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Graygor
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Posted - 2013.03.30 09:38:00 -
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If you want a good chuckle and like your SF I recommend the Ciaphas Cain series of 40k books. It's a very refreshing take on the 40k universe with some good laughs and really fleshes out the people.
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Posted - 2013.03.30 12:40:00 -
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Speaking of science and humour.
The Science of Discworld trilogy are pretty damn good. They explore literally, the creation of life, the universe and everything.
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Posted - 2013.03.31 11:11:00 -
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As someone who has never read the Ringworld series. How is Niven's pros? Is it quite an easy read or is one a slog through the pages with a lot of heavy ideas to digest?
I'm looking for some more bedtime reading now I've driven through my current pile of Christmas books.
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Graygor
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Posted - 2013.03.31 11:28:00 -
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Are they actually in sequence? Or if i skip the books you said to avoid I wont be missing out on essential plot and so on?
I'm not the worlds biggest SF Buff, largely because I find so much of the genre difficult to get into. I like my books to be light, yet thought provoking and provide a couple of laughs. Something I can get into bed with and have fun reading or enjoy a good captivating story. Not some long, overwinded tawdry balls up that a lot of SF ive come across is.
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Graygor
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Posted - 2013.03.31 12:38:00 -
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I'll get the first book and give it a whirl on my tablet then.
Always willing to try something new.
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Posted - 2013.04.01 16:15:00 -
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So I got ringworld last night. It's not a bad book. About 100 pages in. I must say though that it reeks of 1970s SF. This isnt a bad thing, just my god. I'd forgotten what old SF was like.
Still a good read though.
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Posted - 2013.04.01 16:41:00 -
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Brujo Loco wrote:Graygor wrote:So I got ringworld last night. It's not a bad book. About 100 pages in. I must say though that it reeks of 1970s SF. This isnt a bad thing, just my god. I'd forgotten what old SF was like.
Still a good read though. Care to elaborate on that statement? ... please?
Hard to explain really. Just the style of everything. It has a lot of that early 70s riff... maybe its just me I dont know.
For example, The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy is probably the most 1980s series ever written in terms of SF. It reeks of Glam and so on.
It's really not a complaint. Just writing has changed since then. It's like saying "My God Dickens is such a 19th century writer!", same thing. The book is just more akin to what I used to read when I was young, than to what I have been reading as of late.
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Posted - 2013.04.02 16:09:00 -
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Are the Dresden Files funny? The synopsis seems quite amusing.
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Posted - 2013.04.02 16:13:00 -
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I still recommend the Ciaphas Cain series. Good solid military SF with laughs.
This is also the series I want on.... Sandy Mitchell needs to move his arse!
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Posted - 2013.04.04 15:22:00 -
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The movie was pants this is true.
But Martin Freeman was a brilliant Arthur. And Bill Nighy was well.... he's always great.
Got to remember though, that the radioplays had different stories too. I wonder why Douglas Adams went with that. Every format had a different mashed up plot.
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