04-26-2008, 10:52 PM | #161 | |
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This is the stuff with the Pupeteers and the like. One of my favorite parts is when the Pupeteer tells Beowulf to run his tongue over the Kdatylano touch sculpture... It would be much more sensitive |
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05-10-2008, 11:23 PM | #162 |
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I'm just about to start "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin, having just read the Earthsea Trilogy during the winter. Hopefully I'll be getting a lot of reading in now that it's summer for me!
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05-15-2008, 11:47 AM | #163 |
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One of my all time favourites, but be warned! It's heavily didactic, containing a lot of discussion about political philosophy and social organisation- sort of an "Atlas Shrugged" for left-wing anarchists, but half the length and done by someone who can actually write.
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09-13-2008, 01:20 PM | #164 |
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Just began "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Maybe now I'll finally get around to watching the movie too... |
10-24-2008, 10:05 AM | #165 |
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Just finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
Wonderful.
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10-24-2008, 12:07 PM | #166 |
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Aww.... I love Neil... I'm going to have to get that someday... first I really need to concentrate my efforts on getting all of the Sandman graphic novels
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10-27-2008, 11:18 AM | #167 |
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I think the current spelling of those graphic novels is: $andman.
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10-27-2008, 12:00 PM | #168 |
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Lol... expensive: yes. Worth it: completely
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"Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see." "But remember... clowns make two things around here: balloon animals... and enemies." "If I loved you then I would love you in any way I could, and if we could not touch, then I would draw strength from your beauty... And if I went blind, I would fill my soul with the sound of your voice and the contents of your thoughts until the last spark of my love for you lit the shabby darkness of my dying mind." |
10-29-2008, 11:23 PM | #169 |
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10-12-2010, 04:48 AM | #170 |
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Finally got around to reading "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. It's always on the lists of best SF novels, but I somehow had the feeling the that it was militarist SF, a la "Starship Troopers"- I love Heinlein, but was less impressed with his spawn, Jerry Pournelle etc.
Of course, it has a totally different take on the war issue- maybe coming from Haldeman being a Vietnam vet, and actually serving (and being severely wounded) in combat, which Heinlein, in spite of all his bluster, never did. Anyway, fantastic book, deserving all the kudos, with both the military aspects and the scientific/social issues of the relativistic time-stretching being handled incredibly well. Got it in a trilogy with "Forever Free" and "Forever Peace" which I'm moving on to now. Haldeman says that in the earlier issues he had to leave chunks out which the editor thought too depressing or too sexual; so he says this is the definitive edition.
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10-12-2010, 07:16 AM | #171 |
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I'm currently re-reading AA Attanasio's brilliant Arthor Series. I utterly love it - the excellent prose - the story - my favourite next to Lord of the Rings - I love the legend - the king who came to unite and make the land whole - one day to return.
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10-12-2010, 10:29 PM | #172 |
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There are fantasy novels besides Tolkien's? Do they even compare?!?!
I'm kidding-not that much of a fanatic! Well, maybe I am. Not currently reading this, but one good Sci-fi novel I've read is John White's The Iron Sceptre. It's a sequel to another of White's books, The Tower of Geburah, and both are very good. The plot bears a slight semblance to Lewis's Chronicles- with children entering another world by strange means- but are not in any way allegorical.
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10-13-2010, 01:48 AM | #173 |
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These do compare - ever surpasses - Tolkien.
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10-13-2010, 07:49 PM | #174 |
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Over this past weekend, I read The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. So glad I got all three at once and could read through to the end. Once I started, I didn't want to stop.
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10-17-2010, 07:34 PM | #175 |
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Just finished "Forever Free", the written-20-years-later sequel to "Forver War". It was alright as a story for the most part- definitely a step down from "War"- but the ending was one of those "we built up to a huge Cosmic Mystery, now here's the letdown" things.
A problem when stories get involved in the Vast Conspiracy Behind It All; the unveiling is often a disappointment- the "Riverworld" series was one of those. On to "Forever Peace"
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10-22-2010, 08:24 PM | #176 |
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I'm reading "Avalon - The Return of King Arthur" by Stephen Lawhead. My brother in law introduced me to this and now i can't put it down... Now i'll just have to find myself the whole series. I feel a new addiction coming on.
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10-23-2010, 01:47 AM | #177 | |
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I just finished reading "The Hunger Games" trilogy by Suzanne Collins. It was very good, highly recommend.
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10-24-2010, 05:57 AM | #178 | |
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Sounds good- and at the risk of sounding classifactory- did I just make that up?- what age level is it aimed at?
The "standing naked" bit sounds more adult, in our New Puritan times, but this Quote:
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10-24-2010, 03:13 PM | #179 |
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I'd class it as young adult.
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06-04-2011, 05:50 PM | #180 |
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I am reading The Sword of Angels by John Marco, which is the third book in a triogy. The other two are The Eyes of God and The Devil's Amor. I really like them.
I have also been into Tad Williams lately. Peace and goodwill.
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