I feel like buying some new reading material - anyone got any tips on any particularly outstanding books please? Anything really, no particular 'type' specified.
Ta!
Read any good books lately ?
Ta for the suggestions so far.Bubba wrote:I just read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and very good it was too. But that doesn't really count as new reading material!
Cheers
Bubba
Bubba (and all) - doesn't have to be a new book. Anything will do as long as you think it's extremely good (I'm currently reading Moonfleet for example).
If you are a Pratchett/Rankin/Holt fan then I can recommend The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde . Its a lighthearted romp in an alternative universe where the Crimean war never ended, the Dodo never became extinct (well it did, but has been resynthised) and is the pet of choice and society is ruled by its addiction to classic english literature and love of the arts. I'm reading it as I travel to and from work atm and it has caused me to miss my stop on a couple of occasions.
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I'm finally into 'Blue Mars' - after reading the first two, it seemed too much of a cop out not to buy the last in the trilogy.
A little dry, and overly technical (although I wouldn't feel safe going to Mars without Kim Stanley Robinson, he could fix anything) but brilliant, brilliant characterisation, IMHO and a some excellent musings on impact of humans on a planetary scale.
Will be getting into Dune Messiah when I've got through that, probably sometime in Jan 2005
A little dry, and overly technical (although I wouldn't feel safe going to Mars without Kim Stanley Robinson, he could fix anything) but brilliant, brilliant characterisation, IMHO and a some excellent musings on impact of humans on a planetary scale.
Will be getting into Dune Messiah when I've got through that, probably sometime in Jan 2005
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You really should read The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pulman.
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yeah but read the golden compass firstThe_Subtle_Knife wrote:You really should read The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pulman.
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my recommendation: 'Flicker' by theodore roszak (sp?)
how can you resist?a review on the web wrote:Theodore Roszak's Flicker [Summit Books, 1991] is a deeply disturbed look at the history of film. It manages to tie in everything from early Christian mystery cults to Thomas Edison in a sweeping conspiracy seeking to destroy all life on Earth, using the most well-loved of American entertainment, the movies. More interestingly, the book also questions what it is about film that so enthralls us, a look at its conceptual history that is both enlightening and disturbing.
plus he does a lot of non-fiction too, so it's probably very well researched. clever book.I made a deviantart page.
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I'm wading through all my Robert Rankin from start to finish; up to his 8th book now, The Book of Ultimate Truths.
Cornelius and Tuppe are fucking *delightful* characters. Never ceases to amaze, does Rankin.
Cornelius and Tuppe are fucking *delightful* characters. Never ceases to amaze, does Rankin.
"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is ourlives. We have a spiritual depression." - Tyler Durden
