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 | W0m6at | | You're in for it now Tony |
| Registered: April 17, 2007 |  Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | So, do we have any further reading suggestions? | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | Please pardon if this is a bit over five.  The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. There's such an incredibly dense, rich creation in those pages, I've always felt it's not just something that everyone should read, but something everyone should read at least once a year, because I still get something new out of it every time, and I've read it at least once a year since 1982. Anything else is simply a runner-up to LotR. Even as excellent as they may be. Watership Down by Richard Adams Hothouse (aka The Long Afternoon of Earth) by Brian Aldiss Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo Real Food by Nina Planck Highbrow/Lowbrow by Lawrence Levine Sanctuary by Fumimura Sho and Ikegami Ryoichi Adolf ni Tsugu ( Adolf) by Tezuka Osamu Sandman by Neil Gaiman & various collaborating artists GilgameshBeowulf (I recommend the audiobook translation by Seamus Heaney, oral poems deserve to be heard) White Buildings by Hart Crane | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting Nadja:
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Everyone needs to read The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. Beyond that it's dealer's choice!
Excellent series  .
Might I also suggest Swan Song by Robert McCammon. It's a Post apocalyptic novel ala Stephen King's The Stand. I too recommend The Dark Tower series. Swan Song is also an excellent book. And if you like post apocalyptic stuff, I would also recommend The Stand by Stephen King and The Postman (the book the movie was based off) by David Brin. The three go together quite well. I would also second 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell mentioned earlier. For my own recommendations, my favorite book of all time is The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. If you've only seen the movie, you should go for this. While the story is similar, the movie changed the basic story considerably. Having seen the movie won't spoil the book at all. And the next two books were complete thrown out when they did the movies and they only kept the titles. My next favorite book is The Genesis Machine by James P. Hogan. It's classic sci-fi and well worth the read. I can't say too much about it without ruining the story, but if you're curious, Amazon has a good synopsis. And from the out of left field category, I've always liked The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I had to read this book for a history class in high school and was mesmerized. It's about immigrants and the meat packing industry in old Chicago. You can't go wrong here. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | Check out Egypt Green from Christopher Hyde, a book I have read so many times it is held together by sellotape And any other title by the author, seldom releases a disappointment  | | |  |
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| Registered: March 27, 2007 | | Posts: 98 |
| | Posted: | | | | Jean M. Auel - The Earth's Children series - How Neanderthal and Cro-magnon men and women lived and existed - The first 3 books "The Clan of the Cave Bear", "The Valley of Horses" and "The Mammoth Hunters" were the best. There are 5 books so far and the series has yet to be finished, Mrs. Auel apparently suffered from writers block prior to the 5th book being published and this may be part of the reason for the further delays in finishing.
Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down - the book the film was based on and has much more detail and is a bit less gung-ho than the film.
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway - We Were Soldiers Once... And Young - again a book turned into a film and once again more detail and again a little less gung-ho than the film.
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| W0m6at | | You're in for it now Tony |
| Registered: April 17, 2007 | | Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | I recently finished reading the excellent Naoki Urasawa's Monster. It's an 18 volume manga (Japanese comic) series released in the US by Viz. It follows a promising young neurosurgeon who bucks the internal politics of the hospital to save the life of a boy who has been shot in the head. When the hierarchy of the hospital are murdered, Dr. Kenzo Tenma is fingered as the prime suspect, but nothing can be proven. Ten years later he comes to believe that a series of murders across Germany were the work of his previous patient, and again is under suspicion, so he heads out to right things.
I don't normally read thriller/murder mystery titles, but this one had me hooked. Just be warned that at ~U$10 each, a set works out rather expensive. For me it was well worth the expense though. I highly detailed plot and engrossing story. | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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| W0m6at | | You're in for it now Tony |
| Registered: April 17, 2007 | | Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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| Registered: December 16, 2007 |  Posts: 926 |
| | Posted: | | | | If you like NOIR try Jim Thompson, f.i. "The Killer Inside me". That Lou Ford is a really bad guy. Michael Winterbottom is filming a script after the book according to the IMDB. |
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| Registered: December 16, 2007 | | Posts: 926 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just noticed that the Wikipedia article about Hardboiled Fiction has a cover of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" as an opener.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardboiled |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 158 |
| | Posted: | | | | Jorge Amado, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (cinematized as Gabriela, video'd as priced-to-rent VHS, still not on DVD, Sonia Braga and Marcello Mastrioani, wonderful)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (I fear someone will try to make a movie of this someday, with little success)
Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch (alternate history story of Columbus)
Raymond Schwartz, Kiel akvo de l' rivero (sorry, hasn't been translated from Esperanto)
Multatuli, Max Havelaar (the Great Dutch Novel, which of course takes place in Indonesia -- pretty good movie with Peter Faber and Rutger Hauer, not yet on video to my knowledge) |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Max Havelaar is available on DVD. There are two Dutch R2 releases, both with English subtitles: this one (EAN 8716777924884) and this one (EAN 8716777039960). A trailer can be found here. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 9 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would heartily recommend
Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein
The Terry Goodking "Wizard's First Rule" series of 11 titles
John Marsden's The Tomorrow Series books about children in Australia fighing an unnamed invader.
Titles include Tomorrow, When the War Began, The Dead of Night, he Third Day the Frost etc
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things |
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