What are you reading right now?

adidasss · 11-22-2020, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

What did you rank “Anxiety”?

And what are some of you all time sci-fi faves like three novels that come to mind.

I gave it a 4.5/5 so up there with the other two.

Let's say, Rendezvous with Rama, Ubik, a bunch of Le Guin, Hyperion. Etc.

Trollheart · 11-23-2020, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

I gave it a 4.5/5 so up there with the other two.

Let's say, Rendezvous with Rama, Ubik, a bunch of Le Guin, Hyperion. Etc.

Hyperion such a fantastic novel. If you like Simmons I wonder if you've read his horror novel, Carrion Comfort? Well worth looking into. Chilling as all ****.

ando here · 11-21-2020, 11:12 PM

Picked up my roommates' hardcover edition of the collected Nathaniel Hawthorne and started reading The Scarlet Letter again from a most random, but key, part of the novel. Continuing from there. Forgot how much I was taken with it in grade school. Or was Junior High? What is it about New England and martyrdom? Passages in this book struck me as contemporary as Albee.

**Marie Monday** · 11-22-2020, 03:52 AM

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Picked up my roommates' hardcover edition of the collected Nathaniel Hawthorne and started reading The Scarlet Letter again from a most random, but key, part of the novel. Continuing from there. Forgot how much I was taken with it in grade school. Or was Junior High? What is it about New England and martyrdom? Passages in this book struck me as contemporary as Albee.

It's been a while since I've read it but I loved the scarlet letter so much. What a grand, compassionate book

OccultHawk · 11-22-2020, 05:49 AM

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Rendezvous with Rama

LOVED!!!

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Le Guin

You read “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”?

adidasss · 11-22-2020, 06:13 AM

Did not, will add it to the queue.

OccultHawk · 11-23-2020, 10:40 AM

Hyperion looks pretty duney

adidasss · 11-23-2020, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Hyperion such a fantastic novel. If you like Simmons I wonder if you've read his horror novel, Carrion Comfort? Well worth looking into. Chilling as all ****.

Well, my memory is awful so I have no recollection of that one (although I do seem to have read it and rated it as 2/5). I've read Hyperion, which I really liked, Fall of Hyperion, which was a bit disappointing, then Ilium which I found so terrible and off-putting that I stopped looking into this guy altogether.

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Hyperion looks pretty duney

I think Hyperion borders on horror, but speaking of Dune, I am just now reading it for the first time and so far so great. Very cinematic, reads like a screenplay. I hear the guy goes on some weird homophobic tangent in a later novel but this one so far seems free of overt prejudice (apart from maybe an undercurrent of misogyny).

OccultHawk · 11-23-2020, 11:23 PM

Dune sucks

Lucem Ferre · 11-24-2020, 01:04 AM

Silence of the Lambs. I'm going through the Hannibal series now.

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ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,802	Picked up my roommates' hardcover edition of the collected Nathaniel Hawthorne and started reading The Scarlet Letter again from a most random, but key, part of the novel. Continuing from there. Forgot how much I was taken with it in grade school. Or was Junior High? What is it about New England and martyrdom? Passages in this book struck me as contemporary as Albee.