Saturnine Tenshi Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 (edited) I'm reading it on Kindle, and it tells me the percentage. *Edit - Not that I'm not a nerd, cause I am, which is why I like this nerd book for nerds. I also didn't mean that description as a negative thing either. Edited June 12, 2015 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 Dune is awesome, the Brian books are hot stinking garbage, though. The last two Herbert books are kinda meh, too. Full disclosure: Dune, along with the Lord of the Rings, was what my Dad would read to me at night before I went to bed as a four to 6 year old, so it's deep in my bones. Ready Player One was light but fun. Isn't a sequel coming out soon? Andy Weir is a self-proclaimed space nerd, which is why he wrote The Martian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 Funny you mention Ready Player One, cause I picked that up when I finished The Martian (I'd seen it discussed on here before, it was in the "other people also liked..." at the end of The Martian, and it was $4, so I bought it). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 I need to read both of those, but I also own like two dozen books I still haven't read. >.> I've heard good things about both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 I've been reading through Love Minus Eighty which is pretty enjoyable minus one or two things that maybe aren't the most believable. Pretty interesting core concept. Like a fucked up dystopian Cinderella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 I just finished The Noble Hustle, which is a great non-fiction book about the writer's experience being staked by Grantland for the World Series of Poker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Anybody here ever read The Witcher books? I'm interested but it seems to as involved as Dune is. Shit ton of books to chew through. Speaking of Dune, I'm currently mustering the strength to start Heretics of Dune. All the books are good but it is a chore to learn and love new characters, especially with God Emperor of Dune (This is really is a curse for all long lived series though). With God Emperor, the only people you that appeared before is Leto II and Duncun Idaho. Now, I think it is down to Duncun Idaho. As a side note, I am also starting to read The Ring of Void... I forgot who here (or was here) who wrote it. It should be easy enough to chow down on since it is so short. Tenshi, I swear I'll get to your books someday but it for sure hurts that I kind of need a e-reader to read the copies I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Not that many books in The Witcher series. Four have been released in English. The others are translated and available online. I enjoyed what I've read (the four released here). The Ring of Void is Cyber Rat's work. And no worries about mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted June 27, 2015 Report Share Posted June 27, 2015 I just finished Love Minus Eighty. Pretty great premise and was surprisingly entertaining throughout. A bit of cheese at times but I felt that the sci-fi edge made it easier to deal with. Overall I enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 I'm on a bit of a sci-fi kick, but I can't seem to find anything that fits my mood. What do you guys suggest that I read that leans a bit towards a Han Solo style Sci-fi book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 The Martian. Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. A key gets jammed in a lock of the front door and it results in me being a glorified guard dog for, as of now, six hours. In that time I destroyed the last half of The Martian. It sort of makes me feel a bit closer to Watney. Sure I don't have Death tugging on my spacesuit but being stranded watching the house with a history of break-ins through the very door. The Boogie Man can come busting in at any moment! Anywho. Watney's character is awesome. The book is awesome. Disco is not awesome... maybe. I'm a geologist too like Lewis. Field camp causes weird thing to happen to a person. Read the book. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 I bought it to take on holiday with me, and am looking forward to reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I finally finished Amber Spyglass. What an absolute and utter piece of twaddle. The ending took fucking forever and was pretty much "they kiss and the multiverse is saved!". For something that started off with witches and armoured bears and "daemons" it ends up with just a several hundred page long rant about the Church/organised religion n it makes everyone stupid. Now reading H2G2 cos I have a device full of tons of books and end up reading the same ones. But it'll take some of the sourness off from the HDM series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yeah, that series definitely takes a serious downturn after The Golden Compass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Alongside my film backlog and GoT I'm also destroying H2G2 trilogy as well, currently on So Long and nearly finished with that. Tempted to start Game of Thrones next, I'm unsure. I'll see how I feel though I know if I do I probably won't catch up on ASOIF before the years out. So figured I'd put a question: What do we reckon the Question to the answer to life, the universe, and everything is? I like "where does it all end". It fits nice philosophical l musings n such, while also matching the trilogy*, which ends at: Number 42: Stavro Mueller - Beta *pish posh on this "And another thing" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 19, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I finished The Three Body Problem. Wow. This book is monumental. It's easy to see why it was so widely heralded. To reveal the crux of why it works so well would be to reveal the plot and spoil the fun. I will just say that there isn't a twist so much as an unraveling or reveal of what is going on and it's done in a way where the other isn't trying to convince us he's clever. The author treats you as the reader with the utmost respect for your intelligence. The book starts out heavy with science rather than fiction to build its mystery and it works very well. I do want to mention that since this is from a Chinese author the translation contains the necessary cultural clues. There's parts of this book that occur during the Chinese Cultural Revolution so in those parts in particular there's a lot of footnotes to give you the proper context. I greatly appreciated this. Highly recommended. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Finished the Shepherd's Crown. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Need to read both of those books, FDS and Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I added the Three Body Problem to my Goodreads list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Finally got around to finishing The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I got a big compilation of the original novels as a gift a while back but it wasn't until I got stuck with jury duty that I took the time to actually sit down and read it. Pretty enjoyable and funny book. I'll have to try to read the other five soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Finally got around to finishing The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I got a big compilation of the original novels as a gift a while back but it wasn't until I got stuck with jury duty that I took the time to actually sit down and read it. Pretty enjoyable and funny book. I'll have to try to read the other five soon. I love those books. The first three are superb reads, 4 and 5 aren't too shabby either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Hah, I read them in a lump so until I got to the end of your post I assumed you'd read the full trilogy (in five parts). Read another good 42 theory the other day. To summarise: If you count all the numbers up on a pair of dice you end up with 42. Making existence "a throw of the dice". (I still like mine though) Currently reading the Tiffany Aching books(as in the Pratchett books about Tiffany Aching, not as in books by a Tiffany Aching). I'd kinda skipped them before now as they're related to the "Witches" series (also they're in the YA set of Discworld books) but wanting to have marked off all the mainline Discworld stuff (there's the "Science of Discworld" books as well as weird stuff like Nanny Ogg Cookbook and Where's My Cow that I'm less fussed with) and his last book is a Tiffany Aching book. They're pretty good, actually even though the Witches pop up now and then they're quite different in style to the main Witches books (which parody Shakespeare n Brothers Grimm stories). My only beef with them I guess is, and this might be an issue from reading them in a row instead of in release order, they're so far got a bit of an overall similar narrative structure of some antagonistic force becoming focused on Tiffany then eventually being defeated then Weatherwax pops up at the end to pat her back. But other than that it's nice to have these new characters being built up, and always nice to read more of Pratchetts writing and explore the Discworld. Incidentally cos I had to look up what order they're in I know the rough plot and what happens to one major character but so far not spoiling the books for me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 I'm finally reading The Gunslinger. About half way through.... WWAAAAAHHHH JAKE IS FROM THE REAL WORLD?!?!?! IS THIS SOME SORT OF PURGATORY? WILL THERE BE SMOKE MONSTERS?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Maaaaan, you have no idea. Wait until Book 5... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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