i'll think about it! =)

Good! I can't stand how they take a genre and then just beat it to death!
Did you read 13 Reasons Why. It is a show on Netflix now. I read the book and thought it was very good.

i didn't read 13 Reasons Why, but i did see some of some of the episode when my younger daughter (she's 15) watched it on Netflix.

Was it good? I know the book was pretty sad.

from what i saw it was good. younger daughter said it was very good!

I rarely read YA books, but this one was recommended to me by a young friend who has tried to kill himself several times. He wanted me to understand. Now I do.

i read YA books somewhat regularly, actually.

yeah...

I hate bullying of any kind.
This book reinforced that for me.

ah, i gotcha

Do you have a favorite book? I know its hard to pick just one if you are an avid reader. I try to keep a list and mark down if I really really liked it.

I have copies of books that I really liked or that meant a lot to me, stuck away in a box (until I get a proper chest) for posterity, to store along with all the journals that I have. In there is an old copy of Salvarore's Homeland which was the first fantasy novel I ever read, and my cheap copy of War and Peace that was something of an adventure in itself to read. I suppose I could leave little notes with each book explaining why I kept it. I have copies of the children's books that I liked as a kid put the side as well. I'm actually toying with the idea of cataloging the books I've kept into sort of a little legacy library, with kids books, some of the textbooks from school I've liked, and general reading.

i love all the books i read, but i guess my favorites would be the ones on my bookshelves, which include: the Harry Potter series, the Dune series, the main storyline in the Dragonlance series, anything by H. P. Lovecraft, the Supernatural books, the Vampire Diaries, the Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony, the Illium/Olympos cycle the Star Wars'verse (book!verse).... yeah, it's like that.

I've had Dune on my shelf for some time. I keep reading other things. I've seen the mini series, but since I started looking more into science fiction writing, I figure I had ought to look at at least one of staples. I also have The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. It's also on my list of things to read. I have more than I can squish into my reading challenge.

Dune: i've seen the movie and the sci-fi mini-series. i like them both. i've read the books from Dune to Sisterhood of Dune, and that's a LONG list - it's from Dune to Sandworms of Dune and all the prequels and between-the-books novels too.

i've read the Man in the High Castle, and now i'm ready for Season Three!!! =)

Head's up! I looked up Popsugar's reading challenge (where my school challenge got it's idea) and found the 2017 one. I'm going to tackle this one too, since the books left on my shelf don't have categories. Here's the link to the blog:

Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge
*note, not sure what Popsugar actually is about, so can't vouch for whatever else is on their site.

I like that list, I downloaded it and see how long it takes me to fulfill that one too!

I like Philip K. Dick I have read Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? He was a major LSD taker, that is why some of his books can be totally out there. I love Androids, I have read it four times! The series based on Man in the High Castle is on SEason 1 in Amazon Prime.

I have a collection of books that I have read and truly loved. Every once in a while I have to get rid of them, I have so many books and I don't want to buy more bookcases.

the Man in the High Castle has two seasons on Amazon Prime - and i've watched both seasons. (neverminding that i don't have Amazon Prime...) XD

i've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and i have Blade Runner too!

His episode on "Prophets of Science Fiction" is pretty good. I don't think it went too much into drugs, but it went into a number of mental quirks he may have. It seems to be a little rampant among sci-fi types. I've read ...Electric Sheep? since I am a big fan of Blade Runner and wanted to read the source material. Could probably have a look at Total Recall as well.

i've only read those two things by PKD. a quick google search told me i've only seen Total Recall and Minority Report as far as other movies based on his works, but that's all.

There is a book of PKD short stories that contains most of the originals to the movies. I cannot believe how many of his stories/novels have been made into movies. Blade Runner is my favorite movie, and I read the book originally because of that, but the movie did not follow the book too closely.

I saw that episode of Masters of Science Fiction. He was a very interesting person.

Another syfy author I like is Eric Brown. Right now I am reading Engineman by him.

I read Dune and really didn't like it much. But that was a long time ago, I should try it again.

Dune is ... interesting. Frank Herbert has a very dense writing style. he reminds me of the earlier writers that liked cashing in on those $10 vocab words. XD

Yeah that was my impression of Dune the first time I read it.
Have you read Hyperion by Dan Simmons? (have I asked you that already?) He is an interesting writer too. I really liked Hyperion and Drood by him.

yep, we were talking about Hyperion and related stories, probably somewhere in this very thread! I read Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion in 2011 (so says Goodreads). i have not read Endymion and the Rise of Endymion, however.

I have Ilium and Olympos on my to-re-read list, though! =)

Yes I remember now. I thought that we had talked about it.
He writes in other genres too. Thrillers besides syfy. There are so many books I want to read, I don't think I will be able to get through all of them.

yep, yep. I may read some of his other stuff... eventually.

I have a lot of books on my to-read list - I hope I get to read a bunch of them this year, too.

...Can I join late? A 25+ book challenge? (just to record what I am reading)

Right now I am reading Engineman by Eric Brown. I never used to read much syfy because my science background was terrible. But the last few years I have become very interested in quantum mechanics, etc. Now when I read syfy I actually understand the concepts. I read Hollow Man by Simmons and though I wasn't crazy about it, it had a lot of quantum physics, multiverse stuff in it that was interesting.

[QUOTE=Lawtan;1771211]...Can I join late? A 25+ book challenge? (just to record what I am reading)

You can certainly join us!
I will put you on the list!

wow! your science background is more extensive than mine, I'll tell you that!

i like more 'soft' scifi, and i also like fantasy and paranormal. i've always liked time travel, too.

I find quantum physics fascinating, it also deals with the spiritual side of the Universe. They always figured that science would prove there was no God, instead science is proving that there had to be an "intelligent designer" . They have actually found the God Particle (Higgs Boson) which is the particle that created mass during The Big Bang. Its just fascinating, and a lot of the syfy books I read now have so much of that as a background.

that's really cool, actually!

It really is. Liking to read a lot helps in getting knowledge. Even in fiction you can learn stuff. I read a lot of hard non-fiction science books. I just keep rereading a paragraph or a sentence until I sort of get it. I watch a lot of the shows on the Science Channel, that is the easiest way to learn about this stuff.

>>Liking to read a lot helps in getting knowledge
yes! yes it does.

sometimes i have to read even a sentence many times to understand it. and sometimes i still don't. and it's politics. ugh. XD

yeah, i like watching some of the shows, too.

Err...not sure about the "intelligent design" bit - largely because most things considered "designed" are random. But, there is a divine element to the universe. Even Chaos has equations/models.
It is a mystery that even if we wander & grow for 10,000 more years, we won't have it explored. And lifeforms, we little balls of sentient self-organizing Gibbs free energy-containing molecules, are fascinating.

Everything has a story to it in my mind. And a little bit of motion.

No no, Prophets of Science Fiction. Different show. Here's the IMDB. It looks at an author's work and life, the concepts they brought in, and where we stand now in modern science relative to it. The episode on P.K. Dick dealt in part with fabricated memories, like in "Total Recall." It's a fascinating show.

Never actually heard of Masters of Science Fiction. Looked it up just now.


Bladerunner is also one of my favourite films. I consider the film and book essentially two different entities. I think Scott chose to focus on different aspects of the world than show in the novel. Personally, I like book Deckard more than movie Deckard, and movie Roy better than book Roy.

Lawtan: There is a thought out there that there is no designer, that energy can create itself. I'm sure I am not explaining it right.

Quiet: I feel like I should watch the movie and read the book afterward or vice versa.

Trystan: knowledge is power and you get knowledge by reading therefore... hahaha

hehe, true, moonshadow!

I looked up Blade Runner on Amazon to see if I could get a copy and apparently there is a lot of division over which is better, the theatrical release or the Director's Cut. I saw the Director's cut, so not I'm curious as to the theater one. I've generally heard that the DC was preferred.

well, the theatrical version was more than likely designed to fit in the 90-minute run time, so stuff had to be cut out and was replaced by a voice-over. when people saw the director's cut, (which i have, but don't think i saw it? that's bad, i know) and realised it didn't have the voice-over from Dekkard, it was more showing, not telling. the versions are different, i'm sure.

*digs up my DVDs* i have 4 versions on my DVDs...The Final Cut (Ridley Scott's definitive version), the US Theatrical Version, the International Theatrical version (which i have not seen) and the 1992 Director's Cut. i know for certain i've seen the US theatrical version though, and i really liked what i saw. =)

The '92 directors cut I figure is the one I've seen. I don't recall seeing one with a voice over, but that was definitely one of the sticking points. That, and the bit with the unicorn that no one seems to understand. I haven't looked into that detail. I was watching it for a report I think, though I can't remember what I was writing it on.