It would scare the purple out of ya Lilac LOL

Oh I don't know so much hehhehehehe, takes a lot to scare Lilac hahahahhahahah, was it worth the read though Arganor???

YES Pinkish Pixie, I thought so! :O)

Oh I'm getting excited now, hehehhehhehe Best get on with my turns, before my books come. I love a good read, Yippee Thanks for the book section folk, you jogged me into my reading mode again.

ah to be in such fine literay company!! :-) Just read the last 20 posts,wish I'd been awake to join the discussion lol
I enjoy King and Koontz rules!! Has anyone read "Dolan's Cadillac"? It's a short story in King's "Nightmares and Dreamscapes". I thought it was masterful!
As for "David Copperfield" , Dickens is my favourite story teller of all time!! :-)

Oh yes Dickens, he has such great characters, 'Peggity' and hahaha 'Barkers is willing' and 'Uriah Heep'

And what about Selma Lagerloef: "Nils Holgerson"?

Certainly a very fine company... Did you ever read "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro?
At the moment I´m reading: "The last Emperor" (From Emperor to Citizen. The Autobiography of Aisin-Gidoro PU YI). Very interesting indeed.
And I recommend: Umberto Ecco: "Baudolino" (a book for those who did not forget the dreams of their youth or even childhood.)
A very intersting book too: Jung Chang: "Wild Swans". (Jung Chang, born 1952 in Yibin/Sichuan (China) was the first Chinese to receive a doctorate of a British University. She has been living in England since 1978.)
If your are intersted in history: Milovan Djilas: "Worlds and Bridges". (Djilas, who was a politician in the former Yugoslawia, wrote this book in jail in Belgrad. In this book you will find some of the important sources for the Balkan Wars, now and before the First World War.)

It seems you like Sience Fiction, too. Do you know "The Way to Amalthea" by Arkadi and Boris Strugazki (or some other novels by the brothers Strukazki)?

Hokuriku: Hmmm, no, I haven't heard of those. What are they about & what year were they published?

German versions available as Suhrkamp-Edition ... ~*~

Magenta Spiral: I´m going to check whether you can get them in English; I know them in German and in Russian...

Magenta Spiral: I´m sorry but I did not find this one in English. It was published in Moskow (MIR 1979/1982) and Berlin.
The name of the authors is spelled differently in English: Strugatski or Strugatzki, Arkadi (or Arkady) and Boris.
I found one of their very famous books in English:
"Hard to be a God" (Daw Books, Inc. 1974)
Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky have been very popular und were frequently met with in Soviet scientific journals. They write stories and novels about robots or strangers from outer space, most of them with a fine sense of humour and at the time, when the Soviet Union ruled Eastern Europe, with more or less hidden criticism of the Soviet system.
Boris, born 1933, is an astronomer who was working at the computer laboratory of Pulkovo Observatory. Arkady, born 1925, is a linguist specializing in the Japanese, and also a translator and reviewer.

Thanks Hokuriku, I'll check into the English possiblities. Ya never know what you can find on the net if you look hard enough!

Have you ever seen the Fahrenheit 451 movie? I have it on DVD, it's really awesome despite what the critics say!
There's supposed to be a new 451 film in the making and Bradbury's completely involved with it! So, maybe we'll see a 21st Century version.

Getting back to books -- I'm currently right smack-dab in the middle of reading Rod Serling's second Twilight Zone stories book (RARE), and I started Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception. I've got my reading cut out for me! I love Sci-Fi the most though, I'm currently an aspiring writer and the story focuses on you guessed it - Science Fiction :·)

I heard there are many excellent German and Russian sci-fi writers. These days, I would be surprised to read anything good that is popular or new. But there's a first time for everything, no?

I am one of those critics ... ~*~

I know you are but what am I? :·)~

Where is the what if the who is in why ? ~*~

How Long is a Chinaman

Banana ~*~

I'm curious Dano, what makes you dislike Bradbury's work and in particular Fahrenheit 451?

Magenta Spiral: I do like Fahrenheidt 451, but not the movie, just the book. For my opinion the possibilities in a movie are too limited to show what you expected in your fantasy.
Thank you for the message. The "Twilight Zone" is very interesting, but I haven´t red yet Huxley´s "The Doors of Perception" (I just know "Brave New World").
At the time being I´m not "at home", so I cannot check the authors I would like you to get to know, for instance Nesvadba, a Czech Science Fiction writer. Do you know him?
To make things clear, I AM a fan of Science Fiction, but I read a lot of other books (seldom bestsellers).
Have a nice day.

I´m curious too, Dano...

For the same reason you don't like the song 'mrs robinson' ... ~*~

wow Fencer....do you listen to books on the way to work? only way i could think of doing it....unless someone else is driving that is lol

Would appreciate you telling me still why you dislike Fahrenheit 451?

Hokuriku -- I can understand why you would prefer the book over the film. I noticed some pretty important things missing from the movie that were in the book (i.e. The Mechanical Hound).
Still, in defense of the 1966 version, I haveta point out their artistic value, very imaginative and also interesting to see the actress playing Montag's wife and Clarisse -- just different hair!
Her ability to switch around had me fooled until I saw the documentary.
I mentioned this movie being revisited, in case you don't believe me, here's the listing at IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360556/
Might be interesting to see if/when it arrives in the public! Could be really good if the movie people cooperate and don't fuss with Bradbury too much.

I haven't heard of Nesvadba, but I'll be sure and look his name up! Any books in particular by him I should check out?

That's really cool! I'm a fan of Sci-Fi, but will read other stuff as well.
I currently have Twilight Zone: Season One on DVD. I'm gonna get number two for Christmas!
I've just completed my Outer Limits DVD collection. They had some really GOOD writers for that show! That's why it's sooo rotten and sad that the show was cancelled right in the MIDDLE of the second Season! The network didn't even let them finish! So, to show for it, on the last disc of the second DVD boxset, there's this awful emptiness, only one episode -- where there should be FOUR like the first boxset! But I appreciate having the Outer Limits available at all. Though, it should have ran longer back then IMO!

Anywayz, I definitely recommend you pick up Huxley's The Doors of Perception, it's an awesome read, very profound, and unlike anything else!

Just to let you know . . .

  We're working diligently to return this board back to including the "Story-Tag Game", should have it up and running A.S.A.P.

Sorry for the inconveniance!

         Stay tuned...

                 ~ MS

Incidently, has anyone read any books by Tom Wolfe?

Yep. LOL :o)

I was busy sipping some electric cool-aid.

The Books & Stories board is open for Story-Tag!
Remember, whoever starts the new story is the one chosen for Editor of that story when it is finished.

    Let the Fun Begin!! :·)

                 ~ MS

I preferred it when it was Books.

Yeah, me too. It didn't get as heavily moderated for starters :o)

How come a pawn gets to be a moderator?

Becasue they (she) showed initiative ... if you have an idea I am sure Fencer will listen :)

I think MS being a moderator is great!
She has great ideas for this DB, from what I can see already!

Once upon a time on a planet deep in space, in a galaxy not of our own, there lived a life form.......

Of curious nature, wanting to discover what may lay beyond, So he sent for the ones with knowledge and proposed.....

a journey. They gathered in the great meeting hall of the people and began to tell of their ideas. They asked for volunteers to go on the journey because more than likely no one would return....

Stickfoos, the Chief Janitor, had always thought about travelling but usually it was limited to taking his wards on their return jouney to the city recycling clinic. When he first heard of the trip he had made up his minds then and therabouts that he would go. He had expected to be lonely so wasn't he surprised when the volunteers were asked to rise that standing beside him were ...

All of his wards! they wanted to go too! Looking around the room, he noticed that many of the ordinary people of the colony were standing. carpenters, plumbers, electricians, teachers. all the kinds of people that would be needed to start a new colony. One person stood up that made his heart jump.......

his old gym teacher....

Mrs Wartsog! He couldnt believe she was still alive! much less volunteering to go help start a new colony!

Yes, I know about Quantum Foam. But then, so does KIp Thorne :·)

      ~ MS

Torg looked around now at all of these people who had gathered to journey with him...Now they must decide where they will go, a button is pressed and out of the floor rises a huge round ball. As Torg taps on the ball pictures appear, finally a picture of the most wonderful place appears...
"My friends he shouts, we are off to.....

and 40% mudd. A most horid place. But, because it is the closest place, it is our only hope. The eyes of the more timid volunteers grew wide with fright. Some of them slowly sunk back into their seats. Torg Shouted! "No dont sit down, we will need you all! This will be a grand adventure. better than slowly dying here." One small hand raised from the back of the room......

I'll go.... , a timid voice quavered.
A hush fell upon the room. No one, in their wildest dreams, would have ever thought that they'd get such a brave response from...

Little had he relised that they were all to be converted back to ages 18-25 at the other end of the journey. Mrs. Wartzog had become a bombshell in an instant! A tiny thought popped into the hapless janitor's mind..."oh no...now I'm REALLY gonna suffer"...as he clenched his favorite greasy rag tight in fear...her face still looked like a hawk, despite the new curves she had regained.

Suddenly, a bolt of thunder! And from behind a boulder, there came a....

Tiny purple goblin with a gigantic nose and big smelly feet...