2nd September 2011, 01:16 PM
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| Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets Thanks Gollum, I'm into the final third of "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr. and next up I plan to read the final part of Gene Wolf's "The Book of the New Sun" quartet: "The Citadel of the Autarch". |
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2nd September 2011, 01:29 PM
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| Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets I'm reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It's SF set in the near future. The story involves a multibillionaire computer guru who sets up a virtual world treasure hunt to bestow his fortune posthumously. The deceased grew up in the 80's so all the clues are related to that era. It's full of computer, book, music, and gaming references from that decade. |
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2nd September 2011, 01:40 PM
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| Lagomorphing  | Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets Still on Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae -- most amazing, thought-provoking, dense, erudite, funny, fascinating book on art I've ever read. Also just re-started ploughing through my Akira set, probably untouched for ten years. But no novels. |
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2nd September 2011, 02:11 PM
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| Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets Reading John Shirley's Three Ring Psychus. I'm not sure what I think of it yet (about half through) but it's much better than its title. Kind of a mishmash of SF, fantasy, and horror (unsurprising in that it's Shirley). |
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2nd September 2011, 02:56 PM
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| Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets I'm in one of those periods when most sf isn't attractive, which is convenient since I have a lot of reading I need to do on Russian lit. I'm about halfway through Frank's 5-volume biography of Dostoevsky (though I've done some skipping); I'm rereading Jane Eyre; and my nightstand book is Thomas Bewick's Memoir. I did (re)visit Ballard's early story "The Illuminated Man" recently. I think he must have expanded this into something called The Crystal World -- ? |
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2nd September 2011, 04:22 PM
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| Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets Quote:
 *** Started The Year of our War, by Steph Swainston last night. Absolutely loving it so far. I've been craving a great fantasy to sink my teeth into, and this is so much more in my wheelhouse than ASOIAF is. It's bizarre and weird, imaginative and creative, and otherworldly. It has piqued my interest in the same that Elric, The Last Dragon, and The Divinity Student did. I wish I was at home today so I could read the whole thing. I think I'm going to devour this series. | |
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2nd September 2011, 04:42 PM
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The Swainston book sound good! a | |
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2nd September 2011, 04:52 PM
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For me it was another miss in a long series of misses in the Fantasy Masterworks. I do want to give Powers another chance though, if only because of his ties with Philip K. Dick. | |
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2nd September 2011, 04:53 PM
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2nd September 2011, 08:52 PM
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| Re: September's Studious Search For Sonorous Snippets Finally unto the final part of the Ender saga by Orson Scott Card, Children of the mind. 80 pages in and so far all they've done is do another freaking recap of the previous books. And annoying, ridiculously over the top dramatic dialog. Grrrr....accursed completionist urges. |
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