spidey book club

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:21 pm

Cookie Monster wrote:QUOTE (Cookie Monster @ Jun 13 2011, 02:33 PM) This thread is not endorsed by the Spidey Book Club.

perhaps you should interpret it as a query to the spidey book club!

Pos_21 · Post by **Pos_21** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:04 am

Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jun 13 2011, 03:36 PM) Avoid like the plague. One of those people who can't write characters to save his life. I suspect he's got asberger's or something like that. He really, really doesn't understand human behaviour and motivations at all. Alastair Reynolds is similar and just as bad. It seems that the "new wave" british Sci-Fi is written by sociopaths.

Here's the link to that Honor Harrington book I promised.

On Basilisk Station - David Weber.

Actually, all of them are freely available via a share-and-share-alike licensed CD distributed with the last few hardbacks. The CD's floating around somewhere on that website, or I can dredge it up for you. I would like to suggest, however, getting the Audible (read as: audiobook) versions of them. You can get the first two for free by signing up with this handy-dandy referal link supporting Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech podcast. If you like what you hear and are zippy about it, everything in the Audible Store is half off until noon pacific tomorrow, so you can net quite a stock at a greatly reduced price.

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Jun 13 2011, 03:46 PM) a fine vintage of irony, wouldnt you say?

I prefer to think of his characters as sociopaths. In fact, that's not far off the mark for most of them.

Vortrog · Post by **Vortrog** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:34 am

maybe some popcorn fantasy by David Gemmel?

As I get older, I can associate more and more with 'Legend'

Alternatively, perhaps 'The Horse Lord' by Peter Morwood? Nice dark sorcery in that one. I would probably stay away from the rest of the series though, only because the protagonist sort of becomes 'Jedi' and his rise to power no longer of as much interest.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:42 pm

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Jun 13 2011, 11:46 PM) a fine vintage of irony, wouldnt you say?

Try reading some Hamilton troll-boy, and see if you don't agree.

Death3D · Post by **Death3D** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:24 pm

Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.

That one or The End of the World and a Hardboiled Wonderland.

Kopperhead · Post by **Kopperhead** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:56 pm

I'm reading right now _Wake-up calls_ by Bruce Grierson and I am enjoying the book a lot, not S&F, but an study of midlife U-turns with a lot of insight and really entertaining.

Bunnywabbit · Post by **Bunnywabbit** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:11 pm

'Freedom' - Jonathan Franzen.

Now there's a novel for grown-ups.

Darkling · Post by **Darkling** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:42 am

Ignore Adept and read Peter F. Hamilton. Try Pandora's Star for a start.
Dan Simmons and his Hyperion novels
Frank Herbert and Dune if you haven't already (also the Dosadi Experiment)
Steven Erikson and his Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series for epic fantasy
Guy Gavriel Kay and any of his more recent novels for historial themed fantasy

Post by **FreeBeer** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:45 am

I like Spider Robinson stuff. The Calahan Series is always a hoot. The only one of his books I'd not recommend is Stardance - he "co-wrote" that one with his wife who fancied herself a dancer at the time

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He also completed an unfinished Heinlein book (by permission from Heinlein's wife). I haven't read that one either, so can't comment on it.

l1ngus · Post by **l1ngus** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:48 am

Marcel Proust - In search of lost time