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Gravdigr · 03-22-2013, 04:41 PM

"People of the Fire" by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear

DanaC · 03-22-2013, 04:48 PM

I'm still wading through the audiobooks of Peter F Hamilton's epic space opera series. Am now into the second book in the second series (trilogy). set about 1500 years after the first (pair).

It's fucking awesome. I love good space opera and this is excellent stuff. Beautifully written with great characterisation, set on epic scale.

The first pair, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained wracked up to 80 hours of audiobook. The followup trilogy is around sixty hours or so.

Apparently he's working on a third trilogy. This makes me happy.

Right now, at like 110 hours of this stuff, i think I partly live in his Commonwealth universe.

[eta] I'd love to see someone turn it into a tv series.

Griff · 03-22-2013, 06:15 PM

reading Judas Unchained, good stuff.

DanaC · 03-23-2013, 04:39 AM

Isn't it though? I love its epic feel. Did you read Pandora's Star (the first)?

Griff · 03-23-2013, 06:43 AM

No. I didn't realize this was the second book. It stands on its own. I love the whole train/wormhole thing. Where in the timeline does Pandora's Star fit? Epic is the word. This is a giant universe of potential. I wish I had time to just sit and read...

DanaC · 03-23-2013, 08:16 AM

Judas Unchained follows directly on from Pandora's Star.

Then for the void triolgy there's a 1500 year leap forwards. Lot of new characters but also a handful of the old characters from Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.

jimhelm · 03-23-2013, 09:48 AM

I read them. Dont remember them though...

regular.joe · 03-24-2013, 09:07 AM

Just read Ilium by Dan Simmons. Good book, interesting. I'm not sure I'm ring to read the next in the series, too much bad press by the regular reader.

Happy Monkey · 03-24-2013, 11:00 AM

I finished all of the Discworld books available on Kindle (essentially all of the novels except The Last Hero. Alas, there probably won't be many more (at least from Terry).

jimhelm · 03-24-2013, 05:59 PM

Did you read the whole wheel of time books? Is the last one out?

orthodoc · 03-24-2013, 10:07 PM

Reading Proof of Heaven, a few Agatha Christies I haven't yet read, and Collapse by Jared Diamond. The last is truly an important book. The others are brain candy.

wolf · 03-26-2013, 05:01 PM

The Wisdom of Compassion.

The author's credit says His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But it's really written by some other dude who watched the Dalai Lama do stuff and then wrote about it.

It's a series of vignettes, really ... sometimes there will be three chapters on one public appearance, and then you get a five minute snippet out of another, that was probably far more interesting than the three chapters, but of course, since the three chapters were on a visit to a children's cancer ward, well, you don't focus on the brevity of the one chapter than potentially had a lot more to say about mindfulness and compassion. I mean, why talk about it when you can show it, right?

Griff · 03-27-2013, 05:36 AM

Hmmm... I must still have a guilt button. I saw wolf was reading serious stuff so I opened up Robert Thurman's Inner Revolution again. I do need to get my (wait our?) shit together.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-27-2013, 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

I mean, why talk about it when you can show it, right?

Some people discover their calling is to be, the best bad example.

Happy Monkey · 03-27-2013, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Did you read the whole wheel of time books? Is the last one out?

No, I never read Wheel of Time. I was already keeping up with Sword of Truth and Song of Ice and Fire, and didn't want to get into another ongoing series. I may drop that on my queue at some point now.

03-22-2013, 04:41 PM	#2491
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03-22-2013, 06:15 PM	#2493
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	reading Judas Unchained, good stuff. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-23-2013, 06:43 AM	#2495
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	No. I didn't realize this was the second book. It stands on its own. I love the whole train/wormhole thing. Where in the timeline does Pandora's Star fit? Epic is the word. This is a giant universe of potential. I wish I had time to just sit and read... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-23-2013, 09:48 AM	#2497
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	I read them. Dont remember them though... __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

03-24-2013, 09:07 AM	#2498
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	Just read Ilium by Dan Simmons. Good book, interesting. I'm not sure I'm ring to read the next in the series, too much bad press by the regular reader. __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

03-24-2013, 11:00 AM	#2499
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I finished all of the Discworld books available on Kindle (essentially all of the novels except The Last Hero. Alas, there probably won't be many more (at least from Terry). __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

03-24-2013, 05:59 PM	#2500
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Did you read the whole wheel of time books? Is the last one out? __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

03-24-2013, 10:07 PM	#2501
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Reading Proof of Heaven, a few Agatha Christies I haven't yet read, and Collapse by Jared Diamond. The last is truly an important book. The others are brain candy. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

03-26-2013, 05:01 PM	#2502
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The Wisdom of Compassion. The author's credit says His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But it's really written by some other dude who watched the Dalai Lama do stuff and then wrote about it. It's a series of vignettes, really ... sometimes there will be three chapters on one public appearance, and then you get a five minute snippet out of another, that was probably far more interesting than the three chapters, but of course, since the three chapters were on a visit to a children's cancer ward, well, you don't focus on the brevity of the one chapter than potentially had a lot more to say about mindfulness and compassion. I mean, why talk about it when you can show it, right? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-27-2013, 05:36 AM	#2503
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Hmmm... I must still have a guilt button. I saw wolf was reading serious stuff so I opened up Robert Thurman's Inner Revolution again. I do need to get my (wait our?) shit together. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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