The Books thread.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:41 am

What are some good easy to read sci-fi type books?

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:01 am

Starship Troopers

Geno · Post by **Geno** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:09 am

Get some compilation of short stories, not much to remember and you can just read one each day.

Get a POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOK!!! Nothing is better than that. Check Post-Apocalyptic Media, it's got a long list. I'd tell you some good ones but I don't know much in english, but got some

good ones in french!

Check this great zombie story, there's a preview, ordered the book off Amazon and finished it in a day, was too

good for a zombie story, kicked ass. Way too much. Just check the reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, it just kicks ass.

I've read a translated book of Orson Scott Card, was very good.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:23 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:Fantasy-wise I'd recommend Guy Gavriel Kay

Woah... that guy's got a cool fucking name.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:00 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:What are some good easy to read sci-fi type books?

Just stick to fantasy if you want an easy to read sci-fi novel.
No matter how easy the text is to read, some of the ideas in the books are pretty deep.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:36 pm

2001, the book maybe?

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:13 am

Naked_Lunch wrote:Starship Troopers

Because I'm currently 80% done this book, I'm inclined to agree.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:14 am

Malleus Maleficarum - Good book thus far.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:01 am

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
POOPERSCOOPER wrote:What are some good easy to read sci-fi type books?
Just stick to fantasy if you want an easy to read sci-fi novel.
No matter how easy the text is to read, some of the ideas in the books are pretty deep.

Ideas dont generally get me too confused its mostly how they right them.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:46 am

Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephanson. It's got Sumeria pizza and swordz

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:52 am

But does it have Samurai Pizza Catz?

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:30 pm

Anyone read Beevor's Berlin or Stalingrad? Oppinions. I liked the colorful descriptions of total war.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:27 pm

Nicolai wrote:Someone already beat you to it.

(Well, kinda, anyway)

[an insight into the finer points of corpse shagging]

And that, is why I intend to attain cellular non existence once I'm sufficiently bored of this life. Can't molest what isn't there. No. Whilst some might consider cremation sufficient, I know better. Even as slight as such a potentiality is, some things are best not gambled upon.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:51 pm

Totally.

Anyway, if you liked the Starship Troopers movie, check out Armor.

hat_man99 · Post by **hat_man99** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:07 pm

Hey i know this was 2 pages ago but whats wrong with David Eddings

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:40 pm

vx trauma wrote:Anyone read Beerovs Berlin or Stalingrad? Oppinions. I liked the colorful descriptions of total war.

Finished Stalingrad a couple months ago, excellent book. It's fucking pathetic how so many brave lives were lost on both sides because of the egos/ineptitude/military ignorance of Stalin & Hitler and their chickenshit cronies. You can't not sypathise with the men on both sides - fucking dark, tragic page in human history. I read both volumes of the Gulag Archipeligo prior to that, if it wasn't so funny, you'd open a vein reading it.

Currently reading Frank Herbert's Dosadi Experiment, good shit. As a long time Dune fan, I must say, stay away from those abominable Dune prequels frm his son, and read his non-Dune shit. It's deep man.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:59 pm

Are they better than the Dune sequels?

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:41 pm

Total winners! Both will cheer you guaranteed not matter how gloomy things might seem! Read them and rejoice!!

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:36 pm

Yeah, rejoice that you weren't alive in Russia in the 1930s.

S4ur0n27 wrote:Are they better than the Dune sequels?

I just finished the Dosadi Experiment last night. Personally I like his Dune books better, maybe just because that universe was so well developed, while this was a quick 350 pager. But his style and philosophy are all over it. Covers a lot of the same thematic ground.

Those 2 douchebags writing them now seriously need to hire some fucking editors. They're so bad it's funny. They're are so shamelessly and transparently cashing in.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:57 pm

Nicolai wrote:Totally.

Anyway, if you liked the Starship Troopers movie, check out Armor.

I wouldn't consider them anywhere near the same.

Armor by John Stakley is a great book though.

EDIT: Dune is a horriblely boring book. I wouldn't read the goddamn sequels because the original book was such a fucking nap inducer.