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sanchin
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Just a heads up, but Queen of Fire by Anthony Ryan was released today - third book in the Raven's Shadow series.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2015 22:15 Post subject: |
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I need some fantasy recommendations( besides the one above). Just finished the black company and before that Malazan. Is there anything similar out there? Preferably a serie.
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Bayerss
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2015 22:26 Post subject: |
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I'd recommend Wool by Hugh Howey. It's more sci fi than fantasy but an excellent read none the less. The writing isn't top notch but the story is compelling, it's about humanity living inside a massive underground silo due to the earth being devastated by... well... you can find out for yourself if you want to  (its a trilogy)
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dsergei
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2015 15:22 Post subject: |
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| Atropa wrote: | | I need some fantasy recommendations( besides the one above). Just finished the black company and before that Malazan. Is there anything similar out there? Preferably a serie. |
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher? Urban fantasy. Gets really good starting with the third book - Grave Peril.
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Saner
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2015 15:22 Post subject: |
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dark tower series
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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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zmed
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| Posted: Sun, 26th Jul 2015 15:39 Post subject: |
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The Martian
It's a good as everyone said. Funny, entertaining, educational, exciting, etc. Not sure about the movie though, somehow it didn't feel..."filmable" as I listened to the truly stellar audiobook version. There are a fuckton of scientific explanations about soil cultivation, water generation, getting around sandstorms, etc, that make the book so interesting, but just aren't fit for a movie.
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| Posted: Sun, 26th Jul 2015 18:29 Post subject: |
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If you want a good, well written post-apocalyptic story about people living in vault-like Silos (think Fallout) then you really need to read the Silo series. All three books come together really well and though the first is really the best of the bunch (mainly because of the many mysteries and you having to piece together stuff which is a lot of fun) the other two are really great too.
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Jul 2015 11:39 Post subject: |
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This thread should be more active, thanks for the great tips. I'm reading Dreadnought, a detailed telling of the set up to WW1. Great read for history nuts, though it's a bit too detailed at times.
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zmed
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Jul 2015 13:40 Post subject: |
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Ringworld
Don't know about this one. It has amazing world-building, but kinda lousy storytelling. The universe is fascinating, but there are points in the book where Niven rushes exposition, doesn't elaborate on seemingly important things, which makes the flow of the narrative a bit disjointed.
I guess I recommend it just for the great world he built. It seems after all the praise I had too high expectations.
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Jul 2015 16:53 Post subject: |
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| zmed wrote: | Ringworld
Don't know about this one. It has amazing world-building, but kinda lousy storytelling. The universe is fascinating, but there are points in the book where Niven rushes exposition, doesn't elaborate on seemingly important things, which makes the flow of the narrative a bit disjointed.
I guess I recommend it just for the great world he built. It seems after all the praise I had too high expectations. |
Yes, the Ringworld books are rather hit & miss I find. I read the first two books a year or so ago and it felt like he wasted such great potential in places. The character design was all over the place as well and felt a little 2 dimensional at times.
The idea of the story is great, though. A huge ring, abandoned by its creators, with so many different things to discover. Like with RAMA, the writer's own limited imagination stopped it from being truly brilliant.
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sanchin
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Sep 2015 23:03 Post subject: |
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I didn't pay that much attention to the reviews, only one or twice I saw something about it being worse than the previous ones, but more or less sufficiently explains what needed to be explained. I'm about 1/3 through, some events seem a bit...misfired? I don't even know how to call it - huge build-up of a great scheme and then almost nothing.
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Epsilon
Dr. Strangelove
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2015 03:55 Post subject: |
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Fantasy Recommendation: The Wheel of Time
Scifi Recommendation: Frank Herberts Dune Series.
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2015 05:43 Post subject: |
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| Epsilon wrote: |
Scifi Recommendation: Frank Herberts Dune Series. |
I can vouch for that but do not stop after the first book and don`t touch anything that has Kevin J. Anderson on it aside from the last two "original books".
For a Fantasy-Fix,the "Elric of Melniboné" Book is a classic (i`m sure it already got named tho)
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Now, I don't know what hardware costs in Poland, I guess it's cheaper because everything is stolen from Germany and resold... |
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2015 11:12 Post subject: |
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I have wheel of time on my ereader, but it's daunting due to its length and the possibility of a shitty ending.
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Frant
King's Bounty
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2015 12:21 Post subject: |
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Isaac Asimov - both sci fi and some of his books about science, both popular science like "Black Holes and Cosmic Eggs" and other writings (the bulk of his combined works were non-fictional scientific papers, books etc.)
Greg Bears The Way-trilogy; "Eon", "Eternity" and "Legacy" where the last is a separate story taking place long before the first two books.
Charles Bukowsi - "Factotum" and other works.
Douglas Adams - "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and "The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul".
Jerzy Kosinski - "Being There" (ignore the fact that he "borrowed" the idea and concept from a Polish novel - Nikodem Dyzma's Career by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz... or read both).
William Gibsons sprawl-trilogy; "Neuromancer", "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive".
Anne Rices - "Servant of the Bones".
P.G Wodehouse - "Pigs have Wings"
Stephen King - "The Long Walk" (I read that one from front to back the same day I got the book when I was a teen.)
Dean Koontz - "Winter Moon" (yeah, most of his stuff is 'cheap' but I liked the atmosphere in this one).
David Eddings - The Belgarion and the Tamuli series.
Tiziano Sclavi + various sketch artists - "The Dylan Dog Case Files".
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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Epsilon
Dr. Strangelove
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| BettyShikle wrote: | | Epsilon wrote: |
Scifi Recommendation: Frank Herberts Dune Series. |
I can vouch for that but do not stop after the first book and don`t touch anything that has Kevin J. Anderson on it aside from the last two "original books".
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Those are the reason why I wrote Frank Herberts and "Series". |
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2015 18:37 Post subject: |
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100 photographs that changed the world ( history of photography / documentary )
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Has anyone read the new fantasy series by Patrick Rothfuss? I liked the first book, Name of the Wind, it was quite good. The second book, Wise Man's Fear, is a piece of pure and absolute shit. The excellent writing covers up the mind numbing borefest of a story, but halfway through the book I couldn't take it anymore. Is the third book worth the trouble?
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I'm currently reading the Three-Body Problem trilogy by a Chinese scifi author Cixin Liu. Finished the first novel, last one isnt translated yet it seems, out in 2016.
Seems good, I enjoyed the first volume, its interesting to see scifi from a Chinese POV. The translation I feel is very well done.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Dec 2015 08:54 Post subject: |
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Stephen King - From a Buick 8
One of the best from the guy I've read in a while. At first I was afraid it would be familiar with his other weird car story, but nothing like that. it's relatively short and was almost impossible to put down for me.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Dec 2015 21:36 Post subject: |
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Anthony Ryan kinda tapered off from an awesome Bloodsong. :/
I recommend The Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham. book 5 coming out this March. It's pretty great. He's the guy who did the Longprice Quartet, but it's like a different person wrote these books.
Gustave the Steel
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Waargh
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dsergei
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Dec 2015 21:11 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | | Has anyone read the new fantasy series by Patrick Rothfuss? I liked the first book, Name of the Wind, it was quite good. The second book, Wise Man's Fear, is a piece of pure and absolute shit. The excellent writing covers up the mind numbing borefest of a story, but halfway through the book I couldn't take it anymore. Is the third book worth the trouble? |
There is no third book yet. Probably out next year. I read both and both were directionless snoozefests.
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Nalo
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Jul 2016 10:36 Post subject: |
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| Atropa wrote: | | I need some fantasy recommendations( besides the one above). Just finished the black company and before that Malazan. Is there anything similar out there? Preferably a serie. |
You prolly wanna check out "Prince of Nothing" then.
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I'll read it anyway to finish the story and to honor the memory of the awesome first book.
