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Oct 22, 2021 15:58
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You can click someone else's question mark and paste your own user ID into the URL.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:58
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Sham bam bamina! posted:You can click someone else's question mark and paste your own user ID into the URL. 
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Oct 22, 2021 21:41
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Sham bam bamina! posted:You can click someone else's question mark and paste your own user ID into the URL. Woah.
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Oct 22, 2021 22:38
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I just read The Anarchy by William Dalrymple and enjoyed it, can anyone suggest me something along the same lines?
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Oct 23, 2021 23:48
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Looking for Indiana Jones style pseudoarchaeological adventure stuff. I don't mind if it's trash if its fun. Any opinions on James Rollins for example?
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Oct 25, 2021 21:30
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Chas McGill posted:Looking for Indiana Jones style pseudoarchaeological adventure stuff. I don't mind if it's trash if its fun. Any opinions on James Rollins for example? There's a series by Charles L. Grant (under the pen name Geoffrey Marsh) that stars a tailor from New Jersey who's secretly an international treasure hunter. Dumb and pulpy as hell but fun and quick reads. The first one is The King of Satan's Eyes.
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Oct 26, 2021 05:07
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Chas McGill posted:Looking for Indiana Jones style pseudoarchaeological adventure stuff. I don't mind if it's trash if its fun. Any opinions on James Rollins for example? The Dirk Pitt novels certainly fall into the trashy pseydoarchaelogical adventure mold. Just don't expect much in the way of diversity or female characters more developed than Pussy Galore.
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Oct 26, 2021 07:43
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I'm looking for something to read that's similar to seven samurai/the magnificent seven.
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Oct 27, 2021 05:33
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Bullet Proof posted:I'm looking for something to read that's similar to seven samurai/the magnificent seven. if manga's ok i read and enjoyed some of vagabond
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Oct 27, 2021 11:56
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Bullet Proof posted:I'm looking for something to read that's similar to seven samurai/the magnificent seven.
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Oct 28, 2021 17:19
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I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business. I prefer audiobooks as I commute about 45 minutes one way and also like to listen while I walk. I enjoy the Expanse Series, pretty much everything by Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie’s novels. I’ve read Three-body problem and enjoy that sort of harder sci-fi as well. I’m just at a loss on what to read next, I pretty much take a series all the way to completion.
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Oct 28, 2021 18:23
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James Marsters does a great job with the Dresden Files
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Oct 28, 2021 18:27
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Saul Kain posted:I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business.
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Oct 28, 2021 18:41
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Saul Kain posted:I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business. The guy who does the Witcher books is good
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Oct 28, 2021 18:55
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Saul Kain posted:I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business. Lies of Locke Lamora has a good reader iirc. Selachian posted:There's a series by Charles L. Grant (under the pen name Geoffrey Marsh) that stars a tailor from New Jersey who's secretly an international treasure hunter. Dumb and pulpy as hell but fun and quick reads. The first one is The King of Satan's Eyes. Azhais posted:The Dirk Pitt novels certainly fall into the trashy pseydoarchaelogical adventure mold. Just don't expect much in the way of diversity or female characters more developed than Pussy Galore.
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Oct 28, 2021 19:00
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Saul Kain posted:I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business. I thought The Midnight Library was saccharine but narrated well. Kind of a different rec from me at least.
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Oct 28, 2021 20:15
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Grifter posted:Six of Crows is about a group of minor criminals who have different skill sets coming together to make a big score. It's YA but pretty good as far as that goes. Someone mentioned the Legacy of Heorot up thread for a totally different ask. It features an isolated community that ends up under siege from a horde of attackers and how they get there. These cover different aspects of the Seven Samurai idea. Can you explain more about which elements you're interested in? Honestly these both sound great. I was more interested in the isolated community being defended aspect, but I also like heist stories so thanks!
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Oct 28, 2021 21:22
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regulargonzalez posted:Might be too YA but the Harry Potter books have two audio versions and each narrator is fantastic. I personally prefer the Jim Dale version but I think in general more people prefer the Stephen Fry narration. I read Harry Potter as a young pup. I have no desire to revisit those novels. Azhais posted:James Marsters does a great job with the Dresden Files I think I read the first one of those. Do they get better? Chas McGill posted:Lies of Locke Lamora has a good reader iirc. This one looks really interesting. Is it a series?
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Oct 28, 2021 22:09
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Saul Kain posted:I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business. There's new audio for Hobbit and LotR read by Andy Serkis and I've heard they're very good.
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Oct 28, 2021 22:14
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Saul Kain posted:I read Harry Potter as a young pup. I have no desire to revisit those novels.
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Oct 29, 2021 00:18
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Saul Kain posted:I think I read the first one of those. Do they get better? I've read Dresden multiple times and enjoyed the whole series, so not the most objective opinion. wheatpuppy's comment about book 3 is probably valid and most of the series plots are in motion at that point. Last few have been a bit meh, especially the last one which was literally just half of the book. Lies of Locke Lamora is great, book 1 of the Gentleman Bastards series. Currently 3 books are out, with a fourth expected next year. In theory there are going to be 7 but he's not really writing much faster than GRRM (book 2 2007, 3 2013, 4 2022) Azhais fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Oct 29, 2021 00:52
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Saul Kain posted:I’m looking for either a fantasy or sci-fi series with a good audiobook narrator. I’m coming off of the latest Joe Abercrombie novel and think that Steven Pacey is one of the best narrators in the business. Mary Robinette Kowal does an excellent job with the October Daye series, the narrator of all of the Terry Pratchett audiobooks is amazing but I would 100% recommend the Tiffany Aching sub-series specifically
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Oct 29, 2021 18:46
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Has there ever been a sci-fi novel written that depicts the future, in 100 years or even more, where technology has barely if at all progressed from the present day (when the book was written) but vast changes have nevertheless taken place, due to climate change or a stagnating economy/politics/culture, or some other factor the author explores? But not war necessarily, we're all familiar with the post-apocalyptic setting. Warhammer 40k kind of does this, where science is illegal and basically no technological progress has been made in 10,000 years. Bizarre rituals grow around that, like praying to the machine spirits to keep technology running that is now beyond the understanding of those who use it. So kind of like that, but the cut off for progress is now, instead of the year 30,000AD.
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Oct 30, 2021 02:34
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Oryx and Crake E: except I don't think it's 100 years from now so might not be a great fit. It's more like a handful of years. E2: and while war isn't responsible, it is post-apocalyptic. So it might be a bad fit all around. But it's in my all time top 20, it nails a specific emotional state (the bleakness past despair) better than anything else I've ever read. E3: Sailing to Byzantium almost qualifies. The only really new tech is that aging has been cured. Cities are destroyed and created for fun but there's no talk of new technology in this regard iirc. It's a novella rather than a novel but otherwise fits. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Oct 30, 2021 03:17
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If you're into goofy multimedia Web fiction, Jon Bois's 17776 and 20020 are about a world where human birth and death stopped in the mid-21st century, technology advanced to post-scarcity levels to make immortality more comfortable, and then humanity settled in for millennia of play and general screwing around.
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Oct 30, 2021 13:10
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FistEnergy posted:Can anyone recommend a good book or two about the Korean War? It's the only major US conflict I've never really delved into. I'm not looking for solely a blow-by-blow account; I'd really like to read about the political decision-making, the Army's unpreparedness and overconfidence, foolish decisions that brought China into the war, the debate over deploying nuclear weapons, etc. Thanks. Bumping this because I am actually interested in books like but for any wars.
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Oct 30, 2021 16:05
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kaesarsosei posted:Bumping this because I am actually interested in books like but for any wars. The Vietnam war is an amazing topic to dive in, especially because so much has been tainted by Hollywood, with very popular movies ranging from realistic to completely sensationalized, that actually obscure the deeper strategic and political decisions that made the war. Let alone their disregard of the suffering of the local population in both halves of the country. I had a bit of hankering for Vietnam War books last year and here are a couple of my favorites. [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bright_Shining_Lie][A Bright Shining Lie/url] Neil Sheehan documents the life of John Paul Vann, an American officer KIA in Vietnam. Vann was one of the first in the military to realize how dedicated and determined the Vietcong were, how corrupt and useless the ARVN was, and how misjudged the American strategic approach in Vietnam was. The book does a good job of describing the ebb and flow of the war until the point Vann dies. [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest][The Best and the Brightest/url] This is a very good political account about the political decision making that turned Vietnam into what could’ve been avoided - a tragic massacre of staggering size. Basically a roomful of Ivy League PhDs crafting ever more stupid and murderous strategies that prolong the war and cause needless suffering.
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Oct 30, 2021 17:11
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Has there ever been a sci-fi novel written that depicts the future, in 100 years or even more, where technology has barely if at all progressed from the present day (when the book was written) but vast changes have nevertheless taken place, due to climate change or a stagnating economy/politics/culture, or some other factor the author explores? But not war necessarily, we're all familiar with the post-apocalyptic setting. Sham bam bamina! posted:The Sea and Summer, by George Turner. Also published as Drowning Towers in the US market.
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Oct 30, 2021 17:17
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I'm interested in sci-fi that explores the culture and thought processes of intelligent beings that are very different from humans (animals, aliens, artificial intelligences, whatever), such as Le Guin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds." Also nonfiction and philosophy that touches on similar ideas, e.g. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:00
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ScienceSeagull posted:I'm interested in sci-fi that explores the culture and thought processes of intelligent beings that are very different from humans (animals, aliens, artificial intelligences, whatever), such as Le Guin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds." Also nonfiction and philosophy that touches on similar ideas, e.g. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. Becky Chambers Wayfarers series has a lot of interesting non humans. Humans too though. Classically speaking, Asimov's The Gods Themselves has an absolutely wild alien culture that's interestingly depicted, although it's been 20 years since I've read it so I'm floaty on the details. It also has some dumb humans.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:25
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ScienceSeagull posted:I'm interested in sci-fi that explores the culture and thought processes of intelligent beings that are very different from humans (animals, aliens, artificial intelligences, whatever), such as Le Guin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds." Also nonfiction and philosophy that touches on similar ideas, e.g. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. Check out Dragon’s Egg, Children of Time, A Deepness in the Sky, Semiosis, and Embassytown.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:45
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ScienceSeagull posted:I'm interested in sci-fi that explores the culture and thought processes of intelligent beings that are very different from humans (animals, aliens, artificial intelligences, whatever), such as Le Guin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds." Also nonfiction and philosophy that touches on similar ideas, e.g. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. I’ll second Children of Time. I really enjoyed that series.
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Oct 30, 2021 22:49
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Dragons egg is a great suggestion for a truly alien investigation. Children of time is a great book but the spiders aren't super alien, just weird.
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Oct 30, 2021 23:07
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I read Dragon's Egg and the sequel Star Quake years ago, don't really remember much. Thanks for all the recs!
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Oct 31, 2021 01:37
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kaesarsosei posted:Bumping this because I am actually interested in books like but for any wars. Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East spends much of its pagecount on Hitler's decision-making.
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Oct 31, 2021 01:43
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ScienceSeagull posted:I'm interested in sci-fi that explores the culture and thought processes of intelligent beings that are very different from humans (animals, aliens, artificial intelligences, whatever), such as Le Guin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds." Also nonfiction and philosophy that touches on similar ideas, e.g. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. Blindsight, maybe Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, maybe Olaf Stapledon's future humans.
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Oct 31, 2021 02:44
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Has there ever been a sci-fi novel written that depicts the future, in 100 years or even more, where technology has barely if at all progressed from the present day (when the book was written) but vast changes have nevertheless taken place, due to climate change or a stagnating economy/politics/culture, or some other factor the author explores? But not war necessarily, we're all familiar with the post-apocalyptic setting. I’ve been reading Engine Summer and I think that might apply.
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Oct 31, 2021 05:35
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I'm a sucker for time-traveling books with my favorite being Replay by Ken Grimwood. Any recommendations for other books in the time-traveling genre?
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Nov 10, 2021 04:20
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Have you read The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August? I don't know if it technically counts as a time travel book but if it doesn't, it should
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