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[willowroolz]

rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

I'm also just re-reading another favourite, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

Some of my other favourites:

Practically anything by Neal Asher or Alastair Reynolds
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
The Kraken Wakes/The Day of the Triffids/The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
The Time Machine/The Island of Doctor Moreau/The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
The Night's Dawn Trilogy - Peter F. Hamilton
Feersum Endjinn/The Player of Games/The Algebraist/Against A Dark Background/Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
Voyage - Stephen Baxter
The Milkweed Tryptich - Ian Tregillis
Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny

I'm sure I'll come up with loads more after I post this . . .

[bathory]

EagleMoon, on 13 May 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:

bathory, on 13 May 2013 - 01:18 PM, said:

not that it should've been made into a movie anyway

I kind of agree with this. I hate to see any money going his way, though I would like to see what they do with the story.

any story that was intentionally written without visual descriptions like colors and the like so that it would seem more like it "belonged" to the reader that gets made into a movie is likely gonna piss someone off.

[rushgoober]

willowroolz, on 14 May 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

It's a dangerous book to have around.  Whenever I pass by it and decide to pick it up, you know, just to hold it or something, before I know it I'm on page 70...

[micgtr71]

The Man in the High Castle...Philip K. Dick.

[AFarewellToHemispheres]

Just started Brave New World. So far, so fantastic.

[ColdFireYYZ]

AFarewellToHemispheres, on 22 May 2013 - 02:23 PM, said:

Just started Brave New World. So far, so fantastic.

I actually just bought a copy of this book today from a thrift shop. Probably going to start it later this week.

[barney_rebel]

http://www.goodreads...13517455-reboot

[Boots]

Two weeks ago, I was in a Ray Bradbury mood-- Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

[bathory]

good ones

[EagleMoon]

Currently rereading Heinleins last novel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset. Awesome book. Also rereading Jingo, by Terry Pratchett.

[rushgoober]

 willowroolz, on 14 May 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

 rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

I'm also just re-reading another favourite, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

I actually have A Fire Upon the Deep (for some reason, probably picked it up because it was a Hugo winner), and your comment got me to start reading it.  Mind you, it's a bathroom book, so it's going to take me awhile to get through it (unless I really get into it and move it to another room than the bathroom), but I am reading it.  Looks good so far, though.  Thanks for the suggest!

Edited by rushgoober, 26 May 2013 - 09:56 PM.

[willowroolz]

rushgoober, on 26 May 2013 - 09:55 PM, said:

willowroolz, on 14 May 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

I'm also just re-reading another favourite, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

I actually have A Fire Upon the Deep (for some reason, probably picked it up because it was a Hugo winner), and your comment got me to start reading it.  Mind you, it's a bathroom book, so it's going to take me awhile to get through it (unless I really get into it and move it to another room than the bathroom), but I am reading it.  Looks good so far, though.  Thanks for the suggest!

Hope you enjoy it!  I'm reading the sequel at the moment and enjoying it, but it's nowhere near as good.  In other news, I was sad to read of Jack Vance's death.  R.I.P. Jack.

[rushgoober]

willowroolz, on 30 May 2013 - 10:57 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 26 May 2013 - 09:55 PM, said:

willowroolz, on 14 May 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

I'm also just re-reading another favourite, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

I actually have A Fire Upon the Deep (for some reason, probably picked it up because it was a Hugo winner), and your comment got me to start reading it.  Mind you, it's a bathroom book, so it's going to take me awhile to get through it (unless I really get into it and move it to another room than the bathroom), but I am reading it.  Looks good so far, though.  Thanks for the suggest!

Hope you enjoy it!  I'm reading the sequel at the moment and enjoying it, but it's nowhere near as good.  In other news, I was sad to read of Jack Vance's death.  R.I.P. Jack.

I hate when sequels can't live up to the originals - makes me wish the author wouldn't have bothered.

[willowroolz]

rushgoober, on 30 May 2013 - 04:37 PM, said:

willowroolz, on 30 May 2013 - 10:57 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 26 May 2013 - 09:55 PM, said:

willowroolz, on 14 May 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

I'm also just re-reading another favourite, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

I actually have A Fire Upon the Deep (for some reason, probably picked it up because it was a Hugo winner), and your comment got me to start reading it.  Mind you, it's a bathroom book, so it's going to take me awhile to get through it (unless I really get into it and move it to another room than the bathroom), but I am reading it.  Looks good so far, though.  Thanks for the suggest!

Hope you enjoy it!  I'm reading the sequel at the moment and enjoying it, but it's nowhere near as good.  In other news, I was sad to read of Jack Vance's death.  R.I.P. Jack.

I hate when sequels can't live up to the originals - makes me wish the author wouldn't have bothered.

The fact that it came out 19 years later tells it all, I think.  It's a enjoyable enough, but a sequel really wasn't needed.

[rushgoober]

willowroolz, on 31 May 2013 - 05:36 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 30 May 2013 - 04:37 PM, said:

willowroolz, on 30 May 2013 - 10:57 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 26 May 2013 - 09:55 PM, said:

willowroolz, on 14 May 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

rushgoober, on 15 November 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Great call - Replay is one of my all-time favourites.

I'm also just re-reading another favourite, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

I actually have A Fire Upon the Deep (for some reason, probably picked it up because it was a Hugo winner), and your comment got me to start reading it.  Mind you, it's a bathroom book, so it's going to take me awhile to get through it (unless I really get into it and move it to another room than the bathroom), but I am reading it.  Looks good so far, though.  Thanks for the suggest!

Hope you enjoy it!  I'm reading the sequel at the moment and enjoying it, but it's nowhere near as good.  In other news, I was sad to read of Jack Vance's death.  R.I.P. Jack.

I hate when sequels can't live up to the originals - makes me wish the author wouldn't have bothered.

The fact that it came out 19 years later tells it all, I think.  It's a enjoyable enough, but a sequel really wasn't needed.

I'm reading it SLOWLY, but enjoying it thus far!