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dodgem
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23839727 - 11/16/16 06:35 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just finished Dune Messiah, 2nd in the series. Took me a bit to get into this one, but once things got going I jumped in. Really pulls you from right to left throughout.
Going to read The Necessity of Experience by Edward Reed next. Then I will dive into The Children of Dune.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum] 1
#23839742 - 11/16/16 06:41 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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DividedQuantum said: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Really goddam good. Recommended.
If you like that style of writing, check out the Sandman Slim series. It's like Constantine mixed with LA-noir style pulpy fiction.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: dodgem] 1
#23839753 - 11/16/16 06:45 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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dodgem said: Just finished Dune Messiah, 2nd in the series. Took me a bit to get into this one, but once things got going I jumped in. Really pulls you from right to left throughout.
I actually just finished that a week or so ago. Same reaction.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23839910 - 11/16/16 07:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Keep going!
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DividedQuantum
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: automan]
#23840208 - 11/16/16 10:02 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's the plan.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23840757 - 11/17/16 05:41 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari A ton of insights in one book, really puts things in perspective when it comes to our evolution.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: morpheus85]
#23842171 - 11/17/16 03:18 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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morpheus85 said: Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari A ton of insights in one book, really puts things in perspective when it comes to our evolution.
We just got this book in and I immediately added it to my "to read" list, may be a year before I get to it though. Let me know how it is!
Started Illuminatus! Part I The Eye in the Pyramid by the Roberts Shae and Wilson, about 150 pages in and I don't know why I haven't read this before now.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: nuentoter]
#23849642 - 11/19/16 07:06 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Songs of the Doomed by Hunter S. Thompson
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psilly the kid
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#23849650 - 11/19/16 07:09 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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erotica with a leaning towards steampunk.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23849691 - 11/19/16 07:29 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn you be readin' so much.
You make me wanna go to the library and check out a bunch of books.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: mctaveesh] 1
#23849703 - 11/19/16 07:35 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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DQ reads faster than Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks.
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psilly the kid
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: mctaveesh]
#23849708 - 11/19/16 07:36 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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try Going Postal it's got a character in it named Moist VonLipwig AND ONE NAMED MR PUMP
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DividedQuantum
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Midnight_Toker] 1
#23849841 - 11/19/16 08:28 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Midnight_Toker said: DQ reads faster than Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks.
Get it from my Gramma.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23849847 - 11/19/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: beforethedawn] 1
#23852947 - 11/20/16 11:13 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Finally got my own copy of The Silmarillion. I thought I may have spoiled reading it after a Tolkien-lore Wikipedia spree years back, and from reading random passages from a loaner copy further back, but no, I really like it so far.
Just finished Stephen Baxter's Ultima, sequel to Proxima. I find I love his writing and it really is very similar to Arthur C. Clarke's, as many critics mention. The concept of alien intelligence presented in this novel and hinted at in its prequel really tickles my imagination. In the middle of it I had to tell my dad about the bits of naval history from different cultures in the novel and I might have roused his interest in sci-fi again (he's strictly read history over the past two decades). He asked to borrow my Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy copy!
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: MorphinTime] 1
#23853046 - 11/21/16 12:18 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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akira_akuma
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: phio]
#23853078 - 11/21/16 12:36 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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i'm gonna try planning out my entire months calendar, using the I-Ching, and see if it adds up as i go through said month planned; as soon as i get my Book Of Changes, and study it a bit, that's what i plan on doing, as an exercise.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#23854268 - 11/21/16 01:06 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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This book was astoundingly brilliant in so many ways.
It's probably one of the best novels I've ever read. I just want to start it all over again and see what I missed the first time around.
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automan
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Midnight_Toker] 2
#23854572 - 11/21/16 03:11 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://nerdist.com/legendary-acquires-dune-film-and-tv-rights/
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LEGENDARY ACQUIRES DUNE FILM AND TV RIGHTS
In the history of science fiction literature, few novel series have reached the upper echelon of belovedness quite the way Frank Herbert’s Dune has. The incredibly dense, richly populated space opera is considered by many to be the best science fiction novel ever written, winning all kinds of awards upon its release in 1965. There has to date been a single feature film of the work–David Lynch’s head-scratching, though undeniably visually arresting, 1984 effort–but save a Syfy miniseries in the early-2000s, Dune has remained nigh-unfilmable…until now! Deadline is reporting that Legendary Pictures has reached an agreement with the Herbert estate for the film and TV rights to the classic novel.
Details are scant at the moment, but Legendary Pictures will be turning the novel series into a film franchise, with the hopes of it becoming a full-on saga like Star Wars or Star Trek. The agreement calls for the development and production of possible film and television projects for a global audience.
The novel tells the story of Paul Atreides, whose family accepts control of the planet Arrakis, a desert world which is the sole producer of an incredibly valuable spice. Hence, the world is heavily contested by all the galaxy’s ruling families. After his family is betrayed, Paul goes on a journey of religion, politics, and communing with nature as he realizes his true potential and leads a rebellion to retake control of the world.
Dune has been the holy grail of science fiction film projects. Lynch’s disowned film version was the aftermath of a lengthy pre-production process for an ultimately aborted film by surrealist filmmaker, Alejandro Jodorowsky. That would have been a four-hour affair, with concept art by people like French comic artist Moebius and Alien screenwriter Dan O’Bannon, and starring disparate people like Salvador Dali and Orson Welles. The saga of that woulda-been film is brilliantly depicted in the documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune.
With movies coming out that look as visually interesting as Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and with a plot that seems like an intergalactic Game of Thrones, Dune has the potential to be a true sci-fi opus, and in multiple media, considering the film and television contract. Maybe a Marvel-like cinematic universe? Time will tell.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: automan]
#23854944 - 11/21/16 04:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dune is the next book I'm starting, and despite my trying not to have any, y'all are doing your best to give me high expectations.
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