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Chamberk posted:Just started Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn and holy poo poo, that first chapter is not something you want to read on a lunch break. ha, you're right. good loving book, though.
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nate fisher posted:Matterhorn is my favorite book since Oryx and Crake, but I am a sucker for good war liteature (Naked and the Dead, Fields of Fire, The Things They Carried, etc.). TNATD + likable characters = Matterhorn. it's also a nice companion to joe haldeman's excellent The Forever War. am about to start peter bognanni's The House of Tomorrow. haven't heard anything about it, but the publisher sent us a copy, so...
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tearing through John Vaillant's The Tiger. part crime procedural, part russian history, part manly-man love-fest, and all good.
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silver_bananas posted:I finished reading Time out of Joint yesterday and wanted to try more of PKD's work. I'm not a huge sci-fi reader but it kept me interested. What other titles should I try by him? It kinda died off, but there is an actual PKD thread. Not that this is the recommendation thread, but I'd say A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream..., Flow, My Tears..., Eye in the Sky, and Ubik are my top five.
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Sep 1, 2012 12:41
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Just started Assassin's Code by Jonathan Maberry. Joe Ledger is one of the gooniest author-insertion characters in non-self-published fiction. Patient Zero was pretty entertaining, but goddamn the series quickly got ridiculous (also, I swear there were funny videos of him doing martial-arts demonstrations on youtube, but a quick search yields no results).
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Sep 24, 2012 15:25
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tonytheshoes posted:Just began Zone One by Hated this book, gave up about two-thirds of the way through. Not because of the lack of action- I actually dig the idea of the book, especially the protagonist as something other than a survivalist badass- but because Whitehead feels the need to cram the whole idea of our society being full of frivolous bullshit and thus unprepared for adversity down the reader's throat in such a smug, smarter-than-thou fashion. Didn't hate it as much some of the other, recent "literary genre" stuff, but also didn't loving care how it ended.
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Oct 1, 2012 16:09
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Eh, at least the title is clever. No, no it isn't- that's the name of some Buzz Lightyear cartoon villain (a robot energy vampire or something).
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Dec 18, 2012 12:54
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SilkyP posted:I just started "Under the Dome" by Stephen King and it was only 2 bucks. Pretty good so far. For anyone who read it already, does King to a decent job ending it or does it fall flat? I think the ending of the events in the book is fine, but the reason they happened is a little weak. More than worth the two dollars, and a pretty easy read for such a brick of a novel.
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Dec 30, 2012 02:06
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Hedrigall posted:The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - Pretty good so far, I need to read more classic SF (pre-1980 SF I've read: Ringworld, Rama, Dune, Brave New World) and I've heard tons of good stuff about this one so I figured I'd start here. It's been quite interesting although the portrayal of gay characters has been slightly weird My take is that, since the whole book is a Vietnam allegory, the changes he encounters have less to do with predicting the future and more to do with the disconnected feeling one has after returning from the nightmare of war to find how little it has to do with the lives of those you are ostensibly protecting. My non-SF-reading friend felt the same way as you and thought my explanation made sense, but obviously your mileage may vary.
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barkingclam posted:I started Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son a couple of days ago. I'd heard good things, but I'm not really impressed: Pak Jun Do isn't really a likeable guy, but maybe that's the point. I really enjoyed the depiction of life in North Korea, but I found the plot to be a bit lacking. If you've got an interest in the DPRK, keep reading, but if not, it's probably not worth struggling through.
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Feb 22, 2013 01:58
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tonytheshoes posted:Just started The Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden. So far, so good... Glad I grabbed it on the cheap for the Kindle a while back. I really like these books- a fourth one was just published in the last month or so and is equally enjoyable.
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May 22, 2013 15:12
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Kwasimodick posted:got a flyer on the street for this and I decided to give it a shot You recommended this book a week or two ago, but you haven't read it? I don't suppose you're the author, are you?
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Sep 5, 2013 16:33
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oldpainless posted:I envy anyone reading IT for the first time. I don't, but that's because I was in second or third grade when I had that experience (my high school-aged brother was big into King at the time). Needless to say, it messed with my head pretty severely.
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Sep 12, 2013 22:06
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pixelbaron posted:Just bought some Vietnam War memoirs: The Things They Carried, Dispatches, and Baptism. Yup. Throw Matterhorn in the mix, too!
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Sep 23, 2013 16:53
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tonytheshoes posted:Just began "A Test of Wills" by Charles Todd. I was in the mood for a mystery and we had this one sitting around. Funny, it was written by a mother/son writing team--I couldn't even imagine what hellish nightmare writing a book with my mom would be... We had them at my store a while back and they're super-cool people and seem to get along really well. Haven't read any of their books, though.
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Jan 31, 2014 04:34
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Hedrigall posted:The second my pay arrives in my bank account this afternoon, I'm ordering this: I wasn't able to score an advance reader, but a friend of mine did and says the new one is the best of the bunch a fitting finale to the series. I read the first chapter in a Buzz Books teaser compilation and I can hardly freaking wait
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Jul 15, 2014 11:01
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Blendy posted:Started reading The Magicians, and I'm completely unsure how I feel about. I love(d) it, but the pacing in the first book is all over the place and Quentin is not the most likable person in the world. Dunno how far along you are, but you should at least stick with it until you get to the real meat of the story (you'll know without a doubt when this happens). The second and third books are much better, though.
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Aug 19, 2014 12:08
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screenwritersblues posted:
Speaking of which, I hope you read the first two...
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Sep 24, 2014 15:04
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Zephyrine posted:She just throws a socialist mascot at us. Paints a big sign over his head that says "evil" and then he parrots lines like "thinking is bad, rationality doesn't exist. I'm entitled to a rail road. I'm entitled to a factory. It's not fair. It's not fair" Yep, that's pretty much it.
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Oct 1, 2014 17:16
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Mr. Squishy posted:The idea is pretty much sound? Is that it? Are you sure fb? No, sorry, I was agreeing with the rest of the statement.
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Oct 1, 2014 20:37
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Silvergun1000 posted:If you stick with it, he has a pretty awesome character 'arc'. If something feels like it's a cliche in a Joe Abercrombie book, know that he knows it too and he's going to do something surprising (and probably horrifying) with it. Alternately, if you stick with you will discover an absurdly huge plot hole and get tired of what is actually fairly poor writing. Sand is a pretty interesting character, though.
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Bullbar posted:The people in my book club complained about House of Leaves being too hard a read, so our new book is War and Peace... Do you all have some particular focus on irony?
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Oct 24, 2015 12:39
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And my comment was mildly tongue-in-cheek...
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Nov 9, 2015 13:37
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I really dig DFW's non-fiction (wait 'til you get to "Shipping Out") and enjoyed some of his short stories, but Infinite Jest is just a straight-up brick wall for me.
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Speaking of King, I'm reading Thomas Olde Heuvelt's Hex and it's reminding me a lot of his old, good stuff.
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