EPT2013 - What are you reading? - Page 48
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kafkaesque
Germany2006 Posts
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YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
Cosmos by Carl Sagan The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Free Giveaway by Science Panorama http://www.sciencepanorama.com/2012/11/the-three-e-books-that-we-promised-to.html?m=1 | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Nub4ever
Canada1981 Posts
![[image loading]](http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2009/08/year-of-the-flood.jpg) I somehow got myself into reading Oryx and Crake for english last year, reading it now. Damn, not the happiest and book and certainly doesn't increase one's faith in humanity. | ||
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Chronos.
United States805 Posts
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Xxio
Canada5565 Posts
On November 17 2012 10:56 Grantalf wrote: I've been going through Hugo award-winning books (I think they've all won). So far my list is: Starship Troopers Ender's Game Stranger in a Strange Land The Hyperion Contos (Book 1 is definitely one of the best books I've ever read!!!!) Very nice! I agree about Book 1 of the Cantos  I'm reading Changes by Jim Butcher. Dresden Files are addictive. | ||
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kafkaesque
Germany2006 Posts
On November 18 2012 01:19 kafkaesque wrote: Since ASoIaF has restored my faith in fantasy, do you guys have any recommendations regarding fantasy set in a non-medieval world but rather in a ~19th century European industrialization setting? Anybody? I've been googling to little avail and I hold TL's opinions in highest esteem. | ||
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h41fgod
Sweden377 Posts
On November 19 2012 22:28 kafkaesque wrote: Anybody? I've been googling to little avail and I hold TL's opinions in highest esteem. Jules Verne. The Time Machine. Lovecraft (which I have not read yet). Just borrowed Swiftly by Adam Roberts from the library, haven't read it yet as I am reading Rama II at the moment. | ||
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Exoteric
Australia2330 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Currently reading : Getting better with every page. At the beginning the hero's personnality annoyed me a bit. A bit more French litterature. Next, because English litterature is better than English food : ![[image loading]](http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/Images/richard%27s%20review%20iamges/books/wuthering-heights.jpg) | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17220 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.blacklibrary.com/Images/Product/DefaultBL/xlarge/dark-vengeance.jpg) Dark Vengeance by C. Z. Dunn Starts really well. I hope it'll remain such for the rest of the book. | ||
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
On November 17 2012 11:48 sam!zdat wrote: check out A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Man in the High Castle, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Babel-17, Stand on Zanzibar, The Left Hand of Darkness, Bug Jack Barron, The Dispossessed, Shadrach in the Furnace, Gateway, Neuromancer, Red Mars, the Diamond Age, American Gods, Perdido Street Station, Accelerando, Rainbow's End, and The Dervish House... nice selection of the best hugo award has to offer, beyond what you've read Just going to quote this so I can easily find this post and write it down later. | ||
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Zeon0
Austria2995 Posts
![[image loading]](http://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/enders-game3.gif) sad thing: i think the saga gets worse with every book: the first was great, the second one was ok, the third wasnt that good though, the fourth (i'm at about the half) isnt that good either | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9102 Posts
So. Damn. Good. I haven't read books that fast in a while, but I simply couldn't put them down. I almost find it hard to believe he is going to wrap this up in a single book to complete the trilogy. I would've thought the story would have been further along by the end of the 2nd book. | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
On November 20 2012 05:27 Zeon0 wrote: best book i've read this year: + Show Spoiler + sad thing: i think the saga gets worse with every book: the first was great, the second one was ok, the third wasnt that good though, the fourth (i'm at about the half) isnt that good either Agreed. Ender's Game is pretty darn close to the best book I've ever read, but aside from Ender's Shadow all the other ones are poor to middling at best. Now Reading: Some Malazan books, I guess (Stonewielder at the moment). e: spoilered quoted image. | ||
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CraZyWayne
Germany357 Posts
![[image loading]](http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/cloud_atlas_book_cover_01.jpg%3Fw%3D440%26h%3D330%26crop%3Dtrue) Very good read. Six different stories which are somehow connected (won't spoil it) and each story written in a completely different style. Amazing work by David Mitchell. Going to start reading: ![[image loading]](http://www.blogigo.de/jaris_buechergebrabbel/die_physiker.jpg) and ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MWJXC992L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) | ||
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Cuh
United States403 Posts
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SecondManRex
England24 Posts
![[image loading]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0uZqgmOGrrE/TIpu0nZtB-I/AAAAAAAAIiQ/UPimRb3Jkn0/s1600/Frankenstein.jpg) Midway through it at the moment. Can be a little slow at times (for some reason Shelley decided to go off and tell a tale of a relatively unrelated family for a good few chapters) but there's a few decent themes which makes it interesting and the monster is certainly a tragic character. | ||
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
On November 20 2012 05:48 Sn0_Man wrote: Agreed. Ender's Game is pretty darn close to the best book I've ever read, but aside from Ender's Shadow all the other ones are poor to middling at best. Now Reading: Some Malazan books, I guess (Stonewielder at the moment). e: spoilered quoted image. That's a bummer. I was actually thinking of reading the sequels, but if they are only going to disappoint I'm probably going to favor other books ahead of it. | ||
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
Something like "The Wind-Up Girl" seems like far better sci-fi imo. | ||
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