vurt on 17/6/2009 at 00:30
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Gibson is my favourite author. Make sure you pick up
Count Zero and
Mona Lisa Overdrive as they're sequels to
Neuromancer (with
Count Zero being the middle book.)
...and make sure to check out Jeff Noon too if you like Gibson.. Especially "Vurt". It's like Gibson on psychedelics :cheeky: Incredible authors both of them imo.
I've just started reading Tolkien's "Children Of Hurin".
Angel Dust on 5/7/2009 at 12:13
Well I finally finished The Executioner's Song last week and what an exhaustive piece of work it was! I found the first section to be completely brilliant and Gary Gilmore was a fascintating character, equally likable and despicable. The second was very good but I admit that some of the legal wranglings got a little bit dull by the end. Has anyone seen the mini-series starring Tommy Lee Jones? Jones sounds like a perfect choice for the part of Gilmour but I'm wondering how the rest of it fares.
This rainy weekend I managed to get through Gentlemen Of The Road by Michael Chabon, The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway and The Fall by Albert Camus since they are all pretty short. I found Gentlemen Of The Road to be an entertaining, if not exactly memorable, adventure and The Old Man and The Sea was very good but quite different from what I've come to expect from Hemingway. The dialog at the beginning felt a bit 'off', I usually find Hemingway's dialog to be quite natural, and the story itself much more fantastical than his usual work. Still a great read though. The Fall was interesting and compelling enough for me to read in one sitting but I never quite got into it.
Up next either Faulkner's As I Lay Dying or Joseph Heller's Closing Time. What I actually want to be reading is my recently purchase of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay but my wife nicked it while I was still finishing The Executioner's Song so now I have to read while she constantly exclaims about how great it is!
Andarthiel on 5/7/2009 at 15:10
Quote Posted by vurt
...and make sure to check out Jeff Noon too if you like Gibson.. Especially "Vurt". It's like Gibson on psychedelics :cheeky: Incredible authors both of them imo.
Ok, I'll check it out. Now that I've finished reading Neuromancer, I've started reading the next book I hadlined up:
Vampire:The Masquerade-Clan Novel:Malkavian by Stewart Wieck.
Being a big fan of the WOD Vampire setting(and Bloodlines :D) I decided to give it a try, starting with one of my favorite clans.
It's quite interesting and written in a strange journal entry kind of way by a Kindred(I think he's a Toreador) who's a companion of a Malkavian named Anatole. Anatole seems to be trying to unravel the mysteries of Gehenna(probably due to his mad visions) and the start of the book is set in Bosnia.
Also an interesting note, Stewart Wieck is the original co-creator of World of Darkness PnP so it's good to know that the novel sticks to the canon.
SubJeff on 5/7/2009 at 15:38
I've just finished Flowers for Algernon, the book. (Where can you get the short story and how short is it?). It was wonderful and terrible. I've been recommending all over and I recommend it here. Read it. Everyone should read it, sci-fi fan or not.
Now reading The Drowned World.
gunsmoke on 5/7/2009 at 18:17
Just read a Halo book, Fall of the Reach. Have NO idea why, I just did. Very plain Jane Sci Fi. Just starting to read The Complete Asimov.
reizak on 5/7/2009 at 18:28
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
I've just finished Flowers for Algernon, the book. (Where can you get the short story and how short is it?). It was wonderful and terrible. I've been recommending all over and I recommend it here. Read it. Everyone should read it, sci-fi fan or not.
I've been meaning to read this for a while, so your avid recommendation made me look up the short story version ((
http://dorinta19.bizland.ro/FLOWERS%20FOR%20ALGERNON%20.htm) here, if anyone's interested). Had me teared up pretty much the whole duration.
june gloom on 5/7/2009 at 19:21
I gave up on The Wild Shore when I realized I just didn't care about the characters or what happened next. So I reread S. D. Perry's Aliens: Berserker which I believe I've gushed over before, and now I'm starting on Simon Spurrier's WH40K: Lord of the Night again. I've got a copy of The Road laying around here too, will probably pick that up next.
gunsmoke on 5/7/2009 at 19:46
The Road, is one I have been DYING to get my hands on. Sounds right up my alley.
Sulphur on 5/7/2009 at 19:48
I'd recommend it to most everybody, honestly. Already have, as a matter of fact. I'd recommend the short story version over the book m'self, as Tocky said earlier.
SE, the short story's been published in various SF anthologies as well as used in schools over the years. There's links to it all over the 'net like the one reizak posted.
I happen to own it in print via this hardbound Isaac Asimov (
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Isaac-Asimovs-Science-Fiction-Treasury/dp/0517336359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246823031&sr=8-1) anthology of SF. There are some excellent stories in it, but the bloody thing's heavy enough to do some serious damage if you lob it in the general direction of some hapless individual's cranium.
suliman on 5/7/2009 at 19:56
I just finished reading The Simulacra by Phillip K. Dick. Now, this might be because I'm a PKD virgin and all, but that book was awesome. I'm starting Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles now, and then I'll probably read Martian Time Slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and VALIS.
I missed libraries:D
Edit: Flowers for Algernon also appears in Robert Silverberg's Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthology. That book's full of awesome stuff.
