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

[gregebowman]

Aris_Sung said:
I think that the novels that Harry Turtledove writes are interesting. He likes to write books on alternate history. I'm currently reading "In The Presence of Mine Enemies". And so far, it's pretty good.

Just finished reading that book about a month ago. Pretty good. I wish he'd had gone into more detail of how the Nazi's won the war, instead of just little bits of info along the way. I would recommend this book. I've read his Guns of the South, and the one about the second civil war (can't remember the title right now). I got most of the books in that series, and will probably start reading them soon.

[RudyHuxtable]

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.

[Randallw]

gregebowman said:

I've read his Guns of the South, and the one about the second civil war (can't remember the title right now). I got most of the books in that series, and will probably start reading them soon.

http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/labe...=turtgreatw#01

as I said it does go on. 10 books so far.

Edit: oh, and an explanation of "In the presence of Mine Enemies"

http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/labe...?id=turtinthep

Counterfactual history is my favourite Genre and I check Uchronia every day.

[Caduceus]

Currently reading:

Galileo's Daughter - nonfiction, historical
The history of the astronomer/mathematician and his correspondence with his daughter who was in a convent.

[spoon]

narf poit chez BOOM said:

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]

Thanks for the answers.

[gregebowman]

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]

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]

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?

[Makinus]

El_Phil said:
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?

Take my opinion with a grain of salt as i´m a big fan of Honor Harrington, but i alway tought the best books in the sereis were the first one (On Basilisk Station) and the one entitled "The Flag in Exile" (I can´t remember if it is the fourth or fifth of the series), another very good one is the "Echoes of Honor", and while the first 3 novels are a little "formulaic" in nature, from the fourth onwards you have very different plots from a novel to the next.... but don´t expect for Honor Harrington attitude to change, as in all the books she is like the perfect hero...

I myself love the Honor Harrington books, i read all the 10 books of the series, and started to read the subseries based in the same universe, i heartly recommend the series to anyone ...