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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Trying to think who my favorite authors are.
JRRT probably comes first.
Others I like are Mark Helprin, Hemingway, who else, I wonder..Vernor Vinge is good, Martin Cruz Smith can be very good at times, but not always...Patrick O'Brian was fun..hmm...not that many I really admire, even though I love reading...gotta be lots more though, where is my brain tonight? Oh yeah, Rex Stout was wonderful with Nero Wolf, though I don't suppose that qualifies as literature...
You've read a lot of books, though, it seems, judging from past conversation.
It's a shame really, but I feel like I just don't have the time or money to invest in books that I may not like...
The older I get, the pickier I get about what I think is any good. Most of it isn't, I think. I keep reading, though, because I love to so much.
Yeah, I read stuff over again that was good.
Mmm, well, I'm not sure it's the best way to solve this problem, but I'm creating an array of nine arrays, each with four elements (but sometimes only two are used). I want to be able to type "array[0] = {1,2,3,4};" but apparently I can't.
And more importantly, I can't seem to get ANY java program compile, including a "Hello World" that I downloaded from the official Java site. And I've done what they say to do and it doesn't work.
Vernor Vinge is good.
Ever read anything by Connie Willis?
I get this message: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: main" in the program, and a popup window that says "Could not find the main class. Program will exit".
Now, supposedly, messing with my PATH variable will fix this, only it didn't.
I read Doomsday Book, which was exceptionally good. Interesting that it was told from the female point of view. It made you feel like you were really there in the 1300's, English village life. A very sad book, but also inspiring.
Liked the lightweight To Say Nothing of the Dog as well.
Never read any Azimov, do you recommend him, and does it stand up to time?
Haven't read any Lazurus Long either, perhaps I would enjoy one.
I just finished reading the Rober Heinlein story collection, "The Past Through Tomorrow", which includes all of his "future history" short stories. Lazarus Long appears in that one, in the story "Methuselah's Children". That story is also published as a stand-alone novel.
Have you read any Ray Bradbury? I recommend most any of his short story collections.
Good, then I don't have to make you go read Doomsday Book.
I saw a Bradbury TV special with some astronauts getting sloppy drunk to celebrate arriving on Mars. I think Rock Hudson was in the thing, wasn't so great, as I recall.
I read a Bradbury thing in 9th grade too, that would be 1962, can't remember it so well, but I think it was over my head.
Truth is, I read because of your recommendation. A couple years ago, at least. Thanks :-)
I've seen a lot of cars in Detroit with "character". Only the bullet holes are from the outside going in.
And those magnetic "bullet hole" decals are obviously fake. Real bullet holes pop off MUCH more paint around the hole. They develop more "character" when the bare steel rusts.
Oh, I've been going on about it that long? Hehe...
In fact, a lot of Bradbury's work shades over into subtle horror. His short story collection The Illustrated Man is a good example of this. Anyway, those two are the two I'd recommend for good examples of Bradbury's writing.
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