Reading List Thread
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suwat666
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haha well I normally don't come across crazy shit like that, but if you have some recommendations on where I can find more true stories like I'd I'd really appreciate it.
suwat666
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RampageSword
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You guys enjoy these? I mean, there is some part of me that finds it funny but man, I would never have known there is such a site...
La Rocque
I am that I am
Twenty Thousand Roads by David N Meyer
Account of the like and death of Gram Parsons
if you don't know of Gram ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_Parsons
Account of the like and death of Gram Parsons
if you don't know of Gram ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_Parsons
[resurrection]
Ah, since this thread hasn't been up in a while, I will perform the great
resurrection or grave robbing, if you so choose, and bring it back among
the, sorta, living.
I have been on vacation as some of you may know and if you didn't, you do
now, anyway, thus I've had some time to mess with books and whatnot.
This is not really a book in my case, as I got it from the iTunes store, but
anyway it's the same as a book.
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
This is one of the best books I've "read" in a while, it's about this "footage"
that appears on the internet and about a community that forms around it.
One of the community members gets hired to figure out where this "footage"
is coming from and since it's modern times it has a lot of stuff like Hotmail
and Google being used a lot by people.
I don't quite know what about this book made it so appealing, but I'm now
"reading" it a second time and even got the Gibsons new book Spook Country
even tho it doesn't have much to do with the this book (one character does
appear, but how much I don't know yet). Anyway, if you like sci-fi of modern
times check this one out.
S.M. Peters - Whitechapel Gods
This is what I'm currently reading, it's of the steam punk genre, so it's a bit
different from a lot of other sci-fi and I guess more character driven.
The setting is Victorian London, ruled by 2 mechanical gods Mama Engine and
Grandfather Clock, they have a police force called Boiler Men (machines from
what I've understood) and humans are being oppressed and have formed a
resistance to launch a new attack on the machines. There is also some form
of disease around that is manifesting on humans as metal parts on their skin,
like bolts and so on, it's all very weird and interesting.
I am not too far yet, but so far it seems pretty interesting.
Other books I bought recently are:
Caleb Carr - The Alienist
This is also in audio book format, from iTunes Store. It's about 1800s New
York that is being terrorized by a serial killer similar to Jack The Ripper who
did the same just a few years earlier in London.
The name alienist was a name used for shrinks back in those times, due to
their patients being alienated from society or some such thing.
Seems interesting.
Trudi Canavan - Voice Of The Gods
(Book 3 of Age Of The Five trilogy)
I totally loved her earlier The Black Magician Trilogy, so starting this trilogy
was pretty much a no brainer. Now I just found out that there is a new
trilogy in the works for The Black Magician world, so that is great. There is
also 2 other books set in that world which I will have to get eventually.
Age Of The Five is set in a different world and hasn't really made much of
impression on me, currently reading the first book of the trilogy.
Iain M. Banks - Matter
This is the latest from the great mr. Banks and it's a Culture book to boot,
couldn't get any better for this year on the "hard" sci-fi front... unless Dan
Simmons is coming out with his new book this year.
William Gibson - Spook Country
As I already mentioned, this is the follow up to Pattern Recognition and if
not a full sequel, it's still very much in the same vein, I'm expecting a lot
from this based on PR.
Funny enough, I never read any of Gibsons cyber punk stuff back when I was
into that genre otherwise, games, movies etc.
[/resurrection]
Ah, since this thread hasn't been up in a while, I will perform the great
resurrection or grave robbing, if you so choose, and bring it back among
the, sorta, living.
I have been on vacation as some of you may know and if you didn't, you do
now, anyway, thus I've had some time to mess with books and whatnot.
This is not really a book in my case, as I got it from the iTunes store, but
anyway it's the same as a book.
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
This is one of the best books I've "read" in a while, it's about this "footage"
that appears on the internet and about a community that forms around it.
One of the community members gets hired to figure out where this "footage"
is coming from and since it's modern times it has a lot of stuff like Hotmail
and Google being used a lot by people.
I don't quite know what about this book made it so appealing, but I'm now
"reading" it a second time and even got the Gibsons new book Spook Country
even tho it doesn't have much to do with the this book (one character does
appear, but how much I don't know yet). Anyway, if you like sci-fi of modern
times check this one out.
S.M. Peters - Whitechapel Gods
This is what I'm currently reading, it's of the steam punk genre, so it's a bit
different from a lot of other sci-fi and I guess more character driven.
The setting is Victorian London, ruled by 2 mechanical gods Mama Engine and
Grandfather Clock, they have a police force called Boiler Men (machines from
what I've understood) and humans are being oppressed and have formed a
resistance to launch a new attack on the machines. There is also some form
of disease around that is manifesting on humans as metal parts on their skin,
like bolts and so on, it's all very weird and interesting.
I am not too far yet, but so far it seems pretty interesting.
Other books I bought recently are:
Caleb Carr - The Alienist
This is also in audio book format, from iTunes Store. It's about 1800s New
York that is being terrorized by a serial killer similar to Jack The Ripper who
did the same just a few years earlier in London.
The name alienist was a name used for shrinks back in those times, due to
their patients being alienated from society or some such thing.
Seems interesting.
Trudi Canavan - Voice Of The Gods
(Book 3 of Age Of The Five trilogy)
I totally loved her earlier The Black Magician Trilogy, so starting this trilogy
was pretty much a no brainer. Now I just found out that there is a new
trilogy in the works for The Black Magician world, so that is great. There is
also 2 other books set in that world which I will have to get eventually.
Age Of The Five is set in a different world and hasn't really made much of
impression on me, currently reading the first book of the trilogy.
Iain M. Banks - Matter
This is the latest from the great mr. Banks and it's a Culture book to boot,
couldn't get any better for this year on the "hard" sci-fi front... unless Dan
Simmons is coming out with his new book this year.
William Gibson - Spook Country
As I already mentioned, this is the follow up to Pattern Recognition and if
not a full sequel, it's still very much in the same vein, I'm expecting a lot
from this based on PR.
Funny enough, I never read any of Gibsons cyber punk stuff back when I was
into that genre otherwise, games, movies etc.
[/resurrection]
Kovenant84
T-369 days
No spoilers - about halfway through it right now. Went on a little binge of his stuff recently - just finished Consider Phlebas and Player of Games a little while ago.
I consider (
) Consider Phlebas along with Hyperion as 2 of the mostimportant "hard" sci-fi books ever writen. Period.
Kovenant84
T-369 days
The Hyperion series was great stuff. And the thing I love about both of those authors is that their non-science fiction works are still incredibly well written and engaging.
~kov.
~kov.
La Rocque
I am that I am
Kafka - the complete stories & parables
I've had this book for years and have read it cover to cover many times
I'm now at 'the Burrow', which is my favorite Kafka Story -
I've had this book for years and have read it cover to cover many times
I'm now at 'the Burrow', which is my favorite Kafka Story -
RampageSword
AWARE! BEWARE! WAR!
La Rocque
I am that I am
'Alan Moore Spells It Out' by Bill Baker
Covers the entirety of Moore's career, from his early efforts creating the Maxwell the Magician cartoons strip and his work for 2000 AD through to his most recent work on the America's Best Comics line for DC -
Covers the entirety of Moore's career, from his early efforts creating the Maxwell the Magician cartoons strip and his work for 2000 AD through to his most recent work on the America's Best Comics line for DC -
La Rocque
I am that I am
'Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts'
by the Editors of Popular Mechanics -
by the Editors of Popular Mechanics -
La Rocque
I am that I am
'Dark Side of the Moon' (Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the Space Race)
by Wayne Biddle
Another Nazi makes good plus he helped the USA land on the moon first and return safely
van Braun was wise to surrender to the Americans as WW 2 ended because the Russians would of been his daddy
He should of hung at Nuremberg after the war but you know the rest of the story -
by Wayne Biddle
Another Nazi makes good plus he helped the USA land on the moon first and return safely
van Braun was wise to surrender to the Americans as WW 2 ended because the Russians would of been his daddy
He should of hung at Nuremberg after the war but you know the rest of the story -
Dimitri Verhulst - Godverdomse Dagen Op Een Godverdomse Bol(Translated: Goddamn days on a goddamn earth). Basically the history of mankind, but described with a lot of criticism and in a satiric kind of way.
Currently reading, "The Great Shark Hunt" by Hunter S. Thompson. Primarily I'm into non-fiction, it had to be very fine and very unique for me to like fiction.
"1984" by George Orwell & "The Prestige" by Christopher Priest are two of them.
"1984" by George Orwell & "The Prestige" by Christopher Priest are two of them.
