What Are You Reading?

[Samba De Amiga]

Started reading "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby. It's good!

Yes, very good! When your done with that one, pick up Hornby's A Long Way Down. They're about to adapt that one into a movie also, Johnny Depp is producing. The same guy who adapted High Fidelity is adapting this one as well.

[Rich]

I just got Congo, Sphere, Timeline, Eaters of the Dead (all by Michael Crichton) and Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason in the mail.

Plane reading imo

[Mr-K]

Dude, it's not *that* long of a plane ride.

Steve Martin is a pretty depressing person, btw.

[Rich]

Dude, it's not *that* long of a plane ride.

Steve Martin is a pretty depressing person, btw.

lol I was joking about the plane reading yo

[YellerDog]

Yes, very good! When your done with that one, pick up Hornby's A Long Way Down. They're about to adapt that one into a movie also, Johnny Depp is producing. The same guy who adapted High Fidelity is adapting this one as well.

I might give that one a look next. Thanks!

[Anne Bonny]

I just got Congo, Sphere, Timeline, Eaters of the Dead (all by Michael Crichton) and Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason in the mail.

Plane reading imo

I liked all of the Crichton books except Timeline. Congo and Sphere were waaaaaay better than the movies, although Im sure you couldve guessed that!

[Cowutopia]

Congo and Sphere really are fantastic fucking books. Timeline not so much. The science/sci fi stuff is the best part of that one. The "thriller" bits are like, C quality at best.

Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park are still his best.

[Compass]

Sphere's the only Chrichton I've read, but I thought it was pretty damn awesome. I love books where they're discovering and studying mysterious things -- the underwater ship in Sphere's case.

I just finished The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, which was awesome. Im planning on starting on the Foundation novels tonight, since Im on an Asimov kick now.

1 1982 The Complete Robot Robot short stories. Collection of Asimov stories written between 1940 and 1976.1986
2 1954 The Caves of Steel Robot novel.
3 1957 The Naked Sun Robot novel.
4 1983 The Robots of Dawn Robot novel.
5 1985 Robots and Empire Robot novel.
6 1951 The Stars, Like Dust Galactic Empire series.
7 1952 The Currents of Space Galactic Empire series.
8 1950 Pebble in the Sky Galactic Empire series.
9 1988 Prelude to Foundation Foundation novel.
10 1993 Forward the Foundation Foundation novel.
11 1951 Foundation Foundation trilogy.
12 1952 Foundation and Empire Foundation trilogy.
13 1953 Second Foundation Foundation trilogy.
14 1982 Foundation's Edge Final chronological Foundation books.
15 1986 Foundation and Earth Final chronological Foundation books.

Back in the day, I read all the Foundation and related novels by Asimov,and enjoyed them a good deal. I'll be damned if I can remember much of anything about any of them, though. As a friend of mine once said, the Foundation books are more people talking about doing stuff, than actually doing stuff. Maybe that just doesn't stick as well? Regardless, I'd love to have the time to re-read at least some of these.

[Anne Bonny]

Yeah, Ive read all the Robot novels a while ago. If you can get your hands on a copy of Nightfall, the collection of short stories, you should read that one. Its my very favorite out of all Asimovs works. Its hard to find in bookstores, sometimes, but Ive seen it used on Amazon.

[Cowutopia]

Sphere's the only Chrichton I've read, but I thought it was pretty damn awesome. I love books where they're discovering and studying mysterious things -- the underwater ship in Sphere's case.

You have to read Andromeda Strain and Terminal Man. In fact, just buy this.

His old shit is especially impressive when you consider he was on the edge of the future then, too. It makes me hope some of his current stuff will come in a few decades, like teleporters (essentially) in Timeline, even though they slowly fucked you up.