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I am nearly finished with 1984. One of my favorites and this re-reading has been quite enjoyable.
Finally rereading this one as well!
Couldnt find my copy before so I reready Brave New World. Nowhere near as good to me at all. I remember reading both in HS for English and preferring 1984 to BNW, but still... One has aged well and the other I had to force myself to finish.
Never found my copy of 1984, but it's available online, so I'm reading it on my droid.
I'm reading some Richard Matheson shorts right now and their a lot of fun. Funny enough as huge as the guy is I hadn't read him before and only becuase I was giving my brother some horror books did I realize this and felt I should correct the oversite immediately.
Next, the doctor is giving me some Martin so I'll get to find out what all you nerds are talking about.
Just started Well of Ascension in Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. First book was solid, though some minor parts of his writing style bother me and stand out more here than in his Wheel of Time books.
I just don't think he's such a great writer. Sure he's a workhorse and puts the shoulder to the wheel and gets lots of stuff done and published, but I probably won't pick up his stuff besides WoT, as his writing hasn't really impressed me. And who needs another 10-book fantasy series? Might try one of his stand alones some day.
Lone Wolf and Cup is great. I have the first 50 or so issues in the full comic size from the 80s. I only wish the rest was available like that. I love the story, but hate the small books they used to reprint it here within the last 10 years. This story and Cerebus are the best epic comics I have read. Lone Wolf doesn't bog down for too long with a diatribe on the Bible like Cerebus though, thank goodness.
Jacob, I am actually about 20 pages into Naked Lunch. I am enjoying it so far. I had read Junky previously and really enjoyed it. Naked Lunch is definitely more difficult prose, but so far it is interesting.
Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch all kinda seemed like the same book to me. I agree about those Archie Digest sized Lone Wolf reprints. I loved that bookshelf/restige format when I was a kid and these came out, especially the first bunch with the Miller covers. The Sienkiwitz ones never really did it for me, although I was a big fan of Elektra: Assasin.
I read Heretics of Dune while on spring break in Florida. Most action-packed book since the 1st of the series (I've never read all six). Lasguns, no-ships, sex, Ixian probes, Face Dancers, treachery...it's got the lot.
Go on with the next one (Chapterhouse: Dune), it's the direct sequel and more of this. Totally worth it. Most people don't get so far in the Duneverse because of the philosophizing tedium of books 2-4.
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I am obligated every time anyone mentions 1984 to recommend We by Yegeny Zamiatin, the USSR book 1984 was based on, and in some ways superior.
Also, who ever recomended Bite Me, Blood sucking fiends and You Suck on audio book is a GOD! Fantastic fun.
Just read Ender's Game for the first time on the train back from ConnCon. Really enjoyed it. Just kept putting it off. Is it worth reading any further in the series or should I stop here.
Also, who ever recomended Bite Me, Blood sucking fiends and You Suck on audio book is a GOD! Fantastic fun.
Personally I thought Speaker for the Dead was much better than Ender's Game, and that everything that came later was crap.
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Leon McNichol wrote:
Just read Ender's Game for the first time on the train back from ConnCon. Really enjoyed it. Just kept putting it off. Is it worth reading any further in the series or should I stop here.
Also, who ever recomended Bite Me, Blood sucking fiends and You Suck on audio book is a GOD! Fantastic fun.
Personally I thought Speaker for the Dead was much better than Ender's Game, and that everything that came later was crap.
Boom and Boom.
I remember reading somewhere that Speaker was the book Card had always wanted to write, but the character's childhood was so complex that a prologue or even a couple chapters wouldn't do it justice - so it became Ender's Game. It seems to me like once he opened the Pandora's Box of turning it into a series that he kept delaying actually finishing the damned thing and it became a hot mess.
Series vs Series, the Shadow books beat the Ender books. But those first two Ender books are the top of the list.
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I also finally started listening to the audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring. It has been on my to read list for far to long and I am enjoying it so far. Very detailed, and probably too slow for some people, but I am a big fan of detail, so I am enjoying it.
I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo this weekend. I found it only average. I didn't really like the characters and found too many things far fetched. I don't plan on reading any of the other books.
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That is why I thought it made for better film than a novel. It was pretty far fetched. Shit her family alone I think I saw on an episode of the X Files.
As for Ender's Game, I guess I'm just going to have to read it again one of these days, even with my rule of never reading a book twice. I read Ender's Game in 1985...26 frickin' years ago! I can hardly even remember the plot anymore.