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Requiem · 07-28-2007, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

For me, it would probably be Dune.

I enjoy Diana Gabaldon's series.

il Padrino Ute · 07-28-2007, 04:15 AM

I've never read a science fiction novel - at least not that I know of.

I can see that I need to expand my reading from almost exclusively biographies and historical texts.

Does "SpongeBob: Lost in Time: A Medieval Adventure" count?

creekster · 07-28-2007, 05:24 AM

GOts to be Dune. I read them all, including a couple by his money-grubbing kid (which shows you what I thought about his books) and none are as good as the first one.

Some poeple put ealry VOnnegut into the sci-fi category, and Cat's cradle and Slaughterhouse 5 are very good. I do not think they are actually sci-fi, however.

Heinlein and Bradbury also put out some pretty good stuff. If you had to pick one, however, make it Dune.

il Padrino Ute · 07-28-2007, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by creekster

GOts to be Dune. I read them all, including a couple by his money-grubbing kid (which shows you what I thought about his books) and none are as good as the first one.

Some poeple put ealry VOnnegut into the sci-fi category, and Cat's cradle and Slaughterhouse 5 are very good. I do not think they are actually sci-fi, however.

Heinlein and Bradbury also put out some pretty good stuff. If you had to pick one, however, make it Dune.

So, you're saying I should read Dune?

Is this the book on which the movie with Sting was based?

creekster · 07-28-2007, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

So, you're saying I should read Dune?

Is this the book on which the movie with Sting was based?

Yes you should, and yes it is, but the movie was only so-so and prpobabyl only made sense to somone who had read the book.

il Padrino Ute · 07-28-2007, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Yes you should, and yes it is, but the movie was only so-so and prpobabyl only made sense to somone who had read the book.

Got it. That would explain why I found the movie hard to watch so many years ago.

I'm going to have to spend less time online to read the books I ought to read.

Dang. I like wasting my time being unproductive.

Sleeping in EQ · 07-28-2007, 12:35 PM

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

and

Logan's Run

marsupial · 07-28-2007, 01:30 PM

I've read very few Sci Fi books. I read Handmaid's Tale when I was a teenager and I remember liking it, though I remember very little about it now.

What about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

And sorry Babs, I suffered through Canticle for Leibowitz in college. If only it was as cool as Annie (Leibowitz that is).

07-28-2007, 04:15 AM	#12
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	I've never read a science fiction novel - at least not that I know of. I can see that I need to expand my reading from almost exclusively biographies and historical texts. Does "SpongeBob: Lost in Time: A Medieval Adventure" count? __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

07-28-2007, 05:24 AM	#13
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	GOts to be Dune. I read them all, including a couple by his money-grubbing kid (which shows you what I thought about his books) and none are as good as the first one. Some poeple put ealry VOnnegut into the sci-fi category, and Cat's cradle and Slaughterhouse 5 are very good. I do not think they are actually sci-fi, however. Heinlein and Bradbury also put out some pretty good stuff. If you had to pick one, however, make it Dune. __________________ Sorry for th e tpyos.

07-28-2007, 12:35 PM	#17
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Logan's Run __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

07-28-2007, 01:30 PM	#18
marsupial Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I... Isn't it so fun to spell? Posts: 1,701	I've read very few Sci Fi books. I read Handmaid's Tale when I was a teenager and I remember liking it, though I remember very little about it now. What about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? And sorry Babs, I suffered through Canticle for Leibowitz in college. If only it was as cool as Annie (Leibowitz that is).