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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 10:56 am
by Xandax
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
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:00 am
by Ubik
@ 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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Hang 'em ...low!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:00 am
by KidD01
It think it's called Dune : Emperor
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:02 am
by Xandax
@Ubik: haven't read "Godmakers" - also a F.Herbert book?
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:17 am
by Weasel
Two more authors....Philip Jose' Farmer and Steven Donaldson...(I could be wrong on the spelling of their names)
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:59 am
by Ubik
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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Hang 'em ...low!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:01 pm
by Mort
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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Feel the burning stare of my Hamster!!
-Minsc
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:03 pm
by FoulDwimmerlaik
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:12 pm
by Xandax
You can also find books with pictures
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:13 pm
by Saigo
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!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:14 pm
by FoulDwimmerlaik
Still much to much worc in that i like sitcomms much mor 'cuz there be les worc to wach.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:19 pm
by FoulDwimmerlaik
you pepul krazi witha al dis reedin' & stuuf, try be mor prodctiv
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:25 pm
by Ubik
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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You are all... Weasels!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:26 pm
by Ubik
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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You are all... Weasels!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 12:33 pm
by FoulDwimmerlaik
preety heevy
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 1:13 pm
by Weasel
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 1:37 pm
by hermetic
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
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 3:24 pm
by Xandax
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2001 5:23 pm
by T'lainya
@ Saigo have you read the sequel to the Alienist? It's called the Angel of Death..good book