- Joined
- Feb 5, 2022
- Messages
- 14,140
- Reaction score
- 16,491
Job is good. He shakes off Ginny for that one.Early Heinlein is better than later Heinlein.
Job is good. He shakes off Ginny for that one.Early Heinlein is better than later Heinlein.
9 times and counting...
What a coincidence. I just downloaded that to my Kindle today.One Hundred of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fear and Loathing in Las Vega - the Search for the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson.
It's a great book.What a coincidence. I just downloaded that to my Kindle today.
The original anvil drop. The origin story of anviliciousness.Be honest now. Y'all started just skimming three pages into Galt's dry 60-page soliloquy that just rehashed the themes of the book with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer without presenting any new information or driving the plot forward in any way right?
There's no way anyone could have been riveted to that slogfest the whole time.
Rand refused to have Atlas Shrugged edited. The book is just as she wrote it. I think she took herself seriously.The original anvil drop. The origin story of anviliciousness.
Listen Little Man by world renounced psychologist Wilhelm Reich.
It tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a 'representative of the people,' he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted.
It is an important book for all to read during this dark time of red hats.
Rand refused to have Atlas Shrugged edited.
I guess SOMEONE had to like that horribly-written drek.Atlas Shrugged
Loved that book. And The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
I was having a hard time picking between Moby Dick and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I think those are the two greatest American novels. Have you read White Jacket by Melville?It's close match, but I would say Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I'm glad I read it my mid-30s, because I think I would have bounced off it when I was younger.
![]()
It is closely followed by Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Best "Weird Fiction" I have ever read.
![]()
I also read the first one as a teen - maybe it was even an assignment for a class??? I remember it being a book you couldn't put down."Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther
I read this as a teen.
It was the story of a young man being diagnosed with cancer and dying as told by his father.
It's one of the few books tot his day that I can remember the title and author of.
"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer, is number two.
LOL - she nailed your character to a tee. Sux, huh?Be honest now. Y'all started just skimming three pages into Galt's dry 60-page soliloquy that just rehashed the themes of the book with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer without presenting any new information or driving the plot forward in any way right?
There's no way anyone could have been riveted to that slogfest the whole time.
Ahyup!I guess SOMEONE had to like that horribly-written drek.
That's what got me into SF as a teenager. However I really enjoyed Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury.Foundation by Isaac Asimov
I was hoping for a thumbs up from @Hari Seldon himself.That's what got me into SF as a teenager. However I really enjoyed Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury.
Can't pick just one. Here are a few:...in your life.
What's that one page-turner we should all read?
Also:Can't pick just one. Here are a few:
A. J. Cronin's The Keys of the Kingdom
John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time