DC Tom Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 37 minutes ago, LeviF91 said: You recommended this to me several years ago and can say it's fantastic. Also I blame you for the 15 books along a similar theme I've since purchased. Anyway... The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry The Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America by Joseph Bottum So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson The Expanse Series by James S. A. Corey He's got another book, Fire in the Sky. Same sort of book, but the air war in the South Pacific. Those two books, and Peter Hinchliffe's The Other Battle, and Richard Frank's Guadalcanal are on my "desert island" list. Hinchliffe is almost impossible to find nowadays, Frank almost as difficult (it's 20 years old), but I have seen it in Barnes & Noble in the past year.
LeviF Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 11 minutes ago, DC Tom said: He's got another book, Fire in the Sky. Same sort of book, but the air war in the South Pacific. That's the first one I bought after Touched with Fire.
CommonCents Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 I'm reading 1913 by Charles Emmerson. My goal is to read a variety of books spanning both World Wars and this one sets the stage for WW1. Slow read for a simpleton like myself
Azalin Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 Pretty much anything by Terry Pratchett, but a personal favorite is Mort; the story of what happened when Death took on an apprentice.
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 If you don’t mind sharing books with your wife / girl friend. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon currently 8 books the 9th is in the works. A woman time travels 200 years back in Scotland to the time of the Scottish uprising and then progresses to America and the Revolutionary War. It is also a series on Starz cable channel
RaoulDuke79 Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 Kitchen Confidential is pretty good. If your into true crime Helter Skelter is amazing. I'm also a fan of anything by Hunter S. Thompson. 1
Pete Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 5 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said: Kitchen Confidential is pretty good. If your into true crime Helter Skelter is amazing. I'm also a fan of anything by Hunter S. Thompson. you sir have great taste in music and books 1
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 EThe ringworld series the red/green/blue mars series evolution
RaoulDuke79 Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Also enjoyed The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe. The Electeic Kool Aid Acid Test is about The Merry Pranksters and Ken Kesey who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is another great book. 2
WhoTom Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Contact by Carl Sagan Life of Pi was a good book - better than the movie (and the movie was pretty good too).
Max Fischer Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 11:32 AM, LeGOATski said: I love sci-fi. Best I've ever read is the Hyperion series (or the "Hyperion Cantos"), by Dan Simmons. It should be on everyone's sci-fi list. Yes, really liked Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Kept waiting for the third book to get going, stopped halfway.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 Can we bring up short story compilations, too?
Pete Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 15 minutes ago, joesixpack said: Can we bring up short story compilations, too? Chekhov
LeviF Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 2 hours ago, joesixpack said: Can we bring up short story compilations, too? 1
Gugny Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 I used to read a lot of Dean Koontz - especially from the late 80s through the early 2000s. I read Mitch Albom's first six novels and loved them. I have his 7th (The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto), but I haven't begun reading it yet.
BeginnersMind Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 11:32 AM, LeGOATski said: I love sci-fi. Best I've ever read is the Hyperion series (or the "Hyperion Cantos"), by Dan Simmons. It should be on everyone's sci-fi list. I will return with some other recommendations but this. Hyperion is totally different from, but neck n neck with, Dune for my favorite all time sci fi. .
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 9 hours ago, Gugny said: I used to read a lot of Dean Koontz - especially from the late 80s through the early 2000s. I’ve read a lot of his books too.
swnybillsfan Posted April 21, 2018 Posted April 21, 2018 Clive Barker's Imajica. i must have read it a dozen times. it is a sci fi/fantasy. absolutely enthralled, every time i pick it up. The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. incredible characters and wonderful storytelling in the fantasy genre. if you like these then there are many subsequent spinoffs. some good, some amazing.
{::'KayCeeS::} Posted April 21, 2018 Author Posted April 21, 2018 "Chasm City" A Space Opera Novel by Alastair Reynolds "Chasm City" is truly bonkers. I don't mean that it has an experimental structure, or crazy over-the-top prose, or even that it goes out of its way to upturn the proverbial apple cart. What I mean is that, although it is most certainly space opera, it is also just as equally weird fiction. There is a pervasive disquiet that permeates each page of this novel, almost as if you can feel the dark, cold of the spacial void permeating from each and every word. I'm sure others have said this, but it's like if China Mieville had decided to write a mainstream-ish sci-fi novel instead of "Perdido Street Station". Chasm City itself is in many ways the main character of this novel; it is such an unusual place, such a transformed and twisted version of its past self (which, without getting into details, will make sense if you read the novel), that it's very existence is a kind of pan-mirror reflecting the odysseys of the characters themselves. Reynolds is such an ambitious writer that it can take your breath away, but he is also a purveyor and unfurler of a startingly, unexpected intimacy, and the tug-of-war between these two facets really reveals a novelist who, while certainly working with familiar space opera tropes, also has a style uniquely his own. "Chasm City" is part of Reynolds' "Revelation Space" Universe, but it is also stand alone. You don't have to have read any of the other novels to jump into this one. I highly recommend it, especially if you like your space-opera sci-fi tilting towards the bizarre side." 14 hours ago, joesixpack said: Can we bring up short story compilations, too? Any literature is game, my friend. I was actually named after Vonnegut, no lie, straight truth. I didn't know it, until I was in college and I read "Cat's Cradle" and I happened to mention it to my parents how much i loved this motherf'er. 14 hours ago, Max Fischer said: Yes, really liked Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Kept waiting for the third book to get going, stopped halfway. LOVE Hyperion. Haven't read any of the other ones, I was kind of scared they wouldn't be as good (stupid, i know). Speaking of Dan Simmons, anyone watching "The Terror" on AMC? On 4/18/2018 at 11:09 AM, DC Tom said: Dune: there's two kinds of people in the world: people who have read Dune, and morons. Maybe not "morons".... But We are in accord. Dune is required reading for anybody, much like Moby Dick, or any classic novel you can name.
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