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so i've just finished re-reading the hyperion cantos, and dont like the second two books as much as i did reading them a couple years ago but the first two books are solid should i now read the revelation space series, handmaid's tale or a banks that isn't use of weapons or player of games?
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hubris.height posted:altered carbon is currently in my maybelist. in the 'should prolly read' list are the road, the dispossessed, handmaid's tale, book of the new sun, and snow crash. the rest of the poo poo i wanna read is non-fuction i just finished handmaid's tale on the recommendation of the thread. it was really good as a thought experiment but atwood never seems to make anything exciting. i read oryx and crake before and had the same reaction after finishing. i still advise reading it but dont expect to be entertained by it
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Nov 1, 2013 19:47
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FMguru posted:agreed. handmaids tale really could have benefited from some explosions, maybe a chase through a crowded metropolis on flying motorcycles, and a wisecracking alien or maybe robot sidekick. yup cause thats totally what i said
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Nov 1, 2013 20:25
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FMguru posted:then lets hear your ideas about how add excitement to handmaids tail. maybe the main character has an identical twin she doesnt know about who is also a serial killer and the main character has until midnight before her twin kills again? would that make it exciting enough for you? holy poo poo you sure are mad about a book i said was really good
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Nov 1, 2013 21:21
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theflyingexecutive posted:gettin mad about sci fi up in here i should go to bed youre right to be mad about how lovely lost ended up. all sorts of cock teasing with interesting scifi stuff that never got explained and was hand waved away at the end by going "it was about the characters" when the they were the worst part of the show.
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Nov 6, 2013 09:58
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MindSet posted:My new job has a gym so after work im gonna be gettin swole. but weightlifting is boring so what are some yospos approved scifi audiobooks? last thing i had time to read (i have to read like 1000+ pgs a month for school so i havent had time to read for fun the old mans war trilogy i finished recently was decent and well narrated the forever war is amazing and should be required reading for the thread most of the china mieville stuff is decent too, the bas-lag trilogy has some dumb steampunk stuff but the underlying stories are amusing and again i liked the narrator. kraken was particularly good and i liked embassytown for as odd as it was only book i advise not going audio would be anathem. the first couple hours would probably be weird with all the made up words
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Nov 7, 2013 08:11
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) was startide rising and a couple culture books and i highly enjoyed them.
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MindSet posted:oh yeah does audible care if you share your acct? im thinking of splitting a 2 book/mo acct w/the gf i think you can just download the audio files. dont know if thats how it is any more but thats what it was when i bought stuff from them a few years ago. hell, one of the books i have from them is setup like tapes, separated into 45 minute files and still has the "please flip sides/insert tape 4" audio
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Nov 8, 2013 03:18
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:substitute with "any character on voyager" youre forgetting 7 of 9, whos character went from "assimilate" to "you humans are dumb"
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Nov 8, 2013 05:52
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a well known programmer claims that his computer is infected by a virus that allows it to communicate over an airgap. he is later succesfully treated for his paranoid delusions.
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Nov 11, 2013 11:44
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:well known lol some part of it needed to be fiction
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Nov 11, 2013 11:52
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you should dump her and find a waifu who can enjoy quality scifi like lexx or earth 2. or be happy that the wants to watch chick-fi with you rather than the kardashians or poo poo as such.
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Nov 15, 2013 15:29
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Earthsea might be my next book then. i keep meaning to read some of her books and i grab my most of my choices from this thread cause im lazy and it hasnt done me wrong yet reading canticle for leibowitz right now, only at part 2 but its definitely interesting DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 11:02
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ya im cool with YA books so long as theyre well written. ive been reading lots of real literature recently anyway and could do some lighter reading
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Nov 28, 2013 12:18
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i know were all upset fishmech isnt here for this chat but everyone trying to make up for it just isnt the same. thanks for the try
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Dec 3, 2013 01:35
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for some reason i was thinking of the majestic, that poo poo movie with jim carrey, and was wondering why you were all loving it. but yeah, the prestige is good poo poo
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Dec 3, 2013 04:59
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ol qwerty bastard posted:finally figured out where i know that one guy in almost human from; he was in pirates of the caribbean i thought it was this guy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Qualls doing a horrible english accent
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Dec 5, 2013 05:05
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Can-O-Raid posted:yeah dude you got hosed, even i didnt check out terra nova and i was the guy who watched not one but two episodes of loving defiance i've watched all of defiance so far. i really wanted it to be decent. i knew it wasnt going to be but there wasnt poo poo for scifi on at the time and i needed a fix. Monkeyseesaw posted:i really liked anathem and unlike the rest of the 'pos had a great time with the baroque cycle dont do it unless you want to read a 300 page sales pitch for an MMO hacked together with a tom clancy ripoff including the brown people hatred.
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Dec 11, 2013 05:39
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Can-O-Raid posted:it hasnt been canceled yet? season 2 in production as i type. so i finished canticle for liebowicz the other day. completely get why its on the yos reading list. it hits all the good scifi/spec fic concepts without being dragged down by the author trying to go too far with the ideas. really wish i knew latin better though. might go back and translate those passages. a decent bit into the first book of earthsea right now too. holy poo poo is this what the magicians and that rothfuss series wishes it could be. concise yet descriptive enough that the story just works. i can get trying to rip it off tho on the fantasy topic, does anyone know who or where the concept of things having true names for magic? its a pretty common theme in fantasy books but tolkien is probably the oldest i know of. is there an earlier example?
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Dec 11, 2013 10:28
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i figured it was an ancient concept but ive never read anything past the greeks. not to get LF as gently caress and try to call religious texts scifi but ive been thinking about reading the lot of them just as literature. im agnostic by way of parents who didnt give a gently caress either and figure i should probably do it sometime in my life so i can kick rear end on jeopardy if need be edit: gently caress trying to spell jeopardy DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Dec 11, 2013 11:03
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Carthag posted:handmaids tale was good but ended kinda abruptly ya, the epilogue is good tho. atwood's books are written more like a historical documentary than fiction so i can see why she does it.
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Dec 13, 2013 03:15
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Hashtag Nascar posted:I have a long train journey and need a book to read, any reccomendations? I'm thinking of reading the diamond age. diamond age is decent but expect the typical stephenson ending where its rushed and makes little sense.
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Dec 13, 2013 22:16
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Smythe posted:i loving love power armor. im with you smythe. i dont care about how impractical it is. same with giant mechs
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Dec 14, 2013 03:34
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star trek almost doesnt belong on there since 4 is the best. if your adding in the tng and jj movies then yeah its basically a huge slide from 6 down
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Dec 18, 2013 09:44
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gently caress Red Mars is good, kinda mad i havent read this before. are Blue Mars and Green Mars as good?
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Dec 26, 2013 07:07
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finished red mars earlier. im already basically arkady in political views so it wasn't revolutionary in ideas that way but gently caress if the first half wasn't some of the most interesting and enjoyable hard scifi ive ever read. the second half with john's story and all the poo poo going down are probably exactly what would happen too. 5/5 would read again on green mars now
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Dec 27, 2013 08:04
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Mad Wack posted:too bad the book is trash the 200 page MMO brainstorm would have been jerkoff time for my 16yo self and part of the time where thier in China (i think, been a while since I read it) was at least mildly amusing but then he had to go and turn it into "Midwest conservative gun loving family saves the US from brown people" including the most boring of all Stephenson endings, maybe because he actually wrapped it up in more than 10 pages
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Dec 27, 2013 09:10
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Metal Pink Babble posted:I just labored through the Godfather trilogy, and I now understand the pizza box server analogy + possess a pizza-cutting katana. by me, age sanjuu i know you are pain, dude who i barely understand most times
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Dec 27, 2013 10:26
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goddamn do i want to go to mars or anywhere in space. i know i have no real skills needed for space travel and colonization other than being a mechanic but gently caress this gay earth
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Dec 27, 2013 11:03
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coffeetable posted:enjoy your cancer like you don't have a damned good chance of that already. lol if you wouldn't be one of the first people on mars cause you might die 10 years earlier. if i could step foot on mars, gently caress around for a day or two and then keel over, psure id be ok with that. DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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Dec 27, 2013 12:07
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dur posted:yeah it's basically my favorite series of books ever. everyone please read all three of them. just finished green mars like 5 minutes ago. definitely not as good as red but still solid. got blue ready to start in the morning.
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Dec 31, 2013 10:47
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that's some fuckin shameful poo poo
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Jan 9, 2014 06:30
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:i havent seen startrak 4 the voyager home hence the mocking
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Jan 9, 2014 07:25
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you really should watch it though. 2,3,4 and 6 are good. 1 is really fuckin weird and 5 is just bad, so bad i don't even remember what it's about. i haven't seen it since i was a little kid and it was in the theater
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Jan 9, 2014 07:35
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dur posted:spocks half-brother hijacks the enterprise and takes it to the center of the galaxy to meet god. but what does god need with a starship? hmmmmmmmmm????? yup, still dont remember. i know i've seen it, must have just repressed the memory.
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Jan 9, 2014 10:28
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Quine Connoisseur posted:spock climbs a mountain with space boots aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh. ITS ALL COMING BACK!!!!!
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Jan 9, 2014 11:25
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Shaggar posted:star trek VI is the best trek movie it's weird to see you have right opinions
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Jan 9, 2014 21:43
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jj2 might be a decent movie when your comparing it to nemesis
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Jan 9, 2014 22:03
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ol qwerty bastard posted:v'ger is one of the more alien aliens of any sci-fi movie that movie had cool ideas it was boring as gently caress tho
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Jan 9, 2014 22:08
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angry_keebler posted:also vi is arguably better than any of the individual genesis trilogy movies but is not as good as the overall genesis story yeah i can dig this
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syscall girl posted:i still say a lot of iain m banks' stuff is action packed, not all of it by a long stretch but even the end of consider phlebas was like mission impossible/die hard levels of splosions and all around violence they could probably pull off player of games easily
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