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| DblTapViper User ID: 9050718 United States03/23/2012 05:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I Love apocalyptic books. So here is my list Deep Winter Series Any Donovan Creed Novel (It's not apocalyptic, it's just so cool) Lucifier's Hammer - over the top recommendation! Hunger games. Crap ending but... First book is very good American Apocalypse all books in the series The Stand. (of course...) Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse DblTapViper |
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| Éireann User ID: 13000068 United States03/23/2012 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh wow. That book rocked. The Inferno scared the living hell out of me (sorry for the pun). I had nightmares for months. But the story told in the book, and the progression from ignorance to understanding was awesome. I'm still pissed that Dante put Socrates in Hell, though :D Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1540313 United States03/23/2012 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sho-Gun by Clavelle The Facade by Heiser Black Body by Turk Dune by Herbert Be Here Now by Ram Dass Creation by Vidal Slaughterhouse Five By Vonnegut too many favs to pick just one. Door into Summer by Heinlein Enders Game by Card I reccommend these to friendds. oh, and : I Married Adventure by Johnson (old book) The Works of Rabelais Candide by Voltaire- I need to stop now. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1540313 United States03/23/2012 07:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Foucault's Pendulum by Eco. Or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez. Read it when I was fifteen, I was bored. Couldn't put it down and read in a single day and night without pause. Quoting: Anoesjka Lord of the Rings of course. Best SF: Asimov's Foundation series. And The Ender Saga from Orson Scott Card. Come to think of it, there are really a lot of good books I wouldn't miss for the world. Oh yes! anything by Marquez- he is brilliant! Ender is also one of the one's I listed-we are alike in our choices. |
| Vision Thing User ID: 12855271 United States03/23/2012 11:12 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | RingWorld by Larry Niven,I do not understand why Hollywood has not made this classic Sci-Fi into a movie, probably a good thing because they sure screwed up DUNE, Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13075653 Larry Niven also wrote a bunch of Louis Wu stories that Rock, Hollywood has not touched them, why ? Larry Niven grew up in Beverly Hills and was/is an Heir to a great oil fortune, so I suspect that he is pissed on by the Hollywood mutant lib entertainment crowd. Larry Niven Rocks ! James Cameron had the rights about 10 or 12 years ago, for a while at least. It's possible he still has them, I don't know. He really wanted to do it, but got side-tracked by a succession of other projects (eventually culminating in Avatar). For a while he was trying to do a couple of really big Mars related movies, and had even acquired the rights to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (great series, not as great as Ringworld, though). He was also working with Dr. Robert Zubrin, formerly of NASA on that project. I think the reason Ringworld hasn't been made is because it's simply so enormously epic in scale that it would be very difficult to do justice to. You mentioned how the screwed up Dune, and you're right, and I think it's maybe sort of the same problem. I guess the story of Ringworld is much more contained than that of Dune, but Ringworld doesn't really work unless you are able to accurately convey the unimaginable scale of the Ringworld structure, itself. Even on the big screen, I think it would somehow be lost. In the mind of a reader, it does work. The scale is one thing, but there's another aspect of Ringworld that really stands out to me, Louis Wu's interior struggle against the wire. That is some great writing about addiction and I just don't know what kind of footage you can get out of him sitting there drooling. But his terrible problem and Niven's great description of it and how it really drives a lot of the plot, is what makes that book really special to me. Similar to Case's addiction to cyberspace in Neuromancer - it is very tangible and a source of motivation for action, it is central to the concepts in the book but pretty cerebral and subjective for the big screen. |
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| Vision Thing User ID: 12855271 United States03/23/2012 11:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh that's supposed to be good, but I never read it. I imagine you have read Shogun by James Clavell. That's a lot of people's favorite book. I sure enjoyed when I read it, I had a cold and I spent a week in bed drinking tea and reading Shogun. I felt like life was pretty good. I am a fast reader but it took many days to get through that. Great book. |
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| Baldrick User ID: 13153281 Australia03/24/2012 08:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have several... Quoting: GLP Angel The Railway Children A Christmas Carol Great Expectations Angels: God's Secret Agents those are four of my favorites ...may be back later to list others. GOOD THREAD five stars for you!  Got your PM, Love your message.  Blackadder: Baldrick, how did you manage to find a turnip that cost £400 000? Baldrick: Well, I had to haggle. |
| Éireann User ID: 13102772 United States03/25/2012 08:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Lord of the Rings (origianlly meant to be 1 book, but publishers insisted on splitting it into 3.) Which totally makes no sense when you read the "Trilogy". The second book opens up with the death of Boromir which just starts the whole thing off wrong, imo. But alas...what's done is done. Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
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| Dried Up Hag User ID: 1443836 United States03/25/2012 09:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am totally a human bookworm....I have so many "favorites" that I can't really pin one down.... That being said, however, the book that ALWAYS comes to mind when someone asks a question like this is "Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." By Christopher Moore. Fabulous read...... Last Edited by Dried Up Hag on 03/25/2012 09:23 AM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6460578  United Kingdom03/25/2012 09:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've read and enjoyed many of the books mentioned here. No duds imho! From classics to literary fiction to sf/fantasy, glpers have good taste. Read "Tales of the Dying Earth" by Jack Vance. George RR Martin has acknowledged that this collection was his inspiration. It is MASSIVE fun! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11988438 United States03/25/2012 04:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am totally a human bookworm....I have so many "favorites" that I can't really pin one down.... Quoting: Dried Up Hag That being said, however, the book that ALWAYS comes to mind when someone asks a question like this is "Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." By Christopher Moore. Fabulous read...... Agreed, love that book :) |
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