ok, rather than sifting through the mass of topics i'll start a new one.
I've ran out of books to read, that is a major problem since i love reading. However i can't read any old book, it almost always has to be futuristic sci-fi (as opposed to fantasy) although i love the alvin series. Most importantly it has to debate morality, enlightenment, life - philosophy. Just to give a rough guide, my most enjoyable reads have been Speaker for the dead, the homecoming saga, the shadow saga, Iain M Bank's culture books (particularly the first one).
Anyone want to give me a list of authors/books?
Thanx!
Posted by Soara (Member # 6729) on :
Life of Pi by Yann Martel The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Handmaiden's Tale by Atwood The Giver by Lois Lowry. A fast deep read. hmm Others maybe later.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Have you read any of Aasimov? Some? If only some, read the rest. Quality stuff. Zelazny and Herbert (the Dune guy. I think that's his name) are alright too, though not my favorites.
Edit: I second The Giver.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Various books by Octavia Butler, especially the Xenogenesis series...
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Posted by Frank (Member # 9333) on :
cheers for the replies! i'll click that nice ppc and get me sum new books, or atleast bookmark them til i can convince my 'rents to part with the money.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Anything by Octavia Butler or Lois McMaster Bujold*.
*I haven't read all of Bujold's stuff, but I'm going through it all right now.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
quote:Originally posted by Soara: Life of Pi by Yann Martel The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
I just read House of the Scorpion a little while ago for my lit class. It's really good. Right now we're reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's really good (I finished a while ago), definitely debates some philosophical stuff, or at least, conspicuously doesn't debate them. I think it's futuristic, but it technically takes place in the nineties, and most of the beginning stuff is actually two or three decades earlier. Also, have you read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley?
Posted by Landy Braine (Member # 9014) on :
The Sparrow and the sequel Children of God by Mary Doria Russell...Not only did these books have science fiction, fantasy, HEART, but the author is an acomplished linguist and has included a wonderful array of languages in her writings. Not to mention a HUGE plot reveal at the end of book one...which is then expanded upon in book two. It's in my top five for sure.