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Post by Repat Van on Jul 10, 2020 0:48:28 GMT
I was looking for this! I recently finished The Stand (Stephen King). I was always too put off the size to start it but Lockdown provided the perfect excuse. Loved it. Stephen King pre getting clean is fantastic. Although I had forgotten his tendency to kill his characters off. He rarely does not now. Pre that I read The Silent Patient which was also pretty good. Read The Stand years ago and really liked it, may have to revisit that one. I can never read a book more than once! Don’t you find it’s less interesting when you know where it’s going? |
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Post by Marshall on Jul 10, 2020 20:19:58 GMT
Well I read the Stand about 30 years ago, so although I know the general plot I've forgotten enough about it to make a reread worthwhile.
But some books I enjoy so much I'll read again even if I do remember most of it. Huckleberry Finn for example.
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Post by voice on Dec 9, 2020 18:28:28 GMT
I've been reading a lot of Neil Asher recently, not bad, but am scouting about for something new, preferably good SF, can't wait till I get to a book shop again, brousing on line book stores is just not the same.
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Post by mids on Dec 9, 2020 18:42:06 GMT
Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is good, I seem to remember. I think it's feminist SF. Space opera-ish. There's modern space opera series about a sentient robot. Think the author is Charlie Stross.
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Post by mids on Dec 9, 2020 18:44:54 GMT
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Post by voice on Dec 9, 2020 19:00:36 GMT
Cheers, not one I've come across, will give it a try
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 9, 2020 19:03:34 GMT
I expect quite a few people have come across it, judging by the cover.
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Post by mids on Dec 9, 2020 19:16:32 GMT
Yeah, the heroine is a redundant sexbot.
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Post by voice on Dec 9, 2020 19:28:27 GMT
As I ran out of new books, I picked up A Song of Stone by Iain Banks today, been a long time since I read any of his stuff, still a good read and reminds me that its such a shame he dies relatively young.
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Post by mids on Dec 9, 2020 19:35:33 GMT
I never managed to get into Banks SF stuff. I really enjoyed his non-SF books though.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Dec 9, 2020 19:37:02 GMT
Five on a Treasure Island
"Oh Timmy!...you're so licky!!!"
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Post by mids on Dec 9, 2020 19:41:09 GMT
Uncle Quentin's found Dick!
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Post by voice on Dec 12, 2020 21:30:14 GMT
Books are ace
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Post by mids on Mar 11, 2024 22:31:59 GMT
I got out of the habit of reading when my Kobo stopped working properly. I got another one the other week and downloaded all my books again. I've started rereading them again. Started with the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Comfort reading. Anyone else?
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Post by marechal on Mar 11, 2024 23:28:35 GMT
Reading mostly SF recently.
Blindsight by Peter Watts, excellent first contact tale.
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury. Finally got around to reading it, much better than I'd expected.
Ubik and Flow the Policeman's Tears, Philip K. Dick. Ubik ok, Flow was better imo.
Radix, Attanasio - one hell of a read, although I can see why some might not like it.
Lord of Light, Zelazny. Colonized exo-planet with society based on Hindu mythology including high-tech "reincarnation". Good but plodding at times.
A Fire Upon the Deep, Verner Vinge, long space opera with lots of big ideas, quite good.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 12, 2024 1:10:19 GMT
I just finished something called “We Had It So Good”. Californian scientist moves to Oxford then London and mixed with liberal elite. Should resonate with me. Was kinda OK but mostly a bit dull. Nothing happened.
Currently reading Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris which is fun historical rompy stuff.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 12, 2024 1:12:40 GMT
I feel like Philip K Dick is like the Barbie Movie of authors. It was initially presented as utter trash, that’s what you were first told to expect. And then everyone told you how utterly brilliant it was and instead it was just very good, intelligent pulpy stuff and you end up disappointed because your expectations are set way too high. Perfectly enjoyable but not utterly revelatory.
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Post by voice on Mar 12, 2024 1:29:09 GMT
Yeah I've often felt the same reading his stuff.
Been reading my way through Neal Asher's Polity universe novels, in chronological order this time.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Mar 12, 2024 12:07:04 GMT
I just finished something called “We Had It So Good”. Californian scientist moves to Oxford then London and mixed with liberal elite. Should resonate with me. Was kinda OK but mostly a bit dull. Nothing happened. Currently reading Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris which is fun historical rompy stuff. I think is classic Richard Harris; very well researched and, like George MacDonald Fraser before him, it is one of those books that fleshes out one's historical knowledge. Great stuff. To carry on in the recent mids vein, I once met Robert Harris at a book signing in Blackwell's in Oxford (not the old one in The Broad but the newer Westgate Centre one). Book signings can be a little "conveyor-belty", but he gave everyone a minute or so of his time to chat through his works and what readers thought of them. Clearly a highly intelligent all-round-good-egg. |
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Post by flatandy on Mar 12, 2024 20:33:20 GMT
Blackwell's in Oxford (not the old one in The Broad but the newer Westgate Centre one). Boo! Wrong Blackwells! Booooooo! |
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