Top 5 of the week
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The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein Oath Of Fealty and Footfall, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The Chanur Saga, The Faded Sun trilogy, and the Foreigner Sequence, C. J. Cherryh The Bolo series, Keith Laumer, and follow-on books by a number of authors I have reached a stage with each of these that I have to exert a lot of self-control on how often I re-read them.
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delete this;Bah you really are old school - nothing new to read here. The OP is just fishing for new authors to read, thankfully there were a few new ones in the other posts. You would probably like my library, every one of the above is in there.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are: 1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson 3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.) 4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez 5. Friday - Robert Heinlein Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven What are your favorite books?
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Thank you, fishing for new authors I see, picked up a couple of potentials. I'm with OG, who the hell can list only 5 favourite authors let alone books.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Bah you really are old school - nothing new to read here. The OP is just fishing for new authors to read, thankfully there were a few new ones in the other posts. You would probably like my library, every one of the above is in there.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
The OP asked for our favorites, not what we were reading currently. I just finished reading the Remembrance of Earth's Past[^] trilogy by Liu Cixin[^]. I'm also a fan of N.K. Jemisin and John Scalzi, an almost neighbor of mine (he lives about 50 miles south of me).
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Bah you really are old school - nothing new to read here. The OP is just fishing for new authors to read, thankfully there were a few new ones in the other posts. You would probably like my library, every one of the above is in there.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
For that matter, Cherryh has a new novel in the Foreigner Sequence coming out in the not-too-distant future.
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are: 1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson 3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.) 4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez 5. Friday - Robert Heinlein Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven What are your favorite books?
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As others have already said, far too many. :) Just throwing "The Laundry Files[^]" series by Charles Stross into the mix.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are: 1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson 3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.) 4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez 5. Friday - Robert Heinlein Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven What are your favorite books?
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer I read this over 10 years ago, but it still stands out as the most gripping non-fiction book I have ever read. Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos project to develop the atomic bomb and then, having realised what he'd done, sensibly announced that dropping atomic bombs on people was a bad idea. This resulted in a Government witch hunt, led by J. Edgar Hoover, accusing him of being a communist. It's a fairly long read, (around 600 pages), but gives a real insight into a complex genius and polymath - and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2006: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/kai-bird-and-martin-j-sherwin[^]
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are: 1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson 3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.) 4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez 5. Friday - Robert Heinlein Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven What are your favorite books?
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Wow, it's been a long time since I could enjoy a good read, let alone 5 books in a week. And since these are the top 5, it means you must have read even more.
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The Wolf Hall trilogy, and anything else by Hilary Mantel, especially A Place of Greater Safety The Cruel Sea All Quiet on the Western Front The Pickwick Papers, and anything else by Dickens Red Sky at Sunrise by Laurie Lee ... and many others too numerous to mention.
All Quiet on the Western Front + 1 a lovely book
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are: 1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson 3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.) 4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez 5. Friday - Robert Heinlein Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven What are your favorite books?
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Forever War - John Haldeman The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe The Princess Bride - William Goldman The description of the fight scene atop the Cliffs of Insanity is in my opinion the reason the English language was invented Also the description of the fabrication of the six-fingered sword I was fascinated by Chung Kuo - David Wingrove all six or so volumes give or take
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Here are a couple off the top of my head; Hawaii - James A. Mitchner The Last days of Pompeii I have I Robot coming at xmas.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
Hopefully it is the one feom the 50's not the one from the movie..
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Hopefully it is the one feom the 50's not the one from the movie..
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Yeah me too. Xmas present from my son, I didn't specify edition. Probably should of!
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are: 1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson 3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.) 4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez 5. Friday - Robert Heinlein Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven What are your favorite books?
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I just finished re-reading "The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison for about the fifth time! Basically anything by Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Robert Heinlein, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.
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