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Fantastic books IMO
shmokes:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on August 16, 2011, 10:30:34 am ---Heinlein- the earlier and more juvenile stuff holds together the best, but all is worth reading.
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If by "all" you mean "not all" since Stranger, as we've already established, is garbage. ;D
Rando:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on August 16, 2011, 10:30:34 am ---Gaiman - inconsistent, liked the "Gods". some ok shorts.
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Gaiman novels are pretty good IMO. I haven't read "American Gods" but "Good Omens" (written with Terry Pratchett) is good/funny, "Coraline" is good (creepy & similar to movie) but is kind of a kids book. "Neverwhere" is interesting and was made into a pretty good but low budget english mini-series. My wife just finished "The Graveyard Book" which is also supposedly for kids but she liked it and said more creepy than Coraline. He also writes/wrote comics but those are some of his novels that I'm familiar with.
I'm also a big fan of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the looking Glass" which are two distinct stories (and which "Coraline" above is often compared), not one as usually displayed in movies/cartoons. Simple quick read and lots of literary oddities and puns and such.
HaRuMaN:
Anyone read Heinlein's Have Space Suit - Will Travel?
It's a bit juvenile, but a funny read, and a pretty good book I thought.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 16, 2011, 12:31:32 pm ---If you hate it why do you use the term 'grok' so much?
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Heh . . . I didn't know he coined the term. And in the only book of his I've read, no less. C'est la vie. There's a lot of sex in that book too, which I also use as often as possible. :) The book still sucks balls.
By the way, that middle-aged character of his is a big part of what I disliked about Stranger. Jubal Harshaw was written in as Heinlein's personal bully pulpit. The fact that he made him a brilliant medical doctor, brilliant lawyer, brilliant writer, brilliant philosopher, and whatever else that I can't remember because it's been so long, makes the character both unbelievable and embarrassingly self-aggrandizing. And it's just stupid-lazy writing. Everything Heinlein wants to personally pontificate about he makes come out of the mouth of an effective god-among-men. Cos, you know, then it must be right.
Vigo:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 5 part trilogy by Douglas Adams is always very entertaining. They are wholly remarkable books. :cheers: