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Thread ID: 146394	2018-07-22 02:09:00	Ebooks	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

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1451867	2018-07-23 08:11:00	Peter Hamilton, Iain Banks and the golden oldie Heinlein? James Corey is also worth a read...	user (1404)
1451868	2018-07-23 08:11:00	Greg Bear? Yes, rather good isn't he, I did used to own a bookshop once, SF of course. This is because after I cleaned out every library in West and Central Akld, I then progressed to 2nd hand book shops. Having cleaned them out I discovered her in Ponsonby. She caught on quick and let me into the secret (huge) room out back which was sort of for sale and sort of her husbands library, one of the conditions being I bought them back to her.... I then read all those too, and then found The Old Book Seller shortly after Mrs Ponsonby died. Having then read all The Old Book Sellers 2nd hand I had to resort to buying new for quite some time, then he retired and his son took over. he had no interest and spent most of his time in the pub round the corner, leaving a series of assistants (girlfriends) to tend the shop, mostly he sold more comics then, I found out - after his mum got worried, fired the current girlfriend and hired young comic guy assistant, that he had neglected to pay his suppliers and new books were not coming anymore. So I was then forced to open my own bookshop, having knicked the contact details of his suppliers, in fact Old Book Seller Jnr turned up shortly after, bought loads of my stock after expressing displeasure at what a traitor I was, to fool his mum into thinking he was still paying the suppliers, and I ran that until I decided to go to tech. Husband got a bit sick of minding a bookshop for me, so I then ran it as mail order for a while longer, then quit. By then Amazon was the thing anyway.	piroska (17583)
1451869	2018-07-23 08:14:00	Peter Hamilton, Iain Banks and the golden oldie Heinlein? James Corey is also worth a read... PM Yes, Iain M. Banks sort of - as opposed to Iain Banks you know, because the latter being his mainstream stuff, but Iain M, in fact the Culture books were a favourite of mine, Heinlein, no. Mr banks was at one of the conventions a friend of mine attended, they had great fun together until Mr banks, having imbibed a lot of alcohol decided to scale the outside of the hotel and was removed by the authorities. Friend: http://tyke.net.nz/ (I immodestly confess to starring in one or two of his stories, which you might find under Incidents) One no longer shows as it was related to the bookshop but: Not that I am encouraging you to look or anything. www.triffid.x10.mx www.triffid.x10.mx (And he does exaggerate of course) But he has a monthly book review thing too. And I met him in my bookshop, know each other ever since, he was my Unix tutor at tech, I did my MS quals at Auldhouse where he then worked for a time.	piroska (17583)
1451870	2018-07-23 08:34:00	I buy here lately: www.bookzone.co.nz Mostly. Sometimes there's total shite, other times: I picked. Years Best - Dozois (Always, every year) Dichronauts (good but should have been more weird world rather than the symbiote bits) Adrift, started well, ended meh... Annex : Rich Larson - don't know yet The Promise of Space and Other Stories: James Kelly - diito 2001: An Odyssey in Words: Honouring the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Birth: Reynolds Alastair - not here yet Infinity's End: Jonathan Strahan - not here yet Relic: Alan Dean Foster - not here yet And Anomaly by Michael Rutger aka Michael marshall Smith but I didn't know that at the time. An unusual choice for me but it was great. terrific, all the way until page 198, at which point it disintegrated into newage (rhymes with sewage) world conspiracy, alien tech, drivel at which point I hated it. Pity...if he'd kept going how it was for the first 2/3s I would have really liked it. And my biggest problem is reading speed. Took me about 3 hours to read Anomaly (and I did finish it, despite)	piroska (17583)
1451871	2018-07-23 09:48:00	Yeah, Banks was one of my favourites of SF and I also read all of his other books. The Wasp Factory was one weird read and one of the very few books I have read a second time. Fun to read the reviews of this book inside the front cover... I assume you have read Frank Herbert? William Gibson? Phillip Mann? Jeff VanderMeer? Kim Stanley Robinson? Give Heinlein a go. He was my first SF author I really enjoyed and his later novels were all amusing and entertaining reads. What about Fantasy books? I have found Robin Hobbs and Raymond Feist good reads, as well as our home grown Russel Kirkpatrick (a school friend of old). Stephen Donaldson of course with his SF and fantasy series.	user (1404)
1451872	2018-07-23 11:02:00	Hugh Cook's "Chronicles of an Age of Darkness" are a favorite of mine. Diverse fantasy/SF with 10 interconnecting novels and some very memorable characters (from a kiwi genius who sadly will not be writing any more).	fred_fish (15241)
1451873	2018-07-23 22:21:00	I assume you have read Frank Herbert? William Gibson? Phillip Mann? Jeff VanderMeer? Kim Stanley Robinson? Give Heinlein a go. What about Fantasy books? s. Ok maybe I raved on a bit but I thought I made it clear. I have read everything...... I used to read the lot, whoever. Have read Heinlein, not my thing. Fantasy, there a a few odd bits I have read but mostly I don't like it. Terry Pratchett but not the discworld ones, his others....And a few "fairy tale" type by a couple of authors. But on the whole, no. Game of Thrones, LOTR no. I don't need suggestions, I did own a bookshop....I have my book guy who does these new release lists every month, other stuff I come across (locus) I find elsewhere if he can't get it.	piroska (17583)
1451874	2018-07-24 00:06:00	Infinity's End: Jonathan Strahan - not here yet --5 Relic: Alan Dean Foster - not here yet ---75 Highlighted Authors - if you want got plenty, number behind your listing is number of books.	wainuitech (129)
1451875	2018-07-24 02:02:00	Thanks, I haven't received the tablet yet, with courier... But I have books coming, and I'll probably go on Clarkesworld and download a few stories, If I can find any I haven't already read.	piroska (17583)
1451876	2018-07-24 04:24:00	For what it is worth, I think there is a lot of twaddle talked about paperwhite readers v tablets. I have owned/used both and am not an advocate for either (except for the fact that tablets can usually carry out more functions than paperwhite readers). I sold my Sony e-reader and just use my tablet. The tablet can be used in a wider variety of ambient light conditions, but the e-reader battery lasts much longer between charges. Piroska - you might like to find out whether your library lends e-books and if so, what platform they use. Our library uses eplatform, which I find a bit frustrating, but if you have a good local library it is a useful source of free books. I used to use Calibre and the associated apps a lot, but almost never use it now. It is possible to use a Calibre add on to convert Kindle books to other formats, but the Calibre developer doesn't support its use so as to avoid conflict with Amazon. A search engine will find the add on for you.	John H (8)
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