TStarnes
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I am the same. Mine are by genre and thats it. I just don't care enough about organizing to do by author or title
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I avoid most YA books because they seem to be targeted at someone else. I don't a different age, because I can read books that are targeted at a younger audience, I mean so much of the young adult category seems more targeted at young adult girls rather then young adult boys. Nearly all the titles I see seem to be trying to ride the Twilight wave.
When I take my son, who is a young adult himself at 12 years old to the book store, we look at the young adult section but he looks at all the new books there, reads the cover jacket / back cover blurb, sometimes flips through a few pages to see what it is like, and puts it back saying "this is a girls book". Sure you have some titles like the stuff from Michael Scott about Nicholas Flamel or the Percy Jackson books, but going to a lot of book stores with a kid and seeing the YA section a lot, those are in the minority.
Young Adult at some point became Young Adult Female. So neither I nor my son are the audience for the category in general.
But maybe that is just my impression and things aren't quite like that.
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Tomato Basil Soup
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...its a lifetime on the hips. I am still eating this piece of pie.
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What about alt. history time travel. Where people are thrust into the past and then live there lives going forward from there. That's really the only time travel I read.
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I would guess no, its probably not worth any money. If it was something from a big name it might, it really depends on how rabid their fan base is, since that is who would buy it.
Personally I would keep it as an interesting conversation piece.
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There are a couple of series I love and re-read every year or 2.
To preface, much of the sci-fi I enjoy is more military sci-fi then hard sci-fi.
For Series I would suggest
Empire of Man series by David Weber and John Ringo
The General Series by S.M Stirling
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Vorkosiagn Series by Lois McMaster Bujold
For Stand Alone I go with:
Contact
Path of Fury
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Yea that was a problem I had. It didn't feel like it fit with the early run of the series. However it was the one where much of the book did not have Richard in it, and it was told from the point of view of a newly introduced character that really lost me. I only made it half way through that book.
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As with a couple of other people on here, as a fan of history and specifically WWII era history I wanted to read it for its historical context and significant. While it is disturbing, which you would expect, that is not why it is hard to read. As Eleonora said it is extremely incoherent. You can feel the crazy just jumping of the page and it rambles all over the place. It is without a doubt the writing of a mad man.
Also I was worried about royalties when I got a hold of a copy so I to must say thanks to Charlie. That was interesting.
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We'd bought World War Z as we saw the previews of the movie at the theatre. I didn't have too much hope for it, but my husband is reading it now, and really likes it. He said it's like reading the newspaper of the future. Hopefully, I'll read it as soon as he finishes.....
The author, Max Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, two fabulous actors, so obviously talent runs in the family! The important thing for people who only watched the movie is that the book is very very very different then the movie. Also, pay attention to some of the ways he has different societies develop in the face of the zombie threat. I particularly liked the direction he had the Russians take.
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Part of what I think makes them scary, and I am speaking of the traditional "slow" zombies, is the unrelenting nature of it. Sure one zombie is easy to avoid but a press of them, constantly coming at you, that can be terrifying if done right.
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I didn't finish those two books either. I think the best ones for me was the first two books.
For me the first four worked. While I would agree that Wizards First Rule and the Sword of Truth are the best in the series, I enjoyed the following two as well. Starting with book 5 I also had issues in finishing the books, and finally gave up on the series.
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I have to agree with Ravens initial post, I am not a big fan of his books, I find them very hard to read, which is to bad because the ideas in the plot I find very interesting. Its the exception in the writing I can not get past. I find them nearly unreadable, although I did finish Angels and Demons. What I would like is to see the ideas he has translated by a more polished author.
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I have seen the film and read the book and in my opinion the book was better. The movie was a very good rendition of it, there was also an excellent mini-series adapted from the book with Alec Guinness that was excellent.
But yes, the book is better (actually between the book, Mini-Series, and Movie I would put the movie as the 3rd if I was ranking them).
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Hello everyone. I am Travis from Texas and I am a lover of all things books. I read a lot mostly in the sci-fi, mystery, and history genres but I have been known to step out of my comfort zone. I also do a lot of book reviews.
I love talking to people about books, speculating about books, etc and am hoping I will meet so people and find some good conversation and of course new book recommendations.
Can you read with background noise (tv or people talking for example)?
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I can read no mater where I am. After about a page I get tunnel vision and the whole world seems to drop away (its one of the reasons I like reading). Its why when someone comes to talk to me when I am reading I get startled or don't hear them.