just as much as i liked Blade Runner

tought me spiders can live with only 4 legs but they just dont feel like it 

Dude--a cliche ending? It was a fucking neutron star! And Chasm City is a side story. And, the rest of the series is awesome. SHIT MAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING 

He gets better as he goes really, the characters in his earlier books like Revelation Space are a bit meh.

I thought Electric Sheep was great, but it's definitely got that very weirdo old-school sci-fi vibe that Dick quite alot of. 

I don't know why, I mostly spent the time (and it was a lot of it, that man writes bricks) thinking about what was wrong with it in detail. Oh well. 

I thought his newest stuff was quite good, the Whole Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained, and the new series, Dreaming Void etc. Definitely feels stronger than his older books. 

And yeah, it's not bad exactly, but it's not that good either...

I'm not sure what it is about his books I find so strange. I think they have a really odd dramatic structure -- he mostly seems to try for a massively detailed at least semi-plausible future history sort of thing but the way all the story arcs come together at the end gives it an echo of an epic tale like the Lord of the Rings, and the two really don't sit well together.

And of course they're far, far, far too long. These two books are about 2500 pages in total -- the same story less a few subplots in 800 pages might have been really good. 

Volks Game

its alright 

it's alright 

 

So if you've seen the iPad stuff you know they have an iBooks store to go along with it. Quite intriguing. I remember a discussion about Kindle in some other thread, cba to find it, so I'm putting this here.

Any thoughts/opinions on iPad's iBooks vs Kindle? I wouldn't want to pay $200+ for an electronic personal library, but $500+ for a pretty neat laptop along with the electronic personal library sounds good.

But then when iPad comes out the price of the Kindle might drop to something pretty affordable as well, and really what good is a laptop if you can't play Crysis on it maxed out, amirite?

'Course, the iPad does have all that other stuff, so maybe it's not exactly fair to compare the two? 

Kindle is a different experience due to the e-ink screen. It's very different from reading off of an LCD screen like the iPad. It depends on whether or not you like reading on LCD screens. Reading forums and such is one thing but books are another. You're basically staring into a flashlight for hours.

The Kindle has the same eye strain as reading paper.

So if books are your primary concern, I would recommend a Kindle. But of course there are many shades of grey here. 

by China Mi�ville. A review:
http://sfreviews.net/mieville_kraken.html
I won't read the review as I hate spoilers but the first few lines piqued my interest. He/she is a lovecraft fan anyway. 

Yeah looking forward to Kraken. His last book was nice (the City and the City), but The Scar is still my favorite from him. 

I didn't know he'd done anything since Iron Road. Someone update me. 

updates Shambler to version -0.0.0.13 --- already broken :( 

that's interesting? 

/me googles kurzweilian 

i've never read this masterpiece before, but it got me totally. i'm in the middle of the fifth part - song of susannah and i can't stop reading. highly recommended. 

i liked the first 4 or 5 the most. by the end, the story felt like it was moving too far away from the original content. obviously, it's an epic story, so that's to be expected to an extent, but it would have as if all the swords were replaced with ducks in the third lotr book or something. 

just picked up 'a game of thrones' (first in the 'a song of ice and fire' series). only started, but it's solid so far. i'd venture to say it might be better than wheel of time, but i haven't read enough yet to be sure. 

i'm sorry - song of susannah is number six. stephen king is real king... his imagination has no limits. i've heard about plans to make a movie based on dark tower series. i'm afraid it will be disaster. 

i'm afraid it will be disaster.
i would be surprised if it wasn't.

honestly, the books are way too big to put on screen. some of the books would have to be split into two films themselves.

it might be possible to make an adaptation out the first book with bits of the second though. 

i'm afraid it will be disaster.
i would be surprised if it wasn't.


miracles sometimes happen :-) 

it looks and sounds interesting, i'm just-a wondering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel 

I think Song of Ice and Fire is way better than any Wheel of Time stuff, it's alot less cheesy and the characters are just much more interesting. Oh and it's not stealing 90% of it's content from other novels.