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    BLOW-UP (or END OF GAME) and Other Stories by Julio Cortazr. This one keeps coming back to me every 3 years or so since I was in high school and it gets better every time. astonishing
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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    Just bought Neuromancer and am reading it for the first time. :D
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      CommentAuthorBeamish
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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    I don't Read books without pictures. I am currently reading Iron Man Demon in a Bottle.
    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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    "How Much for Just the Planet" by John M. Ford

    "A Wise Man's Fears" is up next.
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    @ Gov spy and DC.
    Loved the Bond novels by Flemming. I picked up a box of paperbacks for .25 each about 2 years ago at a yard sale and read all of them. Good fun. I agree with the point that it was written in a style that just wouldn't fly these days, but I really got a kick out of the window into the culture Flemming was living in.
    I could just see the old boy pouring over his typewriter, cigarette in hand, drink sweating on the table, forehead wrinkled... just trying to put down his fantasies from the "service".

    Currently reading "Game of Thrones". Wanted to see what all the hub-bub was about now that the HBO show has started. Only 250pgs in so far but really enjoying it. Facinated with The Wall. I'm definitely hooked on the characters and can't wait to see how it turns out.

    Finished Stephen King's "Eyes of the Dragon" last week. I liked that a lot. Put the taste of the Dark Tower back in my mouth (all that Flagg stuff) and sent me looking for more fantasy (hence now reading GoT). A fun tale, quite different from most of his stuff.
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    Just started reading Area 51 by Annie Jacobson, so far it's amazing grounded for a subject that lends itself to so much conspiracy. It kind of reads textbook, as it's made up of so many interviews. If this wasn't a subject I was already very interested in; I might find the book boring by the delivery.
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    just finished the scar by china mieville. if you like science fiction fantasy pirates ( and who doesnt?) this is 5 out of 5. one of the best books i have read!
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      CommentAuthorinfomancer
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2011
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    Starting the Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. Lots of interesting world building so far.
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    Just finished 'The Restoration Game' by Ken Macleod, now I'm onto Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Really wish the local library would get Neuromancer in, or that I'd it back in high school when that library had it.

    Oh and I've just read Transmet V.9 and I'm about to start on Full Metal Alchemist V.24. Fuck, they're both almost over for me, that's a weird feeling.
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    Half-way thru The Stars My Destination. New ideas on every page, some come off better than others, but the ballziness is impressive. Love the Robin character, slightly uncomfortable about the way Jiz is portrayed. Really intrigued by Gully's transformation in Book 2.

    Dipping into Angela Carter's Expletives Deleted again. It's an old friend.

    Got Ian McEwan's two collections of short stories after that.

    @infomancer: Bon Voyage! I would recommend reading the books one after another, even tho it can be exhausting. I took long breaks between each installment, and forgot lots of details that are called back to later. I need to read it again... an astonishing achievement.
    • CommentAuthorJim Moore
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2011
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    Just finished the Lisbeth Salander trilogy....kinda sad that her story's done. I'd like to have seen where Larsson would have taken her and Mikael.

    About to move onto Master and Commander by O'Brian.
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      CommentAuthorinfomancer
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2011
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    @Mercer - I'm really enjoying it so far. I've got the first two books in one volume so I'll at least be reading those together. Hopefully that will cement the details if I decide to read something else in the middle there.
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    I have made the terrible mistake of getting about 20 pages into several books. First up is Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space, which I am nominally reading "for work." Then there's Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, which has been on the pile for far too long, but may get pushed aside so I can get through China Mieville's Embassytown. Oh, and did I mention the phonebook that is The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One? That monster is meant to be skimmed like a dictionary or a book of proverbs, so I won't be attempting to actually read the whole thing.

    Finally, my train reading is the wonderful free pdf version of classic Russian sci-fi novella, Roadside Picnic, upon which the classic film Stalker was loosely based.

    If I can get through all of these in time, I may be able to join my friends in their Gravity's Rainbow Suicide Pact And Book Club.
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      CommentAuthornigredo
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2011
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    Finally read Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Piersanti, which was amazing. Moved on to Freeway by Mark Kalesniko, which is very good so far. Also reading Paul Magrs' Enter Wildthyme.
    • CommentAuthorAnanzitusq
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2011
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    About to start Dreadnought by Cherie Priest, really, really excited for this one. I just finished Boneshaker about tuesday night.
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    I finished Nausea by Sartre last week, with the exception of our age's differentiating ( I am three year's older than the protagonist) I felt like I was reading my own bloody journal. I'm very scared right now and am going to try some Roald Dahl to cheer me up, but I know that's a lie because there is a Kafka crawling by my bed.
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      CommentAuthorOsmosis
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2011
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    Roadside Picnic. Well, well. Now I know what the podcast is named after.

    I'm currently reading The Defence of the Realm, the authorised history of MI5, a security studies textbook called Security Studies, and a book about the Crusades called .... The Crusades. It's all a bit heavy (and unimaginitively titled). I have Akira Vol. 5 for light relief. Tetsuuuooooooooooo!
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    Vladimir Sorokin's Ice Trilogy. Old school science-fiction meets contemporary avant-pulp fiction meets what the fuck? I've been really slacking on my reading lately but this has me hooked. In the NYRB Classics series so you know it's quality. The author was apparently prosecuted in Russia for 'disseminating pornography' due to one of his other books which features Khrushchev sodomising a clone of Stalin.
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    just finished embassytown. wow! greatest book i have ever read i think
    • CommentAuthorlucialima
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2011
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    Wings of the Morning by Adrienne Anderson and Retour a "O" by Stefan Wul, two science fiction books from the 70's.

    And for crying your heart out, Der Himmel ist blau, die Erde ist weiss by Hiromi Kawakami.

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