"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
08/11/2014 at 18:04 • Filed to: books, movies, travel
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
08/11/2014 at 18:04 • Filed to: books, movies, travel | 1
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Before the end of the month I will be traveling 27,965 miles by air for work. That is a lot of time with the in-flight entertainment system, but I'm afraid that might not be enough. I have the first 6 books of Game of Thrones on the iPad to read, but I was hoping you guys could offer up some other options for books, graphic novels and movies I might have missed. I'm not quite feeling GoT right now. I'm into Sci-Fi, history, action, biographies and similar. Movies need to be something I would be ashamed of watching while sitting in a busy terminal with kids and grandmas around. Thanks!
RoadHead -- Armand
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:08 |
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Watch the movie El Topo.
Wishin & workin for an E39 M5
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:09 |
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Racing in the Rain
Total Recall
RallyWrench
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:14 |
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The Expanse series by James SA Corey (pen name) is a really fun read. It's fast-paced, ass kicking Sci-Fi. The latest book, Cibola Burn, just came out.
Gamecat235
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:14 |
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I finally finished Reamde last week. I loved it. But man is it a long read.
spaced99
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:15 |
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Best general recommendation I have for your scenario is to have an anthology or two on hand, with at least one that's comprised of different authors. That way you'll have that much more variety and it's also just nice to have that sense of completion which can be more easily achieved with short stories.
Diesel
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:15 |
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Hunger Games was an enjoyable series.
Grindintosecond
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:17 |
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directors final cut of Blade runner. A perfect movie. Also...Deal of the Century....Mel Brooks To be or not to be....a book, born to run I liked a lot about ultra marathoners.
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:18 |
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Do you like Frederik Pohl? Last March I read The Coming of the Quantum Cats . It's all about quantum physics and parallel universes. It's not his best book, but I enjoyed it, finishing it in less than a week. I like Pohl's work very much, and if you haven't read his Gateway series you're missing out on some of the best science fiction ever written. Also, Asimov's Foundation series is terrific, and not too heavy (the writing, not the book) for airplane reading.
If you're into history, I highly recommend Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August , the book for which she won a Pulitzer Prize. It recounts the days leading up to the start of WWI. She's also got a fascinating book about the American Revolution titled The First Salute . For biographies, I cannot recommend highly enough David McCullough's biography of John Adams. That book won a Pulitzer as well. And just about as good is Walter Isaacson's biography of Benjamin Franklin. There is a novel about F-86 pilots in Korea titled The Hunters by James Salter. It's been many years since I read it, and I recall feeling a little unfulfilled at the end, but you may enjoy it. And last but not least (I could go on for quite a while) is Stephen Ambrose's stellar Undaunted Courage, the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It's a remarkable book.
That should keep you busy! Bon voyage.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
08/11/2014 at 18:19 |
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+1 for the DC of Blade Runner. I watched it recently and it is riveting.
notsoalien
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:21 |
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Gunnerkrigg Court!
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:22 |
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Also, just about anything by Kurt Vonnegut. My personal favorites are Breakfast of Champions and The Sirens of Titan . Slaughterhouse 5 is, of course, fabulous, but pretty heavy.
Dr Emilio Lizardo
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 18:46 |
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The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. It's pretty much all of those things you mentioned and it's about 4,000 pages long. Here is a picture of the manuscript before he mailed it (shipped it?) to the publisher.
Not enough? Add on Cryptonomicon. It is sort of in the same universe and it's another 1000 pages.
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f86sabre
> Grindintosecond
08/11/2014 at 19:24 |
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Deal of a Century! I haven't seen that since I was a kid.
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f86sabre
> Wishin & workin for an E39 M5
08/11/2014 at 19:26 |
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original Arnie version right?
The Compromiser
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 19:31 |
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movies:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
It's a mad mad mad mad ( mad?) World
Those daring young men in their jaunty jalopies
(JK dont think anything else is airport safe in my list)
Books:
6 GoT? I thought there was only 5
If you are cool with scifi/history checkout Harry Turtledove. He has Aliens landing in WW2 in one series, dimensional travel to world with different dominant societies (Romans, Chin Dynasty, etc), what if Japan invaded Hawaii on Dec 7th, what if the US Civil War was lost by the north, what if WW2 started when Adolf started being a dick?
There is a series by Don Gutteridge on Criminal investigation in Upper Canada and rebellion post 1812.
Is that all there is? Bob Geldof Auto biography
Rotten:No Irish, no blacks, no dogs: Johnny Lydon (Rotten) auto biography
The Duke:Bio of the Duke of Wellington
Fitzgibbon: Bio of Gen Fitzgibbon (1812 and post)
Zuldim
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 19:38 |
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Comic books— I really enjoyed Scott Snyder's The Wake which just concluded a couple of weeks ago ( here's my review of it! ). Ten issues it's ten issues, they're on Comixology I think.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 19:42 |
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Speaking of Blade Runner , you may also enjoy Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. It is the story that inspired Blade Runner , but it's really not the same story at all. Post Apocalyptic and very dark, but a good read.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 19:42 |
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I wouldn't watch the new one.
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f86sabre
> The Compromiser
08/11/2014 at 20:07 |
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I've read a bunch of Turtledove, but it had been a while. See, I am a GoT newbie. I bought a bundle on black Friday. Geldof could be good
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f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
08/11/2014 at 20:08 |
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John Adams is excellent.
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The Compromiser
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 20:33 |
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it is. The stuff he did to get live aid was good. He was rough growing up but not as mindless as some were.
"The war that came early/ Hitler's War" series (5 books now) is good. I just downloaded the latest one.
Robert Conroy did some interesting what ifs.1901 1942.
A Lee Martinez has some good simple stuff. Dale Browns Dreamland. Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt(snow white and the 7 samaurai, expecting someone taller, going dutch) has some interesting world meet story books. Bernard Cornwell's The fort.
Newsboy
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 21:23 |
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This:
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Newsboy
> Newsboy
08/11/2014 at 21:27 |
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Also, the Halo Forerunner trilogy by Greg Bear. You don't need to know anything about Halo to like it. He has also written several other top rated Sci-Fi novels
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Newsboy
> Wishin & workin for an E39 M5
08/11/2014 at 21:29 |
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+1 for The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Newsboy
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 21:33 |
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Movies, if you haven't seen them yet:
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f86sabre
> Newsboy
08/11/2014 at 22:16 |
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both are excellent. I was lucky enough to see 1 at the first USGP in Austin. I was 4 rows back and to the right of Jackie Stewart, Emo, Charlie Whiting and Damon Hill. It was an amazing night.
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Newsboy
> f86sabre
08/11/2014 at 22:40 |
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If you like thrillers, this is one of the best I've ever seen: Tell No One.
Of course it's French, so definitely not kid friendly.
nctrns
> Dr Emilio Lizardo
08/12/2014 at 03:41 |
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I'll butt in: I never read Stephenson, but I want to start, but not necessarily with a 4000 page series. Can you recommend a stand-alone book?
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
> nctrns
08/12/2014 at 06:39 |
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I started with Snow Crash which is very approachable and not nearly as long. Then The Diamond Age which may still be my favorite of his..
selianth
> f86sabre
08/12/2014 at 15:41 |
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Connie Willis. Start with Doomsday Book, then To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Blackout/All Clear. That will hit your sci-fi and history buttons at the same time.
KamikazePigeon
> f86sabre
08/16/2014 at 12:44 |
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SpiceWorld.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7…
On a more serious note, why not all 5 Die Hard movies? Yes. All Five.
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f86sabre
> KamikazePigeon
08/16/2014 at 14:15 |
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I've got number 1 on my ipad.
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KamikazePigeon
> f86sabre
08/17/2014 at 08:18 |
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The best one IMHO.
