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I thought the second book was terrible too. Thematically it was also about the individual's failure to understand environment and other people, but I thought it was just such a stretch for the test tube babies to be so far out of whack psychologically with people who were born of a woman. Its been ...

Good review, I really enjoyed this book. The follow-up book, utter shite though. Not sure what happened other than the copy/paste function worked a little too well for the second book.

Just finished Matter . Extremely good book, I'll have to read some of the books he wrote between this one and Use of Weapons , because the tech in this book is phenominal - and it's leaps and bounds ahead of what was in his earlier books (not that those lacked, but they are notibly dated in the way...

I'm going to read CITY from Clifford D. Simak. Love Simak, he is great.

Just finished Choke by Chuck Palahniuk and started on Fight Club. Could not do scifi again, I started Left Hand of Darkness and enjoyed it but just wanted a different flavor.

Anyone else ever read his stuff? Best I can tell he is a sick twisted fuck who writes about craziness.

Finished Anansi Boys, what a fun book. Really enjoyed it. Shifting gears and trying to start on a Game of Thrones, not really into fantasy but trying it out anyway. Maybe 50 pages in and already thinking of switching to a different book.

Freakzilla wrote:I couldn't make it through Ringworld.

I liked it but I have a buddy that claims it is too technical for him (or something to that effect). What was it that you did not like?

Those were the same sentiments I had heard about those, so I pass.

Just finished Ringworld Engineers and I am starting on The Anansi Boys. Niven does a good job in that book (and the first) but I think I will wait to read the last one, I have heard it is not as enjoyable. I am reading Anansi for the first time, I picked it up at the same time as American Gods (when...

Baraka Bryan wrote:oedipus
lesson: don't f*ck with your mom

or just plain f*ck your mom, either one is a bad idea

Ill be there the 21st. Ill shoot you the contacts for the library soon. Both the archivists teach classes and have office hours, so you should call ahead and confirm that you are going. Please do, I will have about half a day to try and do this so I would rather not waste it if they are not gonna b...

My trip will be early May (probably around the 8th). It will only be a few days trip but I know I can convince my wife to travel to the library with me.

Same as the lot above except I remember in my senior year psych class we read Clockwork Orange. Other than that the fair above is about right. We read a lot of short stories but most of them I can't remember titles.

In May I am headed to SC for a short trip. I will either be going to Fullerton or Riverside let me know which is more desireable.

All you need is a HDMI to DVI cable and you can do that!

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Omphalos wrote:Ive got the miniseries sitting in my queue.

It was available on the free instant watch when I watched it. You may not have to wait on it to come in the mail....

I too picked this one up and could not put it down. Watched the miniseries a couple of weeks back and enjoyed that as well. Not as much as the book but at least it was relatively faithful to the book.

Twice I would hit that

I see what you mean Omph but I agree that it probably came from Foundation and Earth. As separate novels robots and foundation were great but when started to tie it all in I lost interest.

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I agree with most of your review, except for the bit about him being 'boring and stuck-up sounding'. I think that Asimov's simplistic style is the most enjoyable part of his writing. He writes like I would imagine I would write, just simple basic stuff. It reads well and served as an excellent intro...

reading "The Left hand of Darkness" right now.. totally getting lost in just the first few chapters.. i think i have to stop reading books at night when i'm really tired and occassionally drunk. it tends to hinder the overall understanding of the book when a few chapters just dont seem to...

Just finished up season 4 last night, have to figure out a way to watch season five online so that I can be totally caught up. Working this late shift messes up my whole schedule. Anyway, really enjoyed the season but hated that Razor movie thing. I thought it was fluff. Other than that liked it but...

I just watched A Scanner Darkly a week or so ago, although I despise Keanu (SP??) Reeves, I enjoyed the movie. I have the book in the pile to be read but have not done so yet.

I really enjo PKDs style of writing, the movies are ok but it is apples and oranges, books and movies that is.

Just got to watch this last weekend on Netflix instant view. Was good (graphics were a bit dated) and stuck to the book pretty well. I enjoyed it and would recommend watching the old one if the opportunity arises.

Love that book, just read it in December. The show should be cool too.

I tell you guys what, work has really kept me busy since the New Year. We have more work than we could burn, which is always a good thing. However since the economy is in the toilet there's a hiring freeze, not that we could find anyone before that. It's a small employee pool. If I had the time I'd...

It seems that KJA has taken over Byron's account again. Every couple of months it doesn't sound like Byron it sounds just like KJA being his typical prick self.

Anyone else ever noticed that?

I am still convinced Byron is an ass hat but sometimes he goes over the top to ultra ass hat.

That does look cool, at least this author is still alive to authorize changes to the story, instead of having his corpse fucked with no lube.

I just picked up Children of the Mind and plan to read it in the next week or so.