| written by Tom on Jun 23, 2007 03:12 |
 | |  | | ![]() I just thought I'd resurrect this thread to mention that I just finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, and recommend it heartily to any science fiction or fantasy reader... | |  | |  |
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| written by Tom on Dec 05, 2007 08:32 |
| | | | ![]() I wanted to bump this thread back up with a few recommendations, but then I realized that I was the last person to post, almost six months ago.
Doesn't anyone read anymore?  | | | | |
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 | |  | | ![]() I read all the time. I just kinda forgot about this thread.
I just read a short story by Edgar Rice Burroughs that was pretty good. It's called Beyond Thirty. It's not copyrighted in the US, so it's up on Project Gutenberg if you want to read it. It's listed as The Lost Continent, but the original title was Beyond Thirty. | |  | |  |
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| written by Tom on Dec 05, 2007 09:29 |
| | | | ![]()  | Raptorjedi said: | | I just read a short story by Edgar Rice Burroughs that was pretty good. It's called Beyond Thirty. It's not copyrighted in the US, so it's up on Project Gutenberg if you want to read it. It's listed as The Lost Continent, but the original title was Beyond Thirty. |
That and a bunch of other good sf can be found here.
(I just found that recently, and I haven't started on it yet, but there are some great authors there - in addition to Burroughs, H. Beam Piper and E. E. "Doc" Smith, Cory Doctorow, Andre Norton, James Schmitz, Robert Sheckley, and Randall Garrett are all authors I've enjoyed inthe past.
Also, I wanted to recommend Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (can be found here)
as well as anything by Connie Willis, but especially To Say Nothing of the Dog. | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() I love Vernor Vinge. A Fire Upon the Deep and The Deepness in the Sky were some of the best science fiction books I've read. | | | | |
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| written by Nalix on Dec 05, 2007 23:29 |
 | |  | | ![]() Yes, I liked both of those too. Also nearly anything by Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears, Into the Out Of. David Brin too. Wrote Startide Rising and the Uplift Wars. | |  | |  |
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| | | | ![]() I've never read Nor Crystal Tears. I couldn't find it. I've read quite a few Alan Dean Foster books though. Phylogenesis, The Damned Trilogy, and I've wanted to read the Icerigger Trilogy, but I could never find that either. Brin's great too. | | | | |
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| written by Mcwgogs on Dec 06, 2007 08:46 |
 | |  | | Now that i travel by bus daily, i have plenty of time to read books.
So in the least few weeks I've read:
The Pseudonimicon by Phil Hine
Surrealizm by Krystyna Janicka
The Book of Pleasure by Austin Osman Spare
and i'm currently reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins | |  | |  |
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| written by Tom on Jan 19, 2008 07:21 |
| | | | ![]() I can't believe I haven't recommended Steve Brust here. Definitely check him out, especially if you like Zelazny. Not that he's really that similar to Zelazny, but he cites him as one of his major influences.
Also, Brandon Sanderson just gets better and better. | | | | |
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| written by Tom on Jun 01, 2008 00:45 |
| | | | ![]() So, I just came across this article and this list of what is apparently some professor's idea of 1001 books everyone should read at some point. Apparently, according to the article, a "reasonably well-educated person" should have read about a third of them.
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well, I went through the list, and I've read a grand total of.......50.
5%.
Apparently I'm some kind of philistine.
Does anyone else want to post their score? | | | | |
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  | | | | ![]() I've read 18 of them, so don't feel bad. Though there are about 30 or so on there that I already planned on reading some day, and about five that I couldn't remember if I had read or not, like Ivanhoe and The Fall of the House of Usher. There are also some I've never finished (not because they were bad, I just forgot), like Neuromancer. I'm also about halfway through The Midwich Cuckoos.
It was interesting to see Watchmen on there, which I've read, and it was fantastic. I was disappointed to not see Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (which I'm also about halfway through  ). He also tossed The Lord of the Rings and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy into one book, so my number would be closer to 25. | | | | |
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| written by Tom on Jun 01, 2008 02:55 |
| | | | ![]() I agree about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and I would have added The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (won a Pulitzer about eighty years ago). Also, several of those aren't strictly books (Fall of the House of Usher, and a few others, are short stories). Since the precedent had been set, at least Julius Caesar and Hamlet should have been on there, along with The Importance of Being Earnest and maybe The Skin of Our Teeth.
And of course, the Pre-1700 section should have included Antigone, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid.
There are a bunch that I want to read, and one (Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro) that I was planning to read in the near future.
But still. I had considered myself fairly widely read, until now. | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() I am fairly widely read myself, just his list doesn't have most of the books I've read. Only one of them is an Arthur C. Clarke book, and I happen to have read just about everything he's written
Also, Beowulf was missing as well. | | | | |
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| written by Megagun on Jun 01, 2008 11:53 |
 | |  | | ![]() I've read only five of the books on that list...
(still more than I would have expected, as I never read books).. | |  | |  |
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 | |  | | ![]() That guy actually sounds rather pathetic. A "reasonably well-educated person" should spend the majority of their time reading fiction novels? I would think they could find something a little more productive to work on. It sounds like he's just trying to show off how many books he's supposedly read.
I noticed around seven titles on the list that I've read, though I was skimming over it so there could potentially be a few more. I have a copy of Kokoro, though I haven't read it quite yet. I'm bound to read more, but not because they're on this guy's massive list of favorite books. | |  | |  |
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