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The problem with my current favorite book is that it's out of print...
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This book is probably my favourite of the last decade.
I've grown out of Sci-Fi as I get older. Even more than porn I read the same thing over and over again.
But the book I provided the link to is one of those rare books that really stretches the boundaries. It's by turns dark, light and humourous.
A highly recommended work.
I've grown out of Sci-Fi as I get older. Even more than porn I read the same thing over and over again.
But the book I provided the link to is one of those rare books that really stretches the boundaries. It's by turns dark, light and humourous.
A highly recommended work.
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Watership Down
Absolutely wonderful reading about a band of rabbits who strike out from thier home warren. The writing is crisp, the characters become unbelieveably real to you and the adventure is suspenseful.
Absolutely wonderful reading about a band of rabbits who strike out from thier home warren. The writing is crisp, the characters become unbelieveably real to you and the adventure is suspenseful.
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Sub Joe said:
Anyone else read those?
If not?
Ernest Bramah loves language. His stories of Kai Lung are marvels of tongue-in-the-cheek Chinese and a satire on those that believe that Oriental exoticism has the answer to everything. He is an author worth reading to find out whether you love or hate his writing. If you resonate with his writing then you will be inextricably hooked. If he doesn't click with you, your response is likely to be a headshaking WTF?
Robert Van Gulik's Judge Dee series are impeccably researched detective novels of medieval China based on the real Judge Dee who was a significant historical figure of unimpeachable honour. The stories are an introduction to the historic Imperial China and the thinking of that time while posing detective puzzles that only the falliable Judge Dee can solve.
Thorne Smith's The Night Life of the Gods is an imaginative romp through 1930s America. The hero has the power to turn people into statues, and statues into people. Turning his unpleasant relations into statues is enjoyable. Turning the Greek Gods into real people causes mayhem. Poseidon needs fish, lots of fish, and considers that all fish are his. Fishmongers and New York's Finest disagree until routed by a barrage of fish and unprincipled behaviour by the rest of the Gods.
Og
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Mort by Terry Pratchett is a twist of an old symbol. No, its more taking a legend and standing it on its head. No, not quite that either. Its a compelling story that uses an age old idea ad builds upon it with such wit and charm that the only people who do not like it are thick skulled philistine's who are probably barely literate to begin with . Twisting and head standing not withstanding, it is the seminal piece of literature that after the next ice age future generations will use this text as the basis for all culture, society and civilization.
And its funny too.
And its funny too.
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I don't think it's my very favorite book, but the best book I've read in a long time is Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.
Why?
Because it's cleverly funny, not in a slapstick sort of way, but it's still laugh out loud funny.
Because it's very well written.
But mostly because it's thought-provoking. The premise is that Biff is brought back from the dead 2000 years later to give his account of Jesus' life. So, Biff tells the story of Jesus from age six until the day he was crucified. Of course, this is fiction but Moore's depiction of the journey the two had along the way brings a new light to how Jesus got his ideas. Moore includes alot of Eastern philosophy, which if you've studied the history of religions, really have alot of parallels to Christian teaching.
All in all a great read.
Why?
Because it's cleverly funny, not in a slapstick sort of way, but it's still laugh out loud funny.
Because it's very well written.
But mostly because it's thought-provoking. The premise is that Biff is brought back from the dead 2000 years later to give his account of Jesus' life. So, Biff tells the story of Jesus from age six until the day he was crucified. Of course, this is fiction but Moore's depiction of the journey the two had along the way brings a new light to how Jesus got his ideas. Moore includes alot of Eastern philosophy, which if you've studied the history of religions, really have alot of parallels to Christian teaching.
All in all a great read.
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Sub Joe said:
Thorne Smith was filmed in the 1930s. One film was 'I married a Witch'.
Edited to include film details: Night Life of the Gods
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Since Salvor picked the other book I would choose (I adore Mort, it's a damn good read!) I'll post an extract from a review I wrote for dooyoo and ciao on one of my other favourites:
Dark Moon by David Gemmell.
Tarantio is a soldier in the army. In fact he’s not sure which duke he is fighting for from one day to the next as he is a mercenary and goes to whoever will pay the most. The duchies are at war over a mysterious dark pearl left when the Eldarin, a highly powerful race, disappeared one day without a trace, well almost. The only thing left was the pearl.
Anyhow Duke Sirano of Romark currently has the pearl and is working on releasing it’s magical powers (It was left by a race of sorcerers so it must be magic and powerful right?) Whilst the war wages on. One night they make a breakthrough and as the pearl is broken a great dark moon rises above the great northern desert and a great black wave covers the whole area. Then the desert is no more. The land is green and verdant and contains a funny looking city filled with massive black domes. The Daroth, a giant race who are covered in armour plating and immune to attack by spear and sword, are back.
The Daroth are Blood Thirsty killers. They destroyed the Oltors, a race of peaceful folk and were locked away by the power of the Eldarin, to stop their blood letting rampage. The Daroth Are among the scariest monsters I have ever had the pleasure of imagining.
Well human kind is not going to lay back and let those monsters annihilate them. In the end it comes down to the courage and skill of three people. Karis the cold hearted female warrior, Duvodas the Healer and our friend Tarantio and his “ brother” Dace.
You see Tarantio may seem like your usual warrior on the outside. He is charming, humorous and generous in life generally but in battle or brawl he becomes a swift and merciless killer. However this Killer is not Tarantio. This killer is Dace, the angry, bitter, death-hungry demon within him.
So the fate of the world sits upon the shoulders of a cold hearted, screwed over, adrenalin Seeking woman, A Healer who has never killed a man in his life and a mad man with a split personality. Looks good doesn’t it?
What I find the most powerful in this novel is David Gemmell’s skill at creating real characters. Characters you completely believe in and who you swear you’d know if you bumped into them in the street. I cannot think of any author who does this as well as Gemmell does. JV Jones gets close and Roald Dahl does it in a more simplistic childish way but Gemmell is the master.
There is an ease with which he imparts information to his reader that makes it seem as if you surely knew it all already and that you’re not reading it for the first time. It may take a whole novel to really come to know a character because you get knowledge in realistic little clumps. You don’t get great sheaves of paragraphs in one go giving you an in depth character synopsis, no, you get the information in the action as you go along.
“You better let me take him,” said Dace
“No” Answered Tarantio “Sigellius Trained us both; I am not afraid.”
“Do not try to disarm him” Warned Dace “Just Kill the Whoreson”
From the above extract you can tell Tarantio is a troubled young man who thinks deeply and does not rush into anything, Dace his brother, his demon, the voice in his head is a fierce killer who craves war, battles, killing and death. See I told you he was good!
Not only does he do characters well he conjures up geography just as smoothly and eases the plot of his story along at a slow, steady pace that keeps you reading on but does not make you dizzy with information.
The joy in this book comes partly form knowing how difficult it must have been to write.
He had to create a race of monsters that would strike fear in a persons heart just by looking at them and the tall, armour plated, shiny beaked Daroth are just that.
He had to fit in many different main characters, all starting out in totally different places and situations and bring them together in a believable way. He does this so well; chopping and changing from one person and place to another without you even really noticing it!
Also His main character is demon possessed or Schizophrenic. Can you imagine the challenge of writing a man talking to his own demon or the challenge of making Dace and Tarantio the same but different? I baulk at the thought of it.
He totally pulls it off though. So much so that I truly believe I am completely infatuated with Tarantio. If I met him in a bar I would be wanting to chat him up. I think that might be fairly worrying to anyone in the mental health field but also a massive compliment to any author.
Yeah, I don't write reviews all that well, but you get the gist!
Dark Moon by David Gemmell.
Tarantio is a soldier in the army. In fact he’s not sure which duke he is fighting for from one day to the next as he is a mercenary and goes to whoever will pay the most. The duchies are at war over a mysterious dark pearl left when the Eldarin, a highly powerful race, disappeared one day without a trace, well almost. The only thing left was the pearl.
Anyhow Duke Sirano of Romark currently has the pearl and is working on releasing it’s magical powers (It was left by a race of sorcerers so it must be magic and powerful right?) Whilst the war wages on. One night they make a breakthrough and as the pearl is broken a great dark moon rises above the great northern desert and a great black wave covers the whole area. Then the desert is no more. The land is green and verdant and contains a funny looking city filled with massive black domes. The Daroth, a giant race who are covered in armour plating and immune to attack by spear and sword, are back.
The Daroth are Blood Thirsty killers. They destroyed the Oltors, a race of peaceful folk and were locked away by the power of the Eldarin, to stop their blood letting rampage. The Daroth Are among the scariest monsters I have ever had the pleasure of imagining.
Well human kind is not going to lay back and let those monsters annihilate them. In the end it comes down to the courage and skill of three people. Karis the cold hearted female warrior, Duvodas the Healer and our friend Tarantio and his “ brother” Dace.
You see Tarantio may seem like your usual warrior on the outside. He is charming, humorous and generous in life generally but in battle or brawl he becomes a swift and merciless killer. However this Killer is not Tarantio. This killer is Dace, the angry, bitter, death-hungry demon within him.
So the fate of the world sits upon the shoulders of a cold hearted, screwed over, adrenalin Seeking woman, A Healer who has never killed a man in his life and a mad man with a split personality. Looks good doesn’t it?
What I find the most powerful in this novel is David Gemmell’s skill at creating real characters. Characters you completely believe in and who you swear you’d know if you bumped into them in the street. I cannot think of any author who does this as well as Gemmell does. JV Jones gets close and Roald Dahl does it in a more simplistic childish way but Gemmell is the master.
There is an ease with which he imparts information to his reader that makes it seem as if you surely knew it all already and that you’re not reading it for the first time. It may take a whole novel to really come to know a character because you get knowledge in realistic little clumps. You don’t get great sheaves of paragraphs in one go giving you an in depth character synopsis, no, you get the information in the action as you go along.
“You better let me take him,” said Dace
“No” Answered Tarantio “Sigellius Trained us both; I am not afraid.”
“Do not try to disarm him” Warned Dace “Just Kill the Whoreson”
From the above extract you can tell Tarantio is a troubled young man who thinks deeply and does not rush into anything, Dace his brother, his demon, the voice in his head is a fierce killer who craves war, battles, killing and death. See I told you he was good!
Not only does he do characters well he conjures up geography just as smoothly and eases the plot of his story along at a slow, steady pace that keeps you reading on but does not make you dizzy with information.
The joy in this book comes partly form knowing how difficult it must have been to write.
He had to create a race of monsters that would strike fear in a persons heart just by looking at them and the tall, armour plated, shiny beaked Daroth are just that.
He had to fit in many different main characters, all starting out in totally different places and situations and bring them together in a believable way. He does this so well; chopping and changing from one person and place to another without you even really noticing it!
Also His main character is demon possessed or Schizophrenic. Can you imagine the challenge of writing a man talking to his own demon or the challenge of making Dace and Tarantio the same but different? I baulk at the thought of it.
He totally pulls it off though. So much so that I truly believe I am completely infatuated with Tarantio. If I met him in a bar I would be wanting to chat him up. I think that might be fairly worrying to anyone in the mental health field but also a massive compliment to any author.
Yeah, I don't write reviews all that well, but you get the gist!
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Shogun by James Clavell. A book which I can read all 1,500-odd pages of in one sitting and still want to turn it over and start again from the beginning. The story starts with John Blackthorne, an English pilot in charge of a Dutch fleet in the 16C, heading a thrust through the Spanish-controlled Strait of Magellan and into the New World. He ends up landed at Japan, with only a few of his men still alive and well.
The story takes Blackthorne as a stranger in a strange land, into the middle of a civil war fought by a xenophobic and supremely alien race of people, any of whom can end his life on a whim. And the only Westerners in the country are England's hated enemy and representatives of the Catholic church, the Portuguese.
The story gives you such a unique view into this world, which is out of the ken of most Westerners and even a lot of Japanese, by showing it to you through such vivid characters that you don't want to leave them. At all. One and a half thousand pages isn't halfway enough time with these people.
The Earl
PS. Plus, you would understand why I insist on calling Yui, Lady Toda-Mariko if you read it.
The story takes Blackthorne as a stranger in a strange land, into the middle of a civil war fought by a xenophobic and supremely alien race of people, any of whom can end his life on a whim. And the only Westerners in the country are England's hated enemy and representatives of the Catholic church, the Portuguese.
The story gives you such a unique view into this world, which is out of the ken of most Westerners and even a lot of Japanese, by showing it to you through such vivid characters that you don't want to leave them. At all. One and a half thousand pages isn't halfway enough time with these people.
The Earl
PS. Plus, you would understand why I insist on calling Yui, Lady Toda-Mariko if you read it.
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Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie.
Thomas Builds-the-Fire runs into legendary blues player Robert Johnson (reports of his death have been highly exagerrated), and Johnson passes on his magical guitar. He forms a band there on the Spokane reservation, and they hit the big time, fueled by the guitar and their dreams of something better.
I'm very envious of Alexie's ability to make you shout with laughter on one page, and then cry with silent tears on the next, as he portrays reservation life with brutal honesty.
I can read it over and over again, and never get tired of it.
Thomas Builds-the-Fire runs into legendary blues player Robert Johnson (reports of his death have been highly exagerrated), and Johnson passes on his magical guitar. He forms a band there on the Spokane reservation, and they hit the big time, fueled by the guitar and their dreams of something better.
I'm very envious of Alexie's ability to make you shout with laughter on one page, and then cry with silent tears on the next, as he portrays reservation life with brutal honesty.
I can read it over and over again, and never get tired of it.
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http://www.ayn-rand.com/ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged.asp
...Ayn Rand's magnum opus is a philosophical thriller, the story of a society's slow collapse as the men of ability go on strike against the creed that treats them as sacrificial animals. From the blast furnaces of a steel mill to the drawing rooms of high society, from the classrooms of philosophers to the decks of a pirate ship, Ayn Rand portrays the role of reason in Man's life..."
Aboard ship, the USS Greer County, an LST (Landing Ship Tank) at the tender age of 18, a new Third Class Petty Officer, Radioman 3rd, I discovered a paperback copy of Atlas Shrugged in the bottom of a trash can as I was starting a 'mid watch' in the radio shack while out at sea.
Few books can truly be said to change ones life, this one did mine. 1300 pages long, I could not put the book aside and throughout the night and the next day and night and read without stopping.
Finding the book in the trashcan should have clued me that some people hated the book, others loved it.
Ayn Rand is a psuedonym for a young girl who migrated from Soviet Russia to the United States in the early part of the 20th Century. There are many biographies available. The search for Atlas Shrugged on Google turned up 1.64 million sources.
Even for those who have learned to hate Ayn Rand/Objectivism just by association, even you might wish to have a foundation for that hatred by reading her work.
Regards...
Amicus...
...Ayn Rand's magnum opus is a philosophical thriller, the story of a society's slow collapse as the men of ability go on strike against the creed that treats them as sacrificial animals. From the blast furnaces of a steel mill to the drawing rooms of high society, from the classrooms of philosophers to the decks of a pirate ship, Ayn Rand portrays the role of reason in Man's life..."
Aboard ship, the USS Greer County, an LST (Landing Ship Tank) at the tender age of 18, a new Third Class Petty Officer, Radioman 3rd, I discovered a paperback copy of Atlas Shrugged in the bottom of a trash can as I was starting a 'mid watch' in the radio shack while out at sea.
Few books can truly be said to change ones life, this one did mine. 1300 pages long, I could not put the book aside and throughout the night and the next day and night and read without stopping.
Finding the book in the trashcan should have clued me that some people hated the book, others loved it.
Ayn Rand is a psuedonym for a young girl who migrated from Soviet Russia to the United States in the early part of the 20th Century. There are many biographies available. The search for Atlas Shrugged on Google turned up 1.64 million sources.
Even for those who have learned to hate Ayn Rand/Objectivism just by association, even you might wish to have a foundation for that hatred by reading her work.
Regards...
Amicus...
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"Rootabaga Stories" by Carl Sandburg
Fairy tales for the North American continent. Carl Sandburgh wrote these for his daughters, and children appreciate them, but adults do too. They are a joy to read aloud- an incandescent collection of prose poetry that falls off the tongue- I have read these stories to lovers, my children, drunk dykes in bars, and always gotten the same mesmerised and joyful reactions. The original book has illustrations by Maude and Mishka Petersham- black and whit line drawings with an Art Deco touch. There is a slightly newer edition with illustrations by Michael Hague, that are almost as good.
Fairy tales for the North American continent. Carl Sandburgh wrote these for his daughters, and children appreciate them, but adults do too. They are a joy to read aloud- an incandescent collection of prose poetry that falls off the tongue- I have read these stories to lovers, my children, drunk dykes in bars, and always gotten the same mesmerised and joyful reactions. The original book has illustrations by Maude and Mishka Petersham- black and whit line drawings with an Art Deco touch. There is a slightly newer edition with illustrations by Michael Hague, that are almost as good.
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I really like the posts so far. A good few books are now added to my “Gotta read” list.
Well, I was going to go for one of my favourite novels (John Barth's "The Sot-Weed Factor"), but instead I'll promote the book that actually prompted me to start this thread:
It’s “Gödel, Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid”, by Doug Hofstadter.
Deep musings on the nature of reality, interspersed with riddles, puns, the music of Bach, Escher’s vertigo-inducing woodcuts, Zen Koans. Hofstadter always dances around the point. “What’s the book about?” The dance approaches the answer, so close you can almost touch it, but impishly bounds madly off into a discussion between Achilles and the Tortoise about Time, self-reference in language, how to write a fugue. And after a while you begin to understand that he’s talking about the unthinkable, thinking about the unspeakable truth of what it is to be conscious. You find yourself filled with the joy and curiosity of a child watching soap bubbles dancing in the sunlit room.
He won the Pulitzer for that book, I guess because his playful curiosity about one of philosophy’s most profound subjects was so alluring and inspiring.
Well, I was going to go for one of my favourite novels (John Barth's "The Sot-Weed Factor"), but instead I'll promote the book that actually prompted me to start this thread:
It’s “Gödel, Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid”, by Doug Hofstadter.
Deep musings on the nature of reality, interspersed with riddles, puns, the music of Bach, Escher’s vertigo-inducing woodcuts, Zen Koans. Hofstadter always dances around the point. “What’s the book about?” The dance approaches the answer, so close you can almost touch it, but impishly bounds madly off into a discussion between Achilles and the Tortoise about Time, self-reference in language, how to write a fugue. And after a while you begin to understand that he’s talking about the unthinkable, thinking about the unspeakable truth of what it is to be conscious. You find yourself filled with the joy and curiosity of a child watching soap bubbles dancing in the sunlit room.
He won the Pulitzer for that book, I guess because his playful curiosity about one of philosophy’s most profound subjects was so alluring and inspiring.
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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck:
An enjoyable, refreshing tale that we can all relate to.
An enjoyable, refreshing tale that we can all relate to.
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The Unconsoled
Enormously popular concert pianist in black tie and tails? Or composer of enormous tied-penis tales?
Whatever your talent, you'll recognize your worst creative nightmare in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Unconsoled.'
He's a renowned pianist. She is or was or might have been the mother of the son he may or may not remember having fathered; or maybe it's not his son but a memory of himself as a boy. Whatever. Their lust has made them slaves to the insane whims of the Hotel Porters' Union, who will force them to witness their deranged rituals and folk dancing.
The worst part? He's under a deadline!
The Unconsoled has critics all but wetting themselves:
"Did They Do It? Was It Kinky? Can He Really Play the Piano, Or Do His Fans Have Him Confused With Someone Who Can? 'Your Hands Will Hurt From Gripping This Book," shouts The New York Times Review of Books
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"Hot Off-Screen Sex Meets Amnesia In Ishiguro's Zany, Action-Packed Look at Creative Genius, Weird Townspeople, Football Fans, a Murdered Dog, and the Terrifying Suspicion That You're Not Nearly As Talented As Your Fans Insist You Are!"
~ The Booker Prize nominating committee
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"If you're a Literotica writer whose story scores never seem quite right, I wrote this for you. Read it or be one-bombed."
~ the author
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"Dude! I swear to God! It's as if the author got his idea from reading story-score-and-feedback threads at the Authors' Hangout."
~ National Endowment for the Arts
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"If you doubted the global conspiracy to spy on our dreams, 'The Unconsoled' will convince you. This can't be a coincidence."
~ Shereads, quoted in The Paris Review.
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"Sucks."
~ Anonymous Public Comment
Read a Sample Chapter - ABSOLUTELY FREE - at this exciting, interactive website:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/06...104-3897905-5226339?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Enormously popular concert pianist in black tie and tails? Or composer of enormous tied-penis tales?
Whatever your talent, you'll recognize your worst creative nightmare in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Unconsoled.'
He's a renowned pianist. She is or was or might have been the mother of the son he may or may not remember having fathered; or maybe it's not his son but a memory of himself as a boy. Whatever. Their lust has made them slaves to the insane whims of the Hotel Porters' Union, who will force them to witness their deranged rituals and folk dancing.
The worst part? He's under a deadline!
The Unconsoled has critics all but wetting themselves:
"Did They Do It? Was It Kinky? Can He Really Play the Piano, Or Do His Fans Have Him Confused With Someone Who Can? 'Your Hands Will Hurt From Gripping This Book," shouts The New York Times Review of Books
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"Hot Off-Screen Sex Meets Amnesia In Ishiguro's Zany, Action-Packed Look at Creative Genius, Weird Townspeople, Football Fans, a Murdered Dog, and the Terrifying Suspicion That You're Not Nearly As Talented As Your Fans Insist You Are!"
~ The Booker Prize nominating committee
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"If you're a Literotica writer whose story scores never seem quite right, I wrote this for you. Read it or be one-bombed."
~ the author
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"Dude! I swear to God! It's as if the author got his idea from reading story-score-and-feedback threads at the Authors' Hangout."
~ National Endowment for the Arts
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"If you doubted the global conspiracy to spy on our dreams, 'The Unconsoled' will convince you. This can't be a coincidence."
~ Shereads, quoted in The Paris Review.
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"Sucks."
~ Anonymous Public Comment
Read a Sample Chapter - ABSOLUTELY FREE - at this exciting, interactive website:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/06...104-3897905-5226339?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
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An attempted murder. The classic Mystery of the Closed Room. The crime scene technician can't find any trace of poison in the food, in the drink, in the clothes, the bed linen; not even in the wallpapers! Yet every morning, the victim's taken a turn for the worse.
It's not just a matter of WHOdunnit, but also HOWdunnit... and why would anyone want a lowlife for a king, instead of the cop in shining armour? And why are the clay robots committing mass suicide? And why is his new CSI technician wearing a shade of lipstick that doesn't match his beard?
Commander Vimes has to solve a crime, fight off a revolution, solve word puzzles, and avoid getting assisinated... on a daily bases.
Edited to add: The book in question is, ofcourse, Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
It's not just a matter of WHOdunnit, but also HOWdunnit... and why would anyone want a lowlife for a king, instead of the cop in shining armour? And why are the clay robots committing mass suicide? And why is his new CSI technician wearing a shade of lipstick that doesn't match his beard?
Commander Vimes has to solve a crime, fight off a revolution, solve word puzzles, and avoid getting assisinated... on a daily bases.
Edited to add: The book in question is, ofcourse, Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
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This book is a true story. It's the story of Marine Sniper in Vietnam named Carlos Hathcock. I realize that this type of reading isn't for everyone, but if you're into military reading, this book is a must read.
It is the true account of Hathcock, and his actions in Vietnam. He's widely regarded now as one of the greatest Marines in the history of the Corps. Some of the things he did are beyond amazing.
Marine Sniper
It is the true account of Hathcock, and his actions in Vietnam. He's widely regarded now as one of the greatest Marines in the history of the Corps. Some of the things he did are beyond amazing.
Marine Sniper
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Colleen Thomas said:
Ah, how I love that book.
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It was the strangest book he has ever read. It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him. Things that he had dimly dreamed of were suddenly made real to him. Things of which he had never dreamed were gradually revealed.
The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.
This is that book. A Rebours, by J. K. Huysmans - the delicate poison Wilde adores, the strange jewelled flower whose perfume maddens the brain. It is depravity; it is sensuality; it is intoxication. This is the book of which Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote, "After such a book, the only choice left open to the author is between the muzzle of a pistol and the foot of the Cross."
This is a poisonous book. You will never be rid of it.
The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.
This is that book. A Rebours, by J. K. Huysmans - the delicate poison Wilde adores, the strange jewelled flower whose perfume maddens the brain. It is depravity; it is sensuality; it is intoxication. This is the book of which Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote, "After such a book, the only choice left open to the author is between the muzzle of a pistol and the foot of the Cross."
This is a poisonous book. You will never be rid of it.
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"Good Omens"
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Some of my favorites have already been listed, but this is top of my list of things to read when I want to feel I'm not alone in the world and there are things to think about and laugh about.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
"Voodoun is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead"
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
"Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever." - Pollution
"(25) And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying Where is the flaming sword which was given unto thee? (26) And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next. (27) And the Lord did not ask him again."
"'You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' — 'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.'"
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Some of my favorites have already been listed, but this is top of my list of things to read when I want to feel I'm not alone in the world and there are things to think about and laugh about.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
"Voodoun is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead"
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
"Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever." - Pollution
"(25) And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying Where is the flaming sword which was given unto thee? (26) And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next. (27) And the Lord did not ask him again."
"'You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' — 'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.'"
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The 13th valley by John M Del Vecchio.
Its a Vietnam war Fact/fictional story based around a new recruit thrown into battle with the 101st in the I Drang valley, gritty and gripping it is a book that leaves you wondering about the stupidity of war and the courage of men asked to do things far out of character and reason.
HK
Its a Vietnam war Fact/fictional story based around a new recruit thrown into battle with the 101st in the I Drang valley, gritty and gripping it is a book that leaves you wondering about the stupidity of war and the courage of men asked to do things far out of character and reason.
HK
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