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![]() I really wish that Stasheff would go back to his Starship Troupers series -- a repertory theater company on space-ships is actually quite amusing, and the last published book clearly anticipated another installment, but it's been 13 years, so I suppose I hope in vain. :sigh: |
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Reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe...Holy cow...
...soon I will start the Mass Effect novel Revleation (in anticipation for the 360 game). |
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Long time I didn't post here.
I have finished The Dark Tower series a few weeks ago. Fantastic saga. Don't care that there are so many people moans about the last 3 books and about the ending of the story. I believe the books are brilliant and the ending could not be different as King said. Just finished The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. A real page turner. However, I believe it is not as good as Tigana or The Last Light of the Sun. Too many time gaps in the story that I wish were filled in and I am not happy with the ending but nonetheless the book is very enjoyable. Now I am supposed to be ashamed because I started to read for the first time in my life Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. So far, I am not impressed... |
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A Wizard of Earthsea was probably considered such a great book partly because of the time in which it was published-- up to that point, most fantasy was still imitating Tolkein, and additionally, the year after A Wizard of Earthsea, Le Guin published The Left Hand of Darkness, which won both a Hugo and a Nebula. |
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Just finished "L'Homme qui devint Dieu" from Gérald Messadié in paper. It's a novel I'd read in 87 when in came out about the life of Jesus. It was very controversial at that time. At this reread it seems dated in the theological discoveries. Unfortunately I found no trace of a translation to English. It should be.
Just started the whole of Steve Jordan's self published ebooks! Enjoying it so far, he's got a good 'esthetist' feel to it! |
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I think I will go through book 1 and book 2. If I don't like them I stop. I have not read any HP books yet but I have seen movies and reading A Wizard of Earthsea feels like a the first HP movie was based on this book ![]() ![]() |
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By the way, it reminded me of Parable of the Sower, a science fiction novel by Octavia Butler where the characters had to travel through a California devastated by the global warming. And I thought that Octavia Butler was being pessimistic! ![]() |
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In newly published books I just finished I'll Sleep When I'm Dead by Crystal Zevon. It is described as "The dirty life and times of Warren Zevon."
For those of you who may not know, the late Warren Zevon was a musician. His most famous songs were "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Hasten Down the Wind", and "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me." Crystal Zevon was his ex-wife. He approved the project before his death under the provision that she tell the truth, "warts and all." As a long time Zevon fan I was interested in the material and found it to be a fascinating read -- warts and all. |
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Here's a list of them, and a slightly different list here that includes some 'Foundation' books not written by Asimov. |
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Nah there are 7 books in the Foundation series From Prelude to forward the foundation. Then there are the robot (Earth) books. Asimov did try to combine the two series later in his life, but to me those efforts (Foundation and earth and robots and empire) have always seemed artificial.
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Which illustrates my point that it's a matter of how you interpret what makes up the series very nicely.
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I'm currently reading in no particular order...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling On the reader and yes I own the hardcover Read the Whirlwind by David Mack Paperback Obsidian Alliances (Star Trek Mirror Universe, Bk. II) by Peter David, Keith R. A. DeCandido, and Sarah Shaw Paperback The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket On the reader Mere Anarchy 1: Things Fall Apart by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore On the reader |
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