hskerholic Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I started reading Stephen Hunter. He is the author of the Bob Lee Swager series(Movie Shooter) the first one Point of Impact is what the movie us based on. There are a total of seven of then I red the first one in two days couldn't put it down! Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm about to finish Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Simple book, one of the classics, and a very quick and easy read. Quote Link to comment
darkhorse85 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Ender's Game. Great book if you're into Sci-Fi. I'm not a really into Sci-Fi too much but I loved this book. Quote Link to comment
strigori Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Ender's Game. Great book if you're into Sci-Fi. I'm not a really into Sci-Fi too much but I loved this book. That is a great book. Its too bad the rest of the series is not nearly as good. Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide don't live up to the greatness of Ender's Game. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I started reading "Scorecasting" last night. The example they use in the introduction was about little league softball and how they put the worst player in right field cuz he was least likely to touch the ball there, but then teams figured it out and started hitting that way, so they put the kid at catcher cuz there was no stealing allowed and whatnot. Then they started talking about the David Tyree catch in the Super Bowl and how Mike Carey, the referee, could have blown the play dead because Eli Manning was basically "in the grasp" of the defender. The whole first chapter is about how fans will react worse to a bad call than a no call. They call it ommission bias. Pretty interesting so far. I had to bump this because there was mention of the "defense wins championships" mantra in another thread. In this "Scorecasting" book, they break down how it's not entirely true that defense wins championships. It's basically pretty even between top-notch offenses winning titles and top-notch defenses winning titles. So they are both even valued. I thought that was interesting considering we have defensive guru as a head coach here at DONU. Quote Link to comment
RednScarlet Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 My oldest son gave me this book saying that since the 'cold war' shaped so much of my life, that I would enjoy the 'behind the scenes' motives. He is right. This book will probably scare some people with the amount of chemical munitions still missing from the former Soviet Union. Where they are at and in whose hand, makes this book an interesting read. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 NPR took nominations, then votes, for the top 100 Sci/Fi & Fantasy novels. Looking through this list, I'm a little surprised that, although this is my favorite genre, I've only read about 1/3 of the books on this list. LINK <---- Contains descriptions of each novel/series. Their results: 1 The Lord Of The Rings 2 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy 3 Ender's Game 4 The Dune Chronicles 5 A Song Of Ice And Fire Series 6 1984 7 Fahrenheit 451 8 The Foundation Triology 9 Brave New World 10 American Gods 11 The Princess Bride 12 The Wheel Of Time Series 13 Animal Farm 14 Neuromancer 15 Watchmen 16 I, Robot 17 Stranger In A Strange Land 18 The Kingkiller Chronicles 19 Slaughterhouse-Five 20 Frankenstein 21 Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? 22 The Handmaid's Tale 23 The Dark Tower Series 24 2001: A Space Odyssey 25 The Stand 26 Snow Crash 27 The Martian Chronicles 28 Cat's Cradle 29 The Sandman Series 30 A Clockwork Orange 31 Starship Troopers 32 Watership Down 33 Dragonflight 34 The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress 35 A Canticle For Leibowitz 36 The Time Machine 37 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 38 Flowers For Algernon 39 The War Of The Worlds 40 The Amber Chronicles 41 The Belgariad 42 The Mists Of Avalon 43 Mistborn Trilogy 44 Ringworld 45 The Left Hand Of Darkness 46 The Silmarillion 47 The Once And Future King 48 Neverwhere 49 Childhood's End 50 Contact 51 The Hyperion Cantos 52 Stardust 53 Cryptonomicon 54 World War Z 55 The Last Unicorn 56 The Forever War 57 Small Gods 58 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever 59 The Vorkosigan Saga 60 Going Postal 61 The Mote In God's Eye 62 The Sword Of Truth Series 63 The Road 64 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 65 I Am Legend 66 The Riftwar Saga 67 The Sword of Shannara Trilogy 68 The Conan The Barbarian Series 69 The Farseer Trilogy 70 The Time Traveler's Wife 71 The Way Of Kings 72 Journey To The Center Of The Earth 73 The Legend Of Drizzt Series 74 Old Man's War 75 The Diamond Age 76 Rendezvous With Rama 77 The Kushiel's Legacy Series 78 The Dispossessed 79 Something Wicked This Way Comes 80 Wicked 81 The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series 82 The Eyre Affair 83 The Culture Series 84 The Crystal Cave 85 Anathem 86 The Codex Alera Series 87 The Book Of The New Sun 88 The Thrawn Trilogy 89 The Outlander Series 90 The Elric Saga 91 The Illustrated Man 92 Sunshine 93 A Fire Upon The Deep 94 The Caves Of Steel 95 The Mars Trilogy 96 Lucifer's Hammer 97 Doomsday Book 98 Perdido Street Station 99 The Xanth Series 100 The Space Trilogy Quote Link to comment
Husker_x Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 They've been writing books a lot longer than any of us have been reading them. I recent finished the fourth and fifth installments of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones to you HBO subscribers)––the narrative hit a pretty big lag here. I don't know if at his current pace he'll ever finish the series. He's got a long way to go and claims there are only two books left. Somehow I doubt that. Quote Link to comment
rawhide Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I was going to call BS if Asimov didn't get in the top 10 Liked the dragon series by Anne McCaffrey too; kinda superficial but entertaining. Dean Ing wrote a trilogy about post apocalyptic America. Entertaining with survival training included at no additional cost. Let me clarify that. Post nuclear apocalypse Lots of sci-fi I love but most isn't too deep and not bound for the literary honor roll. Quote Link to comment
Lonestar_Husker Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Golf in the Kingdom. Gotta love a character named Shivas Irons. Quote Link to comment
holvy83 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Have you read it? I love that movie, but I always forget about the book. just started reading this book, I have not laughed that hard in a long time, this guy is something else for sure. Quote Link to comment
GM_Tood Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Dragonlance Start off with The Chronicles Trilogy and go from there. Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Have you read it? I love that movie, but I always forget about the book. just started reading this book, I have not laughed that hard in a long time, this guy is something else for sure. Tucker is a riot, wait till you start the second one. It's just as funny, maybe even funnier. Quote Link to comment
holvy83 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Have you read it? I love that movie, but I always forget about the book. just started reading this book, I have not laughed that hard in a long time, this guy is something else for sure. Tucker is a riot, wait till you start the second one. It's just as funny, maybe even funnier. read a story he has from his next book on his FB page, funny as hell! will be picking up his new book after I finish this one. Quote Link to comment
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