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shakes

Post subject: Any of you read any of these books?

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:19 pm

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Looking for a recommendation for a book to read on my vacation next month. Im into the whole post apocalypse genre. Been doing some research as to highly rated books and here are the ones I'm deciding between. Let me know if you've read any of them and what you think.

The Passage
Lucifer's Hammer
I am Legend
The Road
Dark Advent
The Pesthouse
Blindness
Oryx and Crake
The Drowned World

Or if you have a rx that isn't on that list, I've already read The Stand, The Swan Song, World War Z

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Post subject: Re: Any of you read any of these books?

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:23 pm

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DO NOT read the road. I wanted to stick my head in the oven after that one.

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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:43 pm

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shakes wrote:

Looking for a recommendation for a book to read on my vacation next month. Im into the whole post apocalypse genre. Been doing some research as to highly rated books and here are the ones I'm deciding between. Let me know if you've read any of them and what you think.

The Passage
Lucifer's Hammer
I am Legend -
The Road
Dark Advent
The Pesthouse
Blindness
Oryx and Crake
The Drowned World

Or if you have a rx that isn't on that list, I've already read The Stand, The Swan Song, World War Z

Lucifer's Hammer - A great, great novel, it was Niven and Pournelle's best work together. The other Niven/Pournelle book I would recommend is The Moat in God's Eye, probably the best sci-fi I've read and it's up there with the first 2 Ringworld books.

I Am Legend - Great novella and it's a shame what the movie did to the ending as it came reasonably close to capturing the tone of the book.

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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:34 pm

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The Road changed my life, seriously. Blindness was very good also. Somewhat disturbing.

You can read The Road in like four hours. If you don't have kids, it may not mean as much.

Add Blood Meridian to your list.

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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:46 pm

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SomeGuy wrote:

As a teenager, I found it fantastic. +1

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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:02 am

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I read The Road and it was pretty good. I like Cormac McCarthy though. It was much better than the
movie that is for sure.

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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:05 am

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Apologist wrote:

SomeGuy wrote:

As a teenager, I found it fantastic. +1

The book still holds up.

I will usually read Lucifer's Hammer once or twice a year along with Ringworld/Ringworld Engineers and The Moat in Gods Eye.

Good stuff.

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shakes

Post subject: Re: Any of you read any of these books?

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:04 pm

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Thanks guys, gonna definitely buy Lucifer's Hammer. Gonna get the Passage as well, that is supposed to be real good.

The movie The Road was so bad it turned me off for the book despite the fact that it is always listed at the top of every list I read.

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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:24 pm

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Well if you saw the movie, I would imagine that would pretty much ruin reading the book.

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shakes

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:26 pm

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Just started reading the Intro for Lucifer's Hammer and was surprised to find out that the whole theory that the dinosaurs went extinct because of a massive asteroid hitting the earth was derived from this book. How cool is that? Some scientists at Berkely read the book in the 70s and then used the ideas in it to come up with taht now widely accepted extinction theory.

Pretty cool when a work of fiction can turn into something like that.

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:28 pm

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shakes wrote:

Pretty cool when a work of fiction can turn into something like that.

Yup.

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SomeGuy

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:29 pm

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shakes wrote:

Niven was big, big math and science guy.

That tone weaves itself into all of his books, which is cool because it lends a sense of "this could actually happen" to his work.

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:45 pm

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Douchebag wrote:

shakes wrote:

Pretty cool when a work of fiction can turn into something like that.

Yup.

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:47 pm

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Post subject: Re: Any of you read any of these books?

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:52 pm

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I still have to finish the Illuminatus! Trilogy sometime. The problem is that it's so good that I don't want to.... I always want there to be something new to read.

btw, for those of you who think that breaking bad is some top-tier entertainment, the name "saul goodman" is shamelessly.... a homage to the Illuminatus! Trilogy.

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:53 pm

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I have not read any of those books.

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:56 pm

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sinicalypse wrote:

It's a great book, Sini. I've also read Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy & The Masks of the Illuminati. Both fantastic.

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Houston Homer

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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:04 pm

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sinicalypse wrote:

I still have to finish the Illuminatus! Trilogy sometime. The problem is that it's so good that I don't want to.... I always want there to be something new to read.

This is exactly how I felt reading book 3 of "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Fifty Shades" trilogy. :wink:

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