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[Aloha]

Scott, you are an enlightened cat! I was reading some of the reviews by men, and some made comments that they felt that it was male bashing.

[Jason]

Aloha wrote: "And present, too, Jason. Things like that are still happening in this world."

Indeed!

[The Pirate Ghost]

I've finished The Lost Fleeth #3 and thuroughly enjoyed it. It was better than the first two. Military Space Opera... tres cool.

[Banner]

Just finished Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi. I thought it was a fun read. Just started Inferno by Larry Niven. I would call myself a Niven fan, but I'm not sure about this one.

Also, I'm continuing my journey through the Wess'har Wars with Crossing the Line. Really enjoying this series so far (this is just the second of six...so I'm still early in the game). I'm getting the feeling that Karen Traviss does not like humans. :)

[Jenny]

I'm reading Ringworld. It hasn't totally hooked me yet, but I think it will.

[Banner]

Jenny wrote: "I'm reading Ringworld. It hasn't totally hooked me yet, but I think it will."

Maybe Niven's best known book, but not his best. I thought it was a fun read with several "wow" moments.

[Scott]

I just finished The Long Walk.

Now I think I might try to finish out the Harry Potter series. I just started Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

[Jason]

Scott, what did you think of The Long Walk?

[Kevin]

Reading the new Mistborn novel, The Alloy of Law, expected to be real good, but its been a disappointing read.

[Scott]

Jason wrote: "Scott, what did you think of The Long Walk?"

It was a good story but there were a couple of places that it was a little slow. It is a novella so there are only a few of those places. I liked The Running Man better.

[Jason]

Great. Thanks, Scott!

[Scott]

Hah, The Running Man went faster.

[J.P.]

Of course he did, he was running. *drumroll* *cymbal crash*
Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Scott]

Now you've explained it too much, it's not funny any more.

[Rachel]

Scott wrote: "Hah, The Running Man went faster."

Well, presumably, he had less distance to cover.

I'm reading Gods Behaving Badly and Neuromancer right now.

[Jenny]

Banner wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I'm reading Ringworld. It hasn't totally hooked me yet, but I think it will."

Maybe Niven's best known book, but not his best. I thought it was a fun read with severa..."

I really like the descriptions of space and the planets. I think what keeps me from enjoying it more is the amount of techno-babble. There's too much for my taste. BTW, I love your icon!

[Rachel]

Jenny wrote: "Banner wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I'm reading Ringworld. It hasn't totally hooked me yet, but I think it will."

Maybe Niven's best known book, but not his best. I thought it was a fun r..."

I've never read Ringworld but the techno-babble in Neuromancer is slowing down my read as well.

[The Pirate Ghost]

Just finished , ,

Fun but flawed read. can't help it. THe books had all sorts of cheesy bad stuff in it .... and... I still liked it. Lets here it for pulp fiction. Hipp hip... hoo... ah, forget it. I'll list it under "guilty pleasures."

[Jason]

Nothing wrong with guilty pleasures, Hugh!

[The Pirate Ghost]

Oh, maybe that should be a discussion thread... never mind. Nobody would tell the truth on it anyway.

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[Jason]

LOL

[Riona]

I've been working on Kindred for a couple days now.

[Anthony]

I decided to have another dip into 'Indie land' and picked up this:



It's a bit whacky (Arthur C Clarke meets Terry Pratchett with a bit of Stephanie Meyer thrown in for good measure) but I'm about half way through and enjoying it so far. Nicely written. Check out the blurb (it's pretty representative)...

[Banner]

Jenny wrote: "I really like the descriptions of space and the planets. I think what keeps me from enjoying it more is the amount of techno-babble. There's too much for my taste. BTW, I love your icon!
..."

Thanks Jenny about the icon. I'm a fan of Vincent. I have several of his paintings hanging around the house (of course)

[Robert]

I just finished "Chalcot Crescent" By Fay Weldon. A curious work in many ways - I gave it 3 stars.
The story takes place in the near future, 2013. A sort of mix of 1984 and clockwork Orange - post a major financial and political collapse.
And on top of this have never before read a book so aware of the author (or thinking of the author). The book is written from the perspective of 81 year old Frances - Fay's younger sister who died at birth

But all this came together to create a curious read; not great but interesting.

[Jenny]

Rachel wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Banner wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I'm reading Ringworld. It hasn't totally hooked me yet, but I think it will."

Maybe Niven's best known book, but not his best. I thought it..."

Thanks for the heads up. I planned on reading Neuromancer later this month but maybe now I'll hold off. I think I need time between two tech-heavy books.

I finished Ringworld and I liked it but not as much as I hoped, for reasons stated earlier. I did grow to like the characters (for the most part). Next up I'm reading Oryx and Crake.

[The Pirate Ghost]

I'm currently reading 1984by Orwell as part of a group read.

[Aloha]

I'd like to reread that and Brave New World. Margaret Atwood's analysis of it in her book In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination makes me want to reread those two. I read them in grade school, so I think I would get more out of it now.

[Jason]

Hugh, 1984 is a book that freaked me out. Especially the ending. The book sort of changed my view of the world when I read it ten, fifteen years ago.

Have you read it before?

[The Pirate Ghost]

I'm finding it shocking, ut it's the second read for me, the first was about 30 years ago (ouch) but my life experiences have expanded my understanding of what's going on in there.

It's a frightening, wonderful, scary book.

[Scott]

I've started All You Need Is Kill.

I don't normally read military SF, but it's Japanese and short so I thought I would give it a try.

[J.P.]

I've gotten about 70 pages into Embassytown by China Mieville and I'm running into unique concepts left and right.

[Kevin]

I'm reading right now Battlefield Earth.

[Banner]

Kevin wrote: "I'm reading right now Battlefield Earth."

Kevin, that's a great book. I think it's overlooked on some list of the best, because of the authors personal beliefs. But forget all that and judge the book on it's on merit.

[Tim]

Currently reading Use of Weapons by Ian M Banks. I've heard great things about his Culture series (UOW one of the most recommended) but I'm just not feeling it so far. As is often my critique of sci-fi, the characters are extremely one dimensional.

[Kevin]

Banner wrote: "Kevin wrote: "I'm reading right now Battlefield Earth."

Kevin, that's a great book. I think it's overlooked on some list of the best, because of the authors personal beliefs. But forget all that..."

Also don't forget, others maybe basing it on the movie, which many consider one of the worst movies of all time.

[Kevin]

Banner wrote: "Kevin wrote: "I'm reading right now Battlefield Earth."

Kevin, that's a great book. I think it's overlooked on some list of the best, because of the authors personal beliefs. But forget all that..."

I have people in other groups that I posted I am read the book tell me the book is terrible because of L. Ron Hubbard or the movie. Its kind of sad people does not see a book on its own merits.

[Aloha]

I finished a tome, 11/22/63. Luckily, it's not a tome that makes me run to my old school text books. Here is my review for it:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm starting an even bigger tome, 1Q84, which is a solid Haruki Murakami. If you like him, then you should definitely read this. It has SciFi, dystopia elements in it, too.

[Jason]

That was a really good review, Aloha!

[Aloha]

Thanks, Jason!

[Jam]

I'm reading Dawn for a Distant Earth by LE Modesitt.

[Beezlebug (Rob)]

Finished The Children of the Sky. I've loved all of Vinge's other work but I think this one doesn't rank as high. He took all the aspects of Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky that I thought were just okay and turned them into a full novel.

Moving on to War in Heaven next and still finishing the audiobook for The Machine Crusade.

[Anthony]

Just finished Happy Snak and have posted a short review on here. It stayed as whacky as it's blurb all the way to the finish but I enjoyed it from start to finish.

As I'm back in a sci-fi mood am now on AGOT2 (Clash of Kings) and hoping I'm in for a good dose of 'more of the same' from G.R.R.Martin.

p.s. Tim: I found Use of Weapons very dark and sometimes Banks' books have to creep up and grab me (it can take quite a few chapters).

p.p.s. I read Battlefield Earth a long time ago. Personally I didn't like it (I felt it just rambled on and on). Haven't seen the film. Not sure I want to. Hey ho. That's one of the fascinating things about reading... We all see things differently... :)

[David]

Currently, it's by Anne McCaffrey. I love all her books.

[Jason]

Hi my names jason and i live 10 miles of edinburgh in scotland i`m currently getting ready to start book 3 of the destroyermen series Maelstorm, love the series, was a fan of the Lost regiment so immediately took to this. The thing is while i was work this week i made some comment in comparison to H.G. Wells Island of Dr Moreau, think that this is would be easily understood but out of about 20 of my colleagues only 3 or 4 had even heard of it and 1 thought it was just a film...this amazed me :-)

[Jason]

Hi, Jason. Welcome aboard!

[Aloha]

Welcome, Jason!

[SubterraneanCatalyst]

I'm reading a lot of non sci fi stuff right now including: , and . Additionally I'm probably going to add some trashy fun in the mix with fun sexy times LOL.

[Banner]

Aloha wrote: "I finished a tome, 11/22/63. Luckily, it's not a tome that makes me run to my old school text books. Here is my review for it:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm ..."

I may have to try this one. I've never read a King book. We'll ... that's not entirly true I remember trying to read The Talisman and was unable to finish. I don't think I got his style. But I may have to try again after reading your review.

[Aloha]

11/22/63 is more of King's style, which is narrative, full of details, anecdotes, emotion and sentimentality. If you prefer the crispness of hard SciFi, you may not like it. But what he does with his style, is very well done in this book.

Banner wrote: "Aloha wrote: "I finished a tome, 11/22/63. Luckily, it's not a tome that makes me run to my old school text books. Here is my review for it:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..."