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by Xamonas Chegwé » Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:56 pm
The Curious Squid wrote:Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Never heard of The City & The City before - but it sounds amazing.
The only thing I can think of that is similar are M. John Harrison's Viriconium stories. The omnibus edition - just titled Viriconium - contains all of the novels and short stories in the series and is a brain busting read.
It's excellent, at first I didn't think the concept of the "crosshatched" cities would work but he manages to make the entire thing seem relatively plausible and even confronts the problems with the idea within the story itself. I'm a sucker for detective stories though so not sure if I was just easily pleased. His prose is good even when it's just everyday stuff that's happening. I recommend it.
I downloaded it.
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by Pappa » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:34 pm
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Any Andrey Kurkov book that you haven't already read.
The Castle.
The Trial.
Amerika.
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by Brian Peacock » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:48 pm
Audley Strange wrote:Anathem or mostly anything by Neal Stephenson if you like a good romp with some thought behind it.
Oh yes.
Snow Crash is a must. Stephenson out cyberpunks Gibson and Sterling in that one, and considering it was written and published jsut before the internet explosion is very prescient and relevant today. However, I think
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is his best book - a kind of cautionary Dickensian romp that attempts to define the nature of human interactions while scrutinising our relationship with the natural world, or summut....
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by The Curious Squid » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:53 pm
Brian Peacock wrote:Audley Strange wrote:Anathem or mostly anything by Neal Stephenson if you like a good romp with some thought behind it.
Oh yes.
Snow Crash is a must. Stephenson out cyberpunks Gibson and Sterling in that one, and considering it was written and published jsut before the internet explosion is very prescient and relevant today. However, I think
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is his best book - a kind of cautionary Dickensian romp that attempts to define the nature of human interactions while scrutinising our relationship with the natural world, or summut....
Snow Crash is one I recognise, pretty sure someone suggested that to me before, I'll give it a look.
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by The Curious Squid » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:54 pm
Audley Strange wrote:Anathem or mostly anything by Neal Stephenson if you like a good romp with some thought behind it.
Looks good, if it's on the Kindle store I'll get it.
We have no great war, no great depression.
Our great war is a spiritual war.
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JimC wrote:Ratz is just beautiful...
Where else could you go from the taste of raw egg to licking marmalade off tits in such a short space of time?
Pensioner wrote:I worked for 50 years and that's long enough for anyone, luckily I worked to live not lived for work.
Lozzer wrote:You ain't Scottish unless you live off Chicken nuggets, White Lightening and speak like an incomprehensible cow.
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by Brian Peacock » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:42 pm
The Beautiful and Damned, F.Scott Fitzgerald. A great book, but also no zombies.
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by hadespussercats » Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:55 am
I've been really enjoying Tana French. More her first two books-- "In The Woods" and "The Likeness."
Murder stories, but really well-drawn characters and relationships. Not your basic crime fiction.
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by Brian Peacock » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:52 am
Fifty Shades Of Murder, and Fifty Shades Of Death - out soon (no doubt).
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