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Originally Posted by kirkyl
Brilliant book anyone who is a Halo fan should pick this up,First strike and Ghosts of Onyx rock too.
I'm going to get Contact harvest when i get paid too.  |
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Originally Posted by Neon
Ive read Fall of Reach, thought it was terrible. Characters of the Spartans are crap, Cortana was at least vaguely interesting, and i thought the idea of some of the starship battles were interesting, but the Covenent were TOO superior to make most battles interesting. And the final battle for Reach was shown from a distance, with the bulk of the battle getting covered in 2 very broad stroaked paragraphs. I might look at the rest of the series if a mate will lend them.
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ghosts of onyx and contact harvest are better books, they do a good job of what is essentially over complicating a very simple story frame and trying to give it some girth, in terms of details, plot revelations and so forth.
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Originally Posted by The Drunkk Machine
my house is stuffed full of books and it is my mission to read them all. i don't care if i've read them before, whether they're my kind of thing or even if they happen to be "the stand: uncut" [god i'm not looking forward to putting myself through that again] i'm off for a few weeks and i'm taking with me:
"glamorama" - bret easton ellis
"glue" - irvine welsh
"heart of darkness" - joseph conrad
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that's what i'm trying to do with all my books; i invariably read all the cool ones first, fear and loathing, the beach, time traveler's wife, number9dream, trainspotting; i want to read more irvine welsh though, great writing style, makes me want to speak scottish, at least while i'm reading it.
a masterpiece. i've never seen blade runner but if it's anything like this then i'm not surprised it's such a classic. so many levels of metaphor and existentialist discussion. how valid life and intelligence are, for a bounty hunter, androids, chickenheads, mercer and buster friendly; the fuss over animals, empathy used to unite a race divided and chased onto other worlds by war; deckard's existentialist depression after nearly being convinced he was an android himself and then fucking and killing them all day; a subtle and easily missed positive in the ending when deckard and iran refrain from using the mood organ, suggesting the veneer of artifice being rejected; but a generally bleak and refreshingly unsatisfying ending all the same; great stuff.
this is the last book i read; it's just a biography, although interestingly the man himself of course made other people's work and musical stories his own trade himself. anyway, it only rarely descends into subjective praise and it's pretty eloquently written, and it's a good book for someone like me who was always aware he was a significant musical identity but never knew how much influence he had and what he did within the industry, and discovered and quickly became a fan of his show only to hear of his death only a year or two later.
this is the book i'm trying to read now, and i can't even get past the fuckin introduction. it was released originally in episodes and it took 4 years for them to all get published. i don't think the monolithic bastard was ever meant to be read in one agonising go. i'm going to plough through it though, the premise at least is intriguing and i should learn to love challenges.
anyway, see you in a few months