The Books thread.

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:27 pm

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote: The Wheel of Time series kicked the shit out of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.

I loled

Zetura Dracos · Post by **Zetura Dracos** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:28 pm

I just started the William Gibson / Bruce Sterling teamup, "The Difference Engine." Indecipherable steampunk alt-history. Pretty good in the first thirty pages.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:01 am

I Remember Lemuria!

Scroll down for the chapters.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:25 pm

Redeye wrote:I Remember Lemuria!

Scroll down for the chapters.

I've been looking for a hard copy of that book for a while. I've just got a shitty paperback copy somewhere.

Strider wrote:
Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote: The Wheel of Time series kicked the shit out of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
I loled

Don't laugh because you have horrible taste in fantasy novels.

Go read some Tad Williams and expand your horizons.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:35 pm

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
Don't laugh because you have horrible taste in fantasy novels.

Go read some Tad Williams and expand your horizons.

Breaking News:

This just in folks. Good taste in Fantasy novels DOES exist! Elves and dwarves are stunned. No word yet as to what the Minotaurs' response will be.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:22 pm

Dogmeatlives wrote:Elves and dwarves are stunned. No word yet as to what the Minotaurs' response will be.

Let's have a par-tay!

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:19 am

kill macky/caszim83

Splatterpope · Post by **Splatterpope** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:30 am

Read some Roger Zelazny you nongs.

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:45 am

Splatterpope wrote:Read some Roger Zelazny you nongs.

Ja, especially Deus Irae (I guess everybody has already read his Amber Chronicles series).

Splatterpope · Post by **Splatterpope** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:12 am

If not, they should be right now.

Reading Donnerjack at the moment. It's an interesting Zelazny cyber...Zelazny book.

A+++, would buy again.

divine · Post by **divine** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:05 pm

can someone give me some names of pure post apocaliptic without fantasy creatures...only humans and beings already known to this date

Thanks

Splatterpope · Post by **Splatterpope** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:21 pm

Z for Zacharia.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:22 pm

My Name Is Legion, Zelazny.

EDIT:

Read some Roger Zelazny you nongs.

QFE

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:28 am

Any good fantasy books with lots of sexual deviance? I'm talking all the perverts and creeps you can imagine.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:16 am

Reading some Cormac McCarthy for the first time. Pretty wild shit, I must say. Also picked up some Neil Labute, Sam Shephard and David Mamet plays. Exciting, no? Why does this thread exist?

divine · Post by **divine** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:00 pm

divine wrote:can someone give me some names of pure post apocaliptic without fantasy creatures...only humans and beings already known to this date

Thanks

??

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:07 pm

All the post-apoc novels I've read were human-only, except one: Battlefield Shit by Hubbard. Wiki it, man.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:26 pm

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
Strider wrote:
Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote: The Wheel of Time series kicked the shit out of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
I loled
Don't laugh because you have horrible taste in fantasy novels.

Go read some Tad Williams and expand your horizons.

Surely you jest? Writers like Robert Jordan and Tad Williams are anathema to readable fantasy, they've been churning out naught but prolix dreck for decades; juvenile fantasy not even fit for dimestore romance novel racks. Cast aside your immense swell guy and seek out the works of writers like R. Scott Bakker, Gene Wolfe, and Mervyn Peake. It's still not literature, but I doubt that the genre will ever come any closer.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:19 pm

Nicolai wrote:
Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
Strider wrote: I loled
Don't laugh because you have horrible taste in fantasy novels.

Go read some Tad Williams and expand your horizons.
Surely you jest? Writers like Robert Jordan and Tad Williams are anathema to readable fantasy, they've been churning out naught but prolix dreck for decades; juvenile fantasy not even fit for dimestore romance novel racks. Cast aside your immense swell guy and seek out the works of writers like R. Scott Bakker, Gene Wolfe, and Mervyn Peake. It's still not literature, but I doubt that the genre will ever come any closer.

I try to stay away from fantasy and if I do read it, I prefer it to be on the lighter side.
Fantasy novels get way too full of themselves the longer the novel/series goes on.

To re-iterate Franz, read Heroes Die.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:24 pm

carcopino's daily life in ancient rome