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Old 11-22-2020, 07:13 AM   #7031 (permalink)
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Old 11-23-2020, 11:11 AM   #7032 (permalink)
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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 ****.
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Old 11-23-2020, 11:40 AM   #7033 (permalink)
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Hyperion looks pretty duney
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Old 11-23-2020, 11:24 PM   #7034 (permalink)
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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).
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Old 11-24-2020, 12:23 AM   #7035 (permalink)
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Old 11-24-2020, 02:04 AM   #7036 (permalink)
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Silence of the Lambs. I'm going through the Hannibal series now.
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Old 11-24-2020, 09:23 AM   #7037 (permalink)
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Old 11-25-2020, 01:19 PM   #7038 (permalink)
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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.
I think I read two, then stopped, no particular reason. But I think the first was so different that it was going to be hard to follow it up.
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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).
I'd agree; the Shrike, after all, is straight out of HR Giger's worst nightmares.
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Hyperion looks pretty duney
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Old 11-25-2020, 05:28 PM   #7039 (permalink)
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Old 11-28-2020, 03:01 PM   #7040 (permalink)
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Reading both of these books for the second time now.
  • "The 48 laws of power" by Robert Greene
  • "Keep Calm And Carry On" by Mark A. Reinecke
Started "Mastery" by Robert Greene, stopped, and went to these two at the same time just one chapter each at a time.

I am taking photos of the pages each chapter at a time and reading on the phone. I read "The 48 laws of power" before but it was years ago and I have changed. Already read "Keep Calm And Carry On" also but just feel it's worth reading again.
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