OT: Books, Books, Books.

Narrew · #1 January 6th, 2004, 12:04 AM

gregebowman, with some of the Authors you mentioned, take a look at Nelson DeMille, I have read a few of his books and really liked Plum Island and Lions Game.

Will · #2 January 6th, 2004, 12:56 AM

I just read Timeline by Michael Crichton... thought it was pretty good. And impeccably good timing on my grandfather's part, passing it off to me just a week after I heard of a movie of the same name, based on a Crichton book. Should be interesting to see that.

gregebowman · #3 January 6th, 2004, 07:32 PM

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Originally posted by Narrew:
gregebowman, with some of the Authors you mentioned, take a look at Nelson DeMille, I have read a few of his books and really liked Plum Island and Lions Game.

My wife's supervisor will give her a big box of books from time to time. It's a really a mixture of books I normally wouldn't read. But if I'm out of my type of books to read, then I'll grab one of these. I don't remember reading any of Demille's yet, although I've his name before. Some of these books, mostly murder mysteries, are quite good.

gregebowman · #4 January 6th, 2004, 09:46 PM

I've mentioned this in another post, but no one ever responded. I'm interested in reading Harry Turtledove's alternate history books, but I'm not sure of the chronology. Does anyone know? Thanks

Fyron · #5 January 7th, 2004, 12:10 AM

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Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
just pick some in the middle and read them. Then pick a few pages at a different point and read them. You can get a good sampling of what the book is like from a few pages.

That sounds like manual foreshadowing...

Just an example of how you can judge a book from a few pages...

Fyron · #6 January 7th, 2004, 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
I've mentioned this in another post, but no one ever responded. I'm interested in reading Harry Turtledove's alternate history books, but I'm not sure of the chronology. Does anyone know? Thanks

Google is your friend. UBB code, however, is not.

[ January 06, 2004, 22:15: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Cipher7071 · #7 January 7th, 2004, 03:24 PM

Here I go with the ancient history again. Gregebowman mentioned that he likes books with a lot of character development. "Macroscope" by Piers Anthony is a good one for that. The story also has a unique techno-premise, which is the SDPS itself.