What are you reading?

Post by **Stewy911** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:34 pm

I am xcurrently reading the taking which is another grreat scifi for you scifi freaks

Post by **Zspider** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:11 pm

I used to be big on sci-fi, but I only read it every so often now. I haven't
read any sci-fi in the last few years that I thought was outstanding.

I thought Perdido Street Station was going to be great, but the ending
totally sucked. Evidently, when Mieville was writing it, he had no idea
where it was going, and when he got to the end he was either impatient
to get it done or just couldn't come up with anything.

Gibson's Neuromancer was good, but what the hell was going on at the
end? He got all obscure and surrealistic on me.

I had wanted to read Atwood's Handmaid's Tale for years. When I finally
read it, I thought it was miserably dated feminist crap.

Hmm... Bladerunner wasn't bad, but it wasn't monumental.

Just about the best sci-fi I've ever read was Herbert's Dune, and I don't
know if that's because it was years ago and I was more easily impressed
then, or whether they just don't write em like that any more.

Ender's Game was fun. People say that only an idiot couldn't tell what
was coming in the ending. Took me by surprise.

One of the best, and most ironic endings to a sci-fi, was in A Plague of
Pythons. Who the hell wrote that? Was it Pohl? Aldiss? Pohl, I think.

ZSpider

Post by **charlie** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:40 pm

Zspider wrote:...Hmm... Bladerunner wasn't bad, but it wasn't monumental.

The film or the book? "Do robot's dream of electic sleep" I think? That is one of the best films ever made.

Zspider wrote:Just about the best sci-fi I've ever read was Herbert's Dune, and I don't know if that's because it was years ago and I was more easily impressed then, or whether they just don't write em like that any more.

Agreed, but I'm not a huge Sci-Fi fan so I can't really compare it to others in the genre. Did dig on all the religious allegory and complex storylines in Dune, nicely written.

Post by **Zspider** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:08 pm

charlie wrote:
The film or the book? "Do robot's dream of electic sleep" I think? That is one of the best films ever made.

Ah! You're right! The movie was called Bladerunner, not the book. The movie was excellent. Since you spurred my memory, I'm thinking it was androids dreaming, wasn't it? Haha! What a bizarre title.

ZSpider

Post by **Alan Evil** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:14 pm

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Nowhere near the movie.

There has yet to be a decent movie of any of William Gibson's novels.

Post by **rickardodaniel** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:41 pm

"The World Is Flat"
Thomas L Freidman

"The Bluegrass Conspiracy" (for the second time)
Sally Denton

Post by **charlie** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:50 pm

Excellent, been meaning to pick that up after I saw Friedman on Charlie Rose a few weeks ago. Dug Longitudes and Attitudes.

Post by **Wes** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:31 am

Tao of Pooh is hyperclassic. A book that changed my life, true story. Just didn't really know it at the time, but it started me down a different path in life. Te of Piglet is also pretty good, but not as good as the tao. My shapai's name was Te. Virtue (of the small).

Way of the peaceful warrior is pretty good. Sorta some of the source materail for the rock warriors way.

Wes

Post by **Alan Evil** » Fri May 06, 2005 1:24 am

Wes, dude, I know you would love The Snow Leopard." Unfortunately I lent my copy and never got it back (as with all the best books, I guess) or I'd put up some quotes from it.

http://tinyurl.com/dz3c2

Post by **rickardodaniel** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:06 pm

Excellent, been meaning to pick that up after I saw Friedman on Charlie Rose a few weeks ago. Dug Longitudes and Attitudes.

Check out "Freakonomics" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner I have only read sections but it is up next for me after "The World Is Flat"
Ever read any Milton Friedman?