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farglebargle -> RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books (5/30/2007 1:04:31 AM)
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"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is pretty good too as far as Heinlin goes, but the Mistress part has little to do with BDSM (and that's okay, just didn't want to get anyone's hopes up).
That's pretty much a How-To book for a Revolution. Do they still allow it to circulate?
Just glancing over to the "Well Read" shelves:
Tom Clancy, UP TO and including Without Remorse.
Terry Pratchett: Everything. Most read: Susan stories and Sam stories. Thief of Time ties a lot of things together. And Small Gods should be required reading in the 7th grade.
Pournelle's The Prince.
Niven and Pournell's epics.
S.M. Stirling can write some very effective scenes, even in the Bolo genre.
Oh yeah, Keith Laumer's Bolo franchise.
John Varley: People criticize Mammoth for being written like a screenplay. It's not. It *IS* very filmable, and given Varley's history selling Millenium *maybe* he shouldn't be in too much of a hurry ;)
That aside, it was a great book, and touched on some great themes. Recommended.
As well as the rest of his work. Sure the Gaia trilogy approached soft-core porn... ( Hey, *THAT* would be filmable, too. I wonder what's he got under option at the moment??) but that doesn't detract from the story...
Steel Beach and The Golden Globe might be more required reading.
What else. Any of the collections compiled by Asimov. "Before the Golden Age" and "The Golden Age of Science Fiction" are great.
Star Trek Books, PRE-TNG, didn't suck. Spock's World was good.
Oh, and Zinn's "People's History of the United States" can be a real downer!
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