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hir0 protagonist
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finally someone else who's read snowcrash!...
*points at my nick*
*grin*
my favourite book really ... then theres the dune saga by frank herbert ... read lotr like 15 times and most other tolkien too ... anything and everything by asimov or arthur c clarke ... feist (gawd i love magician!), umm ... who wrote the belgariad ... hrmmm ... *thinking* ... oh yer!... david eddings i think it is ... belgarath the sorcerer is funny as ... umm ... william gibson of course!... father of cyberpunk, u have to read neuromancer ...
hrmm ... then theres all the spirituality books and stuff i read ... umm ... the celestine prophecy ... real simple but a good introduction to the basic ideas ...
umm ... what else what else ... im gonna have to go thru my bookshelf!...
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*points at my nick*
*grin*
my favourite book really ... then theres the dune saga by frank herbert ... read lotr like 15 times and most other tolkien too ... anything and everything by asimov or arthur c clarke ... feist (gawd i love magician!), umm ... who wrote the belgariad ... hrmmm ... *thinking* ... oh yer!... david eddings i think it is ... belgarath the sorcerer is funny as ... umm ... william gibson of course!... father of cyberpunk, u have to read neuromancer ...
hrmm ... then theres all the spirituality books and stuff i read ... umm ... the celestine prophecy ... real simple but a good introduction to the basic ideas ...
umm ... what else what else ... im gonna have to go thru my bookshelf!...
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rhythmatic movements in unison with others prolong an act of sensation with no limits or boundaries >
Twigz
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I'm reading the Wheel of Time series at the momment. I love it, but the problem is it isnt finished yet! and it takes soooo long for each one to come out. I'm talkin a year or more
I started when book 6 was out. It took close to 2 years for book 7 to come out i think. We're now up to book nine.
Oh, i'm also partway through the Vampire: The masquerade. The clan novel series, but only recomend that if you play the RPG or you just really like vampires
I wasnt a big fan of tolkien... but i was young, i mean to try again...
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I started when book 6 was out. It took close to 2 years for book 7 to come out i think. We're now up to book nine.
Oh, i'm also partway through the Vampire: The masquerade. The clan novel series, but only recomend that if you play the RPG or you just really like vampires
I wasnt a big fan of tolkien... but i was young, i mean to try again...
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comaRose
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Finished LOTR in a month - really outdid myself.. but then, I didn't have a job
Reading Chopper Read: From the Inside at the moment. It's a bit harsh in some parts and he's a right bullshit artist, but what he's done and where he's been phwoar.
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it.
Reading Chopper Read: From the Inside at the moment. It's a bit harsh in some parts and he's a right bullshit artist, but what he's done and where he's been phwoar.
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it.
hir0 protagonist
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De Quincey
Bluelighter
ok some big thumbs up for some mentioned already:
but i just finished reading Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang", which was just nominated for the Booker Prize. let me just say that this is one of those books where you just don't want it to end. wow, i loved it. the other one i just read was "Candide" by Voltaire. it was good, but i didn't love it like a son.
and has anyone read any Leon Uris books? my fav is "Trinity" but i also loved "Exodus" and "Battle Cry". oh fuck i've gotta go before i get really started....
- Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell: made me wanna try acid.
- Dune series: mmmm... scifi goodness... mmmm.... melange....
- Brave New World: mmm... soma... plus it just rocks.
- Clockwork Orange: yeah the movie rocks, the book rocks harder.
but i just finished reading Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang", which was just nominated for the Booker Prize. let me just say that this is one of those books where you just don't want it to end. wow, i loved it. the other one i just read was "Candide" by Voltaire. it was good, but i didn't love it like a son.
and has anyone read any Leon Uris books? my fav is "Trinity" but i also loved "Exodus" and "Battle Cry". oh fuck i've gotta go before i get really started....
Toumbido
Bluelighter
*I'm planning on picking up The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson when Polyester get their next shipment in - whenever I have the cash for it it's sold out
*If I miss it again I'm going to buy Foucoult's Pendulum - I've heard great things about it.
*I haven't read the Thomas Covenant series for years - I'd love to again sometime soon.
*A Scanner Darkly kicks ass!
*If I miss it again I'm going to buy Foucoult's Pendulum - I've heard great things about it.
*I haven't read the Thomas Covenant series for years - I'd love to again sometime soon.
*A Scanner Darkly kicks ass!
jakoz
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Chuck Paluknik
-Fight Club
-Survivor
Kim Stanley Robinson
-Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy
Stephen King (I am unashamedly the owner of almost all of his work
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-Bag of Bones
-The Stand
-The Green Mile
-The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman in The Bachman Books) - youll be thinking of this one for a LONG time afterwards
Some overrated ones (for those buying):
-Hannibal - "Bloatware" comes to mind. It reads like the author felt under pressure to release a large book, so stretched a 100 page story out over 400 or so, and filled the rest with bumpf.
-James Patterson novels - the original in the Alex Cross saga, 'Along Came a Spider' was excellent. Since then, theyve all followed the same blueprint, and not as successfully. The last one severely pissed me off with its lack of any ending at all.
-Any Dean R. Koontz novel, although this might be just me
[This message has been edited by Jakoz (edited 16 October 2001).]
-Fight Club
-Survivor
Kim Stanley Robinson
-Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy
Stephen King (I am unashamedly the owner of almost all of his work
-Bag of Bones
-The Stand
-The Green Mile
-The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman in The Bachman Books) - youll be thinking of this one for a LONG time afterwards
Some overrated ones (for those buying):
-Hannibal - "Bloatware" comes to mind. It reads like the author felt under pressure to release a large book, so stretched a 100 page story out over 400 or so, and filled the rest with bumpf.
-James Patterson novels - the original in the Alex Cross saga, 'Along Came a Spider' was excellent. Since then, theyve all followed the same blueprint, and not as successfully. The last one severely pissed me off with its lack of any ending at all.
-Any Dean R. Koontz novel, although this might be just me
[This message has been edited by Jakoz (edited 16 October 2001).]
melt
Bluelighter
some of the few i have enjoyed recently...
jeff noon - all of his stuff, i particularly liked vurt and pollen.
robin hobb - farseer trilogy, liveship traders. read them! very well written and emotional. her new book's just out - fool's errand (which i hope to be getting my hands on soon)
neal stephenson - snow crash, diamond age. nice too
plus the series that started everything for me, dragonlance chronicles
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i swear....it's digweed versus surgeon. [sunny 131001]
jeff noon - all of his stuff, i particularly liked vurt and pollen.
robin hobb - farseer trilogy, liveship traders. read them! very well written and emotional. her new book's just out - fool's errand (which i hope to be getting my hands on soon)
neal stephenson - snow crash, diamond age. nice too
plus the series that started everything for me, dragonlance chronicles
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i swear....it's digweed versus surgeon. [sunny 131001]
FruitTingle
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at the moment i'm reading (again) 1984 by george orwell. great stuff. especially about the destruction of words limiting how we express ourselves hence limiting our capacity to think for ourselves. and the past being alterable. i dunno if any of ya out there have read it but i think there is a scary similarity to the cultural revolution of china. there is just such a striking similarity between big brother & mao, not the least of which his elevation to godlike status.
josh_nexus
Bluelighter
A few that I read and enjoyed.......
George Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm
Alan Paton: Cry, the beloved country
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
and in non fiction.....
Naomi Klein: No Logo
Ciaran Regan: Intoxicating Minds
Martin A Lee: Acid Dreams
Push Magazine: E; Ecstacy
George Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm
Alan Paton: Cry, the beloved country
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
and in non fiction.....
Naomi Klein: No Logo
Ciaran Regan: Intoxicating Minds
Martin A Lee: Acid Dreams
Push Magazine: E; Ecstacy
vurtomatic
Bluelight Crew
just finished nocturne of a dangerous man... kinda old skool swashbuckling kinda sci-fi adventure, good characterisation.
wat melt said, looking forward to fool's errand.
the diamond age rockz.
those of u who've read cryptonomicon might enjoy signal to noise and a signal shattered by eric s nylund.
wheel of time is going nowhere, the last 2 books since a crown of swords read like interludes.
why do i get the feeling the authors i've followed for most part of my life are not writing anymore... i need some new authors to check out.
reading the august issue of wired at the moment... australia gets them too slow
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[a young boy puts a feather into his mouth -jeff noon] | [vurtopia]
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[applesbliss] sucks to be us
[vurtomatic] yeah... who would wanna be us
[vurtomatic] we sit infront of the comp chatting n wasting our lives away
[vurtomatic] waiting for the next good tune to come along
[vurtomatic] no glamour in that
[applesbliss] we're tune junkies
wat melt said, looking forward to fool's errand.
the diamond age rockz.
those of u who've read cryptonomicon might enjoy signal to noise and a signal shattered by eric s nylund.
wheel of time is going nowhere, the last 2 books since a crown of swords read like interludes.
why do i get the feeling the authors i've followed for most part of my life are not writing anymore... i need some new authors to check out.
reading the august issue of wired at the moment... australia gets them too slow
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[a young boy puts a feather into his mouth -jeff noon] | [vurtopia]
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[applesbliss] sucks to be us
[vurtomatic] yeah... who would wanna be us
[vurtomatic] we sit infront of the comp chatting n wasting our lives away
[vurtomatic] waiting for the next good tune to come along
[vurtomatic] no glamour in that
[applesbliss] we're tune junkies
vurtomatic
Bluelight Crew
melt: hahahaha ROFL just saw ur sig
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[a young boy puts a feather into his mouth -jeff noon] | [vurtopia]
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[applesbliss] sucks to be us
[vurtomatic] yeah... who would wanna be us
[vurtomatic] we sit infront of the comp chatting n wasting our lives away
[vurtomatic] waiting for the next good tune to come along
[vurtomatic] no glamour in that
[applesbliss] we're tune junkies
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[a young boy puts a feather into his mouth -jeff noon] | [vurtopia]
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[applesbliss] sucks to be us
[vurtomatic] yeah... who would wanna be us
[vurtomatic] we sit infront of the comp chatting n wasting our lives away
[vurtomatic] waiting for the next good tune to come along
[vurtomatic] no glamour in that
[applesbliss] we're tune junkies
polar_beaR
Bluelighter
vonnegut:
dead-eye dick
slaughterhouse five (i just finished it today-this guy is incredible, its where i got my new sig)
hemingway:
the sun also rises (my all time favorite)
tolstoy:
anna karanina (nobody writes of the human condition like the russians)
louis de bernieres:
the war of don emmanueles nether parts (fukkin hysterical!)
too many! thats why i major in literature
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dead-eye dick
slaughterhouse five (i just finished it today-this guy is incredible, its where i got my new sig)
hemingway:
the sun also rises (my all time favorite)
tolstoy:
anna karanina (nobody writes of the human condition like the russians)
louis de bernieres:
the war of don emmanueles nether parts (fukkin hysterical!)
too many! thats why i major in literature
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BigTrancer
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Wilbur Smith - River God... good book
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Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Shoot.
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Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Shoot.
Right now I'm reading Trilobite! by Richard Fortey, he's a palaeontologist with a fascination for trilobites. Ummm, you wouldn't think you could write a 250 page book on trilobites, but Fortey's done it and it's fantastic... it's also a sort of personal memoir, not just trilobites, but his trilobites and what they mean to him, and just little anecdotes about his personal trilobite journey... hah. Can I say the word 'trilobite' one more time? Oh, I just did.
Hir0: I love your handle *grins* And how cool is the name Hiro Protagonist for the hero/protagonist of the book? A friend of mine said I was Neal Stephenson's muse, and reminded him of Y.T. heheh.
Hir0: I love your handle *grins* And how cool is the name Hiro Protagonist for the hero/protagonist of the book? A friend of mine said I was Neal Stephenson's muse, and reminded him of Y.T. heheh.
Chaos Butterfly
Bluelight Crew
ooooooh robin hobb rocks!! absolutely... i just bought fool's errand in large hardcover, i have a largish list of books waiting for me to read them, including the rest of terry pratchett after about the 13th book...
i think i may wait until the rest are out for the trilogy, but i may not...i saw it and just had to get it... i mean... it's new robin hobb... how can one go past it!@!!
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watch for the silent 3, it will corrupt you...
i think i may wait until the rest are out for the trilogy, but i may not...i saw it and just had to get it... i mean... it's new robin hobb... how can one go past it!@!!
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watch for the silent 3, it will corrupt you...
hir0 protagonist
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Vido
Bluelighter
My 3 favorite books in the whole world are:
1. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
2. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
3. Liege Killer (Christopeher Hinz)
Not that I have read that many books
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"The crazy ones have the best pills" Samantha, Sex in the City.
1. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
2. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
3. Liege Killer (Christopeher Hinz)
Not that I have read that many books
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"The crazy ones have the best pills" Samantha, Sex in the City.