OT: Time for another thread on books? (Retorical)

Randallw · #1 March 4th, 2005, 03:22 AM

Read "Guns of the South". By far my favourite. I do like Harry Turtledove, although I haven't forced myself to read his latest works. I enjoy alternate history however he does go on...and on...and on.
eg. in one of his universes he has a book set 20 years after the Confederate States wins the civil war. Then a trilogy 30 years after that which covers world war 1, then he does the depression, now he is doing ww2 all in the same universe. Its as bad as his neverending series on aliens attacking earth during ww2.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 April 6th, 2005, 05:40 AM

The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure : the "good parts" version, abridged / by William Goldman

Would there be an unabridged version, or is that only humor?

RudyHuxtable · #3 April 7th, 2005, 04:18 AM

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure : the "good parts" version, abridged / by William Goldman

Would there be an unabridged version, or is that only humor?

Humor, my cheese eating friend. It's only the one novel, which is also the script. Goldman is one of the only writers able to get away with serving up a script in novel form and actually have it considered.

Right now I'm reading "The Dream and the Tomb," a big thick monster of a narrative about the Crusades. History book. For fun. I'm getting old.

DarkHorse · #4 April 11th, 2005, 02:16 PM

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure : the "good parts" version, abridged / by William Goldman

Would there be an unabridged version, or is that only humor?

Humor, my cheese eating friend. It's only the one novel, which is also the script. Goldman is one of the only writers able to get away with serving up a script in novel form and actually have it considered.

The novel actually came quite a few years (18 or so, I think) before it was finally made into a movie, and was not merely written as a screenplay.

In the DVD extras, there is an interview with William Goldman where he tells the story about his efforts to get the book made into a movie. Fortunately, the movie ended up following the book fairly closely, to its (and our) benefit. The book is definitely worth reading in its own right.

Aiken · #5 April 11th, 2005, 04:17 PM

Finished "Ilium" by D.Simmons. Not so epoch-making as his "Hyperion Songs", but still a good reading. But I'm affraid that dirty Greeks will win in a war for mankind in "Olympos". It would be a very predictible ending.

spoon · #6 April 7th, 2005, 01:21 PM

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Would there be an unabridged version, or is that only humor?

Humor. The book is great, one of my favorites. Ditto, the movie.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 April 7th, 2005, 10:30 PM

Thanks for the answers.

gregebowman · #8 April 10th, 2005, 10:21 PM

Currently, I'm reading Robin Cook's Invasion. I know it's been made into a mini-series that occassionally pops up on sci-fi channel, but I still haven't seen it. So I'll read the book and maybe one of these days I'll be able to see the show.

Lenin · #9 April 11th, 2005, 04:10 AM

Hi Everyone!

Anyone read any of China Mievilles books - i.e Perdido Street Station, The Scar, The Iron Council. Highly recommended technological fantasy with a touch of politics.

El_Phil · #10 April 11th, 2005, 06:37 AM

OK Here's a question? David Webber, paticularly the Honor Harrington books. Are the first two representative of the entire series?

Because I like the writing style, but the actual plot grates slightly. I think it just comes down to a main character who is never ever wrong and is doing an audition of universe's most perfect person. I did enjoy the two on the Baen free library but.. I don't know I just got the feeling that the rest of the series would be a bit formulaic. Any comments?