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Offline Guppy35

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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2016, 12:43:53 PM »
"Illusions" by Richard Bach.  Just to get you thinking 😀
"Nanette" by Edwards Park.  Just because👍
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #46 on: July 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM »
GAME OF THRONES!
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #47 on: July 15, 2016, 03:55:38 PM »
Quote from: 8thJinx on July 15, 2016, 08:55:46 AM
You should read One Second After,

I've read that one.  I'm glad he wrote it.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #48 on: July 15, 2016, 03:57:12 PM »
Quote from: Ratsy on July 15, 2016, 10:50:56 AM
An old favorite in that genre is Canticle for Leibowitz

I like that one.  It is by Miller, though.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #49 on: July 15, 2016, 03:58:17 PM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on July 15, 2016, 12:43:53 PM
"Nanette" by Edwards Park.  Just because👍

A good one!  I read it based on your recommendation.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #50 on: July 15, 2016, 03:58:57 PM »
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #51 on: July 15, 2016, 04:04:51 PM »
Quote from: Randall172 on July 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM
GAME OF THRONES!

I read the first book, then didn't want to read the series and watch the series both at the same time.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #52 on: July 16, 2016, 08:39:38 AM »
Quote from: Brooke on July 15, 2016, 04:04:51 PM
I read the first book, then didn't want to read the series and watch the series both at the same time.

It's worth reading the books, the series leaves out a lot or tries to cover it all in a 5 minute lesbian sex scene with introspective dialogue.  I haven't watched the last two seasons of the show... but apparently it starts to stray even further from the books.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #53 on: July 16, 2016, 08:59:32 AM »
Quote from: wil3ur on July 16, 2016, 08:39:38 AM
or tries to cover it all in a 5 minute lesbian sex scene with introspective dialogue. 

Speaking in tongues :bolt:
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #54 on: July 16, 2016, 11:00:52 AM »
Quote from: Brooke on July 15, 2016, 03:57:12 PM
I like that one.  It is by Miller, though.

ARRG!  You are correct, of course.   I was confusing Canticle for "Farnham's Freehold", I think.

How old does one have to be to cease apologizing for being wrong?  Oh!  I know - 130.   :)

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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #55 on: July 16, 2016, 01:47:16 PM »
Too many books to mention.  So I'll just mention some of authors who fit the bill as far as "make you think" books.  Like many I enjoy the likes of Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler, or Brad Thor or Robert Ludlum, but those are just entertainment for me.  Besides religious scripture (Bible and Book of Mormon) Some authors I recommend and my favorites of their works, to get the grey matter working are in no particular order:

George Orwell -1984, Animal Farm

Charles Dickens -Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, many others.

C.S. Lewis -Chronicles of Narnia, Space Trilogy, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity

J.R.R. Tolkien -LOTR

Victor Hugo -Les Miserables

Author C. Clarke -2001, 2010

Alexander Dumas -Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask

Ray Bradbury -Fahrenheit 451, Martin Chronicles, Something Wicked this Way Comes

Isaac Asimov -Foundation Trilogy, I Robot

Phillip K. Dick -Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Penultimate Truth, Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly

Orson Scott Card -The Worthing Chronicle, the Ender Quartet, Lost Boys, Hart's Hope

Larry Niven -The Draco Tavern (I love the Ringworld series, but it's more pure entertainment)

Lots of other good books, but off the top of my head, these are the ones that made me "think".

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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #56 on: July 16, 2016, 01:54:56 PM »
Quote from: Randall172 on July 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM
GAME OF THRONES!

I tried, you know how every chapter is written from the POV of a different character?  I got to I think the 4th book, and saw that most of the chapters where "Cersei" and said screw it.  I never liked her storyline, and found her chapters to be the most boring in the previous novels.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #57 on: July 16, 2016, 04:58:16 PM »
Another one that I'm kinda surprised has made any comment:

Stranger in a Strange Land.. Heinlein    Quite controversial for its time.  Grok?

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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #58 on: July 16, 2016, 05:30:25 PM »
Quote from: APDrone on July 16, 2016, 04:58:16 PM
Another one that I'm kinda surprised has made any comment:

Stranger in a Strange Land.. Heinlein    Quite controversial for its time.  Grog?

That's "Grok".

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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #59 on: July 16, 2016, 10:30:35 PM »
Quote from: saggs on July 16, 2016, 01:54:56 PM
I tried, you know how every chapter is written from the POV of a different character?  I got to I think the 4th book, and saw that most of the chapters where "Cersei" and said screw it.  I never liked her storyline, and found her chapters to be the most boring in the previous novels.

shes the most bad-ass character non-physically and all the other characters are playing checkers while she is playing chess.
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