What books you read

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 10:56 am

Dune 2 was a great game, one of the only RTS games I ever liked.
To bad the had to reck it with Dune 2000.

Well maybe the new Dune game (can't remeber the name) will make up for it

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:00 am

@ Xandax: Dune is one of the best s.f. books I ever read. What about "the godmakers".

The movie... hhmm... well, it was good, but De Laurentis having control over the production kinda screwed David Lynch's efforts. And they left too much out. All the intrigue and the ecological stuff where puffed away

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KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:00 am

It think it's called Dune : Emperor

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Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:02 am

@Ubik: haven't read "Godmakers" - also a F.Herbert book?

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:17 am

Two more authors....Philip Jose' Farmer and Steven Donaldson...(I could be wrong on the spelling of their names)

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:59 am

Originally posted by Xandax:
@Ubik: haven't read "Godmakers" - also a F.Herbert book?

Yes and it is brilliant - about a society who is producing a new religion, complete with it's god. Very good work.

@Weasel: Philip Jose Farmer is a very good writer.

@All: Check out Alfred Bester. He has wrote the book that gave me the most strong emotional reactions ever. It is called "Tiger, Tiger" and it's simply a masterpiece - IMHO ofcourse

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Mort · Post by **Mort** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:01 pm

What about Terry Pratchett?
Ive read (and are currently reading) 8 of his books in the Discwold serie.
He is IMHO one of the best authors.

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FoulDwimmerlaik · Post by **FoulDwimmerlaik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:03 pm

Originally posted by Xandax:
Hiya

Now there been so many posts about what games and music etc you people enjoy, what about books.

What books, if any are you guys reading at the moment.

My self, just finishing "Machiavelli: The Prince" have just started on "Machiavelli: The Art of War".

I don't read. In fact, the last book I remember reading, I didn't actually read; it was read to me by my mother when I was three.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:12 pm

You can also find books with pictures

Saigo · Post by **Saigo** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:13 pm

Originally posted by FoulDwimmerlaik:

I don't read. In fact, the last book I remember reading, I didn't actually read; it was read to me by my mother when I was three.

I knew it!

FoulDwimmerlaik · Post by **FoulDwimmerlaik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:14 pm

Still much to much worc in that i like sitcomms much mor 'cuz there be les worc to wach.

FoulDwimmerlaik · Post by **FoulDwimmerlaik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:19 pm

you pepul krazi witha al dis reedin' & stuuf, try be mor prodctiv

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:25 pm

Originally posted by Melosh-tar:
Henry Turtledove, Bernard Cornwell, Tolken, Playboy, just for the articles, a lot of those magazines have very FINE ARTICLES.

LMGDBAOYBSOBSUAHM

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Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:26 pm

Originally posted by FoulDwimmerlaik:
you pepul krazi witha al dis reedin' & stuuf, try be mor prodctiv

err... what are you on, foul? Must be some pretty heavy stuff, huh?

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FoulDwimmerlaik · Post by **FoulDwimmerlaik** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:33 pm

preety heevy

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 1:13 pm

Originally posted by Ubik:

@Weasel: Philip Jose Farmer is a very good writer.

I have all of his books on the Riverworld Series....His books are the main reason I started to read again ...I hated reading in school.

hermetic · Post by **hermetic** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 1:37 pm

Well I do lots of reading all day long at work since I have a monotonous telemarketing job, reading news on the web, sports scores, Gamebanshee forums, etc., so when I get home at night I'm an awfully sluggish reader. But when I'm in school I'm a pretty studious bookworm. I guess the books I'm presently tackling would be Jared Diamond's wonderful and easily-readable Pulitzer winner "Guns, Germs, and Steel", Hunter S. Thompson's "Great Shark Hunt", and tonnes of mediaeval Latin that is driving me insane. Diamond's treatise brilliantly deals with all of world history in a Toynbee-esque attempt at explaining why the powers of the world are who they are, i.e. the West ruling over the rest. It's probably a good foil for all this Machiavelli talk, the Great Man theory of history being put up against Diamond's physiological and scientific explanation for all things historic. He argues quite well that Eurasia was able to ascertain its dominance all throughout history due to its common land mass and the easy distribution of domesticated animals and crops. Also, and I got a kick out of this, he attributes Eurasians' relative immunity to disease to the deplorable and inhumane conditions under which the "civilized" world has always lived. The book has been almost as mind-blowing as "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" was the first time I read it. As for Machiavelli, you guys know who he really was/is, right? That's right, Niccolo is none other than Ol' Nick, the Devil, Satan, Child of Bhaal! Bwahahahaha

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 3:24 pm

Well I must say that after reading some Machiavelli - his ideas dosen't sound all that bad. One have to remember the time they were written, political climate; military status and so on.

I must say, wich I've done in some classes at university, that some of his ideas can actually be used in for instance the buisness world (wich I feel a great interest in - hey just because, I'm going to switch education, dosen't mean I'll leave buisness/economics alone)

So good ole machiavelli is actually quite an intersting character.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 5:23 pm

@ Saigo have you read the sequel to the Alienist? It's called the Angel of Death..good book