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I'll put it on my list to reread. I don't think it was content that put me off it but writing style. At least that's how I remember it. I'm not bothered by such sexual stuff in scifi. I read Nova and Triton by Samuel Delany where the main character changes his sex several times. I have a vivid memory of one moment where he's taking drugs to make his breasts lactate. What does reading that stuff as a teen do to a guy? I think a lot about breast feeding an alien chickasaur? I appreciate different points of view in scifi. That stuff was fun.

I read The Demolished Man in a book club once. That was a good one by Bester. I might have read a short story or two of Sturgeon's but I've never read his famous novels Baby is Three and More Than Human. I put those on my list just now.

Just finished Michio Kaku's The Future of the Mind. I could write like 20 scifi novels based on the future science stuff in this book. I'm about to start Don Quixote on audio book next.

baby is three is a section of More than Human.  I definitely recommend More Than Human to read. 

@Matt Snee: I'm on it.

I'm reading the Longmire series of mysteries right now. There's a TV series based on the books on A&E, which, although good in and of itself, does not follow the books at all. I think the people who write the show read part of the first book and called it good. Anyway, the books have become one of my top two favorite mystery series of all time, which is impressive, since I'd never even heard of them until last year.

@Rangergirl: I'm going to read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None pretty soon. It'll be a rare mystery novel for me. 

I love Alfred Bester.  I also love the Forever War and the Accidental Time Machine from Joe Haldeman.

I am finishing up the Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch at the moment.  It is such a good book. 

I've never heard of these. Been a while since I've read any mystery novels... maybe I should give one of these a shot.

Just finished reading Don Quixote by Cervantes. I read it on audio book and it was lol funny throughout. There was a specific situation where Sancho was asking an inn keeper what food he had and the inn keeper kept telling him he was out of whatever Sancho asked for. It reminded me strongly of Monty Python's Cheese Shop Sketch where the same situation is played out.

Don Quixote is really two books and should be seperated as such. One was written ten years or more after the other. Both books are really good.

i would love to read Don Quixote, but I just can't seem to concentrate on novels anymore. Right now I'm reading Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns again.  

@Matt Snee: I'm going to read Dark Knight Returns very soon. It was listed somewhere as the best graphic novel of all time.

nah, that would be Watchmen.  Without a doubt.  But Dark Knight is up there for sure.  

Hey, I've actually read Dark Knight Returns! (I think). I'm pretty out of the loop on the graphic novels/comics so when I've actually read one people are talking about, I gotta speak up!

A few days ago, I finished Journey to the Center of the Earth. It took me a few chapters to get into that style of novel (serial-feeling olde tyme thing), but once I got in the groove, I blew through it. I've seen two movie adaptations of the story, and I don't recall most of the stuff from the book being in those movies. I did really feel like they were doomed a lot of the time, even though that's silly since it's written as a memoir. If you haven't read it, I recommend giving it a shot; it doesn't take long.

I skimmed back through this thread just now and hilariously remembered you guys talking about The Forever War. I just started reading that now. I'll have to chime in when I'm done. I picked it because of a list of classic sci-fi on Amazon, but maybe I subconciously had been wanting to read it because of this thread. It's good so far, but I'm not too far in.

Aside: The suits in The Forever War remind me of suits in The Edge of Tomorrow. If you like sci-fi, you should definitely see that. It's a great movie. 

I've always wanted to read that Travis.  I have a book of Jules Verne, or at least I used to, and I do have 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but I haven't read it.  As a sci-fi head I should have read that stuff long ago.  

Yeah, since I've been on a sci-fi kick lately, I figured reading some of the classics was a good move. It also helped that I had no real books in my queue and I had a copy of Journey to the Center of the Earth sitting in the bookshelf for some forgotten reason. It did go quickly and was not too long. I should read some more of his as well as some H. G. Wells. Some day...

i already finished two novels this month....Playing For Pizza by John Grisham and Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Crichton.  I'm currently slogging through Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana, which is a real account of a man's two year voyage from the East Coast of the USA around Cape Horn and up the coast of California.

It was published in the 19th century...it's a significant read, too, because up to the point that this book was published almost all accounts of the lives of ordinary sailors (i.e., not Officers) were heavily romanticized and unrealistic.  This particular book helped turn all that on its head.

@xDarthKiLLx: Two Years Before the Mast looks interesting. I love travelogs expecially ones about sea voyages. I'm putting that book on my list for sure.

I'll let you know how it is when I'm done with it bro....I haven't been reading the past few days

I just finished William Lithgow's Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations. It's about his on-foot travels around Europe, Greece, the Middle East and North Africa in the early 1600s. He got robbed and nearly killed many times, narrowly missed being made a galley slave, and was tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, among many other misadventures. 

Sounds intense! 

that sounds badass.  I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for that title

Just finished The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams. He talks about his life in education and politics during the important years from the Civil War to the beginning of the 20th century. Politics bores me terribly, but the first part of the book talks about his views on education and the last his theory of history, both of which were full of interesting insights.

I picked up two books today:

Coraline by Neil Gaiman for 90 cents at the thrift store

The King Of Torts by John Grisham for 90 cents at the thrift store

I'm still making my way through Two Years Before The Mast.  Since the language is a tad dated, it's not as quick a read as the likes of anything by Grisham.

I just finished What is Life? by Erwin Schodinger (yea, the cat guy). Even though this is written for a lay audience, it's still a very difficult read. It's about trying to answer some big questions with Quantum Physics. I understood very little of it, but I did think about what a square root is. Add another tid bit of knowledge to the database.