09-19-2006, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Aqua_volans I'm trying to get my hands on "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzsche. Those shop assistants haven't the slightest clue what that is. |
You can get it off of Amazon. I have about all of Nietzsche's books.
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09-19-2006, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Aqua_volans I'm trying to get my hands on "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzsche. Those shop assistants haven't the slightest clue what that is. | Free E-Book from Project Gutenberg.
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09-19-2006, 03:26 PM
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| Just starting Gustav Meyrink - "The Angel of the West Window"
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09-19-2006, 04:16 PM
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| Finished reading "The Seed and the Sower" (aka "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence") by Laurens Van Der Post.
Now reading "Holes" by Louis Sachar and "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire. | |
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09-21-2006, 05:43 AM
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| Finished King's 'Dark Tower'. I haven't yet decided whether I'm disappointed or not with the last four books of the series 
Next 'The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution ' by Richard Dawkins and 'The Age of Stonehenge' by Colin Burgess.
BTW, could somebody recommend books like those two above (and like 'After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC' by Stephen Mithen).
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09-21-2006, 07:16 AM
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Finished King's 'Dark Tower'. I haven't yet decided whether I'm disappointed or not with the last four books of the series
| I thought the first 2 books were very very good - then it just went rubbish. There was a lot of potential that King has squandered. | |
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09-21-2006, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Gav I thought the first 2 books were very very good - then it just went rubbish. There was a lot of potential that King has squandered. | Yep, I really liked the first 2 books, third was crap, fourth was even worse crap, after that I stopped reading this series.
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09-23-2006, 02:51 PM
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| State of Fear by Michael Crichton. | |
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09-27-2006, 06:12 PM
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| I'm looking for a new book. Preferably a rollicking good yarn that's also well-written. Any suggestions?
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09-27-2006, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by scrapinpeg I'm looking for a new book. Preferably a rollicking good yarn that's also well-written. Any suggestions? | One of the best writers out there IMHO, writing in various genre is Dan Simmons. His Hyperion series is great SciFi, his Song of Cali and Carrion Comfort are two very scary books, Ilium is a SciFi Fantasy and more. Just about any of his books are worth picking up.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is a huge novel but absolutely brilliant as is Snow Crash by the same author. Can't go wrong with either. Extremely well written, although they get put into the SciFi category, they are as good as any modern fiction. Cryptonomicon deals with breaking codes and has a very heavy historical component.
If you like more biographies, I've recently finished Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World, by Peter Nichols. It has quite an adventure associated with it, the voyage of the Beagle and the pull between Fitzroy, a very religious man who felt betrayed and a bit bitter in the end for his contribution to Darwin's work. This book, together with Mr. Darwin's Shooter, a fictionalized account of Syms Covington, Darwin's assistant on the Beagle as well as a few years after their return, you can get a pretty good dose of the science of the time, the pull between science and religion. I found Evolution's Captain to be a very riviting adventure story, but I read and enjoy just about anything written about Darwin and the period in which he worked.
Good luck!
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09-28-2006, 12:08 AM
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| Oh wow, Cryptonomicon. That was good. I think I'll go re-read that one now that you remind me of it.
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09-28-2006, 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by academe Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is a huge novel but absolutely brilliant as is Snow Crash by the same author. Can't go wrong with either. Extremely well written, although they get put into the SciFi category, they are as good as any modern fiction. Cryptonomicon deals with breaking codes and has a very heavy historical component. | Neal Stephenson is great! For those working (and studying to work) in software industry, I would highly recommend his essay "In the beginning ... was a command line".
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09-28-2006, 05:48 AM
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One of the best writers out there IMHO, writing in various genre is Dan Simmons. His Hyperion series is great SciFi, his Song of Cali and Carrion Comfort are two very scary books, Ilium is a SciFi Fantasy and more. Just about any of his books are worth picking up.
| I have to say that I thought Hyperion was truly excellent. Great books and a real page turner. I wasn't so impressed with Ilium - started off well but I thought it had a stupid end and haven't bothered with Olympos as a result. My suspicion, at the time, was that there was one BIG book tha the publisher thought was too unwieldly to release and so had Simmons insert an artificial break. I've no evidence for that - it's just a suspicion - and that was how it read to me.
If you like that sort of thing then I heartily recommend Alistair Reynolds. Not only a great Space Opera writer but a real scientist as well! I don't think that he's written a bad book yet. Lots of big idea in all of his books. | |
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09-28-2006, 06:15 PM
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| heh I strongly reccomend Hollis Gillespies work if your looking for something a little less mainstream.
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