Favourite Novels Of All Time?

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BRENDA

Sunday, January 14, 2024 3:26 AM

Dune

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, May 23, 2024 6:59 PM

Can you class the Bible as a fictional novel, but it might have some true events or historical place names inside?

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Friday, May 24, 2024 5:03 PM

Not my favorite but Watch Mojo

Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time

ANONYMOUSE

Friday, May 24, 2024 6:12 PM

I have several. To say I'm an avid reader is like saying cats love catnip (aside)(mine, rest her soul, went doolally when I got her a catnip mouse. Not for Tigger the typical chilling out, oh no. With her it was business as usual: she ended up running madly around my flat and up and down the stairs for an hour, and the one time I tried to stroke her to calm her down she went for me! I hid that damn toy and never ever got it out again!).(/aside)

Anyway.

Altered Carbon, a dynamite debut butchered by Netflix.

Old Man's War, which if it's ever made for TV as it should be, hopefully it won't be treated the same.

Guards! Guards! - a brilliant take on the SF trope of guards who seem to get slaughtered for no reason.

On Basilisk Station - should definitely be TV! Nimitz and other treecats would be a doddle with CGI. The main problem there is finding an actress who's 6'+ and young-looking - and who can cut through battle steel with just her voice, not even raising it. Hmm. Gal Gadot, digitally de-aged, with camera trickery and/or CGI to accentuate her 5'10"?

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide - sorry, Americans, but although some bits were good and very Douglas, the movie was not what we diehard fans had hoped for. You cannot Americanise British humour. Plus Zaphod should've been done properly with CGI - a two-headed three-armed guy? Again, a doddle! (Loved the POV Gun, though, a great creation from Douglas). The Guide got me through my 'O' Levels with the most sage piece of advice: DON'T PANIC.

One I really really wish they'd adapt for TV is Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Somehow that one struck such a chord I borrowed it from the library for 10 weeks straight.

- damn my post-stroke memory, I forgot Glory Road!

"People tend to confuse the words 'new' and 'improved'."

- Phil Coulson, Level 7 S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent

Windows 11, anyone?

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Saturday, June 15, 2024 12:51 AM

Collectors - There are people who buy books for their bindings or Cover or quality Look

Tragic Truth About Beautiful Books

Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie

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Monday, June 17, 2024 5:09 PM

If there is a positive about 'Covid' and Corona lockdowns is that it got people back into reading again

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Monday, June 17, 2024 5:27 PM

Not my pick but some vids that review books

You could say scifi has been around a while with Frankenstein, Jules Verne was noted for his attention to detail and scientific accuracy, maybe even to the time of Greeks talking about clockwork machines but more fantasy where the line between myth and fact was blurred, H. G. Wells one of science fiction's most important authors begis the Aline Invasion, before the political questions of Cyberpunk there was 'We' by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, one of the first dystopian novels the true story of the Scientific Revolution enters books as science advances and the Age of Enlightenment, new discovers in math, computers, biology, chemistry and astronomy.
Then For a while it was all Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Artur C Clark, John Brunner, Herbert's Dune books, Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Finney, Wilson Tucker, Joe Haldeman, Larry Niven and from behind the Iron Curtain the Russian and Polish ideas and movies, Stanislaw Lem, as people went overseas they got inspired William Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, helped popularize cyberpunk and the word "cyberspace".

in the 80s and 90s it opened up to Japan cultural exports

and of course you now have the Visual Comicbook medium or Graphic Novel accepted

Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark

‘The Three-Body Problem’ by Liu Cixin

'Top 10 Sci-fi Books of All Time'

The Paper Menagerie Review and reading Ken Liu and Ted Chiang

Book Review: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

DARK MATTER BY BLAKE CROUCH

However culturally since Akira, Japan video games, SKorean movies there has been a cultural change an explosion of material from the Far East including Chinese would would have been considered closed but now an opening of material coming from China's mainland.

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Monday, June 17, 2024 5:30 PM