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NSW 04-05-2012 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1174341)
Ender's Game is by far in my opinion one of the greatest books of the 20th century....but he lost it all with Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide....and personally i never made it to Children of the Mind.....did you by chance read Ender's Shadow?

Ender's Game is in my top 5 books of all time. I haven't read any other OSC but I am in fact about to start Ender's Shadow now! Have you read it then? It's supposed to be from Bean's POV right?

Janszoon 04-05-2012 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1174329)
I just posted to be the 4000th post.

#3999

Fail. :laughing:

bob. 04-05-2012 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife (Post 1174412)
Ender's Game is in my top 5 books of all time. I haven't read any other OSC but I am in fact about to start Ender's Shadow now! Have you read it then? It's supposed to be from Bean's POV right?

yes it's basically a re-telling of Ender's Game from the point of view of Bean....with the first 1/4 or so telling the really interesting story of Bean's background!

as for the others....i don't know....his mixture of moral theology and sci-fi starts to get on my nerves a bit....speaker was ok in my eyes and Xenocide just went off the deep end.....i have to admit that i'm interested in continuing the Bean side of things....seems like the "Shadow" series could be quite interesting

Ender's Shadow is well worth the read though....i hope you enjoy it :)

crash_override 04-06-2012 08:56 AM

The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...st_Templar.JPG

Third book in a week, I'm on a tear. This one is good so far, a lot of stuff going on. I might take a little longer to get through this one.

GravitySlips 04-06-2012 09:02 AM

Just got Infinite Jest delivered - an intimidating length but I've heard good things. Gonna make a start to it as soon as I'm done with re-reading Neuromancer

ThePhanastasio 04-07-2012 01:05 PM

http://i43.tinypic.com/zohvq.jpg

This was wonderful. My favorite Batman graphic novel I've read. I'm not big on Superman or any sort of Robin, and both were present...but as a whole, it was just too damn good for this to be a problem. Joker, Harvey Dent, new villains, aging Batman, Gordon retiring...yes, yes, yes.

I also loved the artwork in this one.

Plus, Frank Miller > All.

Croatian Masochist 04-07-2012 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1174341)
Ender's Game is by far in my opinion one of the greatest books of the 20th century....but he lost it all with Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide....and personally i never made it to Children of the Mind.....did you by chance read Ender's Shadow?

I ordered it, but I haven't got it yet.

I really enjoyed Speaker for The Dead, it has some quotable lines and solid story telling. Xenocide has fallen short for me (he gets a bit sloppy with his writing and construction), though the sub-plot with the chinese family is very interesting.

Flyingpig437 04-08-2012 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine (Post 1174289)
Martian Time-slip is a mind****. It's a good read, but it's insane even by his impressively crazy standards.

We can build you is ****. The ending bares no relation to what's been going on during the bulk of the novel. All that happens is one character goes to a mental aslyum and the whole plotline just get's forgotten about. I've never read a book so pointless in my life before.

LoathsomePete 04-08-2012 03:57 PM

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Men At Arms

It's been awhile since I've read anything by Terry Pratchett, but this one has always been one of my favourites. Pratchett is such a unique fantasy author and the Diskworld is one of my favourite fictional universes.

anticipation 04-08-2012 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio (Post 1175208)
http://i43.tinypic.com/zohvq.jpg

This was wonderful. My favorite Batman graphic novel I've read. I'm not big on Superman or any sort of Robin, and both were present...but as a whole, it was just too damn good for this to be a problem. Joker, Harvey Dent, new villains, aging Batman, Gordon retiring...yes, yes, yes.

I also loved the artwork in this one.

Plus, Frank Miller > All.

**** yes, one of my favorites too.

http://images.indiebound.com/012/406/9781592406012.jpg

http://www.copaceticcomics.com/catal...jpg?1299089584


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