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My example Jurassic Park. As much as i loved the ORIGINAL movie, not the second one lol. I still thought the book was far superior. Just the introduction in the book about he girl getting bitten by a shit i forget little dinosaur lol. and than it just has more to it, thaan you watch the movie and its like wow the movie missed alot
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the book is hella long. i have actually had it sitting aroundf in my room. i should go and read it but damn is it an easy book to get into.
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I've read almost everything by Tom Clancy... his early books are real good. Red Storm Rising is still an all time favorite for me. Some of his newer ones are pretty good as well.
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CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE books are really cool! The one that I found the best was called "Sword of the Samurai" by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone :)
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the articles in hustler is closest thing i get to reading a book
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Maxim magazines are also appetizing :) They provide insight into some tips and tricks in bed...mwuahahah :kam:
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The client - John Grisham
such a fucking good writer the only writers writing techniques that realate to how i read my books and think
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i quite enjoy oscar wilde, i have the complete works book, pretty good, ive read picture of dorian gray a few times now. oh and i figured out which book is referanced when lord henry lends him that book bound in yellow, the one that coruptes him, it is called against nature by J.K Huysmans, the story isnt to in depth but has signifigant detials, i liked it, oh and go as alice, another favorite no matter what anyone says,
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Post I made on soapbox.wilwheaton.net:
Must-read Science Fiction: Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game Relatively easy read, very cool conceptually. I'm actually a fan of the first set of sequels (Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) though by the end of that series it was starting to dwindle. Ender's Shadow was stellar. Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets was less SciFi though and more politics. Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land Thoroughly dated, but an excellent excellent read regardless. Found it a bit weaker near the end... but it's a great great book. I mean, the man brought us grokking.... William Gibson - Neuromancer I'm reading Count Zero right now, and loving it a bit more than I even liked Neuromancer, but Neuromancer was a revolutionary book that redefined Science Fiction. This book and Blade Runner are probably the two pieces of media that are most responsible for the "Cyberpunk" movement that was in the mid-80s. The Matrix, Dark City, and a host of other "punk" books and movies owe their existence to this book. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash If you liked Cyberpunk but wanted a bit more of a modernized look at it, post-cyberpunk is an excellent source of it. This book will have you looking at corporations, the government, the internet in a totally new light. Not to mention pizza delivery boys. And with a main character's name like Hiro Protagonist, you can't really go wrong, can you? I haven't yet read any Asimov. But I will put him under "Required Reading". Foundations Trilogy is on my list. Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea - The Illuminatus! Trilogy Not so much science fiction as conspiracy theory. But it does involve battle with a sea monster! Can't say too much about this book, partly because it's such a fucked up read that you just have to experience it yourself, and partly because FNORD. Douglas Adams - Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy in Five Parts. Don't let the length scare you. I read Life, The Universe And Everything in about a day. That was when I was 13. After you read this, a lot of the jokes in the slashdot comments will make a lot more sense, and you'll chuckle instead of be dumbfounded when someone answers a deep philisophical question you pose with "42". Interestingly enough, a lot of the kitschy stuff in the last two trilogies are similar. While Illuminatus! remains in 3 printed editions, there are still 5 "books" that divide it.... some which span across actual printed editions. The numbers 23 and 42 have interesting parts to play in each respective trilogy. Frank Herbert - Dune The DeLaurentis movie kind of fucks up with the story of this, the SciFi series is rather true to the novel, though the timing is a bit off. I say read the books then watch either or. They're all awesome. But the book is incredible. The sequels are decent, but I wouldn't say they're anywhere near as good as the original. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Interesting look at civilisation itself. Think Gattaca. "Civilisation" is looked upon as the death of emotion in this book... a very interesting read and an important book, but I personally think that the point was better expressed in: George Orwell - 1984 This book changed me as a person. It did the same for a lot of people. Scared the bejeezus out of me. My book report in grade 11 concluded with "Don't read this book because you'll like it. Read it because you won't." That was the year we read MacBeth, Lord of the Flies, and a couple of extra-dark novels. And of course, when we hit the choose-your-own-book portion of the class, I picked 1984. Though it's more of a political piece than a science fiction novel, it's still taking place in a possible future so it definately counts (was written, if you don't already know this, in 1948, based on Orwell's observation of the Soviet totalitarianism in cold war Russia. He originally wanted to call it 1948. The editors veto'd it and he flipped the numbers around.) I hope I got them all. Those are pretty much what I'd consider to be staple science fiction. If you like what you see, just go to a used book store's science fiction section and pick up a couple of different titles by different authors and see how it goes.
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another must read author is Brian Lumley. if you like vampires, guns, psychics, parallel universes, werewolves, spies, and the KGB.
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1984 by George Orwell...yeah i agree..what an awesome book. Another book i really liked along the same sort of lines of a corrupt future is 'A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess'. This book totally makes you look at human nature and how you can't change it.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.....I might have been the only person in my English 11 class, those years ago, that absolutely loved this book. I guess i'm just a sucker for books written about human nature. I'm interested in that kind of stuff. And whoever mentioned Oscar Wilde up there. You are my hero. That guy is probably one of the wittiest people to ever live. He came up with the craziest shit. I love his play "The Importance of Being Earnest' and that book 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'. Everything I've read of his is good. He never disapoints me.
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i only got the chance to read a clockwork orange once :( but i'm still looking for it. i like all the russian/english slang. have to keep flipping to the back of the back to look up the meaning of certain words lol.
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^^Yeah, I bought a version of the book without the little glossary in the back. So for the first part of the book, the reading was very slow because I had to decode all the setences and guess what the slang meant. But as I went on, it got really easy and the slang totally added to the book. I still have the little glossary i made myself in a notebook as i was reading it. :p
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It seems the only real merit it had to me was it followed rules of storytelling really well. I can't stand books that do that.
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