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On July 31 2013 12:04 Ryndika wrote:![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/kWmGSOP.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro - Never let me goI will start as soon as I leave pc. My mother gave me few other books too to read; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_roadI already read blindness. It was pretty experience and I'm sure it will be many others too. Definitely recommending. It's about people who turn blind and so does everyone around them because of an epidemic. The way everything was written down was very descriptive and touchable. Oh, there is so many good books to read - I wonder what readers of TL would recommend me? Anything well written is good, but I'm extremely plebian in reading books so I wouldn't even notice reading shit... Probably.. Well I think I would.
When in doubt, go Russian. Dostoyevsky(Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Demons, Notes From Underground), Tolstoy(Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Hadji-Murat), Chekhov(Any collection of his short stories) and Gogol(Dead souls, The Nose, The Overcoat) are all amazing writers. Also, a lot of people speak highly of Bulgakov(Master and margarita) and Pasternak(Doctor Zhivago).
Start with whatever you want. They're all great books by great authors, there's no way you can go wrong with any of these guys.
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I suppose Nabokov could go on that list as well?
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On July 31 2013 12:58 Roe wrote:
I suppose Nabokov could go on that list as well?
Depends on how much pedophilia he can take  . I'm reading Lolita next, but I put it off after getting 30 pages in because I the descriptors used to actually talk about girls that young made me nauseaus. I actually felt sick.
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Going to pick this up as soon as I can get my hands on it:
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Been seeing a lot of good reviews popping up, so really looking forward to it.
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On July 31 2013 16:00 elt wrote:Going to pick this up as soon as I can get my hands on it: Been seeing a lot of good reviews popping up, so really looking forward to it.
Reading it now, it's amazing. I've literally been reading it for the last 12 hours =_=
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On July 22 2013 09:46 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 09:30 Mithhaike wrote:Just found this thread in my sidebar. All of you literature guys are making me ashamed that I prefer sci-fi/fantasy books instead of some deep literatural books with pose or poetry or something. Very daunting place On a side note, those things bore me, even though I've studied literature for my Cambridge O levels. I am currently reading "The Iron Druid" and "Codex Alera", both series I've just gotten yesterday and plan to occupy me for quite a bit. I love sci-fi/fantasy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading sci-fi/fantasy, and a lot of sci-fi (though admittedly less fantasy) shares a lot of common ground with capital-L-literature.
Can you name a few? I reacently read Neuromancer because i thought it would be a bit like Brave New World, but i was gravely dissapointed, and i didn't like the novel at all.
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I just finished The Steel Remains and The Amulet of Samarkand. Both were over in a flash.
Also like 10-20 pages left of The Black Company. Already started the new one by Abercrombie: Red Country.
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On July 31 2013 12:07 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:![[image loading]](http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9781400069224_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG)
Did you by any chance learn about the book from that particular interview?
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On July 31 2013 16:23 Prog455 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 09:46 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On July 22 2013 09:30 Mithhaike wrote:Just found this thread in my sidebar. All of you literature guys are making me ashamed that I prefer sci-fi/fantasy books instead of some deep literatural books with pose or poetry or something. Very daunting place On a side note, those things bore me, even though I've studied literature for my Cambridge O levels. I am currently reading "The Iron Druid" and "Codex Alera", both series I've just gotten yesterday and plan to occupy me for quite a bit. I love sci-fi/fantasy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading sci-fi/fantasy, and a lot of sci-fi (though admittedly less fantasy) shares a lot of common ground with capital-L-literature. Can you name a few? I reacently read Neuromancer because i thought it would be a bit like Brave New World, but i was gravely dissapointed, and i didn't like the novel at all.
On July 31 2013 16:23 Prog455 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 09:46 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On July 22 2013 09:30 Mithhaike wrote:Just found this thread in my sidebar. All of you literature guys are making me ashamed that I prefer sci-fi/fantasy books instead of some deep literatural books with pose or poetry or something. Very daunting place On a side note, those things bore me, even though I've studied literature for my Cambridge O levels. I am currently reading "The Iron Druid" and "Codex Alera", both series I've just gotten yesterday and plan to occupy me for quite a bit. I love sci-fi/fantasy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading sci-fi/fantasy, and a lot of sci-fi (though admittedly less fantasy) shares a lot of common ground with capital-L-literature. Can you name a few? I recently read Neuromancer because i thought it would be a bit like Brave New World, but i was gravely dissapointed, and i didn't like the novel at all.
I'm not really sure what you're looking for in a sci-fi book, but if you like "literature," I guess try the following:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury if you haven't read it, it has the whole sci-fi dystopia thing going.
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, mentioned earlier this page, might also be a good fit. Disclaimer: I haven't personally read this one, but I know what it's mostly about, and I generally enjoyed the Ishiguro that I've read very much.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, it's a really fun read and it's pretty much sci-fi masquerading as literature in a lot of respects, might be fun.
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, it's pretty much speculative fiction as much as it is science fiction.
I think a major problem with Neuromancer is that it epitomizes a genre, but in itself, it is a bit dated. A lot of the love people have for Neuromancer is tied in with a love of the whole cyberpunk sub-genre of science fiction itself as opposed to the book, which admittedly has some drawbacks. I wouldn't recommend Neuromancer to somebody looking to get into sci-fi tbh, as iconic as it is.
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On July 31 2013 16:23 Prog455 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 09:46 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On July 22 2013 09:30 Mithhaike wrote:Just found this thread in my sidebar. All of you literature guys are making me ashamed that I prefer sci-fi/fantasy books instead of some deep literatural books with pose or poetry or something. Very daunting place On a side note, those things bore me, even though I've studied literature for my Cambridge O levels. I am currently reading "The Iron Druid" and "Codex Alera", both series I've just gotten yesterday and plan to occupy me for quite a bit. I love sci-fi/fantasy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading sci-fi/fantasy, and a lot of sci-fi (though admittedly less fantasy) shares a lot of common ground with capital-L-literature. Can you name a few? I reacently read Neuromancer because i thought it would be a bit like Brave New World, but i was gravely dissapointed, and i didn't like the novel at all.
If you haven't read it already:
Frank Herbert's "Dune". Every book of the series is so much more than "only a sci-fi book".
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The Book of the New Sun is well written and atypical of the science fiction genre.
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On July 31 2013 14:51 docvoc wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2013 12:58 Roe wrote:
I suppose Nabokov could go on that list as well? Depends on how much pedophilia he can take . I'm reading Lolita next, but I put it off after getting 30 pages in because I the descriptors used to actually talk about girls that young made me nauseaus. I actually felt sick.
I can take ANYTHING. Actually I like taboo stories.
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On July 31 2013 16:16 GhostLink wrote:
Reading it now, it's amazing. I've literally been reading it for the last 12 hours =_=
Where'd you get your copy.. I want it so bad
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What do you guys do when told about a book that's in the middle of a series?
Do you begin with that book, or do you start at the beginning?
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On August 01 2013 01:35 MarcusQuintus wrote:
What do you guys do when told about a book that's in the middle of a series?
Do you begin with that book, or do you start at the beginning?
start at the beginning. Its the only way to go.
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On August 01 2013 01:36 packrat386 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 01:35 MarcusQuintus wrote:
What do you guys do when told about a book that's in the middle of a series?
Do you begin with that book, or do you start at the beginning? start at the beginning. Its the only way to go.
What the packrat said. Some middle-series-books are only so good because you've read the previous.
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I've just finished my re-read of A Song of Ice and Fire and I wanted some advice on what to start next.
Looking for something fantasy-ish. Currently I'm torn between either the Malazan series or Wheel of time.
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On August 01 2013 01:43 xsksc wrote:
I've just finished my re-read of A Song of Ice and Fire and I wanted some advice on what to start next.
Looking for something fantasy-ish. Currently I'm torn between either the Malazan series or Wheel of time.
I've read reviews that the Wheel of Time isn't very good and drags on quite a bit.
That and in summation, it's the battle of good vs evil.
Then again, I haven't read either(I began the Dagger and Coin series after Ice And Fire), to which
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okay book, though it's clear that it's the middle of a 5 set.
The gap between books has been a season, but I suspect book 4 will start minutes later.
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I've read the first 10-ish books of Wheel of Time. Didn't like it. I read a lot of fantasy and there is way better out there - imo. (I have not read ASOIAF because I was adviced against since not liking WoT).
Read Brandon Sanderson's mistborn series or maybe Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
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On August 01 2013 01:55 Dirkzor wrote:
I've read the first 10-ish books of Wheel of Time. Didn't like it. I read a lot of fantasy and there is way better out there - imo. (I have not read ASOIAF because I was adviced against since not liking WoT).
Read Brandon Sanderson's mistborn series or maybe Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
I'd say ASOIAF is a lot different from WoT. The only similarity is that they're both long series.
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