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SpotTheCat wrote:Is the first one good on its own?
Captain Ned wrote:Duncan Idaho is the "true" Kwisatz Haderach and can imagine/will things into or out of existence? Puh-fargin-leeze.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
grantmeaname wrote:Captain Ned wrote:Duncan Idaho is the "true" Kwisatz Haderach and can imagine/will things into or out of existence? Puh-fargin-leeze.
That's horrifying... I guess I'll skip the non-Frank works. I just finished Dune and loved it, I'm on to Messiah on Monday when I get back to school and have someone to borrow it from.
StrangeDay wrote:Got any recommendations?
bthylafh wrote:Greg Bear's _Hull Zero Three_
themattman wrote:I am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I already read The Three Musketeers by Dumas two years ago, and a good friend of mine said Monte Cristo was his favorite book, so I am giving it a try.
Captain Ned wrote:A Canticle for Leibowitz
Footfall
Lucifer's Hammer
Farnham's Freehold
The Greatwinter Trilogy
Blood Music
The Forge of God
Childhood's End
MadManOriginal wrote:Stranger in a Strange Land
TurtlePerson2 wrote:I feel the same way about Dumas as I do about Dickens. He creates the beginning of great stories, then ruins them with sentimentality and romanticism. I enjoyed the recent film about of Count of MC a lot more than I enjoyed the book. Similarly, I enjoyed the Christmas Carol story until I actually read it.
SpotTheCat wrote:I am about half way through the fall of Hyperion. Hyperion did one of my biggest pet peeves: ending the book without an ending. Dune and Harry potter, to name two, both ended each book in the series with a conclusion to the plot in that series. This one was more like K THX SEE U NEXT TIME.
Captain Ned wrote:SpotTheCat wrote:I am about half way through the fall of Hyperion. Hyperion did one of my biggest pet peeves: ending the book without an ending. Dune and Harry potter, to name two, both ended each book in the series with a conclusion to the plot in that series. This one was more like K THX SEE U NEXT TIME.
Because Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion was originally written as one book. You can understand why the publisher decided to make it two given their sizes, but it does mean that one should really read both and consider it one book.
SpotTheCat wrote:I just hope Fall has an appropriate ending.
wosteen wrote:I'm also slowly making my way through lots of the Project Gutenberg classics. I've recently finished The Swiss Family Robinson (one of my favorite books ever), Dracula, and the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.