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LmaoTheKid posted:Nope, is it any good? I can only take Barker a book or two at a time. I have the Hellbound Heart waiting but I'm probably taking a break again after Imajica. Should I add that to my list? I enjoyed it at the time, but to be honest my tastes have changed an awful lot since then and it may in fact be terrible. if you want absolutely revolting horror-sex it has that in spades though
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Amethyst posted:if you want absolutely revolting horror-sex it has that in spades though cool
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Amethyst posted:I enjoyed it at the time, but to be honest my tastes have changed an awful lot since then and it may in fact be terrible. Nah, I wasn't actively seeking it. I'll add it to my goodreads list for down the road.
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Have we talked about Richard Morgans stuff itt? I liked the Takeshi Kovacs books, and I'm partway through the cold commands. Entertaining, not sure I need to know all the specifics of each sexual encounter his characters have in the course of his books Thirteen/Black Man is a stand alone and pretty good
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Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Looking at this title I for some reason connected it to the one where the monks are asking for the names of god... http://downlode.org/Etext/nine_billion_names_of_god.html def not as good, but its clarke~
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i really like the last question and nine billion names of god, end-of-the-world short story stuff is probably my favorite thing to read this may be because one of my first major sci-fi reading influences was a collection of short stories titled The Last Man On Earth which I found when I was like 10
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overdesigned posted:i really like the last question and nine billion names of god, end-of-the-world short story stuff is probably my favorite thing to read while not science fiction, neil gaiman has a great one in that vein called We Can Get Them for You Wholesale like mostly anything the dude writes, it got made into a comic but i think it's pretty passable as just words
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speaking of gaiman, y'all know that hbo is making american gods into a show right because they are
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i've read almost no neil gaiman, maybe I should. I've read Sandman, which owned, and also Good Omens, which he wrote with Terry Pratchett, and was amazing, but that's it.
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American Gods was pretty great imo. If you really like it try Neverwhere and Stardust. If you're meh on it, then probably don't.
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in this exciting chapter of american gods: unbelievably mundane details of the most boring protagonist in the world's life Maybe he'll do coin tricks from a book? maybe he'll go for a walk down a snowy road? only way to find out is to read on!
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So I look up a book rating on amazon.com, 4.0 for Spin, look up Hunger Games and it gets 4.5 gently caress you amazon, not credible at all! If you want something to read, start out here, work your way up or down, just skip 2010 holky gently caress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
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overdesigned posted:American Gods was pretty great imo. If you really like it try Neverwhere and Stardust. If you're meh on it, then probably don't. watch stardust, wait for neverwhere the movie coming to theatre soon* read his short storie collections and anything/everything sandman if you like a 90s fantasy fix *good reads but not his best stuff
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skip gaiman, read clive barker's weaveworld and immagica instead
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Amethyst posted:skip gaiman dont do this
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i have read most of gaimian's books and liked them all. also the audiobook of american gods is very good
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I think I picked up American Gods and Neverwhere for 99 cents each a while back on Amazon. Did not regret either purchase 
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homercles posted:So I look up a book rating on amazon.com, 4.0 for Spin, look up Hunger Games and it gets 4.5 i'm a little surprised rainbows end won a hugo. i thought it was okay, but it was far from great
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Kneel, Gay Man  Any POS posters read any Steve Aylett..? He's my current  writer... Most of his best stuff is still paper-only, but if you fancy a kindle ebook dabble have a look at Slaughtermatic, Toxicology and LintThe latter is especially good; its a satire of pulp writing and general media weirdness from the 60s to 90s, laugh/snort-worthy. http://www.wikipedia.com/Jeff_Lint
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idk if any of you have hbogo, but just so's you know they just added the first six trek movies and maybe more
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Trig Discipline posted:i'm a little surprised rainbows end won a hugo. i thought it was okay, but it was far from great I just finished reading it and it's definitely a disappointment.
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Davethulhu posted:I just finished reading it and it's definitely a disappointment. yeah. i've read it twice just to give it a fair shake. i liked it more the second time, because my expectations were appropriately low. when it first came out it was his first book in a long time, and i was expecting more.
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Amethyst posted:skip gaiman, read clive barker's weaveworld and immagica instead quotin dis, been 25 years but iirc weaveworld was the best clive barker homercles posted:If you want something to read, start out here, work your way up or down, just skip 2010 holky gently caress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel I didn't know the hugo was named after hugo gernsback first time I read about that guy was in william gibson's short story the gernsback continuum in burning chrome pretty late to this thread but seriously has there been a better sci fi published since necromancer edit: it's artless so hard to compare to neuromancer but vacuum diagrams by stephen baxter is about the best I've read in the past 25 years, endlessly imaginative, hard science, a conflict that spans the size and age of our universe etc, doesn't get any grander skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jun 4, 2012 |
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Is it based on the video game?
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shrughes posted:Is it based on the video game?  that game owned
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This is because Paul Krugman owns forever
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TOOT BOOT posted:I feel like I've been the victim of a widespread Internet prank having read the game of thrones books I can't believe there are people talking about them like it's not embarassing to be reading them. Seems like back before the HBO show the lovely writing and wolfshirt fan base were very fertile ground for comedy now people are talking about reading the books without any shame. Does a decent show or movie retroactively improve a pile of poo poo it was based on? really makes u think
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Whatever, the first 3 books were pretty good.
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Amethyst posted:man I haven't even thought about Barker in years. Did he ever finish that trilogy? the one that started with the great and secret show? iirc Barker got screwed up a bit as a kid because his gramma would tell him if he misbehaved/touched himself (i forget) there'd be a black man waiting in the bathroom to cut his wenis off
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Seriously, forget about GRRM finishing ASOIAF, loving finish The Arts trilogy Barker!
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LmaoTheKid posted:Whatever, the first 3 books were pretty good. sorry about your lovely taste, wolfshirt
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LmaoTheKid posted:Whatever, the first 3 books were pretty good. and by books 4 and 5 you're drinking along with cersei and tyrion i
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