lala Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 ok i'll try those. never read androids before so i should shouldnt i, seeing as how much better books are than filmys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Book and film don't have a whole lot in common IMO, I wouldn't have guessed lol. Good book tho for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 It's sort of sad because Blade Runner was the only filmed work of Dick's he got to see--in pre-release form--and he really liked it, dying before it was released properly. I'm sure he'd have loved A Scanner Darkly too. I loved that the guy in real life was a paranoid weirdo whos theories never made sense (he held a press conference in France that went very badly). But in book form, they believable to the point your brain gets fucked up a bit. If that's how the world was to him, no wonder he was acted so messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima gonna read this whole Sea of Fertility thing finally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima gonna read this whole Sea of Fertility thing finally I've read the first two in the set and both are pretty good. Have you read The Sailor That Fell From Grace With The Sea? A much shorter, easier and imo better read. One of my favorite books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima gonna read this whole Sea of Fertility thing finally I've read the first two in the set and both are pretty good. Have you read The Sailor That Fell From Grace With The Sea? A much shorter, easier and imo better read. One of my favorite books. The only other Mishima I've read is Temple of the Golden Pavilion. I'll definitely check out The Sailor That Fell From Grace With The Sea now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 finally finished the brothers karamazov and have now started the devils. why do i do this to myself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 ive hit a bit of a wall with 'the three body problem' i might leave it for later.. Got recommended Neal Stephenson 'Seveneves' but its another i fear i wont like. My sister bought me anathem hardback for my birthday after recommendations and i didnt get along with it.. anyone here read it? Might try Valis by PKD.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 (edited) ive hit a bit of a wall with 'the three body problem' i might leave it for later.. Got recommended Neal Stephenson 'Seveneves' but its another i fear i wont like. My sister bought me anathem hardback for my birthday after recommendations and i didnt get along with it.. anyone here read it? Might try Valis by PKD.. After I read a long book or I hit a 'wall' I'll move on to an 'easy'/quick read or two. Bukowski was my go-to guy between longer or more 'challenging' books. The shorter Murakami books and stuff like Junkie by William S Burroughs have done well to cleanse my palette in this way as well. I'd say leave VALIS for another day if you've lost focus on another novel. It's not the easiest book to read. Edited June 29, 2015 by QQQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 i was just going to ask if its tough going - its a bit stiff and (the beginning anyway) is third person and not quite what i imagined. read some burroughs, never any murakami. i went on a big trilogy splurge (3 body problem, southern reach trilogy, and now valis) and we know how much of a slog they can be Your right i want something quick and exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 finally finished the brothers karamazov and have now started the devils. why do i do this to myself? I'm currently reading Mason & Dixon at home and Infinite Jest at work. I feel this pain. After this, I'm reading nothing but novellas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Gave up on Gravity's Rainbow, might pick it up again this summer. Now halfway through... Ubik: It's been kind of a slow burner so far, 80 pages in and it's still just starting, which is kinda bad when the book is like 200 pages. Still, I hope it gets transcendental and mind-fucky soon How Music Works: first chapter was good, second chapter was meh (too Byrne/Talking Heads-centric). It's a very easy read. Liking it so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 All the sci-fi here is reminding me that I finished this recently, I'd highly recommend it. Really good stuff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 nice one! i love me some space opera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 ive hit a bit of a wall with 'the three body problem' i might leave it for later.. Got recommended Neal Stephenson 'Seveneves' but its another i fear i wont like. My sister bought me anathem hardback for my birthday after recommendations and i didnt get along with it.. anyone here read it? Might try Valis by PKD.. Seveneves, I've heard, is very much in the vein of 60's/70's 'hard' sci-fi; a thing happens, here's the scramble to fix it, and all the problems that are triggered. Big ideas, big setting, big scope, little characterization, resolution, or reason. That's just from a review I saw that I can't remember the source of at the moment... Valis has me a bit bored. I'm about 4 chapters in, and instead of being amazed by the crazy shit, I'm already over it. Gonna give it a few more chapters, but I already bought the whole trilogy on Kindle for cheap, figured it was a solid investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Speaking of hard sci-fi, I've read some stuff by Greg Egan a while ago: Quarantine, Permutation City, Diaspora, Teranesia, Schild's Ladder. All top-notch IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 schilds ladder - a bit weird if i remember? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 reading this instead.. novella, only taking a few hours. easier reading and quite fun: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Anathem is still my favorite recent sf book by a landslide, you should stick with it IMO. PKD is mostly overrated but this thread is basically a PKD love echo chamber and I'm not going to convince anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I read Anathem, didnt like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I like Dick ( ) but the endings and beginnings generally suck. The middle bit is generally good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellyrajah Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I've only read Ubik and A Scanner Darkly and they are both phenomenal imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 finished yesterdays kin. was nice. Kept me hooked up till the end. 3.5/4 stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 decided to read the southern reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. never read him before. its good so far. easy pacing which is nice, and a nebula winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 decided to read the southern reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. never read him before. its good so far. easy pacing which is nice, and a nebula winner It's a good trilogy. The second book has its dodgy bits, and kinda meanders around more than you hope, but is well worth it as a part of the three when taken together. Sent using magic space waves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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