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Post by trubble on Jun 27, 2010 22:29:29 GMT
Stub Crouch Book Club! The Classics.  I am sure we can all manage a chapter a week. A page a day? Okay, then, a paragraph a month... whatever. It's like Richard & Judy's Book Club but without Richard and Judy  - the best of all worlds. www.literaturepage.com/read/Choose a book. Someone! - choose a book.  |
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Post by trubble on Jun 28, 2010 14:03:13 GMT
If no one chooses a book, I'll be putting up a page a day from Ulysses or Room With A View. Those of us old enough to remember the time Cahen printed an entire book page by page on JSG will understand that this CAN and WILL BE DONE. So I advise someone to choose a book, I really do, for your own sakes. www.literaturepage.com/read/www.online-literature.com/ |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 28, 2010 14:55:59 GMT
Someone! - choose a book. Please -- not Ulysses! I choose an upbeat romance to get us started, namely Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 28, 2010 16:16:33 GMT
That's HG Wells!
Naked Lunch.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 28, 2010 22:43:16 GMT
Almost finished with this...  Fantastic yarn set in an age when humanity has died out and his robots and other AI's have carried on "living" and doing their own thing...very good read with plenty of fun and action. I honestly don't think you need to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy this novel. AH |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 29, 2010 6:09:45 GMT
I honestly don't think you need to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy this novel. AH I am, and I will be reading that. If both Alph AND Vernor Vinge say nice words about it, it MUST be something special. While I'm here, Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep is not to be missed. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 29, 2010 10:29:41 GMT
I've never read any Vernor Vinge.  Finished Saturns Children last night BTW, well worth the 3 quid I paid for it - I've ordered a few more Stross novels ("singularity sky" & "iron sunrise"...will let you know how they stack up).  AH |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jun 29, 2010 12:31:35 GMT
 Excellent read...half way through. The story of an Indian's struggle to escape poverty. It develops into a good thriller and is very funny in parts. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 29, 2010 13:06:12 GMT
I find it really hard to read anything set in "modern day reality". I read for purely escapist purposes, exotic locations, diferent times, other realities etc. AH |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jun 29, 2010 13:26:26 GMT
Saturn's Children sounds awesome alph.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 29, 2010 13:27:06 GMT
I find it really hard to read anything set in "modern day reality". I read for purely escapist purposes, exotic locations, diferent times, other realities etc. Same here, Alph. With me, if it's not SF it's history or technology. I can easily while away an hour or two reading about the fall of the Galactic Empire, or an analysis of the Battle of Jutland, or the finer points of Python syntax with particular emphasis on scripting the Gimp. I'm sure you'd like A Fire Upon the Deep. PS: I was wondering whose Max-11 that was. I'm afraid I traded it in for a second-hand M41A ("one careful lady owner"). |
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Post by everso on Jun 29, 2010 14:45:44 GMT
How about Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K.Jerome? It's just the sort of book to read in the summer.
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Post by everso on Jun 29, 2010 14:56:02 GMT
Or is that a bit girly? Should we have a book for the guys and one for the girls?
Gone With The Wind? ;D
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Post by aubrey on Jun 29, 2010 15:51:39 GMT
AH, I'd have thought that anything that isn't like your own life is escapism. I love to visit CP Snow's Cambridge every now and then.
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Post by trubble on Jun 29, 2010 16:32:17 GMT
So far, I'm persuaded most by Everso's Three Men in a Boat. Do we have any takers? Alph, it's the story of three men in a boat trying to survive after the nuclear holocaust and one of them is secretly a zombie and they don't know which but the clever money is on Griff Rhys Jones. You might like it. |
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Post by trubble on Jun 29, 2010 16:34:30 GMT
My second choice is War of the Worlds, by the way. I read through the first chapter and despite its pink romance it's quite gripping. |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 29, 2010 16:47:39 GMT
My second choice is War of the Worlds, by the way. I read through the first chapter and despite it's pink romance it's quite gripping. If you'd prefer something a little more cheerful, you could always try The Time Machine . . . "He, I know -- for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made -- thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end."Not many people know that The Time Machine contributed to my failing O-Level EngLit -- the only one I failed -- on account of it not being a Set Book. What did the scumbag professors of the Durham University Examining Board set instead? The Mayor of Casterbridge, which I just couldn't read. And to this day, I HATE Thomas Hardy. |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 29, 2010 16:59:53 GMT
So far, I'm persuaded most by Everso's Three Men in a Boat. Do we have any takers? Alph, it's the story of three men in a boat trying to survive after the nuclear holocaust and one of them is secretly a zombie and they don't know which but the clever money is on Griff Rhys Jones. You might like it. It's a great book. A masterpiece of timeless laugh-out-loud fall-off-your-chair humour. Just a heads-up, though, Trubs -- you forgot to mention the deft treatment of the doggy position inherent to JKJ's exposition of the human condition. I am, of course, referring to Montmorency. There's a JKJ museum in Walsall. |
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Post by everso on Jun 29, 2010 18:02:01 GMT
My second choice is War of the Worlds, by the way. I read through the first chapter and despite its pink romance it's quite gripping. I may have mentioned this before because it's one of my claims to fame, but H.G. Wells is something like a gt.gt. uncle to my uncle by marriage. So almost a blood relative to me. Except that I can't write science fiction. |
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Post by trubble on Jun 29, 2010 18:06:04 GMT
Not many people know that The Time Machine contributed to my failing O-Level EngLit -- the only one I failed -- on account of it not being a Set Book. What did the scumbag professors of the Durham University Examining Board set instead? The Mayor of Casterbridge, which I just couldn't read. And to this day, I HATE Thomas Hardy.  Only in my case, I passed (!) - without ever getting past the first half of the stupid MofC which just goes to what a very VERY stupid book it was - and in my case, swap The Time Machine for Wuthering Heights. |
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