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spacetoaster posted:I really enjoyed John Ringo Yikes
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Yikes Galaxy spanning science fiction war is pretty cool. wheatpuppy posted:Other John Ringo that's not completely cringy: I'll check it out!
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spacetoaster posted:I'm looking for a good, fun, science fiction book (or series). I don’t know who or what that is but the Bobiverse books are fun and not bad.
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I'm looking for fiction by women authors from the Middle East and Africa
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Jul 22, 2018 20:57
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm looking for fiction by women authors from the Middle East and Africa Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of Last Summer Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist
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chernobyl kinsman posted:Joe Hill wrote 20th Century Ghosts, which has some quite good stories in it, and then he wrote Heart Shaped Box, which has some quite good bits in it, and then he never wrote anything good again What about Horns? (Liked it myself).The Fireman though....
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horns works so hard at delivering emotional gutpunch after emotional gutpunch that it loses all basically all of its emotive power around the time that daniel radcliffe throws his grandma down the hill in a wheelchair after she tells him she wishes he were dead also the treehouse thing was stupid and i never understood it
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm looking for fiction by women authors from the Middle East and Africa Bessie Head is cool.
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Jul 23, 2018 01:25
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funkybottoms posted:Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of Last Summer A human heart posted:Bessie Head is cool. Thanks for the recs. I've been reading Bessie Head's Maru which is why I asked and I really love it
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm looking for fiction by women authors from the Middle East and Africa Efuru by Flora Nwapa
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Hello. This will be a little vague, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I'm looking for a solid vampire book not by Anne Rice or Stephen King, having already read [and wholly enjoyed] Salem's Lot, Interview with a Vampire et all. Ideally, I'd like something romantic and genuinely so with a good overall story in it, but if the romance is really good I can overlook the amazing story. Thank you.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:09
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Sindoril posted:Hello. This will be a little vague, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I'm looking for a solid vampire book not by Anne Rice or Stephen King, having already read [and wholly enjoyed] Salem's Lot, Interview with a Vampire et all. Ideally, I'd like something romantic and genuinely so with a good overall story in it, but if the romance is really good I can overlook the amazing story. Thank you. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
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Sindoril posted:Hello. This will be a little vague, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I'm looking for a solid vampire book not by Anne Rice or Stephen King Let the Right One In
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funkybottoms posted:Let the Right One In Yeah, this is way better than my suggestion.
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This looks like the exact list you're looking for? Bloodsucking Fiends was cute/ funny vampire comedy romance, I liked it but it may not be the tone you're looking for? I Am Legend is an interesting take on the vampire horror story but had no romance. It's great and short though. E: VVV Good point, I just skimmed it. The Quick - Lauren Owen The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness Fevre Dream - George RR Martin Lawen fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jul 24, 2018 |
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Jul 24, 2018 00:10
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The summaries on that list are pretty spoilerish imo
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Sindoril posted:Hello. This will be a little vague, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I'm looking for a solid vampire book not by Anne Rice or Stephen King, having already read [and wholly enjoyed] Salem's Lot, Interview with a Vampire et all. Ideally, I'd like something romantic and genuinely so with a good overall story in it, but if the romance is really good I can overlook the amazing story. Thank you.
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I mean let the right one in is objectively the right pick
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm looking for fiction by women authors from the Middle East and Africa Nnedi Okorafor for sci-fi etc. She's American, but her work is founded in Nigerian/West African mythology/culture. The Binti trilogy is great and a set of very quick reads. Akata Witch is more of a Harry Potter equivalent but with the mythology of masquerades rather than wands. Also, I want a book about witches, that's more about coven politics and poo poo. This is kind of specific, but I'm thinking along the lines of the witches in Sarah Maas's Throne of Glass series, where a lot of the book is about their internal power struggles or the Revanche cycles witches, where the coven is a shadowy organization with internal politics and whatnot. I'm having trouble finding a book like this -- does anyone have recommendations? It doesn't have to be witches, but more political intrigue in some kind of magical society. foutre fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jul 24, 2018 |
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Sindoril posted:Hello. This will be a little vague, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I'm looking for a solid vampire book not by Anne Rice or Stephen King, having already read [and wholly enjoyed] Salem's Lot, Interview with a Vampire et all. Ideally, I'd like something romantic and genuinely so with a good overall story in it, but if the romance is really good I can overlook the amazing story. Thank you. The Dracula Tapes by Fred Saberhagen, actually his entire Dracula series.
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Looking for some good literary sci-fi (loosely defined). For example I read and enjoyed "the glass bead game" and "the possibility of an island" fairly recently. I like mitchell, banks, atwood, mieville, murakami, peter watts too but have already read most of their stuff (and wouldn't necessarily consider them to be literary authors).
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Zekky posted:Looking for some good literary sci-fi (loosely defined). For example I read and enjoyed "the glass bead game" and "the possibility of an island" fairly recently. Lanark by Alastair Grey is really cool even though the sci fi parts aren't as good as the parts about an artist growing up in 20th century Scotland.
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Zekky posted:Looking for some good literary sci-fi (loosely defined). For example I read and enjoyed "the glass bead game" and "the possibility of an island" fairly recently. Vladimir Sorokin - get The Blizzard or Blue Blubber. Day of the Oprichnik is much weaker and Ice is not very good. If you like Houellebecq and enjoy genre fiction, you might like his work of literary criticism H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
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Zekky posted:Looking for some good literary sci-fi (loosely defined). For example I read and enjoyed "the glass bead game" and "the possibility of an island" fairly recently. How about Vonnegut? Slaughterhouse-Five or Cat's Cradle, for instance.
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Zekky posted:Looking for some good literary sci-fi (loosely defined). For example I read and enjoyed "the glass bead game" and "the possibility of an island" fairly recently. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Samuel Delany's Dahlgren, Ursula K Le Guin
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Zekky posted:Looking for some good literary sci-fi (loosely defined). For example I read and enjoyed "the glass bead game" and "the possibility of an island" fairly recently. ... (except Murakami, gently caress him) anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jul 24, 2018 |
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Thanks for the suggestions!
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StrixNebulosa posted:What's the best recent book about dinosaurs? I've got a hankering for 'em! Like actual dinosaurs? Steve Brusatte's book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs has been getting decent press. Have not read it myself though
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I'm looking to read some fiction about modern day (1980s and onward) mercenaries / private military contractors. Can be any type (thriller, adventure, mystery, etc). Tried doing some searching and couldn't find much that fits these parameters. Any recommendations would be appreciated!
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Unzip and Attack posted:I'm looking to read some fiction about modern day (1980s and onward) mercenaries / private military contractors. Can be any type (thriller, adventure, mystery, etc). Tried doing some searching and couldn't find much that fits these parameters. Any recommendations would be appreciated! Not exactly what you are looking for, but I thought i'd throw out My Friend the Mercenary, by James Brabazon. its a super interesting non-fiction about a journalist and his mercenary friend/bodyguard during the Liberian war.
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Doesn't exactly fit your specs but maybe you'd like the Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam
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What are some good options for soothing books about nothing? I really enjoy the parts at the beginning of murder mysteries when they aren’t murdering yet and just spend ten pages on how they run a hotel. I could use some books that do that for the whole run.
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Rand Brittain posted:What are some good options for soothing books about nothing? I really enjoy the parts at the beginning of murder mysteries when they aren’t murdering yet and just spend ten pages on how they run a hotel. I could use some books that do that for the whole run. My grandmother used to love Jan Karon's Mitford books, in which I'm not sure anything ever actually happens. (They're very Christian, but it's Episcopalian, so low-key and glurgy rather than vicious fundie poo poo like the Left Behind books.)
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P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series are easygoing with no ramifications whatsoever. They're not exactly intellectual, of course. The first volume of James Herriot's books - All Creatures Great and Small - is a collection of animal stories with lots of insight of the veterinarian techniques of his day. I suppose the rest are the same.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:The first volume of James Herriot's books - All Creatures Great and Small - is a collection of animal stories with lots of insight of the veterinarian techniques of his day. I suppose the rest are the same. My mother has all of them and they're all pretty much like that. Pretty hard to beat as far as soothing nothing books go.
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Rand Brittain posted:What are some good options for soothing books about nothing? I really enjoy the parts at the beginning of murder mysteries when they aren’t murdering yet and just spend ten pages on how they run a hotel. I could use some books that do that for the whole run. Ballad of the Sad Cafe & Other Stories by Carson McCullers Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro On The Road and/or The Dharma Bums by Kerouac Also seconding the James Herriot books.
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I need suggestions for the BotM. edit: things I look for in BotM suggestions: 1) available as an ebook, ideally a free ebook, to encourage participation 2) Some sort of 'hook" that will make people want to read it -- either a famous title or good elevator pitch. Moby Dick is an easier sell than Typee. 3) A degree of accessibility (to encourage participation). 4) Something that does not have an active thread on the forum already (i.e., not Song of Ice and Fire, not Dresden Files). Nothing against those books but if there's already active discussion there's no point in making an extra BotM thread about them. None of these are necessarily requirements but they're all helpful. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I need suggestions for the BotM. HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian, mostly to get me to read it instead of having bad flashbacks to Post-Captain
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Jul 30, 2018 13:58
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The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton, or The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin.
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StrixNebulosa posted:HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian, mostly to get me to read it instead of having bad flashbacks to Post-Captain You have clearly already been led to culture Rand Brittain posted:The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton, or The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. TMWWT was already done as a BotM a few years back, otherwise good suggestion. What's Westing Game?
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