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kay wrote:

ch3 wrote:

kay wrote:

HRKRT wrote:WATERSTONES HAVE EXTENDED THEIR 3 FOR 2 OFFER TO ALL PAPERBACK FICTION


get involved

Oo!

You calm down

No way! You know how often these offers are extended to sci-fi??? I wait 5 years for one!

I took this oppurtunity to get Excession cos you guys said it was one of the best culture ones. also picked up the new Ian banks one called Transition, which i heard a review about. apperntly its an attempt to mix his sci fi style with his normal style which should be interesting... receieved very mixed reviews though. The third one i got was Between The Assasinations by Aravind Adiga. i read another book of his called the white tiger. both are based in India, and I love Indian culture being represented in literature.

speaking of which one of the best books i read recently was called Shantaram. Set in india again, an amazing piece of literature in which the main character does all sorts... really captures the variety of life in India. I believe Johhny depp is making it into a film which im really looking forward too.

Picked up Transitions recently, waiting to read it.

Finally made my way to the sale. Got: James Blish's Cities in Flight, Cordawainer Smith's The Rediscovery of Man and Olaf Stapledon's World's of Wonder. First time I've ever come across that collection of Olaf Stapledon's stuff.

HRKRT wrote:I believe Johhny depp is making it into a film which im really looking forward too.

really? i like johnny depp.

as do i

read the book now and be cool


no seriously its a fucking amazing book

i will add it on my unofficial longterm unwritten longer than a piece of string to read list.

i hate money, providing bare essentials in life means less and less vinyl and books.

L-I-B-R-A-R-Y-?

a second hand bookshop is better than my local library
i could order it in, but fuck th hassle

brave new world.

libraries are for battyboys



and people who can handle deadlines

64hz wrote:a second hand bookshop is better than my local library
i could order it in, but fuck th hassle

Yeah secondhand bookshops are awesome! I've picked up so much old out of print sci fi stuff over the last couple years.

At the same time, I also keep thinking that it means someone's just died and their precious book collection's been sold off

kay wrote:

64hz wrote:a second hand bookshop is better than my local library
i could order it in, but fuck th hassle

Yeah secondhand bookshops are awesome! I've picked up so much old out of print sci fi stuff over the last couple years.

At the same time, I also keep thinking that it means someone's just died and their precious book collection's been sold off

my mum mentioned offhandedly when i went up to uni that she might give some of my books to a charity bookshop and i went fucking mental

but yeah oxfam ftw

spend hours in there looking at books and vinyl

Hehe my mom didn't even dare suggest giving away my books or comics. She did try to get rid of my toys though We had some words.

Halfway through this. Dystopian feminist sci-fi. It's pretty good, some great ideas and thinking points... bit 'easy' in that it's in very short chapters, so you always feel like reading one more so it ends up being a real page turner even though her writing style can occasionally seem awkard. Good book to have on the side while you read something mind bending.

magma wrote:

Halfway through this. Dystopian feminist sci-fi. It's pretty good, some great ideas and thinking points... bit 'easy' in that it's in very short chapters, so you always feel like reading one more so it ends up being a real page turner even though her writing style can occasionally seem awkard. Good book to have on the side while you read something mind bending.

really liked this book.

and its not a dystopia its a utopia!

Started on the Septimus Heap series.

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato - Awesome book, just finished it for the like 5th time, just started reading Mein Kamf again

You guys were assholes.

Kaneda wrote: You guys were assholes.

ROFLMAO true that



Every page is completely biblio'd, extremely enlightening.

my_war wrote:brave new world.

I just started this one. Finished "Hellstroms Hive" by Frank Hebert. (Friggin crazy ass book!!)

Right I'm going to Everest in September and I'll have bare reading time during acclimatisatoin periods etc.

Need something long, or short and dense Give me some suggestions please, no fantasy/sci-fi mind