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| Topic Started: Sep 11 2009, 02:55 PM (236 Views) | |
| Solers | Sep 11 2009, 02:55 PM Post #1 |
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Topic pretty much says it all. I've been in a reading frenzy lately and i'm running low on material. I've already reread the complete Ender's Game series, Animorphs series, most of richard marcinko's novels. And a few other random books I enjoy. I'm looking for a good sci-fi preferably, but i'm open minded as long as it's good. |
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| Khatib | Sep 11 2009, 03:38 PM Post #2 |
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I just re-read Ender's Game and then the second book for the first time two weeks ago. Waiting on the next 4 in the series to show up next week from Amazon right now. If you haven't read the Song of Ice and Fire series, read it. Seriously the best series I've ever gotten into. If you really want me to get into describing it I can, but I have zero doubts you would like it. It's "fantasy" but very light on magic, and there are no elves or dwarves or anything. Just humans fucking each other up with swords and daggers. First book is called A Game of Thrones, author's name is George R.R. Martin. I've read the first 4 books 4 times now. There are so many layers to the plot that the first reread is almost even better than the first read. It's a phenomenal series. Aside from that, just random good books I've read lately, check out Good Omens if you've never read that. I read Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, and it was much better than I anticipated, fairly enjoyable as well. Gang Leader for a Day is a kind of cool nonfiction book. If you've seen The Wire and you like that, you'll probably find this book interesting. Another interesting nonfiction book if you're into medieval history is The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. And since we just had a thread like this going on another forum, here's the other shit I posted in there, c/p style: I've actually been thinking about picking up Forrest Griffin's book, Got Fight, cause I've heard it's kind of that same rambling story telling kind of a book with some funny drinking stories, some fight outside of a bar stories, that kinda stuff. And as long as I'm posting in this thread from my own room, cause I figured I would next time I did -- I'm gonna glance over my bookshelf and just list a few books I've read and thought were decent in the last year (book names are Amazon links): Ghengis Khan and the History of the Modern World. This is a cool historical book in a bit of a novel format about the Mongol Empire. Not so much Ghengis, but what he started down through about the next several generations of his family and how their giant empire and the way they formed it affect the world at large. The Religion The newest edition on Amazon says it's a trilogy, the copy I have makes no mention of a series, and it's a decent standalone book set around one of the most amazing sieges in history, the Siege of Malta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_%281565%29 I probably enjoyed this one more than I should even admit, but I'm a sucker for historically set epics like this. The Pyrates This book is just flat out enjoyable to read. It's extremely tongue in cheek, sitcom/comedy movie type swashbuckler story. But the characters are kind of self aware... they make references to modern pop culture type things every now and then, and the narrative voice of the story breaks the 4th wall pretty often. Stonehenge This one I enjoyed, I don't know how many other people would. The guy basically researched the shit out of Stonehenge, and formulated a theory on why it was built, and how it could be built, and wrote a novel around it. I stumbled onto it in Barnes and Noble while looking into a series the author wrote about a rifleman in the 1800s english army. Thought this looked a little more interesting, so I tried it instead. It's kind of a slow story, but it's pretty interesting, imo. Jesus, Interrupted If you're hardline Christian, you might not want to go there. If you're questioning any aspect of faith, or not so much faith, but doctrine and dogma, this is a great read about looking at the Bible as a 'historical document' rather than a 'devotional story'. And these are great every year: The Best American NonRequired Reading Series And two weeks ago, I re-read for probably the 12th time in my life, the source of Khatib and Mathurin: The Walking Drum If you have a halfprice books or anything in your town, you really should be able to find a cheap copy there. I'd recommend this as a good, though somewhat cheesy, story to read. It's not a hard read, and it goes by pretty quickly. Besides, then you'll know the orgins of that wily street thief, Khatib! This book is amazing to read as a 12 year old boy, but still readable every year or two thereafter. I recommend you take a look. 
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| Ordain | Sep 11 2009, 08:22 PM Post #3 |
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Read "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku. Kaku is an amazing physics professor, and discusses the possibility of ray guns and shit in a very enjoyable and casual manner. Great read all around. |
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| Andro | Sep 13 2009, 11:23 AM Post #4 |
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If you're looking for sci-fi, I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I really liked it. |
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| Casino | Sep 13 2009, 11:57 AM Post #5 |
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Over the past months I've been reading things relevant to my interests. "Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man" http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312384394/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=2461599291&ref=pd_sl_91spt67ewd_e CBS interview with the Author. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtPBTybQ9k The delta force major that was given the job to hunt and kill Bin Laden after 9-11 and how Bush and Cheney prevented him from killing him. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-September/dp/1594200076 The story of how the CIA recruited, trained, and armed Taliban and Al Qaeda. also promoted radical Islam the and how it fucked us. |
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| Khatib | Sep 13 2009, 04:27 PM Post #6 |
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You so CRAAZZYY!!
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The postman showed up yesterday with my new box of books. I got the Ender Series books 3-6. Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon. Then I got The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, which is a book by Leonard Mlodinow, the guy who co-authored A Briefer History of Time with Hawking, which is the "more accessible" version of the original. Hoping it's good and not too dumbed down. And I got The Chronicles of the Black Company, which is supposed to be really good. Looking forward to giving it a shot. And The Lies of Locke Lamora, and The Name of the Wind. The latter got some really great reviews from the Onion A/V club, and I've seen some good things said about it on the innernets, so I'm hoping that's a good one too. I'm thinkin these oughta take me through to around December, so that's good. I'll have stuff to bring on the road when I go out for work. Never really in the mood to watch crappy cable on crappy hotel TVs when I know I'm DVRing everything I really wanna see at home anyways. |
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| Solers | Sep 13 2009, 09:25 PM Post #7 |
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Just got 3-6 of the enders series? you fail. =) Shadow of the hegemon->shadow puppets->shadow of the giant is a REQUIRED read for anybody remotely interested in Ender's Game. Thanks for the list of books so far, I've enjoyed many of them, especially the ice and fire series. It's always an exciting experience to see that there are people that can see through enough bullshit to understand the human psyche. A good book evolves to your own story, which is different for all of us dependent on our experiences and expectations. On an interesting note - my reason for being into sci-fi is the foundation of my research into Evolution and the possibility of directly controlling it in the near future. Unfortunately there arn't many people with similiar interests around here, so to get outside of my own thinking I prefer to read, living through books and using them to define to realities that don't exist yet. I suspect humanity is on the brink of some drastic changes and it's amusing to spectate what they might be, and how they can be influenced. *edit* 3-6? This is my preferred reading order, following the time of the storys - not the release of the books. 1. Ender's Game 2. Ender's Shadow 3. Shadow of the Hegemon 4. Shadow puppets 5. Shadow of the Giant 6. Speaker for the Dead 7. Xenocide 8. Children of the Mind Edited by Solers, Sep 13 2009, 09:37 PM.
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| Khatib | Sep 13 2009, 10:12 PM Post #8 |
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You so CRAAZZYY!!
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I'm just goin by the order they say on Amazon, since the books themselves don't say #X of Y in the series or anything on them. So I guess I'm going Xenocide, Children of the Mind, then back to the Shadow books in that order. Have already read Ender's Game and then Speaker for the Dead, so as long as I've read Speaker for the Dead and I have Xenocidea nd Children of the Mind (already about halfway into Xenocide) I think I'll just keep going on that story arc. |
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| Solers | Sep 14 2009, 01:35 AM Post #9 |
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kust keep in mind it's 3 sotys arcs enders game n shadow of ender folowed by te shadow series afwtardawds it goes back to ender after a few tohosuand uears then u see how enders ends hisl ife. i sugest ring in order becasue that way it makes mor sense m8 |
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| Ninjerk | Sep 14 2009, 01:32 PM Post #10 |
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I really, really didn't like Snow Crash, but everyone that actually likes good cyberpunks seems to like it. Unfortunately, I don't have access to it anymore. |
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| gau | Sep 14 2009, 05:30 PM Post #11 |
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The Bourne Trilogy The movies don't movies don't follow the books closely, hell the 2nd and 3rd aren't even remotely related to the books, and the 1st one leaves out a huge part of the story of him flushing out an accomplished assassin |
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| Khatib | Sep 14 2009, 05:31 PM Post #12 |
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You so CRAAZZYY!!
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I was so-so on Snow Crash myself. Thankfully it was an easy and quick read. Only annoying part to go through was the stuff on all the ancient mythology that just felt tedious and kinda bogus. It was interesting to see how much stuff the guy got right about the future of technology consiering he wrote it in 1992, and then laughable to see how far off base and "hollywood/media typical" it was in HOW it was off base. |
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| Ninjerk | Sep 15 2009, 12:57 PM Post #13 |
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I think the first thing that threw me was having this half-Jappo protagonist (haw haw) that invented the internet and delivered pizzas in the fastest car in the world. It felt so Mary Sue-ish well before I even knew there was such a stock character. |
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| Andro | Sep 15 2009, 07:26 PM Post #14 |
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How familiar are you with memetics? |
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| Khatib | Sep 16 2009, 10:05 AM Post #15 |
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You so CRAAZZYY!!
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I know what a meme is and I've read some Dawkins, but it's nothing I've really delved into. |
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| Khatib | Sep 16 2009, 12:24 PM Post #16 |
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Holy shit, it's the raft! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession-anchored-just-east-Singapore.html |
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| Ordain | Sep 22 2009, 05:22 AM Post #17 |
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Ive taken the time to find you the perfect read. Enjoy. For my dearest friends in YDIOB Edited by Ordain, Sep 22 2009, 05:23 AM.
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