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Post by jeromeoneil on Aug 21, 2012 18:09:38 GMT -5
Finished two books while on vacation.
Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," which, like all of Cormac's books, will have you contemplating cutting your wrists in the bathtub.
And "Under the Dome" by Steven King, which ended up being 800 pages of "The Stand" retold with much less interesting characters and space aliens.
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Post by jesus on Aug 28, 2012 12:50:33 GMT -5
I loves me some Cormac. I used to read everything King put out, but I skipped that one. Glad I did.
I recently finished up Frank Herbert's last two Dune books. Not bad, but nowhere near as good as the first four. His son's final two were awful...
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Post by jeromeoneil on Aug 29, 2012 11:49:49 GMT -5
I loves me some Cormac. I used to read everything King put out, but I skipped that one. Glad I did. I recently finished up Frank Herbert's last two Dune books. Not bad, but nowhere near as good as the first four. His son's final two were awful... Yeah. Frank Jr. should get a cock punch for those abortions. I devoured the Dune stuff when I was a kid. I may want to pick those up again.
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Post by jesus on Aug 31, 2012 9:08:33 GMT -5
I seem to reread them every couple of years. I always find things I missed before.
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Post by jeromeoneil on Sept 4, 2012 12:10:10 GMT -5
Other re-reads for posterity are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" cantos.
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Post by will on Sept 4, 2012 18:28:29 GMT -5
The 2009 International Building Code. Fascinating.
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Post by jeromeoneil on Oct 30, 2012 1:05:56 GMT -5
Soo, here's books not to read. S.M. Stirling "Dies the Fire" and the rest of his "Emberverse" books. Holy fark, if I ever meet this clown he's getting a Jimmy kick.
I am one of those individuals that can't not finish a book. I bought the 5th one of these at Fred Meyers because I liked the cover, then discovered it was the fifth in the series so I bought the other four because I like post-apocalyptic stories.
I am about halfway through the second one. I hate him. I had to special order John Scalzi's new one ("Redshirts," about guys on the starship that get assigned to away missions and always seem to end up dead. They always wear red shirts!) just so I didn't hunt Stirling down and kill him.
Imma geek on Scalzi. Then I'm going to finish that abomination.
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Post by jesus on Oct 30, 2012 8:46:29 GMT -5
I'm reading the the sequel to Justin Cronin's The Passage, called The Twelve, speaking of post apocalyptic things (this having to do with government created vampires). Epic on the scale of King's The Stand without the verbal diarrhea common to King.
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Post by baldrick on Oct 30, 2012 9:31:01 GMT -5
Recently read the Kylara Vatta series from Elizabeth Moon. Good old-fashioned space opera.
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Post by jeromeoneil on Oct 30, 2012 11:37:22 GMT -5
I can't do vampire stories, and can barely do vampire movies. There is Bram Stoker, there is "Shadow of the Vampire" and there is "Let the Right One In." Everything else irritates me for some reason. I think it's because I like my vampires to be horrific characters, rather than sexy disco beasts.
Scalzi is awesome. The prolog of Redshirts is better than the entirety of the Emberverse stuff.
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Post by kitkat on Oct 30, 2012 14:08:20 GMT -5
Anyone read a guy named Neil Gaiman? I just finished "American Gods"; was pretty good page turner with a really original plot concept...
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Post by baldrick on Oct 30, 2012 16:27:32 GMT -5
Gaiman's good stuff. You should also take a gander at "Good Omens". He wrote it with Terry Pratchett. A very irreverent and humerous take on the Apocalypse, and the rise of the Anti-Christ.
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Post by jeromeoneil on Oct 30, 2012 16:32:38 GMT -5
Good Omens was awesome, and I just finished up "Stardust" not three weeks ago. In fact, I read it first before I started with this Stirling crap because it was a light read, and funny, as is most of Gaimans' stuff.
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Post by kitkat on Oct 31, 2012 0:17:25 GMT -5
Hmm...commonalities! I will have to check out this "Good Omens"... Thanks!
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Post by jesus on Oct 31, 2012 9:07:38 GMT -5
Jerome, The Passage might surprise you. These vampires don't fawking sparkle and they don't live amongst us. It's definitely not your average vamp tale. Highly recommended.
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