read any good books lately...

marktheshark wrote: Right now I'm reading Ann Coulter's "How To Talk To A Liberal" So get ready!

I've seen her speak.  Pretty amusing stuff.  Part of the show came close to a stand up comedy routine.  I certainly don't agree with all of her views, but a few of her ideas I do support, such as her views on racial profiling (pro), her views on the Arab nations (con), and her views on unmarried women getting child support (con). 

king of Siam wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: king of Siam wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: Re-reading Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.I am out of fresh reading material. Gotta go to the library or Barnes & Noble soon good book, but a bit overated. i would recommend any chuck Palahniuk book I have read all of his books but Fight Club remains my favorite of his. cool! i actually had to read lullaby at school

Wow,that is cool.What did you have to read it for?A literature class?

Good book too.

stinkfist wrote: i just completed Lord of The Flies and i must say it is my favorite book of all books i have read

If you liked that try reading Battle Royale by Koushun Takami.

The Doctor wrote: Yeah.  Elric rules.  Loved Moorcock's lyrics for BOC too.

and if you can get a copy of "The New World's Fair" by Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix (consisting mostly of members of Hawkwind and High Tide), do it. a very interesting record (which should definitely be added to the archives, by the way)

crimson_wizard wrote: Anything by Michael Moorcock or Nigel Tranter does me. I once read Cosmos by Carl Sagan, only problem was, most of what he wrote went way above my head, but it was interesting.

Moorcock is AWESOME.The Elric Saga rules.

BaldJean wrote: MoodsWings wrote: I've just started 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick. Dick's best works are "Ubik" and "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", in my opinion. I also like his "Valis" trilogy.

Palmer Eldrich and Ubik are absolutely amazing. Do Androids... is also among the better ones I've read (yet not in TOP5); it has many themes that were erased from the film Blade Runner which has quite a different (humourless!) touch all over.
   In Finland new Dick translations appear each year but I have started to lose taste some years ago (and I think all the best ones are translated already, except Dr Bloodmoney which seems interesting according to David Pringle's 100 Best SF Novels). The Divine Invasion was however a good one. I wish more of his - or any sf writers' - short stories were translated.   Are short story translations decreasing elsewhere too??