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15 Mar 2021, 3:20 pm

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So glad lots of people are naming The Silmarillion. Awesome expanded universe. Really puts the events of Lord of the Rings into perspective.

I loved "Lord Of The Rings" but just couldn't get into "The Silmarillion" at all. Perhaps I need to give it another go!

I would recommend listening to the Silmarillion audiobook narrated by Martin Shaw and consulting Tolkien gateway if you get confused remembering names and relationships.

I tackled the book, fared better than most apparently. But there were some things that confused even me on read 1.

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15 Mar 2021, 3:24 pm

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I would recommend listening to the Silmarillion audiobook narrated by Martin Shaw and consulting Tolkien gateway if you get confused remembering names and relationships.

Thanks for the recommendation, that is definitely something I struggle with!

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16 Mar 2021, 6:22 am

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

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16 Mar 2021, 11:35 am

Feyokien wrote:

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So glad lots of people are naming The Silmarillion. Awesome expanded universe. Really puts the events of Lord of the Rings into perspective.

I loved "Lord Of The Rings" but just couldn't get into "The Silmarillion" at all. Perhaps I need to give it another go!

I would recommend listening to the Silmarillion audiobook narrated by Martin Shaw and consulting Tolkien gateway if you get confused remembering names and relationships.

I've listened to the audio book narrated by him, he reads it brilliantly and it conjures up images of what happens while he reads.

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16 Mar 2021, 12:00 pm

League_Girl's post in another thread reminded me how much I enjoyed "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.

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16 Mar 2021, 3:17 pm

Speaking of dystopias, 1984 wasn't enjoyable in the usual sense but it did elaborate on some of the most miserable concepts I've ever read about. Poor Winston. And Julia.

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16 Mar 2021, 3:59 pm

This was freaking incredible. I love Stevie Davies.

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16 Mar 2021, 5:18 pm

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Speaking of dystopias, 1984 wasn't enjoyable in the usual sense but it did elaborate on some of the most miserable concepts I've ever read about. Poor Winston. And Julia.

I realy enjoyed reading it despite finding it horrible!

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17 Mar 2021, 3:56 pm

Great worldbuilding, miserable plot. Miserable as in the events, not the writing.

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17 Mar 2021, 4:11 pm

Anything from Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Robot series'.

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17 Mar 2021, 5:12 pm

NaturalEntity wrote:

Great worldbuilding, miserable plot. Miserable as in the events, not the writing.

Yes, exactly that, I loved the way it was written but the story was very grim.

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18 Mar 2021, 3:12 pm

It made me think. What was real? What was not real? We cannot tell because we know how unreliable our one main source of info on stuff (the government) is.

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19 Mar 2021, 11:34 pm

OutsideView wrote:

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Great worldbuilding, miserable plot. Miserable as in the events, not the writing.

Yes, exactly that, I loved the way it was written but the story was very grim.

Definitely agree.

And there's so many I could add but I'll go with:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Underground City by Jules Verne

The Castle by Franz Kafka

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20 Mar 2021, 7:09 pm

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut!

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20 Mar 2021, 7:28 pm

One of the more interesting novels I read was called "The Sepoy's Daughter: A True Tale of the Indian War". The author was unnamed. The book was by "An Eye Witness". It didn't even have a publishing date. Interesting for a novel of 870 pages. The story took place during the Sepoy's Rebellion in India 1857-1858.

It was published around 1860. There are copies available. But I have one of the originals. The thing I liked about the book was "the sense of the unknown". In today's world, there are basically very few unknowns. We have the world at our fingertips to explore. We can go anywhere and experience any culture. But 150 years ago, that was not the case. The world was full of unknowns. One experienced life by going to the end of the map and proceeding into the vast world of the unknown.

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20 Mar 2021, 10:49 pm

American Tabloid by James Ellroy.
Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

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