Anyone read books anymore?

[ShadowMarth]

I suppose this could serve as something of a 'favorite books' thread, since I didn't want to start one myself, and could not find a suitable one.

Anyway, last time I posted in here, I said I was reading Cradle, by Arthur C Clarke and Gentry Lee. Don't read it. I seriously doubt that Clarke had much to do with it, since A) it was all horrible, B) it had way too many sex scenes (Clarke's had a few, but this was excessive and much too... descriptive compared to Clarke's others), and C) it has a much more optimistic, even affirming, view of religion (specifically Christianity, one of the main characters is a 'fallen holy man' of sorts) than I've ever seen with Clarke, who has been quoted comparing religion to a virus.

Currently I'm on book four out of five of the Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov. Believe it or not, NO ROBOTS! It's hard to believe, since Asimov has been a bit of a one note guy with the Three Rules, he must have a hundred stories on them. It's a very good book, full of cool concepts, lots of good old Sci-Fi irony, and the fall of a galaxy-spanning empire. In fact it is a well hidden fact compared to his usual novels, but it is actually much like his others, being more like a collection of short stories on a sci-fi theme. However this one is presented as a continuos story much better. One gripe I have with it is that the first three books is that, being written in the 1940s-50s, they have a couple passages that show their age. For instance, in the third book, I believe, a character is explaining a device he needs produced to an engineer, and he says something like, "By Space, that's hundreds of circuits!"...

Also, I'm about to read Ender's Game, and possibly more of the books in that series. I also am finally getting around to continuing with the Dune saga, once I finish up Foundation, as I'm sure Mormon will be glad to hear. Basically I'm working off of this list for good reading material, provided by mormon.

http://users.tpg.com.au/sykespj/scif...oks_rank1.html

Some of my personal favorites, other than those I've listed, are Dune, Jurassic Park, Prey, Timeline, The Light of Other Days (Clarke, underrated), the 2001 series, I, Robot, Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Bicentennial Man (and other of Asimov's many short story colletions on Robots and the Three Rules), and the Foundation series.

[bignds]

If any of you guys are into fast paced thrillers, twists and turns, and all round entertaining read, check out Panic by Jeff Abbott.
Amazing book, ill type out the blurb.
" Things are going well for young filmmaker Evan Casher- untill he receives an urgernt phone call from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in waiting for him.

It is then he realises hiswhole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire exstence has been an ingeniously contructed sham. And now that he knows it, he is in terrible danger. Evan's only hope fur survival is to discover the truth abouit his past."

It is a seriously awesome book, with some big names calling it the best thriller in years. Its probably one of my favorite books, well worth a look into.

yeah i've read every book in the ender's series, every book in the Dune series, and right now im almost done with the 1st book in foundation.

i think i'll go look that up biggy

[theONE]

I'm not a big reader, at all, but within the last year i found a great boook, "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Chricton (i dunno how to spell his last name)

[ShadowMarth]

Hehe, that's a good one too. I read it a year or so ago. I'm told it has a movie, but perhaps it's better I not see it, considering what Jurassic Park 2 was like compared to the book...

[Pilot_51]

The last book I read in its entirety was the Meteos manual, that's an interesting book but a bit short compared to the Brain Age manual...
On a serious note, I just don't find there to be enough time to read real books at my leisure, especially when I can't get enough of PC and DS, I still have homework forcing me to read.

[theONE]

O yeah, im about to read 1984.. by Orwell

nice dude

i have that one... haven't gotten around to reading it, but i heard it was great

[Lkr]

eh I haven't read since I finished the 6th Harry Potter :\