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Fantastic books IMO
CCM:
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--- Quote from: CCM on August 29, 2011, 10:57:18 pm ---Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Just read about this book in Time magazine, sounds like it is definitely worth a read.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X
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Sounds right up my alley. I just picked it up. Thanks!
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Let me know what you think of it. I am planning on throwing on my Kindle to read it when I am done with my current book.
yotsuya:
Ok, I started 'Ready Player One' last night at about 9PM and just finished all 350+ pages right now. It's a fun, easy read with a lot of detail and a lot of reference to a bunch of 80s pop culture. It's a good read, especially if you're in your late 30s and grew up with 80s games, movies, cartoons, and science fiction (I fit that demographic). Teens who are gamers would probably enjoy it as well, especially if their parents fit that demographic and have, over the years, introduced their kids to that stuff.
I'd say it's worth reading.
Dermbrian:
Two series that I've read and reread over the years are the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov and the Colossus trilogy by DF Jones. The book Colossus is what was made into the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project in 1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Feltham_Jones
I have every DF Jones book except "Bond in Time". Pages are loose in every book I have, but they're all long out of print, I think.
I like it when the two gigantic computers in Colossus, Colossus in the USA and Guardian in the USSR, begin exchanging information in hundreds of words per minute and their teletypes can't keep up. I wonder what DF Jones would think of my HTC EVO phone vs his mountain-sized computers.
In the Foundation Trilogy books, Isaac Azimov has personal nuclear generators worn as jewelry but still has space pilots calculating routes using slide rules, and really missed the concept of computers entirely but still manages to have human-looking, human-acting robots in his vision of the future.
Brian
opt2not:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on August 16, 2011, 10:30:34 am ---I want to check out GRR martin after watching game of thrones. seems cool.
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Yeah i just finished watching the first season of Game of Thrones, and I'm now really interested in reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The show is fantastic, and I hear the books are better!
I few of my favourite books that I tend to re-read now and again:
* The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
* The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
* Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist - Chuck Jones
Blanka: