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Post by rudeboy on Aug 12, 2019 8:29:44 GMT
Machines like Me by Ian McEwan, which is actually the first of his novels I have read.
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Post by Zos on Aug 12, 2019 10:18:37 GMT
Big old book but very readable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 21:46:31 GMT
I have two on the go. I'm reading HG Wells' The War of the Worlds, and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 15, 2019 0:52:10 GMT
Finishing up Airframe by Michael Crichton. Hadn't read it before. It's got no science fiction elements whatsoever but feels more relevant today with its focus on airline safety, media circuses, and corporate politics.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 15, 2019 19:29:14 GMT
Just finished Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld by Teresa Carpenter (cuz my favorite actress Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in and produce the movie).
About to begin reading American Cosmic: UFO's, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka.
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Post by mmexis on Aug 15, 2019 20:07:01 GMT
Finally finished all my YA reading for the selection committee I'm part of. On to adult fare, albeit not of the serious kind. Not to belittle her personal story and the horrors she lived through - just not "serious" literature.
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Post by gw on Aug 16, 2019 2:11:17 GMT
I was reading Xenocide, the third Ender's Game book, but I misplaced the book somewhere. I have had mostly bad experiences with series in science fiction where I get bored by the third book but it's kept my attention so far.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 16, 2019 14:41:12 GMT
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. A sort of science fiction/time travel/magic combination that I got from the library in digital format. I doubt it will end up in my all-time favourites list but last night I kept reading "just one more chapter" and when I looked at the time thinking it would probably be around midnight it was 1:30 AM!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 20:15:02 GMT
I was reading Xenocide, the third Ender's Game book, but I misplaced the book somewhere. I have had mostly bad experiences with series in science fiction where I get bored by the third book but it's kept my attention so far. I had to read Ender's Game twice to really enjoy it but I had a hard time getting into Speaker.
I had the same experience with another series of his starting with the novel Seventh Son. I loved it but I couldn't get into the next one.
Tremendously talented writer.
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Post by gw on Aug 16, 2019 23:03:21 GMT
It took me a while to get into Ender's Game, but by the end I was hooked. I enjoyed Speaker for the Dead and found it a more relaxing read than Ender's Game, but the ending, while good, left the plot in flux and simply couldn't compete with EG's. The series before this I've gotten the furthest in is Robert Silverberg's Majipoor series. I read Majipoor Chronicles which is a collection of short stories, then Lord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex. I tried an earlier book called Sorcerers of Majipoor but it was very dull compared to the others and I stopped reading.
My favorite science fiction authors are probably Silverberg, Olaf Stapledon and Robert Charles Wilson. I am looking for a good female science fiction author since I haven't read many sci fi books by woman authors yet. If somebody has some recommendations, something that's not too political like The Left Hand of Darkness but has an interesting premise and a writing style that isn't too stuffy, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Post by poelzig on Aug 17, 2019 0:23:56 GMT
I've started reading I, The Sun by Janet Morris and am switching between that and The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, as the mood takes me. Preston is co authoring a book with someone other than Lincoln Child?
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Post by poelzig on Aug 17, 2019 0:45:21 GMT
I have about 20 pages left in Running Blind by Lee Child. It's an early Jack Reacher novel. I guessed the killer about 10 pages after it was introduced but I still enjoyed the book. Unless the last 20 pages go to shit.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 17, 2019 10:18:05 GMT
I've started reading I, The Sun by Janet Morris and am switching between that and The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, as the mood takes me. Preston is co authoring a book with someone other than Lincoln Child? The book is a few years old and it's based on the real life case of a serial killer in Florence, Italy, who was never arrested. I haven't finished it yet, but they say they think they know who he is. Another case of the incompetence of the Italian police maybe?
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Aug 17, 2019 21:05:13 GMT
Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord
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Post by poelzig on Aug 18, 2019 6:04:49 GMT
Preston is co authoring a book with someone other than Lincoln Child? The book is a few years old and it's based on the real life case of a serial killer in Florence, Italy, who was never arrested. I haven't finished it yet, but they say they think they know who he is. Another case of the incompetence of the Italian police maybe? Italian police must suck at their jobs. In all the giallo movies I've watched they think they arrested the right serial killer but it's usually someone else.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Aug 18, 2019 12:33:14 GMT
"A Confederacy of Dunces" -- John Kennedy Toole
Hilarious so far.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 18, 2019 12:53:32 GMT
The book is a few years old and it's based on the real life case of a serial killer in Florence, Italy, who was never arrested. I haven't finished it yet, but they say they think they know who he is. Another case of the incompetence of the Italian police maybe? Italian police must suck at their jobs. In all the giallo movies I've watched they think they arrested the right serial killer but it's usually someone else. Amanda Knox owes her freedom to their incompetence.
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Post by poelzig on Aug 18, 2019 14:53:03 GMT
Italian police must suck at their jobs. In all the giallo movies I've watched they think they arrested the right serial killer but it's usually someone else. Amanda Knox owes her freedom to their incompetence. Yikes. And that's real life. Maybe the movies aren't exaggerating.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Aug 18, 2019 16:59:39 GMT
Gwendy's Button Box, a novella by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 17:04:12 GMT
"A Confederacy of Dunces" -- John Kennedy Toole Hilarious so far. Love that novel.
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