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On any given day it wavers between Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein and Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Sometimes I don't feel compelled by the overarching misogynistic themes rampant in Heinlein's writing and the teen-fantasy style orgy scenes, but the general message of the book is quite good.
Cryptonomicon on the other hand is a pretty decent modern day/WW2 era Sci-Fi story with well written characters, and while I feel like Randy Waterhouse is pretty much just Stephenson's author avatar accomplishing the improbable with skills and knowledge that Stephenson seems to revere, the book is pretty great.
Those are my interchangeable top 2. Catch-22 is a close but steady third.
Cryptonomicon on the other hand is a pretty decent modern day/WW2 era Sci-Fi story with well written characters, and while I feel like Randy Waterhouse is pretty much just Stephenson's author avatar accomplishing the improbable with skills and knowledge that Stephenson seems to revere, the book is pretty great.
Those are my interchangeable top 2. Catch-22 is a close but steady third.
World War Z by Max Brooks, the same guy who did The Zombie Survival Guide.
I'm not too big on reading, and I haven't read many books so I don't have many points of reference, but to me World War Z is an epic masterpiece of writing. It chronicles a zombie apocalypse so realistically that it makes you think that it could happen any second now.
I'm not too big on reading, and I haven't read many books so I don't have many points of reference, but to me World War Z is an epic masterpiece of writing. It chronicles a zombie apocalypse so realistically that it makes you think that it could happen any second now.
wow that's a hard question, I have a lot of favourite books... but the one that I think will always be my favourite is The Ancient Future by Traci Harding, it was the first real novel I read for pleasure, not because it was assigned in school, God that was a long time ago now, from there I was hooked and started to read books by the dozens.
My copy of The Ancient Future is all ratty and dog eared now, but it's got a pride of place on my shelf, funny thing is my family has never read it but I once heard my grandfather recommend it to one of his friends because "it got my grandson off his computer games and into reading, so it must be good".
My copy of The Ancient Future is all ratty and dog eared now, but it's got a pride of place on my shelf, funny thing is my family has never read it but I once heard my grandfather recommend it to one of his friends because "it got my grandson off his computer games and into reading, so it must be good".
