Dune

Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Although it doesn't have the same satisfying fall-and-rise arc as Dune, if that's what your mate likes about it. More just "everything's so fucked that getting impaled on a metal thorn tree by an incomprehensible god of death seems like a pretty good option". It's great, though.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I had seen that recommended but I read the first page of the kindle sample and thought it looked like toss. But perhaps I was too quick to judge.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Actually tell a lie I read the first SENTENCE and thought it looked like toss.

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But I think what put me off was "played Rachmaninov's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor", and I can see that perhaps there's a Ballardian thing going on here of juxtaposing something very specifically of our world with "great, green, saurian things". (Ala. the doctor sitting down to eat a german shepherd at the start of high rise.)
 
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Its a bit all over the place but its also one of the great sci-fi epics, with a major plot thread built around the life of Keats, of all things.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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Corpsey said:
Actually tell a lie I read the first SENTENCE and thought it looked like toss.

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But I think what put me off was "played Rachmaninov's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor", and I can see that perhaps there's a Ballardian thing going on here of juxtaposing something very specifically of our world with "great, green, saurian things". (Ala. the doctor sitting down to eat a german shepherd at the start of high rise.)
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TBF, Dune has the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen introduce himself to the reader by asking "Is it not a magnificent thing that I, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, do?" - while talking to characters who obviously know who he is (some guy he's employed for decades and his own nephew).
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Yeah I've not read Dune either.

I guess I enjoyed Game of Thrones which is stylistically something of a dogs breakfast so perhaps it doesn't matter.

Cheers chums
 
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Corpsey said:
Actually tell a lie I read the first SENTENCE and thought it looked like toss.

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But I think what put me off was "played Rachmaninov's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor", and I can see that perhaps there's a Ballardian thing going on here of juxtaposing something very specifically of our world with "great, green, saurian things". (Ala. the doctor sitting down to eat a german shepherd at the start of high rise.)
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Yeah, that sentence is a heap of shit. A page is more than enough to get a sense of the author's style, just as talking to someone for 5 seconds is enough to realise you will find their voice even more annoying over 2 hours, and so you prefer to adopt someone else thank you very much.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
TBF, Dune has the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen introduce himself to the reader by asking "Is it not a magnificent thing that I, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, do?" - while talking to characters who obviously know who he is (some guy he's employed for decades and his own nephew).
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It's called exposition and it's for your benefit.
 
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Corpsey said:
I quite liked the first one in the cinema but I feel so little inclination to rewatch it and I think it's that joylessness

There's no sense of camaraderie between characters and wanting to spend time with them, as there is in LOTR and MACTFSOTW
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It's because they're all poshos or jihadists.
 
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Some of the Iain M Banks Culture books are impressive imaginative feats. Matter comes to mind.
 
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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Children of Time and Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Bronze Age Mindset
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
 
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