Fingernail on 10/8/2009 at 14:44
I just read Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini, which was about as ridiculous as it sounds (quite fun though), and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley which was good, although pretty much everything (well, utopian/dystopian fiction) has taken bits and pieces of its ideas so it doesn't seem particularly shocking any longer.
Kaleid on 11/8/2009 at 13:15
Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer
Stitch on 11/8/2009 at 18:07
I've got that one queued up next, gunsmoke, you'll have to share your thoughts on it.
suliman on 12/8/2009 at 04:34
So I'm reading this complete collection of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories. They're cool and everything(they also get progressively better and I'm only 200 pages in), but WHAT IS IT with him and the subject of the sun either blowing up and destroying the earth or cooling down and freezing it? Rescue party, History lesson, The forgotten enemy, The star(well, not earth, but still), The songs of distant earth, Fountains of paradise... That's borderline obssession. I bet there'll be more, too.
Tocky on 12/8/2009 at 05:04
Well, the sun is going to kill us you know. Not me personally of course.
jimjack on 13/8/2009 at 14:24
False Memory. I'm not really a Koontz fan, I actually think he is a bit insane, he seems fixated on some sadistic and highly descriptive murder scenes. The formula: Highly intelligent villians, grew up as victimized children, some kind of manipulation of the genes, give themselves over to evil, sadists sent from some government agency or aliens, throw them in with encounters with normal people and the plot goes to the next level.
Anyway it was a real page turner on the last 200 pages and for the first 200, abit of a page skimmer with an exessive amount in setting up the story.
gunsmoke on 13/8/2009 at 16:05
Quote Posted by Stitch
I've got that one queued up next, gunsmoke, you'll have to share your thoughts on it.
I am enjoying it so far. Despite the fact that I am a huge fan of the beat authors, this is one that slipped me by. I have some commuting to do on the bus for a job for the next month or so, so I have plenty of time to read.
Yell Piranha on 13/8/2009 at 22:31
Quote Posted by suliman
So I'm reading this complete collection of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories. They're cool and everything(they also get progressively better and I'm only 200 pages in), but WHAT IS IT with him and the subject of the sun either blowing up and destroying the earth or cooling down and freezing it? Rescue party, History lesson, The forgotten enemy, The star(well, not earth, but still), The songs of distant earth, Fountains of paradise... That's borderline obssession. I bet there'll be more, too.
I've just finished reading Sunstorm by A.C.Clarke and Stephen Baxter and yup, it is about the sun gunning for human kind again.
Moving onto Homicide by David Simon of
The Wire fame now.
Zerker on 13/8/2009 at 22:39
Reading "The Wreck of the River of Stars" by Michael Flynn, which is the last of my current batch of library books. Pretty interesting book so far, I can't tell if he's actually setting it up like a tragedy or not (which is extremely rare in Sci-Fi).
I also recently realized that I got "Paul of Dune" for Christmas and I haven't even read it yet. I got a bunch of other books at the same time, and must have forgotten it was a new book at some point along the line. That one will be next after the current issue of Analog.
