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Kevin wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Machavelli wrote: "I am on the last chapters of Second Foundation now, very good, love his writing style."I love The Foundation Series! I've read Prelude, Foundation, Foundation & E..."
I plan on it! I've read I, Robot and I own a couple of the others. It makes me even more excited now that I know there's a connection! :)
Well I read Preclude to Foundation right before Robots of Dawn, so I did not see the connection, especially between those two book so much.
@kevin, now that i have read the Foundation trilogy which of his other books should i read? the prequels Prelude to Foundation and Forward The Foundation or the sequels Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth ? or should i read the Robot Novels? He has written so much i have no idea where to go next.
I'm reading Kiss of the Night at my kid sisters insistence. Yeah I'm not reading it outside of the house. Stupid half naked guy with no head covers! She loves Kenyon and is hoping I'll like it too. I'm giving it a shot. When I'm not home I'll be reading Daemons Are Forever and after that Oryx and Crake because dammit I need to be reading a monthly read for once!
I am really impressed with Oryx and Crake. One of my favorite reads. I'm only starting and can't wait to see what else happens. There's a set up for so many things to happen. It's already happened, but I can see a few surprises coming up.
Margaret Atwood is an excellent writer! I love her stuff.
I'm done with The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.My son has been trying to get me to catch up with him on the Harry Potter series so I guess that I'll start Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon right now. Not my favorite King but an interesting story.
Finished Oryx and Crake. Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't want to stop the audio. It looks like there's a sequel with the way the story ended. MA did a terrific job weaving the tale via Snowman's eyes and Jimmy's (Snowman) memory. I can't wait to get to her other books.But I have other monthly reads to do first. I am now on to Elantris. It's only July 12 and I've fulfilled Horror's read and SciFi's 2 reads. Now to Fantasy Aficionados' read.
I am pausing on The Beach to read Planet of the Apes. It's not a reflection on The Beach. It's an excellent, well-written book. I just am in the mood for SciFis now. I breezed through our two monthly reads, but am so slow in the other genres, even if they happen to be excellent books. Gotta get the SciFi out of my system.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Red Mars and Foreigner
I think I'm going to give in to my SciFi craving. It's obvious I can't focus on other genres until I satisfy it.
Maggie wrote: "Im in the same kind of mood, Aloha...I have about 3 different books going...lo3Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Red Mars and Foreigner"
I love all three of those books, can't wait to see your thoughts on each of them.
Aloha wrote: "I am pausing on The Beach to read Planet of the Apes. It's not a reflection on The Beach. It's an excellent, well-written book. I just am in the mood for SciFis now. ..."A,
I was recently told that the original book that the Planet of the Apes movie was based off of was not very good. Please let me know what you think.
Michael, I am enjoying Planet of the Apes. I'm halfway through it and it holds my interest. Maybe I'm biased because I grew up with the movie series. I also like books translated from French, since I like the language. So, yeah, I think I am biased. LOL
While curious about Apes, I'm not actually reading SF/Fantasy right now, but a Non-fiction book about a period of history that has always fascinated me. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin How could this ever have been allowed to occur? So far it's been kind of creepy in how everyone tried to justify all the abuses they saw. Because I see the same attitudes present today.
I'm actually planning to read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America next month. It's by the same author and I have heard extremely good things. In the Garden of Beasts is on my tbr too.
Denae,That book is waiting for me at the library! Please let me know what you think of it :)
Denae wrote: "I'm actually planning to read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America next month. It's by the same author and I have heard extremely go..."I've already read Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson, and it was fantastic. His research of the hurricane and Galveston, TX of 1900 is impeccable.
Are all of his titles paired with such unreasonably long subtitles?
Denae wrote: "Are all of his titles paired with such unreasonably long subtitles?"They sure appear to be. I simple refer to my book as Isaac's Storm. I could never remember a long title like that!
I finished Planet of the Apes. I really enjoyed it and will write a review. I'm going to curse myself into not writing a review by announcing that I'm going to write a review. I don't know what I'm going to read next. I think it's a matter of having too many books I like than not having any I like.
I got lucky in a Goodreads giveaway, currently halfway through Slabscape: Reset and enjoying it. Next will be re-reading Game of Thrones.
I finished The Beach, which I really enjoyed.Then I started It. This is my 3rd time through this one. I haven't read it in almost 20 years. This is my favorite King book. When I started reading it yesterday, I was getting the chills. This book scared the crap out of me when I first read it back in about '87. I think I was about 17 when I first read it.
Scott wrote: "I finished The Beach, which I really enjoyed.Then I started It. This is my 3rd time through this one. I haven't read it in almost 20 years. This is my favorite Kin..."
I think that, if I didn't already own an ereader, my clown-phobic boyfriend would buy me one specifically for the purpose of making sure no covers were left around the house if I ever decided to read It.
I finished The Beach. I gave it 4 stars for good writing, but the content did not wow me. At 448 pages, it has less content and emotional impact than Lord of the Flies at 192 pages. I wanted to give it 3 stars, but I'm lenient because I know I was comparing it to one of literature's greats. It's a watered down The Catcher in the Rye meets Lord of the Flies. I have to write a review on this book because it does ape the themes of some of my favorite books. Which reminds me, I have to read Catcher again since my brain was still forming when I read it. I don't think they're the same cells. Actually, my whole body is not of the same cells. It'd be interesting to see how much more insight I have as an adult.
Next is Horror's August read, The Hypnotist.
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I'm hoping to hit the 30% mark on Gravity's Rainbow this weekend and catch up with my book club on The Pickwick Papers. I want to start Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? but I won an ARC of The Good Muslim: A Novel and need to read that. Still working on Winter's Tale and The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction as well. I doubt I will get bored anytime soon.. :)
I'm reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep..I've read it a couple of times before so I'm taking my time on it. Also reading Wounded (Amy Lane) and wondering if I'm going to finish it (a rarity for me not to finish a book I start but the WAHHHH factor is killing me). I'm already starting to look for two other books to read right now since I've already read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep..and Wounded isn't doing it for me.
Nearly halfway through
and have enjoyed it so far. Even thought it's the late great Vonnegut's first novel and written a bit different than his later works, it gives me the feeling of a Phillip K. Dick novel - which I love!
I've been trying to read Homeland. I LOVED The Night Angel Trilogy so I have high hopes for this one!
I just started Erin Hoffman's Sword of Fire and Sea. Very good so far through the first 40-50 pages.
Rachel, let me know if Embassytown is any good! :D
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I'm about half-way through this book on my Kindle. I like it, I'll certainly pick up the next book when I have the chance.
Before that, I read Leviathan Wakes and 47 Echo.
"I'm about half-way through this book on my Kindle. I like it, I'll certainly pick up the next book when I have the chance.
Before that, I read Leviathan Wakes and 47 Echo.
Jenny wrote: "I've been trying to read Homeland. I LOVED The Night Angel Trilogy so I have high hopes for this one!"Hmm... Somehow I wrote this all crazy. I meant to say that I was trying to read Homeland but I keep getting interrupted, so I'm putting it off for now. Then I was supposed to say I'm currently reading Black Prism, hence the Night Angel comment :)
Finished The Kite Runner, still reading through Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Not bad. I feel as if I have to read it through in little chunks. It's a book that I can't sit there for hours reading.
Denae wrote: "Ala wrote: "I've got Consider Phlebas on deck to read, after I get through the two MHI books."So do I. I think I keep seeing that one of my many groups has it lined up before too ter..."
World War Z is fantastic. Faux Zombie history at it's finest.
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Kate wrote: "Denae wrote: "Ala wrote: "I've got Consider Phlebas on deck to read, after I get through the two MHI books."So do I. I think I keep seeing that one of my many groups has it lined u..."
Yes, yes it is.
I've started WWW: Wake by Robert Sawyer. It's a little too trendy for its own good, and the author has a tendency to over-explain things, but the story is interesting so far.
Looks interesting, let us know what you think. It looks like something that has tbr potential.
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I love The Foundation Series! I've read Prelude, Foundation, Foundation & Empire, and Sec..."
I think you should go back, and also read the Robot Novels, especially Robots of Dawn, which has a jaw dropping ending that connections the Robot Novels to the Foundation Novels.