Thread: Books, books, books...

The Forever War is pretty goddamn awesome, and is apparently Ridley Scott's next film. Also, I've found that working my way through the SF Masterworks series has been a great way to get introduced to some excellent SF.

Haha. This guy makes Brown look like fucking Thomas Pynchon by comparison. Edit: I just read a bit of Angels and Demons. Brown's terrible, but he doesn't hold a candle to Paolini. This sentence, off of a review from Amazon , should explain it: "P.S. - I haven't seen anyone else comment on this particular name theft, so I thought I'd mention it. You know the Bid'duam? Turn it around and what do you get:...

Quote: Murdoc : Ah, sorry, I got the idea implanted from one of the thumbs cast where they were talking about Moon then off on classic scifi stuff. So basically no space opera; also I can't recall if I've even read a "classic scifi" novel, but anything along the lines of Solarice, Moon, 2001, bladerunner, metropolis, etc.. I suppose this could just be a question for the thumbs of what comes to mind when they think...

Shocking :0 Quote: Kroms : I want to tell you about this book. I read it a few years ago, thought it was in "so bad it's good" territory, read its sequel and decided to never, ever read a book by that same writer again. I re-read some passages yesterday, and yes: the guy is in a special calibre, one thought to be exclusively inhabited by the IGN writers. Let us see if you can guess what this book is. Don't skip to...

I actually already ordered The Sirens of Titan and Timequake as well as The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.

Following my recent excitement over Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, as documented in this thread, I've been reading Foucault's Pendulum. It has a lot of similar qualities to the other, in that it's almost a blend of the novel and the essay, but it's interesting seeing how the drastically differing time periods (medieval versus modern day) affect not just the characters but the actual style and structure of...

I finished the last book in The Dark Tower (just mistyped that as The Dark Downer) last night (or this morning, more like) and I'm still not sure what I think. I read Jake's comment about not reading the ending ending, but I, page muncher and resolution-wanter that I am, read that too. I started "reading" the series as audio books quite a while back, as I had an hour walk to and from school every day. I got as far...

Quote: Nappi : The Castle is incredibly well written, hazy and dreamlike, following its own logic that still makes sense to the reader. It is also, by far, the most frustrating novels I have ever read. Or tried to read, I gave up about a half way through. It's ok though, if I ever decide that I want to know if anything happens in the end* I can just pick from where I left because nothing significant hasn't happened so far. In case...

Quote: OssK : He was depressed and afraid. It's a very difficult lesson to learn that people and the thing they create are different entities, you can be an ahole and create amazing art and be a very nice person and create shit. Quoted for truth.

Thanks ysbreker, DanJW, thunderpeel, and any future responders(Ill still be reading the thread, just dont want to spam, lol) I think I have too many books now, lol. Was checking out that SF Masterworks and was surprised to see the last scifi novel I read was on there; The Dispossessed, it was pretty cool and I enjoyed it a lot, if anyone wanted to check something like that out.