Need some suggestions for a new book to read

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I haven't read those, and don't plan on it. I'm just glad I didn't spend money on Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code. They wre mildly entertaining, but for the most part the characters were paper thin.

Exactly. And of course you saw the extreme similarities between the characters of A&D and The Da Vinci Code? He took a cookie-cutter and made two batches of cookies. Bland cookies that taste like cardboard.

I disagree. He took a cookie cutter and made four batches of cookies. The plot/characters in all four books were exactly the same. The only difference what their names, and occasionally their gender.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Stop supporting the hack known as Dan Brown.

American Gods -Niel Gaiman.

I'll have to admit - while I liked most of his books, he IS very overrated. Digital Fortress was horrible. Especially if you're an Anandtecher, you're going to be shaking your head at all the stuff he gets wrong dealing with technology. He got a lot of it wrong just in Deception Point. Oh yeah, I believe you store a multi-terabyte database on 'optical drives'. Right. Oh and I understand you've DOWNLOADED images onto your cd DISK? Gotcha.

Dan Brown = not to be taken above face value.

I haven't read those, and don't plan on it. I'm just glad I didn't spend money on Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code. They wre mildly entertaining, but for the most part the characters were paper thin.

Exactly. And of course you saw the extreme similarities between the characters of A&D and The Da Vinci Code? He took a cookie-cutter and made two batches of cookies. Bland cookies that taste like cardboard.

And don't forget a lot of the stuff in his books is common knowledge. 😉

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Stop supporting the hack known as Dan Brown.

American Gods -Niel Gaiman.

I'll have to admit - while I liked most of his books, he IS very overrated. Digital Fortress was horrible. Especially if you're an Anandtecher, you're going to be shaking your head at all the stuff he gets wrong dealing with technology. He got a lot of it wrong just in Deception Point. Oh yeah, I believe you store a multi-terabyte database on 'optical drives'. Right. Oh and I understand you've DOWNLOADED images onto your cd DISK? Gotcha.

Dan Brown = not to be taken above face value.

I haven't read those, and don't plan on it. I'm just glad I didn't spend money on Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code. They wre mildly entertaining, but for the most part the characters were paper thin.

Exactly. And of course you saw the extreme similarities between the characters of A&D and The Da Vinci Code? He took a cookie-cutter and made two batches of cookies. Bland cookies that taste like cardboard.

And don't forget a lot of the stuff in his books is common knowledge. 😉

Yeah. And the rediculously monotonous method he uses to push the useless common knowledge on you.

"Robert wondered how many Americans knew that bla bla bla bla was actually BLA BLA BLA BLA! Omgnoeeees!WTF!11111111"

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Stop supporting the hack known as Dan Brown.

American Gods -Niel Gaiman.

I'll have to admit - while I liked most of his books, he IS very overrated. Digital Fortress was horrible. Especially if you're an Anandtecher, you're going to be shaking your head at all the stuff he gets wrong dealing with technology. He got a lot of it wrong just in Deception Point. Oh yeah, I believe you store a multi-terabyte database on 'optical drives'. Right. Oh and I understand you've DOWNLOADED images onto your cd DISK? Gotcha.

Dan Brown = not to be taken above face value.

I haven't read those, and don't plan on it. I'm just glad I didn't spend money on Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code. They wre mildly entertaining, but for the most part the characters were paper thin.

Exactly. And of course you saw the extreme similarities between the characters of A&D and The Da Vinci Code? He took a cookie-cutter and made two batches of cookies. Bland cookies that taste like cardboard.

And don't forget a lot of the stuff in his books is common knowledge. 😉

Yeah. And the rediculously monotonous method he uses to push the useless common knowledge on you.

"Robert wondered how many Americans knew that bla bla bla bla was actually BLA BLA BLA BLA! Omgnoeeees!WTF!11111111"

How about the claustraphobia that occassionally pulled a disappearing act. 😛

 

[MithShrike]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
If you like Fantasy books, Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is very good. I wish I had the extra cash to buy the latest book though. 🙁

Aye 'tis true. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is good. Don't bother with Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannarra series. Orson Scott Card's Ender series is good but don't bother with the 'Shadow' parallel series; his Alvin Maker series is good too. Dan Simmons' Hyperion series is awesome. Robert Silverbeg's Hot Sky at Midnight is good. Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is good as are the Robot novels. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books are pretty good. W. Michael Gear's Forbidden Borders and Spider trilogies aren't bad unabridged but good luck finding those unabridged now. Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat stories are hilarious and very quick reads. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series: Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars are very good. I liked Greg Bear's Songs of Earth and Power his novels Slant and Blood Music were very interesting. I read Stephen Baxter's Moonseed and some others where the main character is Malenfant, Baxter is not a bad writer but it's all the same. Robert A. Heinlein has good classic SF. David Brin's Uplift Trilogies were absolutely kickass. Brin also wrote the Postman but the Costner movie just plain sucked ass in comparison.

Well, that's all I care to think up for now.

 

[MithShrike]

Oh! Anything of George R.R. Martin's is the epitome of fiction.