ow can you HATE Brave New World??? - Edit 1
Before modification by random thoughts at 12/09/2009 06:48:03 AM
With commentary! Because I can't sleep.
Excellent.
Good, but one time was enough.
Have you read The Martian Chronicles? Good stuff also.
Probably my favorite from that series, but I like them all.
Very good.
One of my all-time favorites.
Very good, though I still haven't decided if I liked the second book yet.
Good stuff, good stuff.
Felt like I wasn't intellectual enough to "get it."
Both have some excellent stories and some so-so stories.
One of the few books I was assigned in high school that I really liked.
Pretty good, but I always preferred The Odyssey - I guess I just like travelogues.
HATE.
Meh.
Liked it - don't watch the movie under any circumstances, though.
Great series. Dawn Treader was always my favorite.
Always had a soft spot for 1984. Animal House was just okay.
Excellent. Just as good as the movie, and I love the movie.
Some are stronger than others, but they're all worth a look-see. Carrion Comfort is probably my favorite vampire book.
Actually liked the Baroque Cycle a lot more than Cryptonomicon - may have been because I read them first, though.
Good. He does a good job of writing about scenes from perspectives other than the ones from the movie itself, which is nice.
As with Gaiman, some really good stories, some so-so.
Miiiiight want to wait 'til the series is done, for this one. Williams' stories are almost inevitably slow-burners in the beginning.
Pfft. Just remember, no one really needs a job.
Richard Adams ~ Watership Down
Excellent.
Dante Alighieri ~ The Divine Comedy
Good, but one time was enough.
Ray Bradbury ~ Quicker Than the Eye, R is for Rocket, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Have you read The Martian Chronicles? Good stuff also.
David Brin ~ Startide Rising
Probably my favorite from that series, but I like them all.
Orson Scott Card ~ Ender's Game
Very good.
Susanna Clarke ~ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
One of my all-time favorites.
Hal Duncan ~ Vellum
Very good, though I still haven't decided if I liked the second book yet.
Steven Erikson ~ House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds
Good stuff, good stuff.
Umberto Eco ~ Foucault's Pendulum
Felt like I wasn't intellectual enough to "get it."
Neil Gaiman ~ Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things
Both have some excellent stories and some so-so stories.
William Golding ~ Lord of the Flies
One of the few books I was assigned in high school that I really liked.
Homer ~ The Iliad
Pretty good, but I always preferred The Odyssey - I guess I just like travelogues.
Aldous Huxley ~ Brave New World
HATE.
Alexander Irvine ~ A Scattering of Jades
Meh.
Stephen King ~ Dreamcatcher
Liked it - don't watch the movie under any circumstances, though.
C.S. Lewis ~ The Chronicles of Narnia
Great series. Dawn Treader was always my favorite.
George Orwell ~ 1984, Animal Farm
Always had a soft spot for 1984. Animal House was just okay.
Carl Sagan ~ Contact
Excellent. Just as good as the movie, and I love the movie.
Dan Simmons ~ The Terror, Ilium, Olympos, Carrion Comfort, Children of the Night, Song of Kali
Some are stronger than others, but they're all worth a look-see. Carrion Comfort is probably my favorite vampire book.
Neal Stephenson ~ Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Confusion, System of the World
Actually liked the Baroque Cycle a lot more than Cryptonomicon - may have been because I read them first, though.
Matthew Stover ~ Revenge of the Sith
Good. He does a good job of writing about scenes from perspectives other than the ones from the movie itself, which is nice.
Jeff VanderMeer ~ City of Saints and Madmen
As with Gaiman, some really good stories, some so-so.
Tad Williams ~ Shadowmarch
Miiiiight want to wait 'til the series is done, for this one. Williams' stories are almost inevitably slow-burners in the beginning.
I'm basically never going to read them all. Ever.
Pfft. Just remember, no one really needs a job.