Chris Monk wrote:Been reading quite a bit recently. Got a cheap copy of the His Dark Materials trilogy that I'm currently working my way through. Didn't realise it was coming out as a film soon.
A great read Chris, that works on many levels.
Yeh. I'm really quite enjoying them. I thought they were supposed kid's books but the language is too sophisticated for children and the story is very good despite being very easy to follow.
batman wrote:Now reading: Isaac Asimov's 'The End of Eternity'
Loved his Foundation novels. Plan to reread them in the Christmas holiday.
I loved the Foundation novels, there are some great ideas in those books.
The Foundation Trilogy is probably one of the best SF series ever published. And Asimov's robot novels still hold up quite well today, too (despite Hollywood's ridiculous interpretation of "I, Robot").
As for myself, I'm finally reading the final volume of the Harry Potter series. Not bad.
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer, I am a half-fast writer.
-- Robert Asprin
hansx wrote:
Loved his Foundation novels. Plan to reread them in the Christmas holiday.
I loved the Foundation novels, there are some great ideas in those books.
The Foundation Trilogy is probably one of the best SF series ever published. And Asimov's robot novels still hold up quite well today, too (despite Hollywood's ridiculous interpretation of "I, Robot").
As for myself, I'm finally reading the final volume of the Harry Potter series. Not bad.
Think they are the best, however Dune is not bad either.
Just finished Potter in English. Got for my Sinterklaas the Dutch version. But that could be read on a later moment. It was not bad, still think that it was a bit too heavy for the little children who reads those books too.
Chris Monk wrote:
I loved the Foundation novels, there are some great ideas in those books.
The Foundation Trilogy is probably one of the best SF series ever published. And Asimov's robot novels still hold up quite well today, too (despite Hollywood's ridiculous interpretation of "I, Robot").
As for myself, I'm finally reading the final volume of the Harry Potter series. Not bad.
Think they are the best, however Dune is not bad either.
Just finished Potter in English. Got for my Sinterklaas the Dutch version. But that could be read on a later moment. It was not bad, still think that it was a bit too heavy for the little children who reads those books too.
Yep, I like Dune too and, shock, horror, I liked the film too.
I was interested to see that Ridley Scott was working on a film version of Dune just before he started working on Blade Runner. Now that would have been something.
rotwang wrote:
The Foundation Trilogy is probably one of the best SF series ever published. And Asimov's robot novels still hold up quite well today, too (despite Hollywood's ridiculous interpretation of "I, Robot").
As for myself, I'm finally reading the final volume of the Harry Potter series. Not bad.
Think they are the best, however Dune is not bad either.
Just finished Potter in English. Got for my Sinterklaas the Dutch version. But that could be read on a later moment. It was not bad, still think that it was a bit too heavy for the little children who reads those books too.
Yep, I like Dune too and, shock, horror, I liked the film too.
I was interested to see that Ridley Scott was working on a film version of Dune just before he started working on Blade Runner. Now that would have been something.
was that the one that was to have had special effects designed by H.R. Giger? Now, THAT would have been something to see!
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer, I am a half-fast writer.
-- Robert Asprin
I'm bored, OK!
