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I know this is from several pages back, but you really ought to read some Arthur C. Clarke. His characters are incredibly down to Earth, he based pretty much everything on legitimate science (well, the substantially less well-informed science of his time), and just writes incredibly engaging novels. His situations are fascinating - for a fantastic, entertaining science fiction story that smacks of realism and is often pretty thought provoking, you should try either A Fall of Moondust, The City and the Stars, The Sands of Time. Out of those, I'd say a A Fall of Moondust is the best manifestation of his sense of forward-thought.
Clarke is wonderful
Great characters, witty writing and he doesn't bullshit you.
Try Tales From the White Hart
A little more wacky but definately enjoyable
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what about it?
I'm going to hazard a guess that responding like that is possibly the douchiest way to show that someone is using the wrong homonym.
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No, it's more that pointing out typos is purely the realm of the Grammar Nazis, and you just lack the intelligence to join that 'club'.
Also, you should have put "your" and "you're" in quotes, since you were referencing the word itself. It's more a stylistic and clarity thing than an error, but you should still be more careful about that sort of thing if you're going to be like that.
There's only one Grammar Nazi around here I take that kind of shit from and he's a lovable bear
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Kinda one
Kinda the other
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Sorry, that second sentence was supposed to be referencing my previous sentence, by the way.
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But October is so far away!
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It's pretty good so far.
"I heard there was a day when Firemen put out fires."
D:
I'm only about 100 pages in, but I've enjoyed it so far. It's not too math heavy but still seems to cover a wide breadth of topics.
I suppose I should man up and read The Codebreakers by David Kahn some day, but I'm afraid my brain may melt.
I have to read that damn book.
Anyway, I'm currently reading The Cider House Rules by John Irving. It's the first Irving I've read, though I own a short story collection edited by him. I really like this book so far. Irving peppers the story with lots of little coincidences that help shape his characters, and it really seems to fit the style and setting (isolated, small-town orphanage--at least so far) of the book. It's an enjoyable read, not taxing without seeming like fluff, and a good bit lighter than Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, sections of which I'm reading along with Hamlet.
Bloom seems to actually worship Shakespeare--I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that. His argument is that Shakespeare created us, modern humans, through the "largeness" of his characters (to Bloom, this means Hamlet and Falstaff especially), and that Shakespeare is likely the greatest literary mind we'll ever see. It's an extreme position to take, and I haven't read nearly enough of Bloom's book to judge it for myself, but I guess that if there's any author for whom that argument could successfully be made, that author is Shakespeare.
Bloom's book is massive, and I almost certainly won't read all of it (I haven't even read most of the plays he discusses), but I'm enjoying reading his section on Hamlet as I read the play for the first time. His comments are a lot more insightful than what I get out of my high school English class.
I'm currently reading Stalingrad. It's very good.
reading his work is like trying to swim through a pool full of bricks
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Caine Black Knife finally has a release date on the 14th of October, from the authors blog it is sounding really, really good.
"So, essentially, I was (and still am) trying to figure out a way to write an entire novel without any Boring Crap -- you know, the linking narration and scene transitions, the background info-dumps, that kind of shit. Now I know some of you actually like the info-dump kind of stuff (I'm looking at you, Ilya!), but personally I can't stand it . . . and it's my story, after all. If I did it right, all pertinent questions will be answered, at least tangentially. I'm just trying to distill the story . . . if Heroes Die was a sixpack of strong beer, and Blade of Tyshalle was a magnum of amarone, then Caine Black Knife will be a gallon of barrel-proof bourbon.
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harlan ellison
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who the fuck doesn't want to party with señor clemens
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I'm sure you're high on meth
getting killed with a cinderblock is somewhat better than doing meth
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Crime and Punishment is a fucking classic and I won't hear a bad word about it.
I keep meaning to, but I never feel like setting up a new PIN now that they switched systems.
I was also thinking about making a fake thread about Dance of Dragons coming out but I didn't feel like being a dick.
i'd stab you for that
That was rad. People shat.
I'm guessing I remembered the title wrong.
It was like, "House of Blue Leaves" or something and it was a horror novel.
Also I have been reading a lot of westerns lately for a script I'm writing and I stumbled across this excellent series. It's not really a western per se, more of a frontier story but goddamn, there are tons and tons of great characters and they all die in horrbile, tragic and hilarious ways, sometimes all three at once. Like someone will meet their end and it makes you feel sick but at the same time it's funny and at the same time it makes you want to cry.
Excellent dialogue as well, it's basically about a rich family (The Berrybenders) that decide to go no a massive hunting/painting/exploring trip in the New World on this giant mansion of a river boat. They have cooks, painters, Indian Chiefs, hunters, servants and a stable and damn near everything on this boat. Anyway the wild frontier absolutely has its way with them and I highly recommend it.