Book recs, you say?egosomnioJanuary 27 2010, 20:59:40 UTC
I always recommend the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher - eleven books so far (see here for the specific books; it probably isn't strictly necessary to read them in order, since a lot of the main concepts are explained pretty much once a book, but you'll get a lot of spoilers about previous books if you go out of order). Urban fantasy / hardboiled detective, with lots of geeky references and some fun silliness (including the Pizza Lord's Guard, which is a bunch of faeries loyal to the protagonist; and the immortal battle cries "I don't believe in fairies!" and "Polka will never die!") thrown in despite it getting pretty dark at times. It's been described on TV Tropes as an entire series of Crazy Awesome. So keep an eye out for those.
Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson, is crazy sci-fi, kind of like a Gibson novel put in a blender with some laughing gas and a copy of the first Matrix movie.
Job: A Comedy of Justice, by Heinlein, is sort of a religious satire. Alternate realities, Heaven, Hell, other afterlifes, and deities being inveterate
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I've enjoyed the first four Women of the Underworld books. Book five has been a little less engrossing, but I'm pretty sure I'll continue with it sooner or later.
I am addicted to used book stores too! In Towson there is a chic used book store called Ukazoo and next store to it is a record and tape traders. If you go, plan on spending half of your day! + they have free coffee that is amazing
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Book recs hmmm. I feel like I should have a lot but I can't think of too many right now (I've been reading too many comics lately, I guess they are ruining my brain?). You've probably read some of these or they are not to your taste but here are the few I can think of: Rendezvous with Rama is one I always like to re-read. Also Contact and pretty much anything else by Carl Sagan, though I also enjoy science non-fiction so ymmv on this one. I Am Legend was good, much better than the film I thought, though it's more of a short story than a book.... Going back to the non-fiction I really enjoyed Virus Hunter and The Hot Zone and a few other books in that vein. Band of Brothers too... Clearly I am quite fail at this.
You mentioned Pratchett, have you read the Discworld books? If so yay! If not, they can be quite fun.
THIS. I kept waiting for them to turn things around in the movie, to make the ending have even close to as much impact as the ending of the book. I was sad when it never happened.
The original ending didn't test well with their focus group whatever audience, so they changed it. Which... Bad as that is, they are in business to get as many people's money as they can, so it's somewhat understandable. We don't have to like it, though.
It's on the DVD, though, and streaming on this site. It's not the same as the book, but it at least veers a lot closer to it than the theatrical release did.
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Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson, is crazy sci-fi, kind of like a Gibson novel put in a blender with some laughing gas and a copy of the first Matrix movie.
Job: A Comedy of Justice, by Heinlein, is sort of a religious satire. Alternate realities, Heaven, Hell, other afterlifes, and deities being inveterate ( ... )
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Those videos made me happy!
Book recs hmmm. I feel like I should have a lot but I can't think of too many right now (I've been reading too many comics lately, I guess they are ruining my brain?). You've probably read some of these or they are not to your taste but here are the few I can think of: Rendezvous with Rama is one I always like to re-read. Also Contact and pretty much anything else by Carl Sagan, though I also enjoy science non-fiction so ymmv on this one. I Am Legend was good, much better than the film I thought, though it's more of a short story than a book.... Going back to the non-fiction I really enjoyed Virus Hunter and The Hot Zone and a few other books in that vein. Band of Brothers too... Clearly I am quite fail at this.
You mentioned Pratchett, have you read the Discworld books? If so yay! If not, they can be quite fun.
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Way to screw up the entire goddamn point, along with making the title meaningless, Hollywood.
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It's on the DVD, though, and streaming on this site. It's not the same as the book, but it at least veers a lot closer to it than the theatrical release did.
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