Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
- Asherian
- Token Erisian
- Posts: 1272
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:22 am
- Location: A City in the rain
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
I'll try to look into it Ed, who's the author again?
As pure as the driven snow. Bitches
- Edminster
- Tested positive for Space-AIDS
- Posts: 8832
- Joined: Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:53 pm
- Location: Internet
- Contact:
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
Sean McMullin.
It's a great series if you like post-apocalypse and good *punk.
Plus it has librarians dueling with blackpowder pistols, so it has something for everybody.
It's a great series if you like post-apocalypse and good *punk.
Plus it has librarians dueling with blackpowder pistols, so it has something for everybody.
ol qwerty bastard wrote:bitcoin is backed by math, and math is intrinsically perfect and logically consistent always
gödel stop spreading fud
- Apocalyptus
- Not what you were expecting
- Posts: 5278
- Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:00 pm
- Location: Melbourne
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
Sounds interesting, I'll add it to my reading list. I'm always happy to support good homegrown sci-fi.Edminster wrote:I keep pimping out the Greatwinter Trilogy to people I know, but unfortunately nobody wants to read books by Australialandians : (
p.s. don't read anything about it beforehand just trust me on this
Might take me awhile to get to it though, because Mr Apoc stepped on my ereader and it's really difficult to order the newer version to Australia at the moment.
Kimra wrote:Next they'll be denying us the right to say "We'll rape your arse if you don't come to this fucken country."
- GUTCHUCKER
- Gotchucker's less handsome twin
- Posts: 2126
- Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:26 am
- Location: Paradise City?
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
SEE I TOLD YOU APOC IS TWO PEOPLE
Time for napping on the job
Time for napping on the job
Datanazush wrote:I ship Mohammed and Jehova.
- Kimra
- He-Man in a Miniskirt
- Posts: 6850
- Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:18 am
- Location: meanwhile elsewhere
- Apocalyptus
- Not what you were expecting
- Posts: 5278
- Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:00 pm
- Location: Melbourne
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
But I thought I was three people? This is getting too confusing, hive mind!
Kimra wrote:Next they'll be denying us the right to say "We'll rape your arse if you don't come to this fucken country."
- GUTCHUCKER
- Gotchucker's less handsome twin
- Posts: 2126
- Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:26 am
- Location: Paradise City?
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
I am a hive mind. My units are brain cells!
Datanazush wrote:I ship Mohammed and Jehova.
- carbonstealer
- Australia Apologist
- Posts: 1974
- Joined: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:47 am
- Location: Down under
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
Remember, WE are three people, there is no individuality in this hive mind
Apocalyptus wrote: Nothing can beat the image of mouth muffling breast implants.
- Lethal Interjection
- Death by Elocution
- Posts: 8048
- Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:17 pm
- Location: Behind your ear. It's magic!
- Contact:
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
So, it's a hive of two?GUTCHUCKER wrote:I am a hive mind. My units are brain cells!
- GUTCHUCKER
- Gotchucker's less handsome twin
- Posts: 2126
- Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:26 am
- Location: Paradise City?
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
Brain cells not brain halves duhhh that's totally what you are referring to and not something else
Datanazush wrote:I ship Mohammed and Jehova.
- Apocalyptus
- Not what you were expecting
- Posts: 5278
- Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:00 pm
- Location: Melbourne
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
Of course, I meant 'I' in a collective sense.carbonstealer wrote:Remember, WE are three people, there is no individuality in this hive mind
Kimra wrote:Next they'll be denying us the right to say "We'll rape your arse if you don't come to this fucken country."
-
- Posts: 7
- Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:10 pm
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick. Burdick's a pretty well-known writer (he wrote Fail-Safe, which became the basis for Dr. Strangelove) and from searching online I've gathered that the Ninth Wave was something of a best seller when it was originally printed but it's been out of print for several years now and no one I've ever talked to has ever heard of it. I was lucky enough to happen upon a very beat up 2nd edition of it at a used bookstore and bought it for a dollar just because I recognized the author name. It turned out to be a pretty good read.
- Liriodendron_fagotti
- (Eastern Bassoon Poplar)
- Posts: 1227
- Joined: Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:34 pm
- Location: :noitacoL
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" is a quite good (and quite long) book. It was very well-reviewed, but I've never spoken to anyone that's read it. It's a sort of fantasized retelling of turn of the 20th C Britain. Very unlovely fantasy - it reminds me a little bit of "The Master and Margarita", which you should also all read.
"Hellstrom's Hive" by Frank Herbert is quite thrilling, and everyone should of course read "Dune" if you haven't. "HH" explores a couple similar themes, but it's much more on the horror end of science fiction.
"Hellstrom's Hive" by Frank Herbert is quite thrilling, and everyone should of course read "Dune" if you haven't. "HH" explores a couple similar themes, but it's much more on the horror end of science fiction.
Continual disappointment is the spice of life.
- Oldrac the Chitinous
- Chicken O' the Sea
- Posts: 3476
- Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:41 pm
- Location: The Perfect Stillness of the Deep
- Contact:
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
(19th century)
Police said they spent some time working out if they could charge the man with being armed with a weapon, as technically he was armed with part of a fish.
- Kaharz
- This Intentionally Left Blank
- Posts: 1571
- Joined: Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:17 pm
Re: Favorite Book nobody you know has heard of?
I found that book to be almost intolerable. It nearly became one of the few books I haven't finished and never plan to. I liked the little asides and footnotes that added to the lore, but the main story was boring as hell and the characters were uninteresting and unsympathetic in my opinion. I've only known two other people who have finished it. One of them felt the same as me, the other raved about it. So I guess it is a matter of taste.Liriodendron_fagotti wrote:"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" is a quite good (and quite long) book. It was very well-reviewed, but I've never spoken to anyone that's read it. It's a sort of fantasized retelling of turn of the 20th C Britain.
Kaharz wrote:I don't need a title. I have no avatar or tagline either. I am unique in my lack of personal identifiers.