smog
- Tuesday, October 30 2007
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Dust was amazing in its realization of the event. It is even more important now with the honeybee crisis. I highly recommend it to all who wonder why we should save the bees.
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i think cormac mccarthy's "The Road" might just be my favorite book of all time, of ANY genre.
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If not my "favorite", definitely one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It has stayed with me on a viceral level since I read it (which was the day it came out in the stores).
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I HATED The Road. The writing style drove me nuts and made me want to whip out my red proofreader's pencil every time I opened the book. Felt like I was hanging. Out with William Shatner.
I will say the story has stayed with me, though.
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Does anyboedy remember Alas, Babylon? Or Down to a Sunless Sea? Or maybe Warday or Brin's The Postman? These are among my favorite titles from the past. As technology moves on they become somewhat dated. I'm really enjoying S.M. Stirling "The Change" novels.
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I read "The Postman" and "Warday" a number of years ago... Both excellent books... "Alas, Babylon" was a recent read (after hearing about it here) and I really enjoyed it... I haven't read "Down to a Sunless Sea" but now I'll have to check it out...
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I thought the first change novel was excellent... The second was good but not as good as the original... I haven't read third one yet but it's on the list...
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Just read The Postman and really enjoyed it.
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Loved Alas, Babylon and it's oneof the few books I've ever reread. I really like The Postman too.
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Aimeesue: If you liked those you should try the S.M. Stirling series starting with DIES THE FIRE. I was just in Oregon for a month and it was kinda cool - retracing where the story takes place.
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Who is the author of Dust?
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Charles R. Pellegrino. This is actually an older book, but amazon is selling it through someone else. (through their MarketPlace feature). I found it at the public library. Enjoy a great read.
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Can't spell.......Thank you!! I'm requesting it on paperbackswap.com.
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Have you been using paperbackswap.com long? I had not heard of it until I read your post... Definitely an intriguing idea...
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smog
- Thursday, November 1 2007
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I use both frugalreader and paperbackswap boht have been great. You list your and they list their and hopefully someone wants what you have. As a total book addict it has been heaven for me.
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I've been trading on paperbackswap.com since 2005. I also use titletrader.com, bookmooch.com and SF-books.com. PaperbackSwap is US-based while the others are international, but you have the option of trading only within your own country.
Last time I checked, there were 15 copies of Dust available on PBS.
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I have only been using PBS for a month now, but I am LOVING it!! A great way to get rid of books you no longer want for books you do want!! You can also buy credits. Dust is on its way to me now.
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Harley
- Wednesday, October 31 2007
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The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. Even though the novel takes place centuries after the "apocalypse", it explores the causes, consequenses, and ultimately the redemption from man-made catastrophe.
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reading Children's Hospital - interesting so far but the editing is a bit wonky - or maybe it supposed to be like this? Not sure. Also hate to find spelling mistakes.
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yes, I was excited to get it and had trouble with it so put it aside for now.
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Eric R
- Wednesday, March 26 2008
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Haven't read that many in this genre, though I love the topic. So, I'm looking for recommendations. I did just try The Road after checking out this thread, but couldn't deal with the writing style.
I've read The Stand, Swan Song (McCammon), and The Rapture (jenkins). Read the Stand first and loved it. Was many years later when someone recommended Swan Song to me. That book is on another level and much, much better than the Stand imo. Rapture was good enough to keep me reading and finish, but was mediocre at best. Swan Song is one of my favorite books across the board.
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I'd have to agree with Dan Simmons Hyperion Books, even his Illium is good, I'd also add Frank Herbert's The White Plague, very scary and very possible.
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War Day is one of my all time favorite books, and the journalistic style in which it is written makes it even more effective. The Road is simply one of the best novels ever written, period. I would also recommend two books by Graham Masterton; Plague and Famine. Both very old and out of print, but definitely worth reading if you can get your hands on them. Plague, in particular, is extremely disturbing.
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I am reading Spin by Robert Wilson 2006 Hugo Award for best novel. It involves an alien species placing a membrane around the Earth so that the Earth is pushed two Billion Years into the future. Thus, the characters have to face a dying Red Sun.
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Margaret Atwood has two books that every apocalypse eco-porn lover will probably like. The older one is "The Handmaid's Tale." The more recent is "Oryx and Crake," truly a masterpiece — arguably among the scariest books ever written, as well as one of the best.
I also recently read "Children of Men," the original novella by P. D. James upon which the film was loosely based, very loosely based. It is, however, despite its differences, nearly as powerful as the film.
Both P.D. James and Margaret Atwood seem to me to offer a more subtle view of what might constitute an apocalypse than many of the more overtly science-fiction, sudden disaster stories. Baring the climate-change "snap" that's been in the news recently, it seems to me that the likely apocalypse scenario will be a slower, more gradual diminishing of our society than is often portrayed in fiction. Even a climate change snap and its consequences are likely to unfold over several years rather than a long weekend. The Rapture concept is something like religious pornography for those in some sort of denial about ecological reality.
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I agree with you about their theme that subtle changes can/will drive us to our downfall. All of those books were great, but Atwood's O&C is my favorite.
Another book with that same theme is Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Butler is just fantastic.
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I can't remember the author off hand but the book was called the Ragged Edge. It was about a man trying to find his family after a major earthquake completely changed the face of the earth. It was written at least 25-30 years ago.
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Looking fwd to reading Dust. Has anyone mentioned "Lucifer's Hammer" by Niven and Pournelle? Read that some 30 years ago and remember it as a good one. Alas, Babylon was made into a movie long ago, for TV? And I remember being terribly impressed, as a young teenager, with ... can't remember the title, tip o' tongue, set in Australia...ah, On the Beach. P.K. Dick (one of my fave writers) has some good end of world novels, Dr. Bloodmoney, for one.
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How about "Footfall" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle?
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I just read Earth Abides. I loved the Road, but I think that On The Beach is my all time favorite.
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Earth Abides was great. But c'mon, didn't you want to smack Ish upside the head every once in a while? + D
Passivity ain't my thing.
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