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Damn you illiterate pricks.
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 18:02 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 18:53 Post subject: |
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I would recommend The Foundation series (five books) from Isaac Asimov, dialogs can be somewhat naive and too old school (like watching an American movie from the forties), but it's a fantastic SF nevertheless, definitely didn't expect that from such "old" books when I first read them.
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 19:38 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | Just finished teh Death Gate Cycle, it was a great start with an average ending. I think I'm done with fantasy for now.
Can someone recommend me a good scifi (in the realm of "plausible")? I've read the known books like Eon, Hyperion, Ilium, Ender etc. I'm looking for a new book/series really, it seems I'm reading old books all the time. |
Rendezvous with Rama form Arthur C Clarke is fucking awesome and quite plausible imo. The sequels are much worse ive heard and u dont really need to read them. It is somewhat similar to eon, but focuses more on humanity as a whole not the characters. Im currently listening to neuromancer by william gibbons and it's pretty cool too. reminds me of matrix and deus ex or basically any cyberpunk themed stuff  .
I started reading The Wheel of time series and it kinda feels like a LOTR rip off, but it's still very enjoyable to read. Tons of books in the series so it'll keep me occupied in the toilet lol  . Also bought some steampunk lately. Ive only watched/read steampunk manga/anime and some films, but never read a book in the genre. I bought the 4 books in the Predator Cities series. Kinda bothers me that they're so short and considered kinda children's books. Im so used to 500+ pagers. On the other hand, Id still read harry potter at my age (21).
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 19:45 Post subject: |
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Foundation is great, and Randezvous with Rama was also great book imo 
Last thing I read was Fevre Dream by G.R.R. Martin. A vampire novel. Not that bad actually
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Waargh
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 20:02 Post subject: |
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Hiroshi Sakurazaka - All You Need Is Kill (movie coming in 2014)
Awesome Jap sci-fi based on the Groundhog Day concept
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 20:15 Post subject: |
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Anyone else a fan of Joe Abercrombie's books? Awesome low fantasy. Dark, gritty and in a way very realistic.
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zmed
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 21:17 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | Just finished teh Death Gate Cycle, it was a great start with an average ending. I think I'm done with fantasy for now.
Can someone recommend me a good scifi (in the realm of "plausible")? I've read the known books like Eon, Hyperion, Ilium, Ender etc. I'm looking for a new book/series really, it seems I'm reading old books all the time. |
Pick up the entire works of Stanislaw Lem. He is an extremely varied author. Besides being famous for his sci-fi works, he also did social satire and children stories, all in sci-fi settings (like the exaggerated and outlandish stories of a space captain, or the journeys of two android engineers (take the "android" part however you like, goes both ways ).
His hardcore sci-fi books are all trying to be as realistic as possible. Sure, some of them has FTL travel or ridiculously outlandish technologies (think Star Wars level of energy usage), but they are all justified in their own universes, making them believable.
I especially like his "first contact" style novels (reading his entire library ATM, found two (maybe three) so far). He doesn't go the Star Trek way, and making the aliens just exaggerated versions of one of our own personalities, they are truly alien (out of the 2-3 books, none of them had humanoid aliens).
So if you want some really hardcore sci-fi, try Lem. 'Solaris' might be a good starter, that's his most well-known work in the west.
And of course what the others said, Asimov is simply brilliant, don't just read the Foundation series, read both the Robot and the Empire series of books as well (you might be better off reading them in chronological order, Robot->Empire->Foundation to get the most out of it). And Rendezvous with Rama is just amazing. I liked the sequels as well, but they were not even close to the original. Much more about character dramas than exploring an alien world. Still ok, not exceptional. I just hope Morgan Freeman can manage to get his dream of making it into a movie sometime soon.
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 21:55 Post subject: |
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I'm into a SF mood too; i started reading some Alastair Reynolds books, finished Silver Rain, House of Suns and Pushing Ice - good stuff overall. Now i'm crunching at Terminal World and loving every minute of it.
After i'm done with it i'm gonna start his Revelation Space series.
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Sep 2013 22:49 Post subject: |
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Wow thanks guys. I think I've read everything by Asimov by now, I'll check out the rest.
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Mar 2014 12:16 Post subject: |
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I don't know if you call it a kids book or not but I just finished the first enders game. I then watched the movie, I've seen a few movies destroy books but I honestly believe they skipped about 75% of content and took out anything that was good.
I call it the harry potter of sci fi but it was entertaining none the less.
started reading the David gemmel novels again, just really addictive, currently reading the second waylander novel, good basic fantasy writer I would recommend to anyone if you've never read any.
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right now im reading, The Wind Through the Keyhole, by Stephen King..
last one i was reading is, Island, by Richard Laymon. But of course the uncut one...
That Book is strangly Fun and cruel..dunno, very hard to read for soft people i guess...But its defo in my Top 20....
a good review quote from the Island book..
| Quote: | This one is narrated by a horny teenage boy named Rupert, who is trying to survive, save his women and sneak peeks at them. I found this one to be suspenseful, spooky and funny at the same time. I have known guys like Rupert so I didn't find his sex-obsessed mind to be all that unbelievable.
If you want to read Laymon novels, you must be warned that the narrator is always horny, the women always end up naked and there is campy fun elements that add to the book. In Island, everyone ends up in the nude including the guys, the plot is strange and its one heck of a ride. A lot of people didn't like this, but I did. If you are into the more literary horror, you won't enjoy this, but if you like horror that is funny and you don't offend easily you'll love it.
Richard Laymon was one of the funnest writers in horror. Island reminds me of one of those late night Cinemax films, but at the same time, it draws you in. |
gonna make a list later of the Books i read..There are some good ones...
cya..
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd May 2014 00:34 Post subject: |
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Anyone read and can recommend the Earthsea series? Saw it mentioned in the game of thrones thread in those lore videos as one of the great fantasy series.
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd May 2014 09:30 Post subject: |
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| 3E74 wrote: | right now im reading, The Wind Through the Keyhole, by Stephen King..
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Is that any good?, I have not read it yet, I had a Dark tower binge a year ago and couldn't be arsed with that one.
I am reading the Odd Thomas set, I liked the movie so I figured I would read them 
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa! |
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 14:34 Post subject: |
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I'm thinking about either getting "The Dark Tower" by Stepehen King or "Call Of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft today.....
which one should I read first? :O
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 14:42 Post subject: |
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Haha, okay thanks Sabin. I'll go and get it now <3
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zmed
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 16:25 Post subject: |
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I was planning on reading the first book and then see if I like it and then buy the other ones.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 16:27 Post subject: |
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Read the first 2 then make up your mind.
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 18:52 Post subject: |
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"Cem Anos de Solidão" - Gabriel García Márquez
Well, in RO, of course.  Sadly, Spanish (a beautiful language IMO) is not on my list of known foreign languages. Only FR and EN, heh. Studied LOTS of German in school but can't remember sh*t. I blame the teacher.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 23:25 Post subject: |
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well, they didn't have call of cthulhu, so I bought the dark tower. gonna read that first and then later get call of cthulhu.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th May 2014 23:49 Post subject: |
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Recently finished The Night Circus, which is absolutely fantastic. Magical weird romance type book. Very Neil Gaiman-esque, but also got its own voice.
Currently flicking between All Tomorrow's Parties (William Gibson), Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Gaiman), and Team of Rivals (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
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| Posted: Wed, 7th May 2014 09:45 Post subject: |
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Finished The Double by Saramago the other day. That really wasn't worth the time. Not a single character in the book behaves even remotely believable.
Started Bloodsong since some of you liked it. Almost finished by now. It is pretty good though it could use some more character development and the story revolves a bit to much around isolated events. Are the next book in the series just as good?
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| Posted: Wed, 7th May 2014 15:54 Post subject: |
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Cool that someone else is reading The Dark Tower series atm, I am currently in the second half of Wizard and Glass, it's still fun.
After this book I'll read something non-fiction again, probably "Who Owns the Future" by Jaron Lanier, already have it on the Kindle. And then back to the dark tower.
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