Books, if you love Firefly you will really love reading....

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IVY

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:21 PM

WAIT A MINUTE!!! I didn't realize what "His Dark Materials" was. I read them a couple of years ago...they are SO NOT children’s books. There is no way I would want my kid reading them. Dark, scary, disturbing (not to mention the kids having sex). All that being said, I thought they were really good and that ending...wow, just kills me. I'm a parent now, so I think it would bother me even more if I read them today. Those poor children...

I can't see that being made into a movie. I think I'd skip it. I've heard many times over the years that Ender's Game was being made into a movie. They will never get it. It will just be all action/adventure and CG in the battle room. No thanks. I generally (with the exception of Firefly and the BDM) stick to books!

And Harry Potter is totally crack for the eyes!

Ivy

I've been sane a long while now, and change is good...

20THCENTFOXHATER

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:43 PM

Not sure if anyone has mentioned any of these, but I will still mention them anyway.

The da Vinci Code- I mean, come on. You have to read this book. It may not be entirely factual, and you may not agree with it's theory of Jesus, but just read it for the sake of reading it. It's a very fast paced thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat at all times. If you have a spare day or two, read this because you will love it.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- A bit (OK, maybe A LOT) on the strange side of things, but it is a throughly enjoyable and light hearted read.

Fight Club- Need I say more? This is the book the movie is based on, except it may be better than the movie. A social satire in the fullest sense of the word.

Band of Brothers- If you like the whole war-buddy bond, and the perils they go through, this is your book. Based on actual accounts of the real people, and is MUCH better than the mini-series.

Anything by H.P. Lovecraft. If you're into the macabre and horror, this is good stuff.

"1984". "Brave New World", the "Halo" series (yes, they are actually good, considering they are based on a video game).

"The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell. Some of his lesser known works, these are actually incredibly well written and engaging real-life realization of the Arthur myths. Nothing like the movie, and the movie was not based on these great movies. There are 3 books in this series: "The Winter King", "The Enemy of God", and "Excalibur".

and "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein.

Happy Reading!

"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".

HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".

DAVESHAYNE

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:59 PM

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Originally posted by 20thCentFoxHater:
The da Vinci Code

I actually liked Angels and Demons better - at least up to the very end when it got very silly indeed. The puzzles were more puzzling and the history isn't nearly as dodgy. Still DVC is worth a read if only to annoy those that are annoyed by people reading it.

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- A bit (OK, maybe A LOT) on the strange side of things, but it is a throughly enjoyable and light hearted read.

I can't believe I left this out of my list. Be sure however to pick up The Restaurant at the End of the Universe while your at it. Otherwise you'll only be getting half of the core story. Alternately see if you can get ahold of the BBC radio series - that's the definitive version of H2G2.

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"Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein.

I find I have to disagree on this. It was the first Heinlein book I'd ever read and I found it to be thouroughly disagreeable. I very nearly never read anything else of his because of that horrid book. Which would have been a shame as he has written many other quite wonderfull tomes.

David

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

20THCENTFOXHATER

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:05 PM

Just to follow up on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I was refering to the entire series, not just the first book.

And for Starship Troopers, it seems that it's either a "You Love It" or "You Hate It" type of book with most people.

There's also "Time Enough For Love", also by Heinlein. It is about a man so in love with life, that he refuses to die, and in turn becomes his own ancestor.

"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".

HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".

GRIZWALD

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:17 PM

Guess I'm a lover... of Starship Troopers. I could hardly stand to have the movie in my house after reading the book. So much depth! The movie is practically a parody of itself!

And how many books are there in the Hitchhiker "trilogy"? Five, aren't there?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Mostly Harmless
So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish

Probably out of order there and I can't remember the 5th one. If there is a 5th one. It's been awhile!

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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

GRIZWALD

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:20 PM

Ooh!Ooh! I just thought of another goodie! Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War."

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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

20THCENTFOXHATER

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:21 PM

ya, there are five in the Hitchhiker's series. Hitchhiker's is #1, Restaurant is #2, Life, the Universe and Everything is #3, Fish is #4, and Mostly Harmless is #5.

I actually liked the movie Starship Troopers as well being that I saw it before I read the book. It was good in it's own right, and MOST movies that have gory graphic violence and nudity is fine with me.

"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".

HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".

20THCENTFOXHATER

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:22 PM

sorry for the double post, I double clicked the post button.

DC4BS

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:52 AM

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Originally posted by 20thCentFoxHater:
There's also "Time Enough For Love", also by Heinlein. It is about a man so in love with life, that he refuses to die, and in turn becomes his own ancestor.

Hehe...

You like twisted time travel tails?

Try "The Man Who Folded Himself" if you can track down a copy.

It's a monster brain bender. Guy inherits a time travel device from his "uncle" (his older self). Eventualy, ends up becoming his own father and raises his "son/himself" by telling him his parents died and that he is his uncle...

The main character falls in love with himself in this book as well...

The story of his life as he travels around the "time loop" back to the beginning/ending is wild.

He sets up a party one summer at a private mansion where every guest is himself at various ages. Even tries to cheat at poker by remembering what he had in his hand last year when he was sitting in the other chair at the table, etc...

Really wild and cool concepts in the book and interesting takes on paradoxes and time travel/alternate universe theory.

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CAB1729

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:29 AM

Trying to keep myself to great one-off books:

SF:
Doomsday Booke by Connie Willis:
Beautifully written time travel story about a grad assistant who gets sent back in time to the middle ages - but there's an error in the program and she goes back to the year the black plague hits the area and the people she's supposed to meet up with are... Well, can't give anything away. Won both Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card:
Yes it starts a whole series but the first book can be stand-alone. Another double winner. Such a good book. To save money, you could pick it up in the YA section but it's not YA, it's a classic.

Expendable by James Alan Gardner:
In the far future they have perfected human genetic manipulation - and those who aren't perfect are expendable. Some end up as planetary explorers whose famous last words are "oh shit". Also starts a series but most of the books don't have the same main character. 'Trapped' is the 4th or 5th book but my favorite and almost completely stand-alone. (I wasn't even sure it was part of the series until almost the end.)

Fantasy:
As stated before, Robin McKinley. There's a large-format paperback out including Blue Sword, Hero and the Crown, and Spindle's End, only $11 on amazon. Also, Beauty is the best retelling of Beauty and the Beast I've ever read.

Earthsea books by Ursula K. LeGuin:
Pitdragon Trilogy by Jane Yolen:
Each book in both of these is pretty slim so conceivably you could read all 3 books in one month. The Earthsea books are up to ... 5? I think. The Yolen books are considered YA but the characters mature alot over the course of the trilogy.

This is probably waaay more info than you wanted but I get excited when I can get people started on great books. :) Enjoy!

Anger on one side, sadness on the other. Nobody knows about the third side.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?
Calvin: Too few role models.

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