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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On September 22 2012 20:25 corumjhaelen wrote: Just read : ![[image loading]](http://skhole.fr/sites/default/files/u1/The_Human_Condition.jpg) Passionating. The best criticism of modernity I've ever encountered One of my favorites! | ||
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mememolly
4765 Posts
![[image loading]](http://rikowski.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/dead-man-working.jpg) Short book, read in a sitting, lucid critique of the modern working environment and its effects on employees, although offers little in the form of solutions. | ||
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HowitZer
United States1610 Posts
![[image loading]](http://images.betterworldbooks.com/160/No-Holds-Barred-Gentry-Clyde-9781600785450.jpg) Has some interesting things about how the UFC started so far. It all started with the desire to advertise beer at an event lol. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/135570000/135572871.JPG) | ||
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
![[image loading]](http://scifiward.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/the-road.jpg) Liking it a lot. | ||
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YourGoodFriend
United States2197 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.brentweeks.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Blinding-Knife.jpg) The sequel to Black Prism Really good books he is a ridiculous author and very unconventional | ||
Flicky
England2666 Posts
On October 03 2012 13:19 YourGoodFriend wrote: The sequel to Black Prism Really good books he is a ridiculous author and very unconventional Can you say a little more? Sounds interesting and the wiki page is just the plot. I finished Hotwire by Alex Kava and The City and the City by China Mieville. Hotwire is just another of the new style of Maggie O'Dell novels. It's a crime thriller with a fraction of the depth and development it used to have. The series feels more like a single episode of a TV show as far as development and plot goes now (clearly an intentional shift), whereas it used to be so much more. I still liked the book and read it quickly, I just wish there would be something to shake it up. The City and the City had a really interesting idea behind it, but it never really took off for me. Considering it won science fiction/fantasy prizes, I wouldn't really put it in either category. Not as a selling point anyway. + Show Spoiler + The ending just sort of happens and the change before then just makes the last 70 pages feel really rushed. There's this huge interesting build-up with a mystical city and power then suddenly it just resolves itself as a silly political/business/money thing. Next up I'm reading The Rogue by Trudi Canavan. I'm probably going to stop with her books after this series because I know they're nothing special, but for some reason I really enjoy them. After that I think is Hyperion by Dan Simmons. On Non-fiction side I'm finishing up on The Genealogy of Morals by Nietszche then onto Influence: The Art of Persuasion by... someone. I don't even think that's the right title. | ||
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nebula.
Sweden1431 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.pocketshop.se/bilder/artiklar/9789186067755.jpg) Really intriguing book based on diaries from WW1. Not about the war itself so not really the usual war book, its more about the everyday life and the people. | ||
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YourGoodFriend
United States2197 Posts
On October 03 2012 16:45 Flicky wrote: Can you say a little more? Sounds interesting and the wiki page is just the plot. I finished Hotwire by Alex Kava and The City and the City by China Mieville. Hotwire is just another of the new style of Maggie O'Dell novels. It's a crime thriller with a fraction of the depth and development it used to have. The series feels more like a single episode of a TV show as far as development and plot goes now (clearly an intentional shift), whereas it used to be so much more. I still liked the book and read it quickly, I just wish there would be something to shake it up. The City and the City had a really interesting idea behind it, but it never really took off for me. Considering it won science fiction/fantasy prizes, I wouldn't really put it in either category. Not as a selling point anyway. + Show Spoiler + The ending just sort of happens and the change before then just makes the last 70 pages feel really rushed. There's this huge interesting build-up with a mystical city and power then suddenly it just resolves itself as a silly political/business/money thing. Next up I'm reading The Rogue by Trudi Canavan. I'm probably going to stop with her books after this series because I know they're nothing special, but for some reason I really enjoy them. After that I think is Hyperion by Dan Simmons. On Non-fiction side I'm finishing up on The Genealogy of Morals by Nietszche then onto Influence: The Art of Persuasion by... someone. I don't even think that's the right title. Sorry, to expand on that. The story line follows a main character that is fat (his friend bet him he couldn't write a good book with a fat main char) the "magic" is revolved around light and the ability to "draft" different colors into different uses. Really intriguing plot and he writes in a very "anything can happen to anyone style" Pick it up its definitely worth the time | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
Might give Catch 22 a try next. I picked it up once and it didn't grab me, but it sounds like such a staple that I should give it a go. | ||
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
On October 01 2012 20:13 YoucriedWolf wrote: Namely "Hyperion" and "The fall of hyperion" by Dan Simmons And the first five books in the enders game series in publicised order: Ender's Game (1985) - Nebula Award winner, 1985;[1] Hugo Award winner, 1986;[1] Locus Award nominee, 1986[1] Speaker for the Dead (1986) - Nebula Award winner, 1986;[1] Hugo & Locus Awards winner, 1987;[1] Campbell Award nominee, 1987[1] Xenocide (1991) - Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1992[6] Children of the Mind (1996) Ender's Shadow (1999) - Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2000 Sweet, I'm about to start Hyperion actually, just had to finish Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design first. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On October 03 2012 05:41 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I thoght they were enjoyable enough. Just because they were weaker than the first two means they get more flak than they should... Once a SF writer starts to turn a series into a sermon it gets old quite fast. | ||
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mastergriggy
United States1312 Posts
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Zen5034
United States384 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On October 04 2012 05:44 KillerSOS wrote: Once a SF writer starts to turn a series into a sermon it gets old quite fast. For any author to not "sermon" is difficult, and it's questionable if that's even desirable. Besides, attacks on OSC's "sermonizing" rose dramatically after it became public knowledge that he was a Mormon/supported a lot of conservative social ideals, and it became "cool" to hate on OSC, which makes me think that it's not nearly as apparent in the text as people make it out to be, but is simply a reaction by readers to external stimuli, which makes the attack on the merits of the books kinda fallacious. | ||
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Soxes
31 Posts
![[image loading]](http://dustinfarris.com/media/uploads/1984_medium.jpg) Crazy good book. My favorite books have always been those that you find yourself slightly disturbed knowing that you can relate somehow to the protagonist, no matter how far removed you are from "their reality." Next on my list: ![[image loading]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p1FarlyL88g/TEnfalZBoyI/AAAAAAAAAS0/iCf3EAcQoOE/s1600/catch22_cover-1.jpg) | ||
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TOCHMY
Sweden1692 Posts
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Bunn
Estonia934 Posts
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