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| 2005-10-28 08:25:14 |
2001 & a bit.... |
 zaphod |
I've just finished re-reading the entire 2001 series. Do you have any idea how boring most of it is? Sure there's some interesting stuff, especially in the first and last books (yes, there's 4 of them now, where will it ever end....) but overall, I'm not entirely thrilled by it. On the other hand, I'm also now re-reading Footfall (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) which I am finding quite riveting.
I must admit, that I have read some real trash in my time, plenty of pulp as well. Everything from Douglas to John Wyndham, and then some.
My personal favourite authors are Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein, HG Wells, and Isaac Asimov. With a few interspersed individual works from some other authors. A few gems from E.E. Smith and the occasional bit from A.C. Clarke.
As you can imagine, I read a lot. I currently have about 500 Books on my shelf at home, all but 3 I've read, several more than once. Surely you know what I mean, you read something a couple of years ago, you can remember one scene from it but forget the context that scene was in, so you read it again, only to find that it wasn't the same as you remembered it to be.
Which leads me to my main problem. I've read several books when I was in high school (yeah, I know, it's totally unheard of, a high school student who can read) but I've mixed up what I remember a book being like, and what it is like when I get hold of it again. My guess is that my memory is failing me, especially since I'm remembering very clearly certain sequences from a book, and when I go to re-read it, these sequences aren't there.
Needless to say, this can be quite disconcerting.
Mood - Dazed & Confused
Music - Europe - The Final Countdown |
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I'm sorry, zaphod, but your wording makes it sound like you think Douglas (Adams?) or Wyndham, or both, are trash or pulp. What did you actually mean? (Adams was good and Wyndham was trash?) I'm not meaning to criticise your opinion...I'm just not sure what you meant. 
