE:
If you haven't read them already: J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

**crickhollow** · 01-14-2003, 03:24 PM

Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
both by CS Lewis

Hanza · 01-14-2003, 03:38 PM

Starr polish I would say Hitchhikers because it is hilarity to its max!

I'm reading Lord of the Flies for school. Nearly half way through. Much easier reading than LotR. a nice change i think. but only for a week or two.

Coney · 01-14-2003, 03:39 PM

Ye Gods! I have to read Jane Ayre (sp?) for Uni

The nearest I've come to that kinda stuff was watching Cliff Richard prance in the heather on me mum's Heathcliffe (the musical) video

Ah well, maybe it is time this Coney broadened his literary horizons

**crickhollow** · 01-14-2003, 03:50 PM

I'm sorry for you, Coney. I'm not a huge fan of anything by the Brontes. They're so depressing. But better to read Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights, I say.

Coney · 01-14-2003, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by crickhollow
I'm sorry for you, Coney. I'm not a huge fan of anything by the Brontes. They're so depressing. But better to read Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights, I say.

Thanks for the sympathy (tho' I was secretly hoping someone would say "wow, it's cool, you'll love it"

).

Yeesh, guess I was right with my last sub-heading

*wanders off to Amazon in the hope that they sell an unabridged audio edition*

Miranda · 01-14-2003, 04:27 PM

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Originally posted by Coney
Thanks for the sympathy (tho' I was secretly hoping someone would say "wow, it's cool, you'll love it" ).

Yeesh, guess I was right with my last sub-heading

*wanders off to Amazon in the hope that they sell an unabridged audio edition*

Oh I adore the Brontes. There's a really good black and white film of Jane Eyre that is very close to the book but can't remember director etc (sorry) That'd be a good bet if you want to watch it rather than read it. Mx

Huan · 01-14-2003, 04:28 PM

Quote: Thanks for the sympathy (tho' I was secretly hoping someone would say "wow, it's cool, you'll love it"

Sorry, Coney, sympathy is probably all you'll get. When it comes to the Brontes, you're advised to invest in lots of caffeine.

cee2lee2 · 01-14-2003, 08:35 PM

I agree with Crickhollow: better Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights.

Starr Polish · 01-14-2003, 09:20 PM

BoP, I KNEW you were going to say "Dune". I'll probably read "Brave New World", because "Dune" is worth two books, but so is "The Agony and the Ecstacy". I promise to read Dune this summer, okay

I really want to read the Adams book as well. Maybe it will be one of the extras I read.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 01-14-2003, 11:02 PM

Tried Jane Eyre. Didn't like it (much to my mother's dismay

). Good luck, Coney

Archer's Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones.

Starr Polish · 01-14-2003, 11:09 PM

I also tried to read Jane Eyre when I was in ninth grade, adn I couldn't stand it. It's one of the books I could read for my class, but I don't think I'll be picking it up. I'm actually interested in reading Wuthering Heights though..hm.

BeardofPants · 01-15-2003, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by Starr Polish
BoP, I KNEW you were going to say "Dune". I'll probably read "Brave New World", because "Dune" is worth two books, but so is "The Agony and the Ecstacy".

Was I that obvious?

Brave New World is good, too. I'll have to re-read it sometime. I found it a lot more chilling than 1984 in some ways...

Edit: I liked Jane Eyre. Wuthering Heights was torturous though.

01-14-2003, 05:22 AM	#522
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Did I mention Dune? Seriously though: hitchhikers is good in a down right silly way, A Brave New World is good in a creepy, scary, distopic way, but Dune is seriously life changing. You get the same feeling at the end of Dune that you do from reading LOTR... that tingling down your neck... that feeling that something big has just happened... A sense of a whole world at your fingertips.... Gotta read it again. Definately the best piece of sci fi I've ever read. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

01-14-2003, 05:25 AM	#523
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Still have to read Dune. Hmm, I think I'll add that to my summer reading list. . . __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

01-14-2003, 05:32 AM	#524
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Hey, speaking of recommendations, I still have to read American Gods. I started reading it in Borders the other day, but then one of the staff started giving me funny looks. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

01-14-2003, 06:00 AM	#526
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	BoP, Arathorn-- read American Gods! read it, read it! I'll get started on Dune if you do. . . __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

01-14-2003, 12:19 PM	#527
RosieCotton Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Hobbiton...no wait.... Posts: 263	Okay, I just joined this thread, and don't really have time to go through 27 pages, so if you could recommend one or two really good sci-fi/fantasy books or series, what would they be? Rosie __________________ Fortune rides like the Sun on high With the fox that makes the ravens fly Luck his sould, the lightning his eye He snatches the moons from out of the sky.

01-14-2003, 03:24 PM	#529
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra both by CS Lewis __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

01-14-2003, 03:38 PM	#530
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	Starr polish I would say Hitchhikers because it is hilarity to its max! I'm reading Lord of the Flies for school. Nearly half way through. Much easier reading than LotR. a nice change i think. but only for a week or two. __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain?? Last edited by Hanza : 01-14-2003 at 03:39 PM.

01-14-2003, 03:39 PM	#531
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	Pass the Prozac Ye Gods! I have to read Jane Ayre (sp?) for Uni The nearest I've come to that kinda stuff was watching Cliff Richard prance in the heather on me mum's Heathcliffe (the musical) video Ah well, maybe it is time this Coney broadened his literary horizons __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica

01-14-2003, 03:50 PM	#532
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	I'm sorry for you, Coney. I'm not a huge fan of anything by the Brontes. They're so depressing. But better to read Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights, I say. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

01-14-2003, 04:28 PM	#535
Huan Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Oxford, MS Posts: 274	Quote: Thanks for the sympathy (tho' I was secretly hoping someone would say "wow, it's cool, you'll love it" Sorry, Coney, sympathy is probably all you'll get. When it comes to the Brontes, you're advised to invest in lots of caffeine.

01-14-2003, 08:35 PM	#536
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	I agree with Crickhollow: better Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights.

01-14-2003, 09:20 PM	#537
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	BoP, I KNEW you were going to say "Dune". I'll probably read "Brave New World", because "Dune" is worth two books, but so is "The Agony and the Ecstacy". I promise to read Dune this summer, okay I really want to read the Adams book as well. Maybe it will be one of the extras I read. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

01-14-2003, 11:02 PM	#538
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Tried Jane Eyre. Didn't like it (much to my mother's dismay ). Good luck, Coney Archer's Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones. __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

01-14-2003, 11:09 PM	#539
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I also tried to read Jane Eyre when I was in ninth grade, adn I couldn't stand it. It's one of the books I could read for my class, but I don't think I'll be picking it up. I'm actually interested in reading Wuthering Heights though..hm. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

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