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Old 04-07-2009, 01:01 AM   #921
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I was reading World War Z, but had to stop to study for the pcat. I'm going to start reading that again. After that one, I want to read Battle Royale since I loved the movie, and then Corline. I also want to start reading the True Blood books.
The book is so much better than the movie. I read the book first, and ended up hating the movie because of the changes.

Currently reading the Timeline-191 series. 5 more books to go.
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Old 04-07-2009, 11:22 AM   #922
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Can someone recommend a good post-apocalypse book (other than The Road or Oryx and Crake)
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Old 04-07-2009, 08:55 PM   #923
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Can someone recommend a good post-apocalypse book (other than The Road or Oryx and Crake)
Have you read Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban? It's dense and weird but an amazing read. Imagine The Stand meets A Clockwork Orange. Killer stuff.

Also, while it's technically a "pre-apocalyptic" book, I love Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It's easily the funniest book ever written about the end of the world.
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Old 04-08-2009, 02:30 AM   #924
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Can someone recommend a good post-apocalypse book (other than The Road or Oryx and Crake)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller is probably my favorite - not taking into consideration zombie books.
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Old 04-08-2009, 03:30 AM   #925
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Can someone recommend a good post-apocalypse book (other than The Road or Oryx and Crake)
Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling might interest you as well as A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller.

Whoops, didn't read the previous post before replying.
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Old 04-08-2009, 07:24 AM   #926
Cool, thanks guys. I'm adding those suggestions to my wishlist.
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Old 04-08-2009, 08:47 AM   #927
For some reason, I've been unable to 'get into' fiction for the last few years. I tear through non-fiction stuff (especially history, economics or linguistics related), but get bored even with authors that I've always enjoyed. This thread has given a lot of great suggestions though....maybe I need to branch out more.

FWIW...I'm reading Nudge (a book on behavioral economics), the Power of Babel (a book on how languages transform over time) and also re-reading The Prince by Machiavelli.
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:10 AM   #928
Finished Chapterhouse Dune and I'm going to go ahead and read the other two by his son. I kinda have to after that jacked up ending.
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Old 04-09-2009, 02:41 AM   #929
Finally got around to finishing Brothers of the Snake. On to Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion next.
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Old 04-09-2009, 12:13 PM   #930
Just finished World War Z which I really liked and now I'm reading The Turnaround by George Pelecanos.
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Old 04-09-2009, 06:08 PM   #931
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Old 04-09-2009, 07:04 PM   #932
Frankenstein- Shame the movies do this one absolutely no justice.
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Old 04-09-2009, 07:09 PM   #933
Finished 1984. Wow, that book was AMAZING. Got started on Brave New World, but I'm not quite into it yet.
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Old 04-09-2009, 07:24 PM   #934
Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture and HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulu.
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Old 04-10-2009, 03:19 PM   #935
Just starting In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
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Old 04-10-2009, 05:52 PM   #936
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Can someone recommend a good post-apocalypse book (other than The Road or Oryx and Crake)
good pre-apocalyptic thrillers

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Old 04-13-2009, 12:04 PM   #937
While at the beach the past week I read Jedi Trial by David Sherman and Dan Cragg, Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart, Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff and Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I'm now reading Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Weis and Hickman.
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Old 04-13-2009, 01:55 PM   #938
I'm reading (slowly) blood meridian. I have a huge stack of books next to my bed. My DS has limited my reading habits and now my brain is probably rotting.

edit: maklershed, some people enjoy I am Legend by Hienlen (sic) ... not the movie mind you.
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Old 04-13-2009, 02:22 PM   #939
Finished Ender's Game, it was good, and Caves of Steel, it was alright- good enough that I'm going to get the other books in the series, a little over a week ago. Started reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay a few days ago. I'm not sure what I think of it so far. The story is ok but I find something about the writing to be odd.
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Old 04-13-2009, 02:56 PM   #940
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edit: maklershed, some people enjoy I am Legend by Hienlen (sic) ... not the movie mind you.
That wasn't Heinlein but rather Richard Matheson. And if you do dig I Am Legend, you guys should read Theodore Sturgeon's Some Of Your Blood which was the book that inspired Matheson to write I Am Legend. Hell, read Sturgeon's writing in general, dude was truly a master when it comes to horror.

Actually, I think I'll re-read Some Of Your Blood
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