What are you reading now?

Horace · 25 Oct 2023, 17:14

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

I literally did not know that.

Doctor Phibes · 25 Oct 2023, 17:39

I bought this again on Kindle. I first read it in about 1982, and I'm enjoying it a lot more this time. Not sure whether I'll keep going through all of them. That bit with the bloke turning into a shoal of fish rather jumped the sandworm for me.

Aqua Letifer · 25 Oct 2023, 17:21

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

I literally did not know that.

Gotcha.

Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

Horace · 25 Oct 2023, 17:49

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

I literally did not know that.

Gotcha.

Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

I was being literal, he considers himself a writer and poet before a film maker. He thinks his writings will outlast the impact of his films, and he will be remembered mostly for them. He says so out loud. He was just on a podcast called The Gray Area.

bachophile · wrote on 25 Oct 2023, 17:39

@Doctor-Phibes I reread dune about a year ago.

I think I’ve mentioned this but when I first read it as a young teen I fell madly in love with chani.

Though the recent movie’s chani didn’t do it for me.

Aqua Letifer · H Horace 25 Oct 2023, 17:21

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

I literally did not know that.

Gotcha.

Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

I was being literal, he considers himself a writer and poet before a film maker. He thinks his writings will outlast the impact of his films, and he will be remembered mostly for them. He says so out loud. He was just on a podcast called The Gray Area.

Yep, I've heard him say that elsewhere also.

LuFins Dad · J Jolly 25 Sept 2023, 14:57

@Jolly said in What are you reading now?:

@LuFins-Dad said in What are you reading now?:

My guess is @Jolly has read this as it's been a part of the Baen free library for years. It's also free on Audible and Apple Books as well...

Alternate history... A small modern (2000 AD) coal mining town in West Virginia with a population of roughly 5,000 (very similar to towns @Aqua-Letifer and I have spent big parts of our lives in) gets transported by cosmic mishap to Thuringia (Germany) in 1631 AD, smack in the middle of the 30 Year War. creating a splinter universe timeline.

The modern town has it's own power plant, coal mine, several machine shops, and a modest agricultural base. It also has a new HS and Vocational Tech school... It also has a good number of Appalachian Coal Miners, Hillbillies, trucks, and modern firearms...

It's an interesting story of a town that has incredible technological advantages, but is also vastly vastly outnumbered in the middle of one of humanity's darkest and most violent periods. A time when they have to balance their own American ideals vs the needs of the moment. The author's VERY pro-union attitudes come through a little too strongly for my taste, but it's an interesting story,.

Funny, I'm rereading this now. Do a web search for "Baen CD" and you'll find some links to the CD's they used to put in their books. Probably a half dozen of the follow-on books, plus several editions of the Grantville Gazette.

While you're perusing all the available books, do try On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series. Most of that series is pretty well written. Think Hornblower in space...

I’m getting up to the Ottoman part of the primary storyline, and remembering that I’ve read up to the Polish Maelstrom the first time I read it and looked ahead to see how many new books they’ve added.

And I just discovered that Flint died last year, and there are no plans for continuing the series with any of the ancillary writers. Very disappointing.

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 28 Oct 2023, 03:25

Didn't so much read this one as listen to it, but it was quite a hoot. It's a mishmash of roughly the following:

You wrap a wire around an iron nail and run a current through the wire, you can create an electromagnet. This works because there's a current running through the wire. Okay, so, instead of a wire, say you have a highway. And instead of a current of electrons you have a constant stream of souls with the power of free will, passing by other free-willed souls who are stationary on the side of the highway. This creates a kind of spiritual current, a kind of electromagnetism between our world and the afterlife.
Daedalus isn't dead, he's just been busy elsewhere.
The Minotaur is a place, not just a thing.

Seriously fun sci-fi. I was happy to learn that Powers follows a writing method similar to Ray Bradbury. Makes sense, too, when you compare how the plots of both writers unwind. There's a lot of "dream logic" going on.

Klaus · 12 Nov 2023, 08:21

I haven't read a real novel in a long time, maybe decades. I read this one in two days (the original German version).

It was quite cool and inspiring. I had almost forgotten what it feels to read a novel and how to emphasise with its characters. This one was rather tear-inducing in some places (cried like a baby) but also strangely fulfilling.

This is a book about how we are shaped by our past, about what family is, about love. It's all super-relatable. Great book!

George K · 24 Dec 2023, 01:17

I'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

So....

Renauda · wrote on 23 Dec 2023, 19:21

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27109827

Copper · wrote on 23 Dec 2023, 19:24

I have been looking at textbooks lately.

There is not really a degree in the book. But that would have advantages over some school-bought degrees.

George K · wrote on 24 Dec 2023, 01:17

@George-K said in What are you reading now?:

'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

Ahhh...screw it.

Time to reread "The Shining."

Interesting to see how his style has changed, and yet, remained the same over the last 40-plus years.

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 02:16

This is excellent.

Doctor Phibes · 27 Dec 2023, 15:38

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

Aqua Letifer · 27 Dec 2023, 15:41

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

Doctor Phibes · 27 Dec 2023, 17:14

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.

Copper · wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 16:16

Got book #2 (WW II) in the 4-book series for Christmas.

I still have to finish book #1 - West Point History of the Civil War.

George K · 27 Dec 2023, 17:31

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.

I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.

However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.

They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 17:31

@George-K said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.

I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.

However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.

They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.

His son made a graphic novel version of the first book.

Is awesome.

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