01-14-2003, 04:37 AM | #521 | |
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"Sci Fi's answer to LOTR"
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01-14-2003, 05:22 AM | #522 |
the Shrike
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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.
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01-14-2003, 05:25 AM | #523 |
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Still have to read Dune. Hmm, I think I'll add that to my summer reading list. . .
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01-14-2003, 05:32 AM | #524 |
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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.
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01-14-2003, 05:58 AM | #525 | |
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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.
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01-14-2003, 06:00 AM | #526 |
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BoP, Arathorn--
read American Gods! read it, read it! I'll get started on Dune if you do. . .
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01-14-2003, 12:19 PM | #527 |
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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
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01-14-2003, 02:15 PM | #528 | |
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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. |
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01-14-2003, 03:24 PM | #529 |
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Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra both by CS Lewis
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01-14-2003, 03:38 PM | #530 |
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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.
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01-14-2003, 03:39 PM | #531 |
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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 |
01-14-2003, 03:50 PM | #532 |
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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.
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01-14-2003, 03:58 PM | #533 | |
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Better make that Prozac with a vodka chaser...
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Yeesh, guess I was right with my last sub-heading *wanders off to Amazon in the hope that they sell an unabridged audio edition* |
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01-14-2003, 04:27 PM | #534 | |
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Re: Better make that Prozac with a vodka chaser...
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01-14-2003, 04:28 PM | #535 |
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Quote: Thanks for the sympathy (tho' I was secretly hoping someone would say "wow, it's cool, you'll love it"
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01-14-2003, 08:35 PM | #536 |
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I agree with Crickhollow: better Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights.
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01-14-2003, 09:20 PM | #537 |
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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.
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01-14-2003, 11:02 PM | #538 |
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Tried Jane Eyre. Didn't like it (much to my mother's dismay ). Good luck, Coney
Archer's Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones.
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01-14-2003, 11:09 PM | #539 |
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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.
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01-15-2003, 01:28 AM | #540 | |
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Edit: I liked Jane Eyre. Wuthering Heights was torturous though.
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