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Posted by Monqui on Mon Apr 19th at 5:43pm 2004

Referring back a few posts-

Actually, I find most of King's short stories to be very unlike most of his full-length novels. I've got most of the collections and have been very happy with all of them. But I guess that doesn't say much since I'm a fan of his anyways... Bah. Whatever. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Mon Apr 19th at 5:44pm 2004

? posted by Crono
Not a big fan on Trek books to be honest. Not a big fan of Star Wars books either, except the ones writen by Timothy Zahn. Damn those are awesome: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command. Is considered by many people to be the best trilogy of books in that whole 'universe', except for the movies of course.

Those were indeed great books. I've never read any other Star Wars books though. I try to stay away from such canned genres.

I may have to try out Teeth of the Tiger...





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Posted by ReNo on Mon Apr 19th at 5:47pm 2004

Don't buy the hardback then, I wouldn't wanna get you buying something you end up hating for insane amounts of cash [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Apr 19th at 6:00pm 2004

? posted by ReNo
Don't buy the hardback then, I wouldn't wanna get you buying something you end up hating for insane amounts of cash

if its an author i trust, and i can find it for a decent bargain, i will grab a hardcover in a second even if its a title i have not yet read.

i do however have gobs more paperbacks.. price/value is the driving force though

[addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Apr 19th at 6:02pm 2004

Most of my books are paperbacks, I have very very few hardbacks. In fact, Teeth of the Tiger is one of them, but only because I mentioned I wanted it around christmas, and as it was a new book the paperback wasn't available by then [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Apr 19th at 6:06pm 2004

? posted by Tracer Bullet

Tom Clancy has devloped the same sort of cookie-cutter syndrome in his later work. I stopped reading after "the bear and the dragon"

I put away that book too after the first 100 pages ... became boring, and I had that d?ja-vu thing.





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Posted by ReNo on Mon Apr 19th at 6:08pm 2004

I've only read about 5 or so of his books, and three of those were somewhat unpublicised ones (Netforce...pretty crappy, and a couple of Op Centre books...not amazing, but enjoyable enough). In comparison, Rainbow Six and Teeth of the Tiger are pretty damned excellent Rainbow Six is definately my favourite though, I enjoyed that a lot. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Mon Apr 19th at 7:55pm 2004

I keep telling you man. pick up a copy of Without Remorse. you won't regret it.



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Apr 19th at 8:09pm 2004

You do? I don't recall you mentioning it before, but then I'm a forgetful sod I'll try and find a copy somewhere, thanks for the recommendation [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Mon Apr 19th at 10:41pm 2004

Seems like we've had the Clancy discussion in at least one other thread.



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Apr 19th at 11:50pm 2004

Yeah I do recall it coming up at least once in the past [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Tue Apr 20th at 9:53am 2004

? posted by flashman

Science fiction - The Culture series by Iain M. Banks is superb, and the best sci-fi I've read by several parsecs. Please, PLEASE read them.

Iain Banks sucks goats IMHO.. hrm but may as well investigate...





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Posted by flashman on Tue Apr 20th at 12:31pm 2004

Iain Banks sucks goats IMHO..

I know what you mean, Leperous. The stuff he's done without the middle M. can be a bit hit and miss (I'd like to bet you haven't read "Complicity"). His sci-fi though, (with the M.), is in a different league altogether.

hrm but may as well investigate...

If you E-mail me a postal address I'll gladly send you some.





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Posted by Leperous on Tue Apr 20th at 2:04pm 2004

Er, I mean the one with the M Tried reading "Excession", "The Bridge" and "The Wasp Factory" but, I don't know, it was like being stuck in a vast plain boring swamp of hard-going goo :/



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Posted by flashman on Tue Apr 20th at 3:25pm 2004

"Excession" - with the M - is my favourite (sobs) but probably not the best to kick off with. Try "Consider Phlebas".

"The Bridge" - without the M - is my favourite (aarghhh)

Ah well, horses for courses, eh?

I think Philip K. Dick deserves a mention, too. "Ubik" is very good.





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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Apr 20th at 3:59pm 2004

? posted by flashman

Iain Banks sucks goats IMHO..

hrm but may as well investigate...

flashman, the lightblue text is unofficially reserved for "mild humor" and "mild sarcasm" sometime both at once..

[addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Tue Apr 20th at 4:01pm 2004

Or for writing [addsig]




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