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Cryptonomicon is amazing and it defies categorization. Snow Crash was interesting but this one is way better
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Ender
Originally posted by: Imp
"Interview with the Vampire" - Anne Rice. Pretty well written, and becomes 10x cooler after having watched the movie.
Originally posted by: Imp
"Interview with the Vampire" - Anne Rice. Pretty well written, and becomes 10x cooler after having watched the movie.
Originally posted by:Wuffsunie
How could you POSSIBLY consider that favorite book?! It was the biggest case of literary blue-balls I've ever had! I got to the ends, and there was no payoff! Zip, zero! Louis has a whole load of nothing as his motivation for the recitation of his life's story by the time the end has rolled around. Really, that's what pisses me off the most about that book. It was an interesting story, sure, but had no motive behind it, at all.
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Heinlein
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
followed by
Song of Ice & Fire series by George R.R. Martin
Originally posted by: Descartes
The best book I've read in recent years is Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Once again, I'm lost.Originally posted by: Vic
Heh. Probably not. Heinlein does strike particular western taboo nerves in his later books, and he made made it all too clear that he was doing it on purpose. That tends to piss some people off.
But that was Heinlein's sarcasm. He liked to shove people's noses into their closed-minded societal taboos. Like the way you'd find out at the very end of a book that the hero wasn't white (as in Starship Troopers and the The Cat Who Walks Through Walls).
So if one is offended by the remarkable amount of sex in To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Heinlein's question would have been, what business of yours is it if it's all between consenting adults?
Right in the beginning of Starship Troopers he refers to himself as Juan Rico and says he's from Buenos Aires. Only his mother called him by the nickname Johnny. And there was no Carmen Ibanez in the book, it was Carmencita.
The MOVIE made them a couple of white kids, and turned Dizzy Flores into a female and Rico's love interest.
The Cat who walks through walls was great but I honestly dont remember much of it after this many years.
Well I think Vic is right as far his understanding of Heinlein's views about various taboos, but maybe not right in the examples he gives.
Col. Colin Campbell, the hero or The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, was certainly white. This can be inferred from the fact that he receives a replacement foot from Lazarus Long which matches him in all particulars other than the fact that it is obviously from a different person than his other foot. I don't know if Lazarus Long's ethnicity is described in TCWWTW, but it is in Methuselah's Children, where he was described as a white man with an artificial tan. It may not mean much but the cover of the book also has a picture of a white man with an eyepatch (who could only be Col. Campbell) and a woman in a spacesuit (Gwen Novac/Hazel Davis).
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Originally posted by: timosyy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I'm going to have to give some of the books mentioned in this thread a read.