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Old 03-11-2006, 10:37 PM  
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Ok for the high brow crowd what books you are reading
I'm reading The New American Revolution by tammy bruce. She is a great thinker and funny.
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Old 07-06-2008, 09:41 PM   #586
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"Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" - good
"Ubik" - better
"A Scanner Darkly" - best (his best, most personal writing by far on a sentence to sentence level, but "Do Androids Dream..." is the best story)...best depiction of addicts I've read, I think, (although David Foster Wallace writes about addiction in amazing, wierd, moving ways in "Infinite Jest")...and the dedication to his lost friends at the end really hammers it home...this guy was so far beyond all the pieties, politics, and sloganeering...

anyone who's read Scanner Darkly have an opinion on the movie? I wanted to read the book first...not to hi-jack...
The movie kept reminding me of Natural Born Killers for some reason, minus the gratuitous sex and violence, of course. It just had a real "surreal" feel to it - probably the way the movie was shot then animated over. Strange story.
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Old 07-06-2008, 09:42 PM   #587
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I recently finished James Rollins The Judas Strain. Loved it, as I did Black Order too. And he's got a new one coming out in July sometime.
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Old 07-06-2008, 10:02 PM   #588
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Old 07-06-2008, 10:04 PM   #589
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I recently finished James Rollins The Judas Strain. Loved it, as I did Black Order too. And he's got a new one coming out in July sometime.
That guy sure can pump out books. I read a couple a few years ago. Subterranean and something else. Hopefully we got some Rollins movies eventually.
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Old 07-06-2008, 10:14 PM   #590
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Right now I'm reading Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, published in '05, Hugo winner two years ago.

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Old 07-06-2008, 10:29 PM   #591
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That guy sure can pump out books. I read a couple a few years ago. Subterranean and something else. Hopefully we got some Rollins movies eventually.
I actually contacted the publisher about securing the rights. If only I had the $$, I think I could make a killer movie with Black Order.
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Old 07-07-2008, 10:17 AM   #592
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I love how the heroes in his books are extremely flawed to the point they are no longer heroes.

His writing style starts changing a bit in his latter books, to a terse, staccato type prose. The transition starts in LA Confidential and comes to full bloom in White Jazz, and the American Tabloid - Cold 6000 duo. The plots get a whole lot more complicated too.
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Old 07-07-2008, 10:17 AM   #593
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has anyone read that new Anne Rice book about Jesus? I was curious if it was any good or if it was just another Jesus book
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Old 07-07-2008, 10:20 AM   #594
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Right now I'm reading Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, published in '05, Hugo winner two years ago.

Really good.
I've read Darwinia and The Chronoliths by him, but wasn't very impressed by the latter one. If he won a Hugo for this one, I'll have to give it a look.
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I've read Darwinia and The Chronoliths by him, but wasn't very impressed by the latter one. If he won a Hugo for this one, I'll have to give it a look.
Ok what the hell is a hugo? RNR trying to do some learnin.
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Go read The Road by the guy that wrote No Country For Old Men.

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A "Hugo" is the literary award given for the best Science Fiction or Fantasy work published in a particular year. Past winners include Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, etc.

It's named for an influential 1920's-1930's author, Hugo Gernsback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel

For people that like a great piece of fiction, but don't generally care for Sci-Fi, I recommend A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, Dune by Frank Herbert, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, or American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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A "Hugo" is the literary award given for the best Science Fiction or Fantasy work published in a particular year. Past winners include Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, etc.

It's named for an influential 1920's-1930's author, Hugo Gernsback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
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Go read The Road by the guy that wrote No Country For Old Men.

Awesome read.
Cormac McCarthy, and yeah, it's a great piece of post-apocalyptic fiction.

If you liked that one, you might try Earth Abides by George Stewart, or Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. They are both excellent books with solid variations on the theme, if a bit dated.
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Cormac McCarthy, and yeah, it's a great piece of post-apocalyptic fiction.

If you liked that one, you might try Earth Abides by George Stewart, or Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. They are both excellent books with solid variations on the theme, if a bit dated.
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