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Haha, weird. I went back an searched if anyone had mentioned Iain M Banks and I actually have Blood Meridian up next after I burn through these "Culture" books.

Also, I've read all the Neil Stephenson books, and I have basically high praise for them all. I think he peaked with Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, but they're all worth reading.
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TheDOAD wrote:Next up: Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks.
Just finished Use of Weapons. It was pretty good but I don't quite get the Banks worship I've been seeing lately. It's just space opera...

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delmuerte wrote:Haha, weird. I went back an searched if anyone had mentioned Iain M Banks and I actually have Blood Meridian up next after I burn through these "Culture" books.
Blood Meridian is great, but it's a belly crawl through Hell.
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Actually, I think that "Excession" is the best of the bunch. I'm still working through "Look To Windward," but I dunno about it so far. "Use Of Weapons" was my least favorite, and had the gayest ending ever. The Iain Banks (no M) stuff I've read, is usually pretty decent, aside from "The Business." Haven't read much that's newer than that one.

I really want more space opera. Wait until you read "Excession," that one is damn near perfect.
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If you have not read the Hyperion books do that. Its more serious than the banks space operas but still has an awesome epic scale and is highly enjoyable.
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Lexicon Devil - 8/10

It made me realize how little of a fuck I actually give about Darby Crash (also don't care much about the germs.) I did, however, enjoy it more for it's oral history of LA Punk in the late 70's and how the HB's fucked up hardcore.
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delmuerte wrote:Snowcrash was pretty fun.

I've been reading a lot of trashy SciFi lately, all bu Iain M. Banks. Consider Phlebas, The Player Of Games, Use Of Weapons, Excession and now I'm on Look To Windward. I guess I like space operas. Anyone recommend any more of this kinda garbage?
If you're looking for complete space trash opera look no further than Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant series. I haven't read these in years but I remember them being extremely bad ass when I was younger. Plus it had some severe rape scenes I would jerk off to.

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Invisible monsters - chuck palahniuk
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Better than fight club
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White Jazz is definitely better, but American Tabloid had this America-cracked-wide-open vibe that I really liked. White Jazz seemed like it took place in another world. AT is plotted pretty frenetically, but it is much easier to follow than WJ, where I, at least, felt like I was hanging onto the plot by my fingernails.

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featherboa wrote:I need to read more
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky - 10/10
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i'm going to ask what the other two are even though you're a total asshole for making me do it
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Meh.

Both awesome books.
both are awesome books, but trying to compare them is like comparing heinlen to asimov. yeah, apples and oranges are still both FRUIT, but why would anyone bother to compare them?
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http://vxheavens.com/lib/mns00.html - Snow Crash

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/neuromancer/ - Neuromancer

for people who'd like to make their own informed decision and also read two amazing books.
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Not quite done with The Fall but I'll give it a 9.25 anyway.
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father of lies wrote:Not quite done with The Fall but I'll give it a 9.25 anyway.
Ending is epic. Like, fist-pumping epic.
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Dark is the sun by Philip Jose Farmer. 8.6
Great characters, great book, concepts... Some things were not feasible, but super entertaining nonetheless.

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shouldnt it be dark out in that pic, i can clearly see the sun and it is not dark
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NANOplague wrote: Some things were not feasible
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riley-o wrote:i'm going to ask what the other two are even though you're a total asshole for making me do it
Underworld by DeLillo
and maybe Dune... or maybe Blood Meridian... I guess my top 5 circulates a bunch, with The Brothers Karamazov and Underworld staying constantly fixed at the top and the others circulating through it... there's some Philip K. Dick in there as well.

but that's just fiction
some of my favorite books are non-fiction
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see, I just realized I'd forgotten Mark Twain... WTF
let's just say that The Brothers Karamazov is up there with Underworld, Blood Meridian, Dune, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Huckleberry Finn, where fiction is concerned, but that I think it also has a place next to books like The Republic, Fear & Trembling, The Confessions, The Consolation of Philosophy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and the Enneads.
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NANOplague wrote: Some things were not feasible
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Well, obviously the cover alone fails entirely in conveying the feasibility of the concepts expounded within. It is science fiction.
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father of lies wrote:Not quite done with The Fall but I'll give it a 9.25 anyway.
Ending is epic. Like, fist-pumping epic.
Is this the Del Toro book?
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