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Fantastic books IMO
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on August 16, 2011, 10:11:02 am ---Yes, I enjoyed 1984 as well. I read it the first time in, uh 1984. Nice call.
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Me too! I was in the 5th grade!
I reread it every two years or so, and I just started it again last night.
Dervacumen:
--- Quote from: RayB on August 12, 2011, 12:20:10 pm ---Who hasn't read Farenheit 451, Brave New World, and 1984? Aren't these all mandatory reading in high school?
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Farenheit 451 and 1984 were required, but I picked up Brave New World on my own. Maybe that's why I like it more that the other two. I didn't like Farenheit 451 at all actually. Maybe I'll appreciate it now.
There are some good ideas in this thread. I've never read any Piers Anthony. I'm now on a mission.
Dervacumen:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on August 16, 2011, 10:17:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on August 16, 2011, 10:11:02 am ---Yes, I enjoyed 1984 as well. I read it the first time in, uh 1984. Nice call.
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Me too! I was in the 5th grade!
I reread it every two years or so, and I just started it again last night.
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Now I feel even older. I was a Freshman.
TopJimmyCooks:
Heinlein- the earlier and more juvenile stuff holds together the best, but all is worth reading. I like later novels Friday (tight futurism) and Number of the Beast (more like Stranger). Fave: the admittedly milspec Troopers
William Gibson - Bridge, strand, Zero history, all of it. read it.
Richard K Morgan - Kovacs novels are farking fun adventure sf. Prefect novels are ok as well. He also did a fantasy book with a gay protagonist that showed some spark, can't remember the title, I can handle fantasy as long as it's not too much "Merlin intoned runes from the eldritch scrolls against the troll hordes in books 3, 5 and 9.
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon and System tril. are must read, the rest is ok. liked Anathem.
Gaiman - inconsistent, liked the "Gods". some ok shorts.
Piers, Anne McCaffery, Andre Norton, Asimov (fiction, haven't like his NF and astronomy books as well), I grew up reading their novels and Analog/Asimov's.
Any PK Dick- come on, bladerunner, ya'll.
Rudy rucker - robot books are worth reading and interesting
I want to check out GRR martin after watching game of thrones. seems cool.
Glad to see there's a good amount of SF guys here.
Dervacumen:
And now for the non-fiction:
Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun & Other Working, Space Age Projects
One of these days I may actually build something.
The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought