And now for something Totally off topic :)

Resident Alien · #1 May 2nd, 2001, 01:48 AM

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Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
And mac5732: I read the first 5 books or so in the Gor series before I got tired of them. How far did you get? I think there was a Gor movie once upon a time too...

Of Gor all I can remember is that I thought Nomads, Maurauders and Tribesmen were good. The rest varied from ok to total dross with the later stuff possibly worse than total dross.

mac5732 · #2 May 2nd, 2001, 05:24 AM

D tsaarx, I finished i think up to #8-9, I found the story line to have become other then what it initially started out to be. I became bored with the series and packed them away and have them stored in my attic. It started out ok but after #5 or #6 started to go down hill and I lost interest. Its a shame, it started out to be a good series.

Have you ever read any of the Dray Prescot series? I think I have up to #24 or 25. Then the author apparently quit following up on the series. Its a shame, good series. Another good one is the Lost Regiment by Forschen, (I think I spelled it right) I highly recommend it. Excellent Series has a different twist as far as the bad guys go.

There was a Movie a long time ago called Gor
based on the series but like most movies didn't match up to the books.

just some ideas mac

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Davout · #3 May 2nd, 2001, 04:10 PM

Books I read, and LIKED(no particular order and spelling):

Timothy Zahn - Conqurors series, Orion series
David Weber - All series except fantasy
Arthur C. Clark - Rama series
Asaak Asimof - ALL(most of his books can fit into one series)
Frank Herbet - Dune series
Star Wars series

...there are more, but can't remember them from the top of my head.

DirectorTsaarx · #4 May 3rd, 2001, 08:57 PM

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Originally posted by mac5732:
D tsaarx, I finished i think up to #8-9, I found the story line to have become other then what it initially started out to be. I became bored with the series and packed them away and have them stored in my attic. It started out ok but after #5 or #6 started to go down hill and I lost interest. Its a shame, it started out to be a good series.

Have you ever read any of the Dray Prescot series? I think I have up to #24 or 25. Then the author apparently quit following up on the series. Its a shame, good series. Another good one is the Lost Regiment by Forschen, (I think I spelled it right) I highly recommend it. Excellent Series has a different twist as far as the bad guys go.

There was a Movie a long time ago called Gor
based on the series but like most movies didn't match up to the books.

just some ideas mac

I pretty much have to agree on the Gor books. The story was pretty good at the beginning, but it turned into a weird philosophical woman-bashing male-supremacist S&M thing and I lost interest. And yeah, the movie was completely different (except that it was at least as bad as the later Gor books, maybe worse

)

Never heard of the Prescot or Lost Regiment series; I'll keep an eye out for them...

Lion of High Park · #5 May 4th, 2001, 01:07 AM

I completely agree about the MYTH series. Very clever, very enjoyable reads. I had never heard why the series stopped, but was disappointed that no more books were forthcoming.

As for other titles/authors:

Larry Niven, Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, etc.
Niven/Pournelle, Mote in God's Eyes (an absolute classic), Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno, Footfall, etc.
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red/Green/Blue Mars series, utterly brilliant
Piers Anthony, Xanth series
Arthur C Clarke, pretty well everything he's written
Stephen Donaldson, Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series,
Tolkien, of course
And, just for a fun change of pace, the original Ian Fleming Bond books (so much cooler than the movies)

Just my 0.02$

Deathstalker · #6 August 12th, 2001, 09:52 PM

More non-rambling science fiction/fantasy book meandering/stuff.........bump!!

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tesco samoa · #7 August 13th, 2001, 03:24 AM

has anyone read the world war in the balance books by turtledove ??

I love reading books. About 1 a week. Mostly history ( military ), scifi and fantasy.