Originally Posted by the Talking Can (Post 4831301)

ripped through some phillip k dick

"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...

Originally Posted by irishjayhawk (Post 4831529)

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.

Originally Posted by Claythan (Post 4831603)

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.

Originally Posted by cdcox (Post 3460301)

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.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 4831625)

Right now I'm reading Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, published in '05, Hugo winner two years ago.

Really good.

Originally Posted by Adept Havelock (Post 4832078)

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.

Originally Posted by RedNeckRaider (Post 4832120)

Ok what the hell is a hugo? RNR trying to do some learnin.

Originally Posted by Adept Havelock (Post 4832182)

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

Originally Posted by RedNeckRaider (Post 4832192)

Thanks as I had no clue.

Originally Posted by Midnight_Vulture (Post 4832151)

Go read The Road by the guy that wrote No Country For Old Men.

Awesome read.

Originally Posted by Adept Havelock (Post 4832210)

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.