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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rampage on March 26, 2002, 07:53:03 am
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What is your favorite novel? Post comments below.
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Lord of the Rings or the Nights' Dawn Trilogy.
Ian Banks' The Player of Games was good as well though.
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Nothin' in the poll, so:
Any and all books by Timothy Zahn.
Star Trek: Vendetta by Peter David
Star Trek: My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
William Shatner's trek books are all good, if overly egotistical.
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Well I guess my opinion could sway pretty soon as I'm still 16 but right now Orson Scott Card's Enders series is pretty good. That would include Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Enders Shadow, Shadow for the Hegemon.
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- Star Trek: Dominion War Series
- HG Wells - War Of The Worlds
- Homer - The Oddyssey (non-verse)
- God - The Bible (best sci-fi ever)
- Johnathon Swift - Gullivers Travels
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The Lords of the Rings probably, tho I love Dune and RiverWorld too
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Originally posted by venom2506
The Lords of the Rings probably, tho I love Dune and RiverWorld too
Yeah, Dune rawks.
Isn't there a WC novel series?
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ahhhhhhhh someone else whos read the nights dawn triology - that was a cool book
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Originally posted by KillMeNow
ahhhhhhhh someone else whos read the nights dawn triology - that was a cool book
3 books actually :D
And they rock! Although I somewhat dislike the deus ex machina at the end.
An0n: if by WC you mean wing Commander, theh yes there are WC novels, but you'll be hard pressed to find them new now.
EDIT: And Rampage, Dn Quichote (or however you write the name of the windmill hunter) is written by Cervantes.
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you mean the sleeping god? yeah teh solution was abit simple but still great books
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1: Asimov's Foundation (the first one and part of the second one were better than the rest IMHO)
2: Any of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels
3: Wells' The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
4: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Verne
oh and I had to read The Catcher in the Rye in school a while ago; this is probably the worst book I have ever had the misfortune of reading in my life. :p (To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet come close, but this beats them all :p)
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The Hobbit.
Its like the only novel that I read completely and undertood.
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1984
Still rings true.
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1984
Ah, that was another good one. :)
On a side note, has anyone here read any of Stephen Ambrose's books? (Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers, 101st Airborne, etc.) They are historical accounts rather than true novels, but awesome books nevertheless.
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ok, here goes
Asimov's Foundation series
Herbert's Dune series
Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series, (especially 2010)
As for non sci-fi:
Orwell's Animal farm
Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (we all knew that was gonna come, right
any book by Jules Verne
Ernie :D
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Orwell's Animal farm
Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
Two more greats. Man, I can't even remember all the good ones I have read... :D
Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series, (especially 2010)
I would like to check these out sometime but haven't gotten a chance to do so yet. Another title by the same author, Rendezvous with Rama, was also a great read. :nod:
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the whole A.C clarke series of books was brilliant.
Dune is just totally visionary - and it shows because its scared everyone off making a big movie on. the TV adaptation was OK but sucked in many ways..hell...I could have done better sfx than that!
Rendezvous with rama i have to get hold of at some point.
As for books that are hard to understand.
Well...its not sci-fi but the 4th book in the Earthsea trilogy made an interesting read.
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If you had seen the original movie before the tv series, you'd think differently. They actually did a pretty good job IMO.
On another note, Larry Niven's Ringworld series is good, as is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but I would have to say that Starship Troopers is my favorite right now. And whoever said To kill a mockingbird is a bad book should be taken out to the back and shot. Seriously.
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i have seen the origional - multiple times.
Its a pity they slaughtered the origional text, plot and narrative on both of them :(
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[glow=green]FRANKENSTEIN[/glow] by Mary Shelley. The greatest book ever!
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Originally posted by an0n
HG Wells - War Of The Worlds
:yes:
And has anyone else read Childhood's End by A. C. Clarke? I kinda liked it
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Lord of the Rings is a total classic, can't go without it. Read all of them, plus The Hobbit, and now I'm reading The Silmarilion, which also rules. Next I'll get into the Unfinished Tales...
Dune is great too, really liked it, but the stuff about computers is strange. I liked the second book a lot less, and lost interest on the third one. It just got kinda dull.
The Devil's Garden is from a Brazilian author, Luis Fernando Verissimo, and it rulez. The guy is a genius - the book is a story within a story within a story within a... you get the picture.
Never read Catcher in the rye, but I'm kinda curious about it. What's all that stuff on Conspiracy Theory? What's the book about?
The Illiand and the Odissey are damn good books too, if you read a good translation of them. Don't go for the adaptations, they take away all the fun.
Another one that can't be forgotten is the Divine Comedy (or whatever it's called in english) by Dante Alighieri. The same deal as the Illiad and Odyssey apply here though - adaptations suck\, go for the full, three-book, poem version. It's scary.
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Lord of the Rings(im at the Taming of Smeagol) and the Night Dawn Trilogy, which are some of the best books i,ve ever read.
EDIT: Shouldnt the poll of included LOTR etc?
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
:yes:
And has anyone else read Childhood's End by A. C. Clarke? I kinda liked it
Read it. It was... interesting. A bit lower than Clarke's usual standard, IMHO. the aliens were made too.... human.
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Hrmm...
Foundation The original trilogy is spectacular, especially how the Foundation narrowly survives being smeared from the old Empire.
Dune Another one of those books practically impossible to put to film but is good.
Lucifer's Hammer By Niven, I'm just reading it but you got to love this for the little comments like the guy leaving his keys in the car and swearing at Ralph Nader for all of the "safety and energy saving features." ;)
Ringworld Pierson's Puppeteers baby, that's all you need.
The Lensman Series A wee bit dated but some good explanations for why the aliens are human-like because the Lens interprets their language and culture into realative equivalents. Unlike StarTrek and recent SF such as B5, where it's explained away by the "first ones." Plus it's got some of the best space battles arround.
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Originally posted by wEvil
i have seen the origional - multiple times.
Its a pity they slaughtered the origional text, plot and narrative on both of them :(
dune is one of those stories that you couldnt put in 3 movies, though thats a good start. I read pretty fast (i can finish starship troopers in one evening) but the abridged version of dune took me 3 nights to read. theres too much story to really make a suitable movie. Herbert really created a whole new universe in one book
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I have near two thousand novels on my shelves, most of which I've read two or three times each. I will recommend anything by the following authors, in no particular order:
J. R. R. Tolkien
George R. R. MartinMelanie Rawn
Elizabeth Moon
Julie Czernedza
Peter F Hamilton
Greg Bear
Gregory Benford
David Brin
Terry Goodkind
Rober Jordan
Lisanne Norman
Isaac Asimov
Jules Verne
Orson Scott Card
Stephen Baxter
George Orwell
Stephen Hawking
Arthur C. Clarke
Neil Gaiman
Stephen DonaldsonJ. M. Strazcynski (gods I can't spell his name)
Susan R. Matthews
Douglas Adams
Frank Herbert
C. S. Friedman
That covers all the authors for whom I own at least two books (in some cases 15 or 20). If I had to pick an absolute favorite book, right now it would have to be Susan R. Matthews An Exchange of Hostages. I've never before read a book that ripped me up, heart and mind, so effectively and made me cry for the anguish of the main character. This is the only book in my collection that I have not read more than once--picking it up and looking at it makes me remember and hurt and I put it back down. I don't need to reread it. It is not for the faint of heart.
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Anything by Tom Clancy, except Netforce and Power Plays...
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sob, I'm the only one to like Riverworld or what? :sigh:
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i never read it. aerospace engineering is kind of time intensive as far as majors go
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Originally posted by venom2506
sob, I'm the only one to like Riverworld or what? :sigh:
I tried, Venom, but I couldn't get into it.
Mind you this was like... fifteen years ago or something and it was like the third or fourth book in the series. I might give it another shot. Stuff I didn't like then, I find more interest in now.
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well, the original idea is really interesting ( and makes for nice opportunities), but actually, I could never find the books save for the first one ( which was really cool IMHO )
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The Lord of the Rings
Anything Tom Clancy
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You've got to love the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy! :D
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Red Dragon
Silence of the Lamb
Hannibal
Jurassic Park
The Lost World (not the british dudes version)
The Andromeda Strain
Misc. Star Wars
Rainbow Six
Black Hawk Down
A.C. Clarke's Stuff
Communist Manifesto
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Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
As I said, I can't really remember all of the great titles I have read, as there are so many of them. There's another one. :D
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley. The greatest book ever!
Yet another one. ;)
And whoever said To kill a mockingbird is a bad book should be taken out to the back and shot. Seriously.
lol :p
I really thought that this book was complete crap. Not as bad as The Catcher in the Rye, but still pretty bad. :D
Foundation The original trilogy is spectacular, especially how the Foundation narrowly survives being smeared from the old Empire.
These books are some of my favorites too. The first one and the first half of the second one were the best in my opinion. ;)
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WTFS. TWO people have mentioned Douglas Adams or his works. DA=THE BEST. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quilogy (5-book trilogy, I think;p) is the best series I've ever read. You people should be ashamed for not mentioning it.
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
You've got to love the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy! :D
I just finished going through Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. when I finish the Silmarillion again, I'll listen to the other two. There's just something sweet about listening to Douglas Adams read his own books. :D
Also, Dirk Gently, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul was awesome, just to hear Douglas Adams screaming 'OOOOOOOOODIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!'. The man can bellow like an angry Norse thunder god. :D
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The Hitchhiker's Trilogy!
The Lord of the Rings!
Most Things from Gordon R. Dickson!
Most things from Mercedes Lackey!
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy!
The Lord of the Rings!
Most Things from Gordon R. Dickson!
Most things from Mercedes Lackey!
Gordon Dickson isn't bad, but Mercedes Lackey? How many times can that woman tell the same tale in the same world through a different character's eyes? Its fluff fantasy.
That said, I think I have all of the Valdemar novels and short stories up through... um.... 1998 or so. Oh the shame....
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1)The Hand of Thrawn duology by Timothy Zahn
2)Many Isaac Asimov books, chief among them the Elijah Bailey novels
3)I,Jedi by Michael Stackpole
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1984- favorite of all time. I can't believe you put that piece of overrated ****, Catcher in the Rye, in there, and left 1984 out. Shame! But that's just me, and my bias against people who write a book to capture the collective personality of teenagers and end up with a completely inaccurate, stereotypical, and worst of all insulting paranoid lunatic. I know myself, and this ain't it.
Other than that, I'd venture... hmm. Tricky. I've got several dozen books vying for first place in my mind, few, if any, of which you'd have heard of. Ah well...
For mindless entertaiment, nothing beats Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy or Virtual Light. Whatever happened to cyberpunk?
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
1984- favorite of all time. I can't believe you put that piece of overrated ****, Catcher in the Rye, in there, and left it out. But that's just me, and my bias against people who write a book to capture the collective personality of teenagers and end up with a completely inaccurate, stereotypical, and worst of all insulting paranoid lunatic. I know myself, and this ain't it.
he wrote it to inspire the serial killers of tomorrow
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:lol:
Explains a lot, doesn't it?
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1984- favorite of all time. I can't believe you put that piece of overrated ****, Catcher in the Rye, in there, and left it out. But that's just me, and my bias against people who write a book to capture the collective personality of teenagers and end up with a completely inaccurate, stereotypical, and worst of all insulting paranoid lunatic. I know myself, and this ain't it.
As I said earlier, The Catcher in the Rye is the worst book I have ever read in my life. What can I say; it is a complete POS in every way. As you said, the main character is so unbelievably, indescribably moronic, he can be downright insulting at times. There wasn't much of a plot either; it basically told the story of some half-crazed lunatic as he went through his daily life (if it can even be called that). :p
All the books I had to read for school have been total garbage. These are the three worst books of all time for me:
1:Catcher in the Rye
2:Romeo and Juliet
3:To Kill a Mockingbird
(all of which are school-picked titles)
These English departments are terrible; can't they ever pick anything interesting?
Oh BTW, this isn't a novel, but still one of the best books I have read: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is a very comprehensive, detailed and compelling account of just about every aspect of the Nazi empire; it's a bit big, but I would definitely recommend it. :)
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i think youre just reacting to the fact the english department is making you read those books. To kill a mockingbird is a classic, ask anybody that really understands it. While I'm no shakespeare fan, R&J is pretty good, I liked tybalt's character.
Now be glad you don't have to ... haven't read anything by Charles Dickens or James Joyce . With the exception of A Tale of Two Cities, which is pretty damn good, anything else by those two will have you offereing your head to the Vasudans. Trust me.
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Another 3 of my favorites are by A. E. Van Vogt - anyone ever read him? He was of a previous generation, so you'll probably find his books in used bookstores. My favorites of his are:
- Slan
- both of the Null-A books
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"Now be glad you don't have to ... haven't read anything by Charles Dickens or James Joyce . With the exception of A Tale of Two Cities, which is pretty damn good, anything else by those two will have you offereing your head to the Vasudans. Trust me.
"NegspectahDek
That's so not true about Charles dickens... he's cool
you've never read Oliver or a Christmas Carol, have you? His style might be old fashioned or whatever, but that means nothing- not really. it's the characters and the plot which are good.
on the subject of books... every book is a good book... except for those that aren't. seriously, though, it just depends on your perspective.
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Hah, this was begging you here, wasn't it ice. :p
Favourite books... favourite books. I tend to grow towards liking any books that I read. It's deliberate - I enjoy them more that way. ;)
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i tried to read Great Expectations. even skipping pages, I couldnt make it past 100. But tht might have something to do with the fact that I was in 9th grtade at the time. And I did say A tale of two cities is pretty good. Even if I'm better suited to read Dickens now, I'd rather go watch grass grow.
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Ah, anyone here read Solaris by Stanislaw Lem? That thing is one of the fines examples of sci-fi ever! I still get shivers up my spine when I think of that book...
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Oh, and I might as well add to the Tolkien praise. What I've read of J.R.R.'s work is stunning. :nod:
Anyone know what those initials stand for?
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I can't stand those quaint, twee 19th century peices.
They just bore me to tears, even the TV dramatisations.
the Silmarillion - now theres a book with scope.
I also liked the BOOK (not film) of Stephen Kings' the Running Man.
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Originally posted by Setekh
Oh, and I might as well add to the Tolkien praise. What I've read of J.R.R.'s work is stunning. :nod:
Anyone know what those initials stand for?
hard to spell, and I don't have any book at hand but I'll try:
John Ronald Reuel I think
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i think youre just reacting to the fact the english department is making you read those books. To kill a mockingbird is a classic, ask anybody that really understands it. While I'm no shakespeare fan, R&J is pretty good, I liked tybalt's character.
Now be glad you don't have to ... haven't read anything by Charles Dickens or James Joyce . With the exception of A Tale of Two Cities, which is pretty damn good, anything else by those two will have you offereing your head to the Vasudans. Trust me.
Well, I was the only one in my class who did not like it, but that can be said about the other two titles as well. The thing is, in most cases, I don't really like titles that focus too much on some insignificant individuals whose lives don't mean much in the big picture. This is what made Foundation unique and set it apart from almost all of the others out there. In TKAM, the plot was not very intriguing either; it definitely was not the kind of book I just had to keeping reading "one more page" to find out what happens, such as with some other titles I have read.
Shakespeare's works aren't all bad - Julius Caesar is actually very good in my opinion - it's just his love stories that bore me to death. (as do anyone else's)
Oh BTW four more books that are not novels but I really like nevertheless:
Calculus with Analytic Geometry and Multivariable Calculus
Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
Differential Equations with Variational Calculus
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
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Originally posted by CP5670
Foundation
Are you referring to Asimov's work?
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Yeah, the one regarding the fall of the empire. The first book in the series is probably the best novel I have read. :nod:
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The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
The Saga of Mallorea - David Eddings (including all the books that go into that world)
Rainbow Six
Dragonlance
Susikoira Roi - Jorma Kurvinen (this one is Finnish ;) )
there's few :)
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Originally posted by Styxx
Ah, anyone here read Solaris by Stanislaw Lem? That thing is one of the fines examples of sci-fi ever! I still get shivers up my spine when I think of that book...
:yes: that's great. Also "The Invincible" was kinda fascinating.
Some more favs, kinda mixed bag:
Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
Stapledon, Olaf - Last and First Men
Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat
Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis Trilogy
Lawrence, D.H. ...any
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation etc...
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rendezvous With Rama etc..
Chekhov, Anton ...any
Card.. the Enders Game Series
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Originally posted by mikhael
Gordon Dickson isn't bad, but Mercedes Lackey? How many times can that woman tell the same tale in the same world through a different character's eyes? Its fluff fantasy.
That said, I think I have all of the Valdemar novels and short stories up through... um.... 1998 or so. Oh the shame....
I meant the SERRAted Edge books, the Urban Fantasy books... Actually, the ones I like best she did in conjunction with another author. Hmmm...... that's odd......
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Originally posted by CP5670
Oh BTW four more books that are not novels but I really like nevertheless:
Calculus with Analytic Geometry and Multivariable Calculus
Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
Differential Equations with Variational Calculus
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
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that sir is comedy
add Thermodynamic Transport Properties to that list and youve got the the rat pack there
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Tolkien , S.D. perry, Stephen King,
try the "dark tower" series by King, they're fairly good.
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Anything by:
King
Clarke
Wells
And also Quantum Electro-Dynamics by John........something.
Classics:
The Art Of War
Kama Sutra (not just the porn)
The Dogs Of War
The Hackers Manifesto (bad content, good literary talent)
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her, terry pratchett anyone? :p
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Originally posted by venom2506
her, terry pratchett anyone? :p
lol - spare me. :p
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all right!someone else who likes terry pratchett!!!
he's funny!
it's strange, but most people i know either dont like him or are indifferent...
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Originally posted by an0n
Classics:
The Art Of War
Oh, hello. Sun Tzu rocks. :)
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Anyone read The Creation of the Gods? A nice chinese legend :nod:
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Originally posted by icespeed
all right!someone else who likes terry pratchett!!!
he's funny!
it's strange, but most people i know either dont like him or are indifferent...
actually, I haven't read much of him, not even a complete book ( bah, long story ... ), but what I've read cracked me up :)
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Discworld. I know a few people who are pretty well acquainted with that; I should get them in here. :)
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Originally posted by castor
:yes: that's great. Also "The Invincible" was kinda fascinating.
Some more favs, kinda mixed bag:
Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
Stapledon, Olaf - Last and First Men
Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat
Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis Trilogy
Lawrence, D.H. ...any
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation etc...
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rendezvous With Rama etc..
Chekhov, Anton ...any
Card.. the Enders Game Series
Cool! Someone else that likes Stanislaw Lem! :D:yes:
And Welcome to HLP dude! Exits are to your right and to your back and, in case of emergencies, shotguns are located under the seats. (but you already know that, if you used to lurk around here... ;))
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Originally posted by Styxx
And Welcome to HLP dude! Exits are to your right and to your back and, in case of emergencies, shotguns are located under the seats.
Ah! but of course.. forgot to look there. Much better now! ;) Next stop, the bar.. :nod:
Thanks Styxx
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Originally posted by castor
Ah! but of course.. forgot to look there. Much better now! ;) Next stop, the bar.. :nod:
Thanks Styxx
;7;7;7Welcome to the HLPBB!!! ;7;7;7
I like your ID :D
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As I've already said, you're welcome. :)
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Originally posted by venom2506
;7;7;7Welcome to the HLPBB!!! ;7;7;7
I like your ID :D
:lol: where was that shotgun again.. :D
Thanks
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You forgot Star Wars The New Jedi Order.......
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LOTR, Silmarilion and related Tolkein stuff, and Patrick Tiley's Amtrak Wars. Oh, and the Discworld, of course.
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Originally posted by castor
:yes: that's great. Also "The Invincible" was kinda fascinating.
Some more favs, kinda mixed bag:
Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
Stapledon, Olaf - Last and First Men
Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat
Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis Trilogy
Lawrence, D.H. ...any
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation etc...
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Clarke, Arthur C. - Rendezvous With Rama etc..
Chekhov, Anton ...any
Card.. the Enders Game Series
Umm... that's a lot of stuff.
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Ender's Game was awesome! (the parallel stuff was good too, and the one about Bean after the Third War, but the sequels were bad I thought)
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
books by Robert Heinlein
Rogue Squadron series by Micheal A. Stackpole
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If you want a good laugh and read LOTR, read this book!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451452615/qid=1017353253/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2807877-2171919
It is soooo hilarious!
An excerpt:
As he watched, the moon rose, there was a meteor shower and a display of the aurora borealis, a cock crowed thrice, it thundered, a flock of geese flew by in the shape of a swastika, and a giant hand wrote Mene, mene, what's it to you? across the sky in giant silver letters. Suddenly Frito had the overpowering feeling that he had come to a turning point, that an old chapter in his life was ending and a new one beginning. "Mush, you brute," he said, kicking the pack animal in the kidneys, and as the great quadruped staggered forward, tailfirst into the black East, there came from deep in the surrounding forest the sound of some great bird being briefly, but noisily, ill.
LOL! This book is hilarious, trust me. I read it in about 3 hours and laughed half of the time.
Frodo = Frito
Bilbo = Dildo
Gandalf = Goodgulf
Legolas = Legolam
Aragorn = Arrowroot
Sam Gangee = Spam Gangreen
etc etc etc
:lol:
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Originally posted by CP5670
Oh BTW four more books that are not novels but I really like nevertheless:
Calculus with Analytic Geometry and Multivariable Calculus
Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
Differential Equations with Variational Calculus
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
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Indeed. :D
For non-novel stuff, I keep stuff like 'A Tour of the Calculus', 'Flatterland: A Romance of Many Dimensions', 'the Selfish Gene', 'The Code Book', 'Fermat's Enigma', 'Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopaedic Reference', and many differnet Stephen Hawking books. :)
I, perhaps, read too damn much.
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one never read too damn much.
I for my part read not enough, when I was younger I used to read all the books I could put my hands on ( my parents were amazed when I was reading book supposed to be for adults -no, not porn you droofus :p - when I was 6). i've read thousands of books till the age of about 12. But now I hardly read two books a year :(
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Yeah, I know how that is, Venom. I realized about a year ago that I was spending too much time online chatting, and not enough time doing the things I love: reading, Legos, video games. I've cut back on my online time and ramped up my reading again. Even so, its still only a book a week and one book per weekend now. It used to be one or two per day.
I can deal with that though. SystemShock2, ship modelling, and programming are taking up more of my time now. :D
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Originally posted by Stunaep
Umm... that's a lot of stuff.
It's nice to have some variation in your reading -- when
me gets bored to something, just a swap to a completely different genre. Makes it more interesting in a long run. . .
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Originally posted by CP5670
Oh BTW four more books that are not novels but I really like nevertheless:
Calculus with Analytic Geometry and Multivariable Calculus
Differential Equations with Variational Calculus
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Math is beautiful, but it doesn't cover everything (tho it's THE science). Novels etc. essentially fill in in then non-rational part of human nature. E.g. for me that part dominates, LOL ;)
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I like math.
:v:
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I'm eagerly awaiting two books:
Stephen's Big Book Of Unified Field Theory - Stephen Hawkins
FTL Engines For Dummies - Stephen Hawkins/The Dummies Guy
Apparently on a visit to the TNG sets Hawkins took a look at the warp core and said 'I'm working on that'.
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
:v:
Math->:v:!?
Foundation...hmm...ok...
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Originally posted by castor
Math is beautiful
Life Is Beautiful? :D
Oh, and how could I forget? :o Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. 0wnz j00!