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Pillars of the Earth was amazing. After that I read Valley of the Horses.
I would recommend them to anybody over the age of 14. (I read them when I was 11.)
I read war and peace when I was 11 (or was it 10), a much better book then either of those.
I also wouldn't recommend it normally to kidsso young.
jm
Jon Miller- I AM.CANADIAN
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Just re-read "Rendezvous with Rama" But iirc the following books weren't nearly as good. I'll read them again though and see if 10+ years makes any difference...
I just read Pride & Prejudice in one evening. It is a good read for a chick book.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
I finished "The Temporal Void" by Peter K. Hamiliton, and while I don't think the trilogy is as good as the first two novels yet, I do wonder about the size of the third novel. It's got the be the size of elephant if it's to have a proper ending to it, I reckon.
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Jon Miller- I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
That wouldn't bother Peter Hamilton in the slightest, I don't think.
He does seem to have a craving for stretching the limits of paperbacks
Even by the standards of the first two books, The Naked God is an extremely large volume. It was only possible to publish the UK paperback in one volume by moderately decreasing the font size compared to the previous novels.
I never noticed the change in font size in The Naked God...thanks for pointing it out Zoid I'd like it if he does a 2000 page paper back...though I do reckon his publishers wouldn't...
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Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
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I liked them as a teenage male. haven't really been interested in picking them up again (not sure where I stopped either, but know I didn't read the 5th)
JM
Yeah, the fifth book (Shelters of Stone) wasn't as interesting as the prior ones. It was like she had run out of steam. Jondalar and Ayla get back to his Cave, and you're introduced to his family. But there's a lack of any real tension to drive the story forwards, except a few not-very-believable grudges and so forth. Zelandoni (formerly Zolena, the woman who sexually coached Jondalar) is a sort-of scheming priestess type. And there's a load of bratty mouthed young women who take a dislike to Ayla but they're not very convincing.
Basically Auel writes it as though Jondalar left a load of social mistakes behind when he left and they're all coming back to bite him. Ayla is magic woman and peace weaver, and she solves all their problems, whilst simultaneously inventing the Cruise missile, nuclear fission, and double-entry bookkeeping.
They get married as well and have a kid. All rather anticlimactic. As are the sex scenes.
Next up: Inside Straight: A Wild Cards Novel, ed by George RR Martin.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD
Also finished The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder. Funny shizzle.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD
Starting in Michel Houellebecq's "Extension du domaine de la lutte" tonight. Though I'm of an entirely different opinion, his dissection of modern society is thought-provoking nonetheless, so I'm reading anything of his oeuvre I can lay my hands on
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