Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 295951 times)

jane · « **Reply #2760 on:** April 19, 2016, 10:42:30 AM »

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

PatH · « **Reply #2761 on:** April 19, 2016, 12:33:46 PM »

Treason's Harbour

Patrick O'Brian, #9

Frybabe · « **Reply #2762 on:** April 21, 2016, 02:54:53 PM »

Robogenesis
by Daniel H. Wilson

JoanK · « **Reply #2763 on:** April 22, 2016, 03:23:42 PM »

(the)Outermost House

by henry beston.

One of my favorite books.

PatH · « **Reply #2764 on:** April 22, 2016, 03:33:13 PM »

Starlight

Hal Clement

Frybabe · « **Reply #2765 on:** April 22, 2016, 07:26:39 PM »

Terra Incognita
by Ruth Downie

Joan, thanks for bringing Henry Beston to my attention. Not only does The Outermost House sound great, but he wrote on called Northern Farm about his year on a Maine farm. Both are in my library system, so I added them to my TBR library list.

PatH · « **Reply #2766 on:** April 22, 2016, 09:58:45 PM »

Aucassin and Nicolette

A 13th century French tale

Frybabe · « **Reply #2767 on:** April 23, 2016, 07:30:18 AM »

East of Suez
play by Somerset Maugham

PatH · « **Reply #2768 on:** April 23, 2016, 09:31:34 AM »

Zotz

By Walter Karig: an archaeologist discovers an ancient spell, which he tries to persuade the US to use as a weapon in WWII, but can't get through the bureaucracy. Karig was also a naval historian and authored a few of the Nancy Drew books. No, I haven't read Zotz.

Now someone still has a Z to deal with.

jane · « **Reply #2769 on:** April 23, 2016, 10:12:26 AM »

Zero Day

by David Baldacci

PatH · « **Reply #2770 on:** April 25, 2016, 08:33:33 AM »

Artifact

Gregory Benford

An artifact from a Mycenaean tomb produces some remarkable physics and political intrigue. My favorite of his books.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2771 on:** April 25, 2016, 12:31:09 PM »

Tyrannosaur Canyon

One of Douglas Preston's books, I didn't care for it and so never finished it.

PatH · « **Reply #2772 on:** May 25, 2016, 08:33:17 PM »

Neuromancer

A groundbreaking cyberpunk sci-fi book, now relegated to classic status. William Gibson is fine with the book being outdated. At a book signing a few years ago he said that everything he wrote started to be obsolete as soon as it was done, and he seemed quite comfortable with the awful world of his current book. (I've forgotten now whether it was Patterns or Spook Country.)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2773 on:** May 26, 2016, 05:29:29 AM »

Remnant Population
Ursula Le Guin

I couldn't get into Neuromancer. I am not sure I got past Chapter 1. Anyway, Spook Country is in one of my TBR piles. Patterns has been on my ever so forgetful mental to read list; it swims in and out of consciousness when I get a reminder.

PatH · « **Reply #2774 on:** May 29, 2016, 07:41:20 PM »

Both Spook Country and Patterns are sitting in my TBR pile, one of them autographed. I zipped through Neuromancer, and its sequel Count Zero. I bet they look pretty quaint now.

PatH · « **Reply #2775 on:** May 29, 2016, 07:44:49 PM »

(The) Nine Billion Names of God (on populatioN)

Book of short stories by Isaac Asimov. I bet you've read the title story, which is a stunner.

jane · « **Reply #2776 on:** May 29, 2016, 08:14:14 PM »

Dracula

PatH · « **Reply #2777 on:** May 29, 2016, 08:43:34 PM »

Artifact

My favorite Gregory Benford. It combines archaeology and physics.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2778 on:** May 29, 2016, 09:39:12 PM »

Twenty Years After
Alexander Dumas

The sequel to The Count of Monte Cristo

PatH · « **Reply #2779 on:** May 31, 2016, 08:10:40 PM »

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Someone in my f2f sci-fi discussion group called this "people meet big dumb space blob", which is pretty accurate. It's a decent job, though. There are sequels, but I haven't read them, so I don't know where he went with the unknown civilization that left the blob nicknamed Rama.

PatH · « **Reply #2780 on:** May 31, 2016, 08:29:11 PM »

Actually, Twenty Years After comes before The Count of Monte Cristo. I read the whole works as a young teenager, probably about the right time. The Three Musketeers was great, and Twenty Years After was pretty good too, but the third, Ten years Later, (which is a supernovel comprising three novels--The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask) was full of politics that were pretty opaque to me.

I reread The Three Musketeers in 1992. It's still good reading--romantic, flamboyant, with a lot of social digs, some humorous, I missed the first time. Maybe I should see how they look now.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2781 on:** June 01, 2016, 05:47:17 AM »

Nuts! I got it confuseed again, PatH. Twenty Years After is the sequel to The Three Musketeers not The Count of Monte Cristo. I should have double checked my memory before posting. Sigh!

I haven't read The Three Musketeers since I was a youngster. It was the children/teen version of the book. I don't know how many movie/TV productions I've seen. I did read the adult version of The Count of Monte Cristo but didn't remember that it was set in Napoleon's time. It also didn't hit me until I started watching the James Caviezel version. I remember bits of both the 1934 movie and the 1975 TV production.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2782 on:** June 01, 2016, 05:59:10 AM »

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

PatH · « **Reply #2783 on:** June 02, 2016, 10:48:13 PM »

Enders Shadow

Orson Scott Card

Frybabe · « **Reply #2784 on:** June 03, 2016, 06:10:07 AM »

(The) Warden
Anthony Trollope

jane · « **Reply #2785 on:** June 03, 2016, 09:23:09 AM »

Northern Lights

(Nora Roberts)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2786 on:** June 03, 2016, 12:11:18 PM »

Seveneves
Neal Stephenson

jane · « **Reply #2787 on:** June 03, 2016, 01:23:32 PM »

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

PatH · « **Reply #2788 on:** June 03, 2016, 05:12:55 PM »

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

JoanK · « **Reply #2789 on:** June 03, 2016, 09:45:05 PM »

That's seA!

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Frybabe · « **Reply #2790 on:** June 04, 2016, 05:43:38 AM »

(The) Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie

PatH · « **Reply #2791 on:** June 04, 2016, 01:04:08 PM »

Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brian, #5

Frybabe · « **Reply #2792 on:** June 05, 2016, 06:17:52 AM »

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

PatH · « **Reply #2793 on:** June 05, 2016, 02:18:52 PM »

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

JoanK · « **Reply #2794 on:** June 05, 2016, 03:20:53 PM »

(The) Kite Runner.

by Khaled Hosseini

Frybabe · « **Reply #2795 on:** June 05, 2016, 05:12:14 PM »

Redliners
By David Drake

PatH · « **Reply #2796 on:** June 07, 2016, 08:38:13 AM »

The Rose Rent

Ellis Peters

Frybabe · « **Reply #2797 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:11:11 AM »

The Time Traders
by Andre Norton

PatH · « **Reply #2798 on:** June 07, 2016, 05:36:27 PM »

Star Ka'at World

Andre Norton

Frybabe · « **Reply #2799 on:** June 08, 2016, 08:42:00 AM »

Deception Point
by Dan Brown

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