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SuperJarrad	What are ya reading?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 633 (12/15/02 11:08 PM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None And what if you have a vacation coming up soon, what do you plan on reading during your break? I've been hearing so many good things about The Lovely Bones that I guess I'm going to have to pick it up. I heard some people here mention books about nanotech sci-fi. Sounds interesting. What's the best out there? Currently, I'm looking for Volume 8 of GTO, a Japanese comic series about a loser/pervert who decides to be a high school teacher in order to pick up chicks, but instead becomes a wonderful unconventional teacher. It's pretty funny. "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
1 SL Chris ZS	Re: What are ya reading?	#1	[-]
Posts: 3391 (12/15/02 11:16 PM) Board Leprechaun Governor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Octagonal Raven is pretty good.
SuperJarrad	Re: What are ya reading?	#2	[-]
Posts: 633 (12/16/02 6:52 PM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oooh thanks. "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#3	[-]
Posts: 4512 (12/16/02 8:28 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm reading the incredibly huge Mississippi Blues, by Kathleen Ann Goonan www.goonan.com It's the second of her Nanotech quartet. It's a great sf yarn in a world gone primitive ane high tech all at uncontrollable once. I've actually read the other three in the Quartet, including the two she wrote after this one, but I had a hard time tracking it down. It doesn't seem to matter too much though. I really can't reccomend those four, or her other novel The Bones of Time (which isn't in the series but takes place in Hawaii and Asia 40+ years in the future) enough! She's brilliant.
Texas Republic Agent	Re: What are ya reading?	#4	[-]
Posts: 422 (01/13/03 7:36 PM) Muchacho Man Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahhh... Over the last two weeks, I read the Thomas Harris books, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. I am currently reading Red Dragon. I do believe that Silence of the Lambs, the movie, is better than the book. Overall, it was more detailed, explained more of the story behind the serial killer and Clarice, but the movie was more concise and that was a good, good thing... Hannibal the book is terrific. The movie left out a few plotlines that were interesting, plus it altered the ending of the book, which was bizarre, ooh... but very interesting too. I loved it. Hannibal Lecter is the coolest. He's not a bad dude. Last night, I also had a dream pertaining to my recent reading material... I refer you to the Dreams thread of the Family Center!
Nicholas	Re: What are ya reading?	#5	[-]
Posts: 6698 (01/13/03 9:11 PM) SARS Incubator Dictator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Dr. Lecter is my hero. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
N0Code	Re: What are ya reading?	#6	[-]
Posts: 237 (01/30/03 12:11 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tolstoy. Short stories. All titles in Russian, and I don't feel like translating. But "Death of Ivan Ilyich", of course, is there. And you should read it if you haven't already. Even if most of you will probably have to suffer through a horrible English translation of the classic. A man should not be considered legally insane just because he has 173 MB worth of Pearl Jam demos on his hard drive.
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#7	[-]
Posts: 4512 (02/08/03 7:26 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Currently reading lots of astronomy books (Scientific American's collected articles for instance) since I'm trying to write an SF novel, and I want to get the science right.
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#8	[-]
Posts: 4512 (03/02/03 4:37 AM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Been reading Nightfall the novel by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. Basically Silverberg fleshed out and added to Asimov's classic short story of the same name. It's a story about a planet with 6 suns where night only falls once every 2,000 years, subsequently causing chaos, insanity, and the fall of civilization. Before that I read Blood Music by Greg Bear. More nanotech, and quite a bit creepier than Goonan's stuff. Since he wrote it in 1985, I'm pretty sure it was a big influence on her. There are lots of ideas she seemed to borrow and extrapolate on.
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#9	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/03/03 1:54 AM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Reading Idoru by William Gibson. Cyberpunk of course (he invented it after all) this one in near future Tokyo, rebuilt with nanotech after an earthquake. Always an easy but interesting read, Mr. Gibson is.
SuperJarrad	Re: What are ya reading?	#10	[-]
Posts: 633 (04/03/03 10:29 PM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Cool. I read that two years ago and I think it turned out to be my favorite Gibson book. It's setting really just sunk into me. It had me looking at NYC differently. "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#11	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/04/03 1:38 AM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The only other one I've read was Neuromancer, and I do like Idoru better. Maybe the world seems a little less rotten or something (one thing I don't like about cyberpunk is the general nastiness of the characters.) The neighborhood I just moved into has a great little used book store where I scored the book in hardcover for $3 (!) I also got a hardcover copy of Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling for the same, which I'll probably read next. I'm actually trying to get a job with a local publisher (no SF though) as a publicist. Portland is a book lover's town. Powell's is the biggest used book store on the west coast.
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#12	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/05/03 11:39 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Finished Idoru. Damn fine book. Started Heavy Weather, which so far doesn't compare. It seems kind of like the plot to something you'd see on the USA Network. Hopefully that will improve.
SuperJarrad	Re: What are ya reading?	#13	[-]
Posts: 633 (04/06/03 2:03 AM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Gibson's latest book, "Pattern Recognition" sounds interesting. It's on my list of books to read. "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#14	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/06/03 12:33 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	mime too.
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#15	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/06/03 6:44 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just found out today that All Tomorows Parties is a sequel to Idoru. I was already planning on reading it, but really want to now. Idoru is the kind of book you don't want to end, so I guess Gibson felt the same way.
SuperJarrad	Re: What are ya reading?	#16	[-]
Posts: 633 (04/06/03 8:05 PM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have All Tomorrows Parties, but I have not started it yet. I did not know it was a sequel. Now, I'm really excited about it. "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#17	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/06/03 9:04 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's at least a sequel in that it starts with Laney living in Tokyo, after that I didn't want to spoil the surprise for myself by looking ahead. The title of course comes from the classic Velvet Underground & Nico song, though I don't know if that relates in anyway.
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#18	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/18/03 1:47 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Finished Heavy Weather. I can't really reccomend it, though it did have some good ideas. Just not very likeable characters, and some really stoopid sex scenes. Currently reading Key Out of Time by Andre Norton. Written in 1963, but set so far in the future that it isn't horribly dated. Dolphins, space and time travel, a world covered by oceans, and good solid writing. What's not to like?
ljim2000	Re: What are ya reading?	#19	[-]
Posts: 4512 (05/07/03 12:55 AM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Finished Key Out of Time only to find out that it is actually a sequel of sorts. So now I'm reading The Time Traders which came before and introduces the main characters earlier in their lives. It's interesting, because The Time Traders is way more steeped in Cold War politics (there's really none of that in Key Out of Time) which dates it a bit more, but being a child of that era, I find it fun reading nonetheless. There's at least one more sequel called The Defiant Agents which I also picked up for a couple bucks used, though I think it has different protagonists.
Cylver Raven	Re: What are ya reading?	#20	[-]
Posts: 8 (05/09/03 7:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm readin' Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, well sort of because I'm not devoting enough time to it. But once my busy week of tests are over, I'll definitely pick it up again. So far it's pretty interesting with all the satires of society. "Nevermore" quoth the Raven

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