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And what I just finished:



A surprisingly good read. Blends a great story centered around a unique and interesting protagonist with an epic scope in terms of history. The author juxtaposes one boy's successes in life with the pervasive persecution present both during World War II and in the infancy of apartheid.

Really good stuff.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Haha, it's not about Brazil at all - it's actually about the place of religion in modern society, and is based in New York. edit: see original post in the thread.

Intriguing. Will buy

started reading dante's inferno for maybe the 8th time last night.

<3

The whole shebang? Isn't that like 1500 pages?

I've only read random chapters and quotes from it, never even dared to try reading the whole book.

this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy...s/dp/0679433139

this and Leon Uris' Trinity are 2 books i can always keep reading no matter how many times i have already done it.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov And what I just finished: A surprisingly good read. Blends a great story centered around a unique and interesting protagonist with an epic scope in terms of history. The author juxtaposes one boy's successes in life with the pervasive persecution present both during World War II and in the infancy of apartheid. Really good stuff.

Peekay, right? I saw the movie...Morgan Freeman is in it, so you know it's awesome.



Right now I'm reading 'A Man in Full' by Tm Wolfe.

Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

American Gods by Neil Gaiman



Gaiman is pretty popular with a lot of "hipster" fantasy readers and wanted to see what it is all about. Not really that impressed after 400 pages in. He's an imaginative guy but he doesn't weave that great of a story.

reading three
- achieve brand integrity (for the gym)
- some book on the entire history of yugoslavia (for home / weekends)
- new moon (for the train / small breaks in the day)

salman rushdie's the moor's last sigh

Currently reading:

When I was on holiday in Ireland years ago this was one of the books in the cottage we stayed in. It was so long I didn't finish it before the holiday was over, and I pledged to read the whole thing one day.

It's pretty good as hard SF goes: incredible attention to detail and there's loads of science, both known and extrapolated, in there. Unfortunately, like most SF authors, Robinson can't write for shit.

After that, my reading list looks like:

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - The Watchmen
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Victory, Nostromo, The Nigger of the Narcissus
Irvine Welsh - The Marabou Stork Nightmares

I also promised my friend I'd read Dawkins' The God Delusion, although I'm not particularly interested in it.

does listening to audiobooks count ?

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Originally posted by weymouth American Gods by Neil Gaiman Gaiman is pretty popular with a lot of "hipster" fantasy readers and wanted to see what it is all about. Not really that impressed after 400 pages in. He's an imaginative guy but he doesn't weave that great of a story.

I read this a couple of years back.. and I was actually really impressed. Probably as much by the concepts as the story. Though I haven't read ANY fantasy since LOTR in 5th grade. So perhaps whatever it is about the traditional fantasy genre is missing. In general I found this book interesting in a sci-fi sorta way more than a fantasy way (not that I read sci-fi either).

Just finished up A Brief History of Time and am now starting:

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Unfortunately, like most SF authors, Robinson can't write for shit.

I've always wondered why that is -- that SF authors can't write.

It seems to me that most prominent Science Fiction writers seem to have a strong background in pulp and serial publication-inspired childhoods. I'll bet this begins to change as newer generations come forth, no longer the result of long-since extinct forms of fiction.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On It seems to me that most prominent Science Fiction writers seem to have a strong background in pulp and serial publication-inspired childhoods. I'll bet this begins to change as newer generations come forth, no longer the result of long-since extinct forms of fiction.

JK rowlings being the most famous example. even i can write better than this bitch.

Right? I just don't understand how people can say it's so "good". I can understand liking something just because it tickles your fancy, but to accredit any sort of skill or profession to a work merely because you like it is dumb as shit.

My girlfriend, an English major, is a big fan of the Harry Potter books and recommended them to me. She recognizes that they're written badly but finds them entertaining.

Exactly - entertaining and good can be two entirely different things. Trust me, there's lots of stupid crap that I am entertained by, but I have no qualms calling the crap what it is and criticizing the rest appropriately.

/sticks nose up

Oh, and this makes me laugh:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Nights

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...a group of science fiction and fantasy authors under the direction of James D. Macdonald collaborated on a deliberately low-quality work, complete with obvious grammatical errors, nonsensical passages, and a complete lack of a coherent plot. The effort appears to have been partly inspired by another collaborative "hoax" work, Naked Came the Stranger: the working title of Atlanta Nights was Naked Came the Badfic.[3] The distinctive flaws of Atlanta Nights include nonidentical chapters written by two different authors from the same segment of outline (13 and 15), a missing chapter (21), two chapters that are word-for-word identical to each other (4 and 17), two different chapters with the same chapter number (12 and 12), and a chapter "written" by a computer program that generated random text based on patterns found in the previous chapters (34). Characters change gender and race; they die and reappear without explanation. Spelling and grammar are nonstandard and the formatting is inconsistent. The initials of characters who were named in the book spelled out the phrase "PublishAmerica is a vanity press."[4] The finale was also crafted to be deliberately bad; not only are all the previous events of the plot revealed to have been a dream (long condemned as a "cheat" ending), but even after this revelation the book continues for several more chapters.

Just started the Holographic Universe by reccomendation from Nefardec. So far just read the first chapter and im hooked

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Originally posted by Dj Nacht Just started the Holographic Universe by reccomendation from Nefardec. So far just read the first chapter and im hooked

be sure to check out the bibliography in the back as well, especially that written by david bohm

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