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[silvertone]

the book is just as good as the movie, makes a Hell A Lot More sense imo. they pair well.


vonnegut has some good stories, but if eel like if you read one you read em all. though i read a good short story by him the other day called the big space fuck.


you ever read in watermelon sugar? I imagine you might like it. It's highly surreal story, that isn't quite scifi or fantasy but sorta is. kinda feels like vonnegut too. i recommend it.

[strongbad]

ill add it to my ever expanding list that i have a real hard time fulfilling in thailand lol

[Samus Aran]

Been reading What is the What. Really good so far

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

Been reading What is the What. Really good so far

hell yeah that is a good book

[strongbad]

finished breakfast of champions. Very good story

Started and am almost finished with cats cradle. Definitely a good story but not my favorite so far

[silvertone]

been Reading the man who fell to earth, it's surprisingly good. feels like scifi that wouldn't be marketed as ... scifi but im only halfway through

[strongbad]

been Reading the man who fell to earth, it's surprisingly good. feels like scifi that wouldn't be marketed as ... scifi but im only halfway through

SCIFI !!!!!

i just bought consider plebas by banks. first book in the culture series which is about a post-scarcity utopian society (thx wikipedia). sounded appealing hope i like it!

oh also finished cat's cradle. enjoyed it a lot. the ending was pretty damn crazy. i think i need to read up on some analysis because there were a lot of things that seemed like they might have gone over my head

[Samus Aran]

the idea of liking breakfast of champions more than cat's cradle is absolute insanity but i'm at least glad you liked both

[strongbad]

yeah even vonnegut said BoC was his 2nd least favorite book lol
hard to compare them since the stories are so different in how they're structured but in terms of pure enjoyment i think i liked BoC

[Samus Aran]

finished What is the What

really fantastic book pls read

[strongbad]

tell me why i should read it in a single sentence with two commas max

[silvertone]

tell me why i should read it in a single sentence with two commas max

it's about a black guy

[strongbad]

sold!

[silvertone]

i stopped reading the man who fell to earth and started reading damnation alley. i finished it last night, it was OK. zelazny is a Really Good Writer and i feel like he's kinda ignored. which sucks. imo.

[strongbad]

just finished the first two culture novels. liked them so much i forgot to post in this thread

consider phlebas
the first in the series, and is less about the culture itself and is rather a really solid scifi romp in a really solid universe. ive seen nerds online saying that you should skip this book (maybe because it doesn't actually take place in the culture) but I really enjoyed it and i think that it was a great prelude for the next book, just in terms of how the universe was laid out. really solid sci fi book with some really great ideas

the player of games[/i]
follows someone in the culture (the utopia that the series is mostly about) who is basically a scholarly "game master." very good and engaging, and you learn a lot about the culture and some other species. it got a little repetitive later on but i had a blast with it

maybe 20 pages into the 3rd book and it hasn't really gripped me like the first two did yet, but i've been busy w/ school so i can't really focus on it yet. many people say it is the best in the series though so im sure ill shy up to it

so far it is the most engaging and entertaining series i've read. about the same scale as dune but much more believable and interesting imo