I guess Hell has frozen over.....

And no, the last one ain't about some chick with a big nose....

I've finished The Mote in God's Eye and have now started on The Gripping Hand, which is the sequel to Mote.

Excerpt from The Gripping Hand: "I've been smoking Giselle here for twenty-six years."

gripping hand lewl

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I read "Mote" many years ago. I was on a Larry Niven kick and I can't remember if I read it before or after Ringworld. I barely remember it, but I do recall some over the top space opera violence and a plot twist. I was trying to read "established" SF authors to get a handle on what I wanted to write.

I think I liked it.

Not long after I tried to read Dune and gave up in frustration. Ten years later I had read Dune four times and every book in the series.

And all those novels of my own are still in my head. Lots of room now that I cleaned out those comic strips that were stuck there.....

just read "knight life" by peter david and am working on "sir apropos of nothing" by the same author.
he's an american (read:weak corporate slave) trying to duplicate terry pratchett in the fantasy satire category and failing miserably.

i am saddened.

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Is that the same Peter David who writes comics? If so, his comic work is tres excellente.

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yup, that's him.

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Peter David's Trek stuff is also top notch. I recall a NextGen novel he wrote called Vendetta in which he tied the stroy back to that "Space Cigar" thingy in the original series in a pretty clever way. It was meant to fight the Borg and.....

Dammit. Geekin out again. I'll stop now.

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What a load of crap you are reading.

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i didn't wnat to say anything, but yeah.

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It sucks :(

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'sir apropos of nothing' ended up having such an unlikable protaganist i had to stop reading halfway it halfway through.

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I like the way this guy looks like he crept up behind the table saw and popped up and went "AH-HA" (measure).

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that table saw never saw it coming.

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Books I'm reading now:

By the way, this is so far the most fucking disappointing book EVER. Despite the t-rex skeleton on the cover and the claim that it's "Michael Crichton meets John Grisham" there's not a single fucking dinosaur in it! Not even a fossil dinosaur! Just some intrigue and something about Aztec treasure.

Books I'll be starting soon:

this series kicks ass if you're into sci fi/alt history...

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I'm currently re-reading Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of the Ages series (and I seriously need to get the sixth book). I'm also studying an old automotive encylcopedia to get more familiarized with the mechanical side of restoration.

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

That related to Guns of the South? I loved that book.

Also, there's still no fucking dinosaurs in Tyrannosaur Canyon. Now there's a monk who used to be a codebreaker for the CIA. But no fucking dinosaurs.

You're reading all those now?

How about adding a book on increasing your attention span?

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Actually I'm reading more than that now. I read different books depending on my mood and where I happen to be. I read collections of short stories in the bathroom, right before I go to bed, or when I have fifteen minutes to kill (or any time I'm waiting for something like an oil change or doctor's appointment). Novels (fiction and nonfiction) I read during lunch or any time I have more than an hour to kill (which these days is every day). Same goes for the science books or general nonfiction books. Some I finish faster than others. I can read a novel in a few hours (except anything written by S.M. Stirling) and short story collections tend to go fast.

Some books I'm taking my time on because I need to savor every minute of it. I've been reading This is the Way The World Ends for the past four years. At the time, it was the last James Morrow book I hadn't read and I didn't want it to end before he came out with a new one. Fortunately, he just did, so I can finally finish it. Some books I'll take years to read just because it's either short stories/essays that I don't need to worry about remembering what it was all about, or it's something that's easy to pick up a while later (like The Language Police).

So basically, I'm reading all those books, and about a dozen more that I didn't list. The books I listed earlier in this thread (and in Kaenash's) I've long since finished.

If I had a short attention span, I'd not be able to keep all the books apart or be able to sit down reading for as long as I do. Hell, if I had a short attention span I'd never read at all, like my brother. He can't even sit through a movie without looking for something else to do. He also never read comic books, just looked at the pictures. I was at a college reading level in 4th grade. If anything, I need more books to read, which is why boorite and I just hauled back an assload of books from the library sale.

There's only two books I never finished. One was Dies the Fire, which had me wanting to kill every character in the book by chapter 2. I just couldn't sit through another few hundred pages of that crap. The other was Dianetics because it was so fucking retarded. I don't recommend either.

...and Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy by Ian Stevenson.

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