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Read any good fiction lately?
« on: November 21, 2006, 06:25:30 am »
The last piece of fiction I read was a Hugo Awardw (wikipedia) winning short story by Samuel R. Delanyw  called "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones". It is an interesting character study of one mans rise from an orphan to a semi-legit master criminal.  It is fairly old but has stood the test of time fairly well. I mostly prefer Science Fiction and Fantasy having read several thousand from various authors. I have read some others such as intrigue, specifically Alistair MacLeanw

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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2006, 07:53:17 am »
Fantastic. Love Nova, really liked The Motion of Light in Water, his autobiographical piece. Reread the Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny recently, all 10. Other than that, pretty quiet on the book front...
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2006, 08:44:12 am »
I liked Zelaznyw Not sure I ever finished the "Courts of Chaos" series although I reread "Jack of Shadows" fairly recently (within the last year.) "Changeling" and "Madwand" had an interesting take on magic. I found his work to be similar to some of Farmer'sw work, in particular the "World of Tiers" series. I think I'll have to reread some of them. Heroic fantastic science fiction is good stuff.
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2006, 09:01:43 am »
Read "Shane" it's a Very short story, i think like 120 pages.

It's the most heart warming story i've ever read.

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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2006, 09:29:37 am »
Barry Trotter books! - not for children :)
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« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2006, 09:36:10 am »
Hmm 120 pages is not a short story, it is a short book though. Who is it by? Probably doesn't matter, I don't do heart warming. Maybe an animal heart on a grill, but I don't know.

This Barry Trotter? w Never heard of it, didn't even read the books it parodies.
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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2006, 10:09:30 am »
Some of the finest writing by Zelazny is the short stories. 24 Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai is a short story in the collection "Frost and Fire" that I highly recommend to anyone. I really thought "A Night in the Lonesome October" is really good as well. Sadly, most of his works are out-of-print, but there is good stuff on Amazon. Madwand and Changeling were a set if I remember, great stuff. The meeting at Belken was awesome, I remember those books. I think you would probably like "Shadowland" by Peter Straub for its take on magic, if you liked Madwand.

Roger Z. aside though, I got a copy of "Bridge to Terebithia" recently, which was a kids novel when I was a kid but is now a banned book in most of the schools (cause its really depressing). Reread the Lives of the Caesars ... hmmm ... also Crabwalk, Matchstick Men, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil this past summer... Jeeze, don't get me started...
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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2006, 11:19:41 am »
Quote from: bilbous on November 21, 2006, 09:36:10 am
Hmm 120 pages is not a short story, it is a short book though. Who is it by? Probably doesn't matter, I don't do heart warming. Maybe an animal heart on a grill, but I don't know.

This Barry Trotter? w Never heard of it, didn't even read the books it parodies.

Jack Schaefer

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"Call Me Shane  "

He rode into our valley in the summer of '89, a slim man, dresses inblack.

"Call me Shane," he said. He never told us more.

There was a deadly calm in the valley that summer, a slow, climbing tension that seemed to focus on Shane.

"There's something about him," Mother said. "Something...dangerous..."

"He's dangerous all right," Father said, "...but not to us...

"He's like one of these here slow burning fuses," the mule skinner said. Quiet...so quiet you forget it's burning till it sets off a hell of a blow of trouble. And there's trouble brewing."

"TAUT...GRIM...UNFORGETTABLE..."

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Re: Read any good fiction lately?
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2006, 05:50:54 pm »
Call it cheesy stereotyped fantasy but I have come to like the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan.
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« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2006, 06:06:27 pm »
Ahh! That Shane. Did you know that it was made into a movie i(IMDB) in 1953 and a tv series?i I thought it sounded familiar.

Robert Jordan w is a name with which I am familiar although I have not read any of his works. I think I'll have to give it a try. Did you have a favorite book in the series or is the first one a good example? Sometimes you can read series out of order and it does not make too much difference other time the order is critical.
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Re: Read any good fiction lately?
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2006, 08:07:57 pm »
Do you mean contemporary fiction, or any fiction. Lately, I've only read greek, romantic, or classical period. However, I did stray a bit off my path and take up Cervante's "Don Quixote".
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« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2006, 10:40:08 pm »
Fiction is as fiction does. I really meant reading for pleasure but if you enjoy reading for class for example that is good too. As far as that goes I wouldn't mind hearing about non-fiction people read out of interest. Even out of neccessity, if you think the book is good and other people might benefit from hearing about it feel free to mention it.
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2006, 10:42:17 pm »
Cervantes is excellent. Wheel of Time series I have been told to read by a great many people, it is apparently excellent as well. On a classical note, anybody ever read The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius? http://www.jnanam.net/golden-ass/  An interesting magical journey through the time of the latter days of the Roman Empire.
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Re: Read any good fiction lately?
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2006, 10:58:01 pm »
"The da Vinci Code", "Demons and Angels" - They may be a bit mainstream but they're both excellent books which are worth the read.

"The destiny of Universe" - a great series of teen books with a surprising depth, surpassing most novels i've read so far. George Johansson is a writer I still respect, 10 years later, for his skill in connecting places and even different times, leaving the reader to read it over and over again just to find a detail that connects the various times and universes of George Johansson's imagination. Great read, the last book stirred me to tears :)
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« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2006, 12:58:40 am »
lets see V.C. Andrews "My Sweet Audrina" and the Dollanganger series
also Christopher Pike "The Season of Passage"
..any book by Francesca Lia Block will prove to be absolutely mind-lifting...very beautiful writing (Ecstasia and Primavera are 2 favs though i lvoe them all)
1984 by George Orwell...

His Dark Materials triology by...philip something...the Golden Compass is part of it
uhm...Neil Gaiman is also a preferred writer

i cant think of anything else off the top of my head :P
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