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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on May 02, 2004, 05:42:32 pm
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Sci-Fi Warfare
Halo: The Flood - William C. Dietz
Halo: The Fall Of Reach - Eric S. Nylund
Halo: First Strike - Eric S. Nylund
Classics
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Educational
The Art Of War - Sun Tzu, Ralph D. Sawyer (Translator)
The Book Of Five Rings - Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas Cleary (Translator)
Not a bad little haul.
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i think i might buy the dante's inferno books sometime soon.
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CRAP!
That's what I meant to get. The Divine Comedy.
Ah, **** it. I'll get it in a few weeks. I'm not in a poetry kinda mood.
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The Halo series will rock. Art of War is pretty nice too. Dunno' bout' the others.
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Not bad at all. 8 books for....how much in USD?
Meh. Whatever it is, it's a good collection...
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Corsair: 41.50 pounds would be about $70 US i think
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50 quid, you got ripped boy, unless they were all hardback.
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Not really. It just adds up quick.
Van Helsing: The Novel - £5.59
Great Expectations - £1.50
A Tale of Two Cities - £1.50
Halo: The Fall of Reach - £3.94
Halo: The Flood - £3.94
Halo: First Strike - £3.94
Starship Troopers - £6.99
The Art of War - £8.10
The Book of Five Rings - £5.99
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ahh, you bought them new. twat.
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The only hardback books I own are:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Star Trek: Generations - **** knows
Colony - Rob Grant
Oh and a few bibles.
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Yeah, an0n got ripped. I can pick up all the Halo novels--not that I would touch anything that had a word by Dietz in it--for about $2 each at the local Edward McKays. :D
Mind you, $2 is about $27 too much to pay for anything Dietz wrote. He's a hack that'll flog any half-witted plot idea you put in front of him. :lol:
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Pick up Good Omens - it's excellent.
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Pratchetts Good Omens? good aye, picked up ten of the older discworld novels for a quid a couple of months ago, good stuff.
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Yep, Pratchett and Goodman (I think it's Goodman, havent got a copy handy).
It's the only book I've read more than 3 times though - and I do have a good collection of books.
By the by.. Pratchett is showing up in my town for a signing session on Tuesday. Party.
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Originally posted by mikhael
Yeah, an0n got ripped. I can pick up all the Halo novels--not that I would touch anything that had a word by Dietz in it--for about $2 each at the local Edward McKays. :D
Yeah, but getting them cheaper would have required me to actually look.
And by buying them from Amazon in one huge lump I get simplicity and ease, which are more important to me than £10-£15 difference in total cost.
I coulda waited till tomorrow and took a stroll down to Ottakers and probably got Art of War, Five Rings and Van Helsing for half the price, and a look in a few other places coulda nabbed me the Halo novels, and I coulda got the Dickens novels from just about anywhere. But I'm a lazy, lazy man.
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Originally posted by an0n
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Oh and a few bibles.
I thought owning Bibles was against your religion ;)
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Even Nietzsche advocated reading the Bible. Something about needing to get inside something and live it before tearing it down and salting the foundations.
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Yep, Pratchett and Goodman (I think it's Goodman, havent got a copy handy).
It's the only book I've read more than 3 times though - and I do have a good collection of books.
By the by.. Pratchett is showing up in my town for a signing session on Tuesday. Party.
GAIMAN. NEIL GAIMAN.
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, whatever shall we do with you?
Burning at the stake is, I think, indicated. Oh, you remember that thing you asked me about? I found it. PM me a temporary uname/password combination. :D
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If you like ST books, try Star Trek: Federation or Vendetta, definately a worthwhile read :)
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Originally posted by mikhael
GAIMAN. NEIL GAIMAN.
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, whatever shall we do with you?
Burning at the stake is, I think, indicated. Oh, you remember that thing you asked me about? I found it. PM me a temporary uname/password combination. :D
I know I know, sorry but Pratchett was the one that counted as far as I was concerned (not that Gaiman is a bad writer). Please don't burn me.
Oh, and PM on its way ;7
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Originally posted by an0n
Even Nietzsche advocated reading the Bible. Something about needing to get inside something and live it before tearing it down and salting the foundations.
Nietzshe was patient. Tried reading the thing once, was so awful I stopped after 30 pages :p
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We had to read Nietzshe for our philosophy classes last year, I think it was lost on a lot of people though since we were only 17 to 19 in age at the time.
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You put Starship Troopers with the Classics, spreading its stink on Great Expectations?! Tainting Two Cities?!
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I've been thinking about getting the book of five rings (, and also "musashi" by eiji yoshikawa), but other money consuming posessions have come in the way. heard it was good and so...
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Originally posted by J3Vr6
You put Starship Troopers with the Classics, spreading its stink on Great Expectations?! Tainting Two Cities?!
it's a sci-fi classic. like dune, only not as much of a classic as dune.
or maybe more like the illuminatus! trilogy?
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i'm going to come over, give you a firsthand lesson in "the art of war" and take your copy of loa tzu!
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
I know I know, sorry but Pratchett was the one that counted as far as I was concerned (not that Gaiman is a bad writer). Please don't burn me.
Bah, Pratchett is a hack next to the raw, elemental goodness that is Gaiman.
As for Nietsche, as Ernie Cline once said in a beautiful piece of poetry, "Nietsche is still just a monkey."
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Originally posted by mikhael
As for Nietsche, as Ernie Cline once said in a beautiful piece of poetry, "Nietsche is still just a monkey."
He had a tail?
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He was short, hairy and spent all his time at a type-writer.
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lol
nietzsche wasn't a dumb man though, not in the slightest
Man muss Nietzsche auf deutsch lesen, ihn zu richtig verstehen.
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I think people would have more respect for Nietzsche if his beliefs weren't tailored to suit the ****ty life he had to begin with.
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*gives you an odd look that implies you misunderstood nietzsche*
yes.. someone's own bliefs telling themselves they're basically worthless is really tailored to their ****ty life
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Well, having read The Fall Of Reach, I'm quite impressed.
It's not an amazing book, but it's a good book and definitely one of the best 'from another format' stories I've read.
It coulda done with the ****load more depth, but to be fair I think I've been spoiled by reading David Weber. The last thing I read was the entire Honorverse series from start to finish, and being bombarded with such an immense volume of amazing detail may have ruined me for normal authors.
Anyway, good book. Took me 8hrs 20mins to read.
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Originally posted by an0n
Sci-Fi Warfare
Halo: The Flood - William C. Dietz
Halo: The Fall Of Reach - Eric S. Nylund
Halo: First Strike - Eric S. Nylund
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Educational
The Art Of War - Sun Tzu, Ralph D. Sawyer (Translator)
:yes2::yes:
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You should take a look at Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's quite enjoyable :)
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Originally posted by an0n
...Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
I read that in English. I really liked that book.
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Forever War - by Joe Haldman
That book deseves to be paired up with Starship Trropers.
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Originally posted by TopAce
I read that in English. I really liked that book.
The modernized film version with Ethan Hawke, Robert DeNiro and Gwenyth Paltrow kicked ass.
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I must see that film, then.
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Originally posted by an0n
The modernized film version with Ethan Hawke, Robert DeNiro and Gwenyth Paltrow kicked ass.
You know, whenever I hear the words 'Ethan Hawke' and 'modernized' in the same sentence, I think 'Hamlet'.
Gawd that was awful. All the more pity that it was based on about the greatest play known to man.
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Originally posted by an0n
Well, having read The Fall Of Reach, I'm quite impressed.
It's not an amazing book, but it's a good book and definitely one of the best 'from another format' stories I've read.
It coulda done with the ****load more depth, but to be fair I think I've been spoiled by reading David Weber. The last thing I read was the entire Honorverse series from start to finish, and being bombarded with such an immense volume of amazing detail may have ruined me for normal authors.
Anyway, good book. Took me 8hrs 20mins to read.
Told ya. :D
Made me appreciate the game a lot more, in a way too.
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*Looks at KT's post number*
Oh, my God! And I thought an0n had the most posts among non-admins.
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an0n couldn't hold a candle unless he really wanted to. :D
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Originally posted by an0n
Classics
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
:lol:
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Heinlein wrote it, so yeah.
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eh?
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Halo: The Flood kicks ass, except for the Warthog ride near the end, which is kinda confusing and tedious and the journey to the last reactor thingy, which is kinda disjointed.
Starship Troopers is a good war book considering there's almost no action in it. And it's nothing like the movie, BTW, except that they're fighting a race of bugs.
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Is it better than the movie? (I liked the movie.)
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Meh. Kinda. But kinda not.
It reads like a lengthy diary......or a really short auto-biography.
Like I said, there's pretty much no action and I couldn't really give a **** about the characters. It was like "So, Carmen's a captain now. Oh and Carl's dead. But anyway, last Saturday in Vancouver......"
I suppose the point was to give a sense of soldier-like emotional detatchment, but.....
And the pace was very uneven, and the bridging between stages in Rico's life was kinda thin. Heinlen also ignores every opportunity to discuss what even the most interesting piece of technology looks like, using phrases like "I'm sure you've seen the suits on the vids, so I won't waste your time by describing them..."
I'd recommend reading it, but I wouldn't call it a classic.