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The 100 Greatest Books, according to PD.com

Started by Requia ☣, February 28, 2009, 10:26:04 AM

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Pariah

#75
March 11, 2009, 02:08:52 AM
Fight Club!
Oh and I second/(if no one has suggested it yet) nominate Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep.
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#76
March 11, 2009, 02:53:07 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 11, 2009, 02:08:52 AM
Fight Club!
Oh and I second/(if no one has suggested it yet) nominate Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep.

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Pariah

#77
March 12, 2009, 01:30:53 AM
Pertaining to most of his stuff; yes. But I loved that one.
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hunter s.durden

#78
March 12, 2009, 10:14:01 AM
Second Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

Watchmen by Alan Moore.
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Xooxe

#79
March 12, 2009, 01:53:49 PM
The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Urraco

#80
March 13, 2009, 08:51:01 PM
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Read it. Loved it. Should definatly be on the list.
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nostalgicBadger

#81
March 18, 2009, 08:35:17 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 09, 2009, 02:57:54 PM
From Publishers Weekly
In 1966, the late Philip K. Dick published the novelette "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale."

Total Recall (Paperback)
by Piers Anthony (Author)

If God has any sense of justice, He'll have devoted a special room in hell for authors who rip off PKD.
meh.

Requia ☣

#82
March 19, 2009, 02:51:35 AM
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on March 18, 2009, 08:35:17 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 09, 2009, 02:57:54 PM
From Publishers Weekly
In 1966, the late Philip K. Dick published the novelette "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale."

Total Recall (Paperback)
by Piers Anthony (Author)

If God has any sense of justice, He'll have devoted a special room in hell for authors who rip off PKD.
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NOVA

#83
March 19, 2009, 04:58:18 PM
Siddhartha. Yes, I just recomended a religious book. It's a good read.

nostalgicBadger

#84
March 19, 2009, 05:03:02 PM
Siddhartha isn't religious, spag.
meh.

hunter s.durden

#85
March 19, 2009, 05:21:37 PM
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on March 19, 2009, 05:03:02 PM
Siddhartha isn't religious, spag.

Some say the same about Fight Club.
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nostalgicBadger

#86
March 19, 2009, 08:09:23 PM
Quote from: hunter s.durden on March 19, 2009, 05:21:37 PM
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on March 19, 2009, 05:03:02 PM
Siddhartha isn't religious, spag.

Some say the same about Fight Club.

touché
meh.

Cait M. R.

#87
March 24, 2009, 09:50:50 AM
I'd suggest the Otherland series by Tad Williams. I still haven't completed those, but they are seriously really neat to read. I don't see them as particularly Discordian, but I don't read much Discordian stuff to begin with.

Neither Pattern Recognition nor Neuromancer are particularly good Gibson books. I'd say his best was All Tomorrow's Parties, the conclusion of the Bridge trilogy.

I'd also say that Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age deserves a spot along side the other two. It's probably one of the very best books I've ever read.

Greg Egan's Schild's Ladder or Distress would be good candidates. I have a particular love for Egan's work.

And while on the subject of Philip K. Dick, the only story of his that I liked would be probably Ubik. The others I've all but forgotten by now. Ubik at least stuck with me.

Faust

#88
March 24, 2009, 11:34:22 AM
otherlands has a pretty horrible writing style, but its got good ideas. Its interesting enough.
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P3nT4gR4m

#89
March 24, 2009, 07:24:15 PM
"the hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism"

Alexander Roob

ISBN 3-8228-8653-X

It's eighteen feet thick and is mostly pictures - what's not to like?

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