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One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
7 comments:
"Times Eye" by Clarke and Stephen Baxter is great. I think I've mentioned them here before. Ironically enough, next on my list to read are the next titles in the trilogy; "Sunstorm" and "First Born".
His novels, courtesy Wikipedia:
Prelude to Space (1951)
The Sands of Mars (1951)
Islands in the Sky (1952)
Against the Fall of Night (1953)
Childhood's End (1953)
Earthlight (1955)
The City and the Stars (1956)
The Deep Range (1957)
A Fall of Moondust (1961)
Dolphin Island (1963)
Glide Path (1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Imperial Earth (1975)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
A Meeting with Medusa (1988)
Cradle (1988) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with G. Benford)
The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
The Hammer of God (1993)
Richter 10 (1996) (with Mike McQuay)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
The Trigger (1999) (with Kube-McDowell)
The Light of Other Days (2000) (with S. Baxter)
Time's Eye (2003) (with Stephen Baxter)
Sunstorm (2005) (with Stephen Baxter)
Firstborn (2007) (with Stephen Baxter)
The Last Theorem (to be published) (with F. Pohl)
Enjoyed his Rama books although I really didn't read him as much as a lot of other sci-fi "masters".
Loved the fact he was "hard" science fiction as opposed to fantasy.
And of course, 2001.
Being more of a fantasy than sci fi person, I've never read anything of his, but I've heard such excellent things about him that I've wanted to read something of his. That's quite an impressive bibliography he's got--I'll have choices.
Hey DaniKa-
Just started "V for Vendetta"
You're my new hero.
I read Childhood's End a pretty long time ago, but I liked the futuristic/progressive ideas in it, although they were twisted into something scary. I believe it's about the human race being taken over by a more advanced alien civilization who views us as Neanderthalish.
I recall one scene that I thought was particularly compelling: tourists/spectators are getting ready for a beloved tradition: a bullfighting match. But the alien civilization poised to take us over views this as inhumane and doesn't approve. I forget exactly what happens; the bull gets whipped or branded or something to that effect, to make it angry or whatever, and suddenly everyone in the audience can feel what the bull feels (an effect somehow orchestrated by the alien civilization). Obviously this immediately puts an end to bullfighting.
~Lisa
Um...Who are you and what have you done with Don? V for Vendetta? Is this the Don who rants and raves about Alan Moore being too hyped? I think somebody's having a bit of fun with me.
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