DARTHMADLER
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Post by DARTHMADLER on Feb 4, 2005 16:22:42 GMT -5
You would probably like The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin, Oddgirl. It's about a guy whose dreams become reality, for better or worse.
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AJWARPED
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Post by AJWARPED on Feb 18, 2005 2:41:28 GMT -5
*Blindness by Jose Saramago.
*Fantasy/Drama if I had to make a category
*there is a plague of white blindness that effects many people. they lock away the blind in an old mental asylum and it's how life works there. very good. If you don't like wierd writting styles maybe look somwhere else. Jose doesn't like stoping to make new paragraphs, they can go on for pages. and there isn't a single quotation mark in the book. all this relfects being blind.
on a side note Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
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Post by PoolMan on Feb 18, 2005 12:10:18 GMT -5
I jumped on the bandwagon and read Life of Pi this week. Excellent, harsh read. I'm still digesting the ending, but I loved the book as a whole.
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DARTHMADLER
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Post by DARTHMADLER on Feb 18, 2005 15:22:31 GMT -5
Belarus by Lee Hogan and its sequal Enemies are ones that I really enjoyed. The characters are very interesting and lots of cool gadgets. Weeeeeeee!
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Post by puggyd on Feb 18, 2005 18:05:36 GMT -5
"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
So amazing, so weird. I almost gave it its own thread but I knew I couldn't articulate about it.
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Feb 20, 2005 1:02:38 GMT -5
And I bought The Giver's sequel/companion book, The Messenger, today, so I'll let you know how that one is when I finish it. It's been over a month, but I finally got around to reading Messenger. It should've been much better. If Lois Lowry had spent more time writing this book, it would have been on par with The Giver, but as it is, it's underdeveloped and disappointing. |
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Post by Magill on Feb 23, 2005 14:08:35 GMT -5
It's been over a month, but I finally got around to reading Messenger. It should've been much better. It helps a little bit if you've read Gathering Blue which takes place between the two books. I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It took me a little while to get into it, but once I did it was awesome. It's a bit hard to describe, but the basic premise is that throughout the thousands of years of human migration to the Americas, people brought their gods with them. These gods roam about the US, though they're weaking because most of them are no longer believed in and they've been supplanted by new gods (technology, television, etc). Plus, a good portion of it takes place in Wisconsin, which is where I'm from. My mom's hometown even gets a mention. |
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Post by duckie on Feb 23, 2005 20:39:40 GMT -5
I liked American Gods as well. If you liked that, you gotta read Neverwhere. Oh, and definitely Good Omens - with Pratchett helping out, that book was a riot!
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Post by duckie on Feb 23, 2005 20:50:47 GMT -5
I jumped on the bandwagon and read Life of Pi this week. Excellent, harsh read. I'm still digesting the ending, but I loved the book as a whole. This has been sitting on my shelf for a little while now, and I keep on meaning to toss it in my overnight bag. In the tradition of reading everything Poolman, Justin and the rest of the board has already read, perhaps I finally get to it soon... ;D Oh, and Eats, Shoots and Leaves is sitting right next to it  |
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Post by pfrsue on Feb 23, 2005 21:22:24 GMT -5
Justin turned me on to Gaiman, and I recently read (and loved) the two books Magill and Duckie mentioned by him. Another cool one in the fantasy/religious-twist vein is Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. Oh heck, anything by Pratchett is worth looking at. |
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Post by duckie on Feb 24, 2005 20:41:27 GMT -5
I just finished Robert Harris' novel, Enigma. Decent read; I know someone mentioned it a while back on the forum, and I'm glad I picked it up. WWII timeframe, dealing with code-breaking. I actually liked it a bit better than Fatherland (which was also good); I think that was because there were less German phrases and names to keep track of.
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Post by duckie on Feb 24, 2005 20:42:18 GMT -5
Justin turned me on to Gaiman, and I recently read (and loved) the two books Magill and Duckie mentioned by him. Another cool one in the fantasy/religious-twist vein is Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. Oh heck, anything by Pratchett is worth looking at. I really wish Gaiman would write a few more books! |
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Post by Head Mutant on Feb 25, 2005 12:06:48 GMT -5
If you like both zombies and end-of-the-world action, check out The Rising (by somebody or another).
It's a great post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of The Stand: due to a scientific experiment, a rift opened between hell and earth, and demons started passing through. The hitch is that they can only inhabit the bodies of the dead... but the twist is that it can be a dead ANYthing. So not only do we have intelligent and quite scary rotting zombie humans, we get zombie boas, zombie lions, even zombie goldfish.
I liked it, even though the ending felt rushed and the tone of the book was darker than most.
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Post by PoolMan on Feb 25, 2005 12:55:26 GMT -5
"I liked it so much I didn't bother checking the author's name!" ~Justin Olivetti, Chicago Sun-Times  |
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Mar 16, 2005 18:38:53 GMT -5
I'm nearing the end of Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, the prequel to the Da Vinci Code.
I haven't read the Da Vinci Code, so I can't compare the two, but on its own, Angels and Demons is a very fun read. Brown's writing style isn't challenging or unique, and the plot isn't nearly as interesting as the facts about CERN, the Illuminati, and so on that are sprinkled throughout the novel. But all of the elements combined create a light enjoyable book. Dan Brown is Lemony Snickett for adults.
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