What are you reading?

Post by **Libaax** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:31 am

Actually i dont like watching adaptations, they only usually make angry at how much they are destroying a good book

For example anyone seen Starship Troopers? And read the book?

Its the worst dumped down and worst movie adaptation of all time for sure.....

Post by **halfnhalf** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:15 pm

WOA WOA WOA!!!!

StarShip Troopers was fucking awesome. If they made it true to the book it would be this complete mind fuck about how the nazi's won and blah and no bug killing. The movie was just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too good.

ooooo and what am i reading??? Mr. Right way to hell, i mean heaven Bill O'Rielly's Culture Warrior.

Post by **Libaax** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:28 am

Nazi won sheez... no wonder hollywood makes movies like that.....

I thought it sucked even before i knew there was a story they totally messed up in the film.

The book was more about philosophy than killing Bugs.

Anyway i have started reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Its awesomely good. Dekkerd is very interesting.

Post by **psi29a** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:44 am

A lot of Phillip K Dick (notice the sig

)stories are simply amazing, however their movie adaptations are hit and miss and mostly good on their own merits.

Paycheck and Next as examples of crap Dick movies.

Post by **Libaax** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:48 am

The only hit aka Bladerunner even Dick didnt like, i wonder why

I have The Man in the High Castle and Flow my tears,policeman too.

Right now thanks to Heinlein,Dick i am finally free of my fantasy fase that took hold of me too much

I will go and borrow two Heinlein books tommorow and change beteween him and Dick.

By the way have you read The Minority Report? I read its the only story of his that the movie is actually similer to except the action of course.

Post by **Eldo** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:13 am

Libaax wrote:The only hit aka Bladerunner even Dick didnt like, i wonder why

Because he has no fucking tastes.

It's the best fucking movie in the whole fucking world, and anybody that says otherwise is gay.

Post by **Libaax** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:07 pm

Well it can be a good movie without not being as the writer wrote it in the book.

The few things i remember of the movie i know was usually hollywood stuff where they simpilify the stories so they can have more action and so people dont have to think too much.

Post by **MrFelony** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:48 pm

Sign Dick up for more dick then

Post by **Vicissitude** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:09 am

I'm in the middle of my second read-through of My Tank is Fight! It's a tongue-in-cheek look back on the weird wonder weapons that were created during WWII. A pair of tanks so big, they had to be powered by naval engines, an aircraft carrier made of ice and the Nazi nuclear bomb are all covered factually, their hypothetical deployment theorized and each has a short chapter of historical fiction that centers around the weapon or vehicle.

Those of you familiar with such things might know about Zack Parsons from his articles of the same/similar titles (My Tank Has Armor Plates to Protect Me From Hate!, My Tank Fires Bullets That Weigh a Ton!) on SomethingAwful.com. He is an excellent writer who has also written tons of other amusing frontpage articles for the site that are worth checking out.

Post by **LordMune** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:14 am

I've been catching up on the Foundation books recently. I finished Foundation's Edge a couple of days ago, and will probably be done with Foundation and Earth tomorrow, and start on Forward the Foundation. I must admit I'm a bit uncertain as to whether the change of direction from the original Foundation trilogy is a good move or not. The series has lost some of its pedigree, I feel, as it is moving away from the pretty refined speculative retrospective theorizing towards more traditional sci-fi fare.

Still awesome though.

Post by **halfnhalf** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:23 am

psi29a wrote:A lot of Phillip K Dick (notice the sig )stories are simply amazing, however their movie adaptations are hit and miss and mostly good on their own merits.

Paycheck and Next as examples of crap Dick movies.

Why are they crap? Beacuse filmmakers have two choices, use that hair that nick cage has, or actually paint him gold, which allows him to pick up chicks... both are the wrong choices.

Phillip K Dick stories are sci fi movies, and last i checked, those really dont translate well into an actual movie.

Post by **Libaax** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:26 am

LordMune wrote:I've been catching up on the Foundation books recently. I finished Foundation's Edge a couple of days ago, and will probably be done with Foundation and Earth tomorrow, and start on Forward the Foundation. I must admit I'm a bit uncertain as to whether the change of direction from the original Foundation trilogy is a good move or not. The series has lost some of its pedigree, I feel, as it is moving away from the pretty refined speculative retrospective theorizing towards more traditional sci-fi fare.

Still awesome though.

I know for sure the first three original books was alot better, come on going from the Mule and second foundation stories to Gaia stuff give me a break. Sure its still very good but not as the first three.

The reason is prolly cause Assimov wanted to end the series after the first three books but money hungry publishers made him write books he didnt wanna and didnt plan to write.

Which is why its so forced connected to his Robot books suddenly in the last two.

Post by **LordMune** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:52 am

Yeah, he said as much in the Preface of Foundation's Edge. Fuck those books, the ending of Foundation and Earth sucked majorly. I'm not much for prequelitis, but I am hoping Forward the Foundation will offer some good old-fashioned Trantorian intrigue.

Post by **Libaax** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:02 am

Me i am taking a pause from Foundation after foundation and earth. No prequals for me now.

I will start reading his Robot series,NightFall,Last Question and other short stories.

Its time to read more of my SF fav writer.

Post by **dialdfordesi** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:38 am

Kaplan's MCAT books. That test scares the crap out of me and I take it in less than a month.

Post by **Libaax** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:05 pm

Im just about to finish Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

After that i will start reading Garden's of the moon by Steven Erikson.

Post by **Malvado** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:10 pm

I'm reading "The Covenant with Black America".

Post by **Libaax** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:15 pm

Not fantasy right

Interesting title.

Post by **Malvado** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:25 am

Halo: The Ghosts of Onyx

Post by **Libaax** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:58 am

The Bicentennial Man and Other stories by Asimov.

Post by **uncempt** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:35 am

I'm reading Red Mars. I tried back when I was a teenager but I didn't have the patience for it. It's totally awesome though. All good scifi needs a question to answer and this one's is "what would happen if 100 people tried to create a new world?" So these 100 people get sent off to colonise Mars and start society from scratch. It's hard to describe but they all want different things from Mars and the politics and interactions get really interesting. And it starts with an assassination...

Also Terry Pratchett's "Thud!" He's so good at commenting on the real world with his fantasy. He uses dwarfs and trolls to talk about religious fundamentalists and racial hatred. AND it's hilarious.

Post by **Libaax** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:42 pm

As SF fanboy how you described Red Mars made me interested in it. I adore those kind of SF.

Are you a big fan of SF? Any favs?

Post by **uncempt** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:32 pm

Yeah, I love it

I actually became an engineer because of SF!

I've been reading some cool 80's stuff in the last couple of years. Bruce Sterling in particular was awesome back then. You should read Schismatrix plus. It's a novel followed by a few short stories. The novel follows this one guy who ends up living a couple hundred years and being in the middle of several revolutions and wars between factions who believe in different uses for technology. Like one group genetically engineers themselves, another group are into cybernetic implants, yet another want to live in empty space... There's so many cool ideas. I think I'll have to reread it soon.

Post by **Libaax** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:41 am

Me i have been stuck in golden age SF cause of the greatness of Asimov,Heinlein,Clarke etc

But thanks to P.K Dick im getting more and more interested in cyberpunk and the other punks

Wanna read Gibson,Sterling,Powers,Richard K Morgan etc

Is it a military SF done by Sterling?

Post by **uncempt** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:40 pm

Nah, it's political again. The main guy is a diplomat of sorts. It's fascinating cos it focuses on individuals and big shifts in society too.

Dick, Asimov and Clarke are among my favourites. I think Gibson can be great but he's often a bit samey. Like he stretches his ideas sometimes, you know?

I've decided not to buy new books anymore. I'm usually a bit disappointed. I'm lucky though, where I live there are plenty of markets and 2nd hand shops I can get old books from

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