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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks, which is a good book if you like SCI-FI, but the Author has the most irritating habbit of creating characters with daft names and talking about something before he describes what he's talking about. So for example your reading along quite happily - then he starts to go on about something and you think - hold on - did i just miss something,
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Oh gods, I know what you mean! It's so damned irritating at times.
And his characters with multi-polysyllabic names that are practically unpronouncable also get on my nerves.
It's a shame because his stuff is really good.
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Originally Posted by kobuskint
Speaking of books that are better than films, I would like to recommend Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein.
Although I even liked the film, the book is utterly different and deal with much deeper issues regarding why our society is breaking down basically how rights need to be earned through responsibilities.
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Whilst I don't exactly agree with Heinlein's concept of how a society works, he does have some very interesting and thought provoking ideas.
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Originally Posted by Russ D
And if Big G would put aside a few minutes from running the world I'm sure he'd sort out a copyright Himself  |
Err, excuse me? Omnipotent? Omni-cognisant? Omnipresent? Omnibus? (Hmm, maybe not the last one!)
Why does he need to put time aside...?!
