Guest Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 8 hours ago, JamesHackerMP said: Shogun is taking so long I'm pondering watching the mini series. :/ What books are the Expanse based on? Great fun. Page turning stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHackerMP Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 What's it about? Quote "We're not above nature, Mr Hacker, we're part of it. Men are animals, too!" "I know that, I've just come from the House of Commons!" [Yes, Minister] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 7 minutes ago, JamesHackerMP said: What's it about? Set a couple of hundred years in the future it's confined to the Solar System. (Where I'm up to, anyway. Near the end of the first book) Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt are separate political entities and they don't get along that well. The protagonists are a jaded Belter cop and a more idealistic cargo ship captain who are thrust together by circumstances in opposition to the bad guys, who seem to be working to weaponize a virus of alien origin. It's not not up there with the best SF I've read but it is easy to read and very enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHackerMP Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 15 minutes ago, bcsapper said: Set a couple of hundred years in the future it's confined to the Solar System. (Where I'm up to, anyway. Near the end of the first book) Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt are separate political entities and they don't get along that well. The protagonists are a jaded Belter cop and a more idealistic cargo ship captain who are thrust together by circumstances in opposition to the bad guys, who seem to be working to weaponize a virus of alien origin. It's not not up there with the best SF I've read but it is easy to read and very enjoyable. I'll have to check it out! Hopefully they have it for Kindle. (Which I have found saves shelf space.) Quote "We're not above nature, Mr Hacker, we're part of it. Men are animals, too!" "I know that, I've just come from the House of Commons!" [Yes, Minister] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHackerMP Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 Have any of you read any of Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" series? Quote "We're not above nature, Mr Hacker, we're part of it. Men are animals, too!" "I know that, I've just come from the House of Commons!" [Yes, Minister] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goddess Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 12 hours ago, JamesHackerMP said: Have any of you read any of Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" series? Yes, I've read quite a few of them. I'm waiting for the one where they introduce Dirk's older brother - Arm. **ba dumm tsssss** Quote "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHackerMP Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 19 minutes ago, Goddess said: Yes, I've read quite a few of them. I'm waiting for the one where they introduce Dirk's older brother - Arm. **ba dumm tsssss** The sad this is, it took me a few seconds to get that. I seriously had to think it through. did you read the one where the U.S. "bought" Canada, somehow? That was actually a good one, despite being implausible. I was re-reading a couple lately. Think I originally read them in late middle school/early high school days. Quote "We're not above nature, Mr Hacker, we're part of it. Men are animals, too!" "I know that, I've just come from the House of Commons!" [Yes, Minister] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goddess Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 (edited) 47 minutes ago, JamesHackerMP said: The sad this is, it took me a few seconds to get that. I seriously had to think it through. did you read the one where the U.S. "bought" Canada, somehow? That was actually a good one, despite being implausible. I was re-reading a couple lately. Think I originally read them in late middle school/early high school days. Yes, I have an odd sense of humour. I think the book you're thinking of is Night Probe. Ya, it was a gooder. Sahara was good too. And then the movie. Edited January 24, 2019 by Goddess Quote "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHackerMP Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 I haven't read Sahara, yet. I have read a bunch of the "original" ones (the ones up to Trojan-whatever, where Cussler is writing by himself and the main character is still Dirk Pitt). If I remember correctly: Inca gold, Treasure, Deep Six, Cyclops, Raise the Titanic, Night Probe, Atlantis Found, Valhalla Rising, Flood Tide. Might have read Iceberg....or not. It was in high school I read most of them (I'm 40, now). I bought used copies of Treasure and Cyclops to re-read since it's been so long. But there are so many books I have only read partway through. Sahara was indeed a good movie. I started a good one to read while I'm reading Shogun: The Lost World of Byzantium. Always loved the Byzantines for some weird reason. (I never finished Lord Norwich's series on the same, alas.) Quote "We're not above nature, Mr Hacker, we're part of it. Men are animals, too!" "I know that, I've just come from the House of Commons!" [Yes, Minister] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 Whose Boat Is This Boat? An excellent teaching tool for readers of all ages who enjoy learning about empathy by process of elimination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franz123 Posted June 14, 2019 Report Share Posted June 14, 2019 Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHackerMP Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 On 6/13/2019 at 11:28 PM, Franz123 said: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. another book I've failed to finish. Started losing interest, but up to that point it wasn't bad. But now I have seen the movie. Quote "We're not above nature, Mr Hacker, we're part of it. Men are animals, too!" "I know that, I've just come from the House of Commons!" [Yes, Minister] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Henry Posted July 29, 2021 Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2021 Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 I recently read Who Goes Here? by Bob Shaw. That has Warren Peace in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) I'm re-reading the Miles Vorkosigan series because it's been a while. I appreciate Lois Bujold's writing much more than first time around, and love the cleverness of her characters and dialogue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Vorkosigan Edited August 9, 2021 by Argus Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbg Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 I recently finished reading Second Serve by Renee Richards and John Ames. I thought this book would give me some good tennis tips, such as how to improve my second serve. Only trouble is that Renee Richards, formerly Dick Raskind is a "leftie." Only kidding. I knew it wasn't a sports-coaching book though she did coach Martina Navratilova. I found this book in my beloved and late father-in-law's library. My father-in-law was his classmate and tennis-teammate at Yale, and close lifelong friend. Dr. Richards has other deep and abiding ties to my family. The book is definitely "R" if not "X" rated. Reading parts of the book is tinged with the fascination of driving past a multi-car pileup. That being said, the only way the book could make its point was to be brutally straightforward. Dr. Richards describes rather graphically her adventures with gender confusion, which were not aided by certain people in her family. Dick Raskind decided a fair amount of time that he would be best served by changing genders. He had gone through years of fruitless therapy, with doctors who basically tried to convince him to, in short form, forget about his problems. Despite those problems, he had risen to great accomplishments in both the medical and athletic fields as a male. Forgetting about a deep-seated confusion, apparently, is easier said than done. Though the book ends in 1981 (she continues to practice medicine at age 87), about six years after the gender-changing surgery, the book gives tantalizing hints of a better, more satisfying future. This book is definitely worth reading. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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