Sci-Fi Geeks Vs. Lit. Geeks

Cloud · 03-24-2009, 10:41 AM

Glatt--those aren't obscure books!

glatt · 03-24-2009, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Glatt--those aren't obscure books!

To a college kid, many are.

ZenGum · 03-24-2009, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Glatt--those aren't obscure books!

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Originally Posted by glatt

To a college kid, many are.

To many college kids, the concept of "book" is obscure.

I'm not just being silly, I have encountered several 2nd or 3rd year students who were borrowing their first book from the university library. (You know what I mean, not their first book ever.) I had to explain to one that his student card IS his library card.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-25-2009, 01:21 AM

Don need no stinkin books... Wikipedia knows all.

btw, ieSpell wants to change Wikipedia to wiped... apropos.

lumberjim · 03-25-2009, 08:01 PM

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Most were really good reads, so I figured I'd list them here for anyone who might be interested. Off the top of my head, I can recall:

Where Softly Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Wilhelm. I liked it a lot.

The Forever War by Haldeman. Excellent.

Because I think you're smart, and I usually agree with what you say, I am downloading these two ......the canticle one interests me, but it was not on audible.com ....

ETA: I very nearly ordered the WRONG forever war. apparently, Dexter Filkins also wrote a book by the same title...cock. it's about the taliban and iraq and shit i would hate.

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The Time Traveller's Wife (can't recall the author).

Audrey Niffenegger

very excellent!

glatt · 03-26-2009, 08:18 AM

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Because I think you're smart, and I usually agree with what you say, I am downloading these two ..

Great! I hope you like them. Forever War is more of a hard science fiction, action type novel, and a lot of fun. Sweet Birds is more of a painting characters and moods kind of a book with some neat ideas thrown in.

Another fairly obscure one that I would very strongly recommend is Earth Abides by Stewart. It's better than any of the ones I read in that college course. It's probably tied with Ender's Game and possibly Dune for my favorite book of all time.

I'll have to check out the Time Traveller's Wife.

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