I don't see in that pile books by P.K. Dick. You don't like him or what? I am a sf/fantasy/horror books reader and now i am read A scanner darkly, a very good book. After that i think i'm gonna read some Sthephen King books. PS: i read the New Crobuzon trilogy and i like it verry verry much. China Mievile is so good, but the city and the city disappointed me...
I am still unfamiliar with any books by P.K.Dick... I will have to get down to a used book store and grab one or two. I am more into hard science fiction than horror or fantasy, but I have found some fantasies interesting. I have still to find "The City and The City."
Great reviews,,, I used to read alot more than I do now but after this I think I'll be reading some more sci fi's and fantasy,,, Orson Scott card has been writing Iron Man and other comic books lately, In my younger years my favorites were Issac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Alan Dean Foster, Piers Anthony, and Fritz Leiber. I liked alot of Stephen King but not all! I also collect comic books of all kinds, but you gave me a new energy to start picking up on my reading with this video!
I remember you showing us your comics... There's some interesting stuff in your collection! I started with Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Samuel Delany, Robert Silverberg, and so many authors that I don't remember the names of most of them offhand... It's scary when I pick up a book that I bought five years ago and realize that I read it twenty or thirty years ago already. It's interesting, though, how my mind's eye sees the same story differently after so much time and I get something new out of it.
@fehquig You are so right , There have been some I read and years later I reread them and might think, this is better than I thought it was or I'll think, not as good as I remembered it to be! It's like a great movie,, you watch it and re-watch it and find things you didn't catch the first times! Again thanks for posting this my friend, it has me looking through all my old books! Also, it's good that you have some vids not showing all the yummy food,,, those vids kind of throw me off my diet!
@LisaJMoore Hi Lisa,, Hope your New Year is starting off great! Piers Anthony's books are so fun,,, I really enjoyed the Magic of Xanth series. It started with "A Spell For Chameleon" I read like 6 , but I never finished the series, I think he wrote about a dozen or so of those, I'll have to see if I can get the rest,, also if you liked those,, check out Alan Dean Foster's series "The Adventures Of Flinx " I still have most of these.. More real fun stuff! Big hugs Lisa, keep smiling, Dave
Science fiction is a favorite of mine.......but alas I have not read as many books as you have....it is good for you... Larry Niven is very well known
Unless things have changed a lot, I find one Dean Koontz book to be like all the others. He follows a safe formula that you either love or don't, and there are no surprises. But of course I haven't picked one up since about 1999, so that may have changed...
Excellent! Thanks for the update and your views. I have Perdido Street Station but it's gonna be a while before I get to reading that one. Good to hear you liked it. I'll check out some of the others. Happy New year and Happy reading!
I have to admit I havn't really had the time to sit down with a good sci-fi book lately. The greg bear books you talk about I have the first was called "The forge of God" with its sequal "Anvil of the stars" I also loved Eon & its sequal eternity from him. I have 2 new books from Peter F Hamilton to read and I am going to do my best to make some time in 2011 to do more reading and maybe even continue on the bit of sci fi writing I started (maybe I should read some paragraphs out in a video...)
Now I'm reading "Forty Signs Of Rain" by Kim Stanley Robinson and there are just too many to mention in my pile, but I do believe I have some Hamilton in there... I finished reading "Fallen Dragon" some time around September, and what's interesting is that the alien machine in it doesn't care for any of the concerns that are overpoweringly important for the humans in the story... He did a great job of conceiving the story.
Clarke is great as long as he doesn't collaborate with Baxter... I read some things besides SF, the odd biography now and again, but aside from that not much.
I enjoyed reading Asimov a lot... He started rewriting the history of the Roman Empire and set it in the future. Then he wrote speculative fiction about robots. This was all back in the 1950s... Towards the end of his career in the 1980s he tied up all of the loose ends of both series, but reading material is a very personal thing so I can understand how Asimov's fiction didn't have the same gravity with you as it did with me...
It is odd how old videos still get views, sometimes they they start again without reason, they seem to get dragged out and dusted off with current events sometimes. I have just read 1984 and that has rekindled my love of reading:)
What a great collection! Christmas of 2009 I recieved the complete definitive collection of the twilight zone tv series (1950's-1964) I love all the 156 episodes
Andy I LOVE Sci-fi and would read that genre more than anything else. So many great authors you got there. OMG I don't like Orson Scott Card either. I don't know why. I used to belong to the science fiction book club! haha. I read on my ipod touch kindle app now. I love it. I can lay in bed and it's not heavy to hold and it's easy to use and when I get tired I just turn it off and lay it down. Thanks for the review!
I don't believe I will ever go the way of ebooks any time soon... I'm sure that if I had an iPod touch I'd do nothing but watch YouTube on it which would defeat the purpose :) A friend has sent me a couple of novels in digital form, but unless the reader is very different from my computer screen, I find that I can't get into reading in that format...
Very cool collection you have there! I have a few favorite thrift stores I like to hit up here in town. They're always getting in books and sell them at really inexpensive rates! That's for sharing this with us Andy!
My last book buying excursion was at a used book store... I picked up what would have cost some $300 new for about sixty bucks. I will get to read it all sometime after 2015 at the rate I'm going :)
There is good science fiction, but then there's piles of shlock out there. I'm getting better at avoiding crap. I always enjoy me some Farley Mowat when I can get my hands on some :)
I don't see in that pile books by P.K. Dick. You don't like him or what? I am a sf/fantasy/horror books reader and now i am read A scanner darkly, a very good book. After that i think i'm gonna read some Sthephen King books. PS: i read the New Crobuzon trilogy and i like it verry verry much. China Mievile is so good, but the city and the city disappointed me...
walftoby 9 months ago
I am still unfamiliar with any books by P.K.Dick... I will have to get down to a used book store and grab one or two. I am more into hard science fiction than horror or fantasy, but I have found some fantasies interesting. I have still to find "The City and The City."
fehquig 9 months ago
Wow that's a lot of books! Great review Andy, I should read more
Jordmate 1 year ago
LOL I should read more too, Richard, but there are still so many videos and comments :)
fehquig 1 year ago
Great reviews,,, I used to read alot more than I do now but after this I think I'll be reading some more sci fi's and fantasy,,, Orson Scott card has been writing Iron Man and other comic books lately, In my younger years my favorites were Issac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Alan Dean Foster, Piers Anthony, and Fritz Leiber. I liked alot of Stephen King but not all! I also collect comic books of all kinds, but you gave me a new energy to start picking up on my reading with this video!
POPARTPRODUCTlONS 1 year ago
I remember you showing us your comics... There's some interesting stuff in your collection! I started with Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Samuel Delany, Robert Silverberg, and so many authors that I don't remember the names of most of them offhand... It's scary when I pick up a book that I bought five years ago and realize that I read it twenty or thirty years ago already. It's interesting, though, how my mind's eye sees the same story differently after so much time and I get something new out of it.
fehquig 1 year ago
@fehquig You are so right , There have been some I read and years later I reread them and might think, this is better than I thought it was or I'll think, not as good as I remembered it to be! It's like a great movie,, you watch it and re-watch it and find things you didn't catch the first times! Again thanks for posting this my friend, it has me looking through all my old books! Also, it's good that you have some vids not showing all the yummy food,,, those vids kind of throw me off my diet!
POPARTPRODUCTlONS 1 year ago
@POPARTPRODUCTlONS Piers Anthony is my all time favorite of that group....more fun that legally allowed..
LisaJMoore 1 year ago
@LisaJMoore Hi Lisa,, Hope your New Year is starting off great! Piers Anthony's books are so fun,,, I really enjoyed the Magic of Xanth series. It started with "A Spell For Chameleon" I read like 6 , but I never finished the series, I think he wrote about a dozen or so of those, I'll have to see if I can get the rest,, also if you liked those,, check out Alan Dean Foster's series "The Adventures Of Flinx " I still have most of these.. More real fun stuff! Big hugs Lisa, keep smiling, Dave
POPARTPRODUCTlONS 1 year ago
Science fiction is a favorite of mine.......but alas I have not read as many books as you have....it is good for you... Larry Niven is very well known
LisaJMoore 1 year ago
I spent a lot more quiet nights in a taxi than you did :)
fehquig 1 year ago
'You know what? The guy is twisted.' LOL
Doubledig 1 year ago
I would recommend the new Dean Koontz novel, Breathless.
I am only halfway through it but so far so good.
MrFrozenCanuck 1 year ago
Unless things have changed a lot, I find one Dean Koontz book to be like all the others. He follows a safe formula that you either love or don't, and there are no surprises. But of course I haven't picked one up since about 1999, so that may have changed...
fehquig 1 year ago
@fehquig I agree, I stopped reading him years ago because he was too predictable but I decided to give him another chance.
MrFrozenCanuck 1 year ago
Excellent! Thanks for the update and your views. I have Perdido Street Station but it's gonna be a while before I get to reading that one. Good to hear you liked it. I'll check out some of the others. Happy New year and Happy reading!
Doubledig 1 year ago
No worries. I have books on my shelf still that were all the rage five years ago and I have yet to read the back cover :)
fehquig 1 year ago
@fehquig I've made it a rule never to read the back cover of a book - they tend to give away too much of the story.
Doubledig 1 year ago
I have to admit I havn't really had the time to sit down with a good sci-fi book lately. The greg bear books you talk about I have the first was called "The forge of God" with its sequal "Anvil of the stars" I also loved Eon & its sequal eternity from him. I have 2 new books from Peter F Hamilton to read and I am going to do my best to make some time in 2011 to do more reading and maybe even continue on the bit of sci fi writing I started (maybe I should read some paragraphs out in a video...)
SteveNGarth 1 year ago
Now I'm reading "Forty Signs Of Rain" by Kim Stanley Robinson and there are just too many to mention in my pile, but I do believe I have some Hamilton in there... I finished reading "Fallen Dragon" some time around September, and what's interesting is that the alien machine in it doesn't care for any of the concerns that are overpoweringly important for the humans in the story... He did a great job of conceiving the story.
fehquig 1 year ago
I used to read Sc-Fi years ago, but haven't read any for a while now. My fave SF author was always Arthur C Clarke.
Do you read much apart from SF?
andymooseman 1 year ago
Clarke is great as long as he doesn't collaborate with Baxter... I read some things besides SF, the odd biography now and again, but aside from that not much.
fehquig 1 year ago
@fehquig I did read two books Clarke did with Baxter & they were ok, but i did start another & thought it was crap!
andymooseman 1 year ago
@andymooseman I'm always on the lookout for the opposite of crap :)
fehquig 1 year ago
Can't say I am a great fan of sci-fi - I tend to read biographies lately - my bro tried to get me into Asimov years ago and it was a fail.
MrRandomWritings 1 year ago
I enjoyed reading Asimov a lot... He started rewriting the history of the Roman Empire and set it in the future. Then he wrote speculative fiction about robots. This was all back in the 1950s... Towards the end of his career in the 1980s he tied up all of the loose ends of both series, but reading material is a very personal thing so I can understand how Asimov's fiction didn't have the same gravity with you as it did with me...
fehquig 1 year ago
Thats alot of great books. I myself, read a couple fiction books starting out reading then moved to non fiction. :)
AnnyaMoon 1 year ago
Reading material and the enjoyment of it is a very personal thing...
fehquig 1 year ago
It is odd how old videos still get views, sometimes they they start again without reason, they seem to get dragged out and dusted off with current events sometimes. I have just read 1984 and that has rekindled my love of reading:)
ajdpadbury 1 year ago
@ajdpadbury I read 1984 every few years - one of my favourite books - funny that!
MrRandomWritings 1 year ago
@MrRandomWritings They should make a hollywood blockbuster of that book!
ajdpadbury 1 year ago
Hollywood wouldn't do it justice... Hasn't a British film adaptation been done? I seem to remember seeing one or two.
fehquig 1 year ago
@ajdpadbury They already did - 2 of my fave actors in it
MrRandomWritings 1 year ago
Too bad Orwell didn't live longer... Try and imagine what he could have come up with!
fehquig 1 year ago
I haven't read that many books in my whole life...LOL! now a days I don't have time cuz I am always watching youtube. Happy New Year buddy
TheDarksEmpyrean 1 year ago
I'm like that little robot in the movie, "Short Circuit" who keeps wanting INPUT... YouTube has slowed my reading down quite a bit even so :)
fehquig 1 year ago
What a great collection! Christmas of 2009 I recieved the complete definitive collection of the twilight zone tv series (1950's-1964) I love all the 156 episodes
SWTPEA64 1 year ago
One of my favorite characters in that series was Julius Moomer :)
fehquig 1 year ago
Never been much of sci-fi fan but a few of those books do sound interesting. Great review. I'm going to have to go watch the original review now. : )
capergirl1976 1 year ago
I tried to make the new review as much like the old one as possible... I sure miss the hardwood floors of that apartment where I used to live :)
fehquig 1 year ago
Andy I LOVE Sci-fi and would read that genre more than anything else. So many great authors you got there. OMG I don't like Orson Scott Card either. I don't know why. I used to belong to the science fiction book club! haha. I read on my ipod touch kindle app now. I love it. I can lay in bed and it's not heavy to hold and it's easy to use and when I get tired I just turn it off and lay it down. Thanks for the review!
imperceptibleme 1 year ago
I don't believe I will ever go the way of ebooks any time soon... I'm sure that if I had an iPod touch I'd do nothing but watch YouTube on it which would defeat the purpose :) A friend has sent me a couple of novels in digital form, but unless the reader is very different from my computer screen, I find that I can't get into reading in that format...
fehquig 1 year ago
Very cool collection you have there! I have a few favorite thrift stores I like to hit up here in town. They're always getting in books and sell them at really inexpensive rates! That's for sharing this with us Andy!
greggfla 1 year ago
My last book buying excursion was at a used book store... I picked up what would have cost some $300 new for about sixty bucks. I will get to read it all sometime after 2015 at the rate I'm going :)
fehquig 1 year ago
Sci-fi has always been big so maybe I should get more into it, you've made me curious ! Farley Mowat, you have to be canadian to have this !!!
dagocleo 1 year ago
There is good science fiction, but then there's piles of shlock out there. I'm getting better at avoiding crap. I always enjoy me some Farley Mowat when I can get my hands on some :)
fehquig 1 year ago
It's nice to see that you still read.
Books are dying off.
MrFrozenCanuck 1 year ago
I would be reading loads more if not for YouTube... I used to read that many books in a year. Now it takes me four.
fehquig 1 year ago
si fi is soooo last year.
popebenadict16 1 year ago
Funny... I have been reading it since about 1974
fehquig 1 year ago