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wolf · 03-11-2003, 11:30 PM

Your secret's safe with us El ... besides, there ARE more embarrassing Heinlein books you could be reading ... the juveniles for example.

I enjoy Heinlein too, but more the golden age stuff. The books he wrote through the 80s and onward weren't as good for me. My favorite thing to do is reread the Future History short stories collection ... those are great.

I've packed for the hospital and may have made a mistake by including Terry Pratchett's The Truth. Laughing out loud following abdominal surgery is often challenging ...

Elspode · 03-11-2003, 11:37 PM

Challenging, painful but probably good for the expansion of alveioli...

Heinlein got almost self-parodying in his final books, but there were notable exceptions. Number of the Beast was a true Heinlein classic, chock full of Heinlein's nutty goodness. Intelligent people having carefree but non-graphical sexual encounters with each other, all while adventuring in a flying car which was bigger on the inside than the outside.

Doesn't get much better than that. I wonder if Heinlein saw himself as the older, wiser, mature but still lusty kindly gent that he wrote about so often, ala Jubal Harshaw?

perth · 03-12-2003, 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by Torrere
I've also stopped reading The Wheel of Time, because it has become sessile. I've come to hate reading about Perrin, not because Perrin is all that bad but because I hate everything that has to do with Berelain or Faile. I detest reading about them for hundreds of pages. That's the reason that I use now, but I think that the original reason that I stopped reading the Wheel of Time was that I found The Path of Daggers to be terribly anticlimatic. It felt like things were going to happen, it felt like the Daughter of the Nine Moons thing would come into play -- but there was nothing. It was just about Rand's neurotic problems. Argh!

ssssshhhh! im only on book 5! and perrin is my favourite character.

~james

jaguar · 03-12-2003, 04:26 PM

Good Omens is great, i loved carpet people too.
Consistently damn funny and enjoyable writing, churned out once or twice a year, it's great!

I hate lending out books, i never seem to get them back, and it's always my favorites, my list to hunt down at the moment

Fury - Salman Rushdie
Letters from Earth - Mark Twain
About 5 Pratchett books
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Cryptonomicon - Neil Stepherson

No doubt 10 or 20 others as well i'll never seen again, along with around 100 CDs...*sigh*

Where did the Karamazov lover go? I want to know how anyone can finish that book without someone standing over them with a branding iron.

wolf · 03-14-2003, 12:47 PM

Thieves don't steal books. Friends steal books.

Griff · 03-14-2003, 03:45 PM

Just picked up The Three Musketeers...

verbatim · 03-14-2003, 03:54 PM

I just finished Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), which is about the damn funniest book I've read since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . It's just well written.

classicman · 06-24-2008, 09:17 PM

bump -

the bible

dar512 · 06-25-2008, 05:32 PM

Just finished Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. The majority of the book was quite readable and was an interesting exploration of conflicting cultures. But the ending sucked scummy pond water. 'Abrupt' is much too kind a word for it.

morethanpretty · 06-25-2008, 09:54 PM

The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid
picked up for a $1 off of the clearance shelf at Half Price. I'm trying to branch out and read more non-fiction, and so far its working out well.

Cicero · 06-26-2008, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Thieves don't steal books. Friends steal books.

delayed...LOL!!!

rockerreds · 06-30-2008, 04:35 PM

V.S.Pritchett-Midnight Oil

Troubleshooter · 06-30-2008, 08:56 PM

*spoilers*World War Hulk

It's all about:

Rage

People who think they know what's best for everybody.

Rage

Unintended consequences.

Rage

Retribution

Rage

Reconciliation

03-11-2003, 11:30 PM	#31
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Your secret's safe with us El ... besides, there ARE more embarrassing Heinlein books you could be reading ... the juveniles for example. I enjoy Heinlein too, but more the golden age stuff. The books he wrote through the 80s and onward weren't as good for me. My favorite thing to do is reread the Future History short stories collection ... those are great. I've packed for the hospital and may have made a mistake by including Terry Pratchett's The Truth. Laughing out loud following abdominal surgery is often challenging ... __________________ 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

03-11-2003, 11:37 PM	#32
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Challenging, painful but probably good for the expansion of alveioli... Heinlein got almost self-parodying in his final books, but there were notable exceptions. Number of the Beast was a true Heinlein classic, chock full of Heinlein's nutty goodness. Intelligent people having carefree but non-graphical sexual encounters with each other, all while adventuring in a flying car which was bigger on the inside than the outside. Doesn't get much better than that. I wonder if Heinlein saw himself as the older, wiser, mature but still lusty kindly gent that he wrote about so often, ala Jubal Harshaw? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-12-2003, 04:26 PM	#34
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Good Omens is great, i loved carpet people too. Consistently damn funny and enjoyable writing, churned out once or twice a year, it's great! I hate lending out books, i never seem to get them back, and it's always my favorites, my list to hunt down at the moment Fury - Salman Rushdie Letters from Earth - Mark Twain About 5 Pratchett books Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie Cryptonomicon - Neil Stepherson No doubt 10 or 20 others as well i'll never seen again, along with around 100 CDs...sigh Where did the Karamazov lover go? I want to know how anyone can finish that book without someone standing over them with a branding iron. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

03-14-2003, 12:47 PM	#35
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Thieves don't steal books. Friends steal books. __________________ 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

03-14-2003, 03:45 PM	#36
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Just picked up The Three Musketeers... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-14-2003, 03:54 PM	#37
verbatim Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Pennsultucky Posts: 199	I just finished Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), which is about the damn funniest book I've read since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . It's just well written. __________________ <-- I'm with stupid

06-24-2008, 09:17 PM	#38
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	bump - the bible __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

06-25-2008, 05:32 PM	#39
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Just finished Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. The majority of the book was quite readable and was an interesting exploration of conflicting cultures. But the ending sucked scummy pond water. 'Abrupt' is much too kind a word for it. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

06-25-2008, 09:54 PM	#40
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid picked up for a $1 off of the clearance shelf at Half Price. I'm trying to branch out and read more non-fiction, and so far its working out well. __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

06-30-2008, 04:35 PM	#42
rockerreds Infamous Defamer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia,PA Posts: 50	V.S.Pritchett-Midnight Oil

06-30-2008, 08:56 PM	#43
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	spoilersWorld War Hulk It's all about: Rage People who think they know what's best for everybody. Rage Unintended consequences. Rage Retribution Rage Reconciliation __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

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