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Offline deSelys

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« on: October 16, 2004, 04:51:20 PM »
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Mine are (in no particular order): Paul Auster, Donna Tartt and Dan Simmons.

Paul Auster is a fabulous storyteller. He can make the most mundane event a very pleasant read.

Dan Simmons has a superhuman imagination IMO, and he's quite a storyteller too. His only work which disappointed me was "Darwin's Blade".

Donna Tartt plays in the same league. "The Secret History" is a book I highly recommend.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2004, 05:02:08 PM »
I don't care for fiction of any type...never got into them ( well, "Big Red" and "The Hobbit" when I was a kid)

I prefer factual books...history and biographies especially.

As a kid, if I loved to ride my bike to the library and study things of interest to me....and I was interested in  everything. At home, I read through almost all of our encyclopedia set from A-Z.
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2004, 05:05:30 PM »
Good for you. I have a lot of history book and some bio's too. But there's more to it.


Unless you only watch documentaries and never go see a movie, you're missing something. A good book beats a good movie hands down IMO.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2004, 05:08:36 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2004, 05:10:19 PM »
I don't like many movies either. ;)

Very rarley will I feel compelled to see a movie. When they end up on cable and if I am in the right place at the right time, I'll watch and enjoy some of them.
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2004, 05:12:16 PM »
WEB Griffin for his "The Corps" series

Mack Maloney when his "Wingman" series was actually interesting/realistic

Starfist series (SciFi) is good....can't remember the author.

I generally stick to books that are series...I coulnt tell you any other good one's I've read lately.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2004, 05:33:22 PM »
For Fiction/Fun  :
Terry Pratchett,Stanislas Lem , Howard Lovecraft ,August  Derleth and a lot of others ...

More classical :
Tolstoï,Dostoïevski ,Eco,Modiano,Perec, Queffelec ,Orwell,Dumas,Hugo,Maupassant,Coonts, Vian,Malraux,Tenessee William,Faulkner,Steinbeck,Bach,Rabelais,Sagan,Renard,Céline and finally Camus.
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2004, 06:41:14 PM »
Dr. SEUSS

Green Eggs and Ham.....
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2004, 07:42:50 PM »
Dan Simmons
Neal Stephenson
J.R.R. Tolkein
Steven R. Donaldson
John Varley

I liked Orson Scott Card also, before he turned to the darkside and embraced pulp.

Least favorite: Steven King
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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2004, 07:44:48 PM »
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Mack Maloney when his "Wingman" series was actually interesting/realistic
 


Was it ever realistic?
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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2004, 08:08:45 PM »
I enjoy all the W.E.B. Griffin series.  Pretty much similar basis, but a fun easy read.

A few others I try to catch all their works.

I do like reading Viet Nam vets memoirs.

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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2004, 08:37:00 PM »
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Neal Stephenson


Haven't read him before but I recently picked up Quicksilver and got only a few pages into it when I learned Dark Tower VII was out. Will get back to Quicksiler after.
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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2004, 08:40:57 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2004, 09:10:28 PM »
An Autobiography by Gen. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle with Carroll V. Glines in:

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
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« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2004, 09:39:28 PM »
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Was it ever realistic?


Except for the "6th sense" the main character had....I'd say yea.  Pretty realistic for fiction.  

That is until he went into outter space with his mortal enemy to set up a string of nukes to go off at just the right point in time to devert an meteor racing headlong to destroy the earth....AND said reaction sent him into an alternate demension were WWII never started and his arch enemy is part of a christian evangacle row boat.  That's pretty much when I lost interest.

But the whole WWIII scenario and the disarmament of America.  That wasn't too far out there.
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