I have the latest China Mieville in my bag (The Scar) and after that it's Status Anxiety by Alan de something. But that's non fiction btw. And I'm still planning on rereading House of Leaves. That's the most impressive read I've had in a long time.
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bef 1,606 posts
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markypants 2,699 posts
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Registered 10 years agoReading a so-called kid's book called 'Inkheart' by Cornelia Funke. It is really very good and worth a read If into future movie material.
Also I can't reckomend enough the work of 'Jonathan Carroll' 'The Land Of Laughs is by far one of the best books I have ever read.
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hulahoops 2,311 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI've got the first book from His Dark Materials lodged in my special hiding place in the work toilets, so I can slip off for a crafty read when I fancy it.
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UncleLou wrote:
I was advised that the best way to actually get around to completing it is to take a two week holiday or become unemployed! So far, it's strong on ideas and style but very leisurely in the pacing - a nightmare keeping track of people and their social/plot relations to each other. Also, I was warned that one of the early footnotes is extremely important to the plot and probably the whole structure of the book.
Oi, that's lying on my bedside table for weeks now, but I haven't dared to begin it yet. It's so just frighteningly massive.
So, what do you think of it?
I already instinctively know that the ending has to be disappointing, thanks to the sheer amount of data and incidents being set up.
Cheers, and oh dear. I am not especially good at remembering people in books anyhow when I read them over a longer period of time.
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Freylis wrote:
No, different. But good.Lutz wrote:
Yeah, I'm loving it so far. Kinda like early Salvatore just in a different setting. Is the Rigante stuff set in the same universe?Freylis wrote:
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Registered 11 years agoMikeD wrote:
Read themm all. Then when you're done read them again.
just finished 'the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy'
Pretty good, but rather short. Are the other books in the series worth reading, or should I just move on to something else?
And again.
And don't stop until you like them!!!
(Actually they really are great. Also worth checking out are the two Dirk Gently books which are entirely different but just as cool!)
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Registered 10 years agoMikeD wrote:
IIRC book two and three were on par with the first one while the fourth and fifth were a bit inferior.
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Excession is my favourite IMB book, and one of my favourite books full stop.StixxUK wrote:
I hear the Player of Games is one of the best to go for. I've only read Use of Weapons myself though.
Think I'll have a go at an Iain M Banks Scifi next... dunno which one to go for tho.
I'm not really reading very much at the moment, fiction wise. I've got Amis Jr.'s London Fields *still* to finish (been reading that on and off for about two years now probably).
Consider Phlebas reads like a film, classic space sci-fi
Player of Games was pretty good, very fast-paced
Look to Windward is his recent one, very dark but very good
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DocX 1,961 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI'm ashamed to admit I've started reading cheesy novelisations of old D&D modules: White Plume Mountain, Descent Into the Depths of the Earth etc. Horribly anachronistic dialogue and instantly forgetable, but they are moreish and very cheap.gif)
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Registered 10 years agoI'm half way through the biography of Isaac Newton by James Glerick, good book and very interesting too. I never realised how much of a rucluse he was until i read it. I also started The hobbit a while back but i doubt if i'll get round to reading it, didn't grab my attention. -
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Registered 10 years agoDecipher by Stel Pavlou - The bloke did 5 years research before he wrote it (sci-fi - humanity, or more specifically, a bunch of scientists, have a week to figure out some puzzles or the world's going to end) and boy does the research show. Superior holiday reading.
The Janet Evanovich 'Stephanie Plum' books (One for the Money, Two for the Dough... To The Nines).
Girl gets sacked from the lipstick counter of a department store and takes up Bounty Hunting. All a bit samey if you read 'em back to back, but a good laugh.
Maverick! by Ricardo Semler. It's a business book about a guy in Brazil who took over his father's business in the 80's.
His staff now come in when they like, management set their own salaries, the staff interview their prospective bosses. A fascinating read.
Eon by Greg Bear. I read this years ago, and feel a duty to warn people at every opportunity. It's the worst book ever written in the history of mankind. Avoid!
Julian Cope's (of the Teardrop Explodes) biography is a good, if not a little strange, read. Head On/Reposessed iirc.
Ooh! Ooh! I forgot.
If you're even a tiny bit interested in (popular) science, you have to read 'Surely you're joking Mr Feynman' and 'What do you care what other people think' by Richard Feynman. The guy was a genius. Worked on the Manhattan Project. Was in a Samba band. Learned how to crack safes for fun. Experimented with 25 hour days.
Both excellent books.
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Registered 9 years agoi'm just starting the third book in jacqueline carey's kushiel's (dart/chosen/avatar) series. it's fantasy, but not as i know it. rarther than being the tales of some random person who grows up to be a great warrior mage king or somesuch its about a prostitute, albeit a high class one in a society where its considered a highly respectable profession. there are touches of the usual fantasy fare with a bit of mysticism here, a bit of fighting there, and evidence of the interference of gods somewhere else, but its still suitably different from the norm to make an interesting change. oh, and she likes pain
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Registered 9 years agoCuchulainn wrote:
Currently I'm reading an idiot's guide to digital photography, but I'm going to start on Jeff Noon's Pollen next. I took this book althought I was very, very unimpressed with Automated Alice.Pike wrote:
I liked automated Alice, but I still found it to be somewath disszapointing compared to Vurt and Pollen. It felt a bit to restrained compared to the books that came before it.
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Definately start with Consider Phelebas, I'm not sure its the strongest of the Culture series ( Player of Games or Excession are better imo ) but its the first one and gives you more of an understanding of the Culture imo.
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Registered 11 years agoNeedle In The Groove is a great book, once again demonstrating Jeff Noon's love of the English language and how much he enjoys screwing around with it.
Cuchalainn - you'll love Pollen; it's much better than Automated Alice (mind you, you're kind of reading them out of order...). After that you need to read Nymphomation and then Pixel Juice, which is a collection of his short stories including a few that reference characters in the Vurt books.
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Hang on, Shawshank Redemption was ace, as was Stand By Me/The Body.
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Registered 10 years agoTricky wrote:
Yeah. I'd start out with Vurt and then continue to Pollen. While Pollen isn't really a sequel they take place in the same "universe" and Vurt establish a lot of the groundwork. Nymphomation, which is also great, is a prequel of sorts to those two books.
Cuchalainn - you'll love Pollen; it's much better than Automated Alice (mind you, you're kind of reading them out of order...).
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I meant the films of the stories. Shawshank was good, didn't much like Stand By Me..pjmaybe wrote:
Hang on, Shawshank Redemption was ace, as was Stand By Me/The Body.
Currently reading an SK book "Different season" - amazing how much of it got turned into shit films...
Well Shawshank was OK I spose.
Apt Pupil was wank though.
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To be controversial, I found Consider Phelebas the dullest of the series (horses for courses, and all thatStixxUK wrote:
Definately start with Consider Phelebas, I'm not sure its the strongest of the Culture series ( Player of Games or Excession are better imo ) but its the first one and gives you more of an understanding of the Culture imo.
Think I'll have a go at an Iain M Banks Scifi next... dunno which one to go for tho.). If you wish to start with a an overview of the culture (useful for Excession especially), I'd recommend the "State of the Art" novella. Great interplay between the Culture and a lonely little planet.
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It's been a while that I read that book, but both Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me are from the "Different Seasons" book, no?lost_soul wrote:
I meant the films of the stories. Shawshank was good, didn't much like Stand By Me..pjmaybe wrote:
Hang on, Shawshank Redemption was ace, as was Stand By Me/The Body.
Currently reading an SK book "Different season" - amazing how much of it got turned into shit films...
Well Shawshank was OK I spose.
Apt Pupil was wank though.
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pjmaybe 70,678 posts
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Didn't I say that?
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Nevermind though, it's certainly me..gif)
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pjmaybe 70,678 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThe 4 stories in "Different Seasons" are:
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Filmed)
Apt Pupil (Filmed)
The Body (Filmed)
The Breathing Method (thankfully not filmed)
He did another comp called "Four past midnight" but I can't remember which stories were in that.
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Tiger_Walts 16,257 posts
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I only read one of those, The Langoliers, which was filmed.
The 4 stories in "Different Seasons" are:
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Filmed)
Apt Pupil (Filmed)
The Body (Filmed)
The Breathing Method (thankfully not filmed)
He did another comp called "Four past midnight" but I can't remember which stories were in that.
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The others were
The Sun Dog
The Library Policeman
Secret Window, Secret Garden
The Langoliers
Never heard of any except the Langoliers which was filmed and I quite liked that...
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