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An interesting book on the corruption of that other football, the boring one, called The Big Fix
Finished Inferno(4/5) and started "Insane City" by Dave Barry.
"Insane City" was a fun read. Just started "Breathless" by Dean Koontz.
Just started "The 5th Assassin" by Brad Meltzer
It's not so much your tastes, perhaps, as young SF writers are just not mentored as well as those raised by Gernsback and Campbell during the Golden Age.
Most of those writers are themselves dying off and an entire era of great writers is going with them.
I find myself going back and digging out entire libraries of the older writers that I collected and hadn't yet completely read - Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Farmer, Saberhagen, Leiber, Leinster, etc.
Yeah, the stories are almost silly sometimes, but the excitement is still there.
I tried earlier to list some of the younger people still working the craft of SF, but between the sucky vampire and werewolf crapshitters that swindle by subject matter and not earn with talent, & the shift away from hard SF these days, it's becoming harder and harder to find a new SF author I can stomach.
NONE (very few) of the younger crowd bothers to learn what makes people tick, and their writing comes off like a badly written TV show script now.
Campbell, especially, and Gernsback REQUIRED their writers to submit material that explored the workings of people & construct societies that actually suspended disbelief, rather than deus ex machina insti-fix outcomes.
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Arriving on Tuesday in bookstores and on e readers
Lisbeth Salander is BACK!
The Girl in the Spider Web
Not written by Larsson of course but the NYT review yesterday gave it a thumbs up
Lisbeth Salander is BACK!
The Girl in the Spider Web
Not written by Larsson of course but the NYT review yesterday gave it a thumbs up
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been reading mostly ebooks lately from amazon............usually on the business side of how things work etc etc
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"The Summer of Beer and Whiskey"
I just looked this up on Amazon...sounds really good.
I just finished "Consent To Kill" and started "Act of Treason" both by Vince Flynn(RIP).
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"Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn
I have been reading the Dan Brown books recently. I have read all except Digital Fortress.
I have always read Terry Brooks and MTV has just started a series about them last week called The Shanara Chronicles. First episode was really good. I was Leary of it being on MTV but Terry is involved in it and it looks to be really good.
If you like that kind of stuff. Lord of the Rings type stuff
I have always read Terry Brooks and MTV has just started a series about them last week called The Shanara Chronicles. First episode was really good. I was Leary of it being on MTV but Terry is involved in it and it looks to be really good.
If you like that kind of stuff. Lord of the Rings type stuff
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Just read Girl in the Spiders Web
Right up there with the three Millenium books by Steig Larssen
Great to have Lisbeth back
Right up there with the three Millenium books by Steig Larssen
Great to have Lisbeth back
"I Am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes
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