Isaac Asimov - Foundation (Trilogy)
Political business-novel. Scientists fighting over aristrocrats in the galaxy to rebuild it faster.
---Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Techno-Pop and Cyber-Punk. Six different strands of acting (from WW2 up to today) become one. All about cryptography and political issues. Heavy.
---Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age
Futuristic cyber-punk. Young girl gets grown up and taught only by an electronic book. Rise and fall of a whole system.
---Well thats it ;-)
― Sven Wagner, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
don't fuck the devil... you might find yourself in odessa
only the good survive... do they?
(master and margerita by mikhail bulgakov)
― karmeliter, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago) link
endogamy made me a real good organ player.
― drecksack, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link
better be white...and rich...or move to europe
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carleegg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly
― drecksack, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Andreas Schleicher, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link
You're ugly, you're alone, you're thirsty. You're a SON OF A BITCH on shining wheels!
― Andreas Schleicher, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link
500 Billion years, Entropy wins
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link
war sucks, life in a submarine, too
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
democracy and justice don't work
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago) link
Don't mess with gods, or u'll stay on sea
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
wow, he is (I am) such a clever conqueror!!
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link
sex leads to undead leads to sex
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link
u can fool Satan
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago) link
life's a loop..
― isnochys, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― s. pot. (Spot Berlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link
The Third Reich rises at first and then falls *g* Nazis piss off!
― s. pot. (Spot Berlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
Two guys go to Las Vegas where they consume almost any drug known to mankind since 1492. When finished, they leave without getting into any trouble.
― Matthew J., Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
harvard symbol-geek searches a dead woman while beeing chased by a weird french o.O
― lami, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago) link
American-style Democracy rulez. Capitalism rulez. Everything else sucks. Free Trade leads to American-style democracy. If it takes Dictatorship to make capitalism happen it´s OK.
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
Shit, my wife betrays me! Shit, my wife betrays me with a former colleage! Oh shit, both have become evil man-eating nanorobot-slaves! Screw them both!
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
Let´s go find some intelligent life forms and make first contact. What, they don´t want to? Too bad, then we´ll have to exterminate them all.
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
Four Astronauts go to Venus. They tell a lot of anecdotes about science. Venus is a dead planet. What the f**k happened here?
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
Boy becomes Samurai, kills a lot enemies and never gets laid once in the course of 1170 pages even though he had plenty of opportunity.
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
Stylish Delivery Boy meets stylish Delivery Girl. They save the world. Stylish Delivery Boy gets foxy Hacker Girl. Mafia owes Stylish Delivery Girl a favour.
― Meltdown1986, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
A guy awakes, regrets it almost instantly for he has turned into a bug while sleeping. Terrorises his family. Gets what he deserves.
"Master and Margarete" by Bulgakov
Never fuck with Mephisto unless you are a good friend of Jesus. Than it'll work out.
"The Name Of The Rose"
Holmes and wAdson hit the middleages, solve the riddle and get rid of the old guy.
― Strider, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
Fascists are to be fought. Commies/Republicans are dumb and/or cruel. One can not hinder the fascists to win, only die fighting them.
― Engywuck, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
1. Describe, don't comment2. Don't try to be smarter that the book you've read.3. Always imagine your audience doesn't know the book.
hey, that are less than 25 words :-)
― Nikolai W. Kutuzov, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago) link
― josipa, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
Life in Japan: Mom kills self; hates everyone. Life in America: whines about Mom killing self; hates everyone.
― Hoshi, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
It takes me over 1000 pages before I make a decision. Crap, now my best friend wants to kill me.
― Hoshi, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link
Fresh Widower faces colour trip by quitting sleeping. Discovers new dimensions. Saves all of them. Abandons new love dying in a pathetic self-sacrifice.
― andrello, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
Cock. Arse. Cum. Drugs. Southamerica. Human insects. More cocks. More cum. More drugs. All in a blender.
― braccas, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:54 (twenty years ago) link
Writer sexually obsessed by little girls. Marries mother, loves daughter. Mother dies. F**ks daughter. Drives around. Kills daughters secret pedophil lover.
― braccas, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link
Messina 1600: Two couples like each other but can't show. They find together and the bads are killed or stopped.
― rugger, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago) link
"Oi Gandalf! No! Why couldn't the giant eagles have flown us here in the first place?"
― Joseph Gurney, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link
Young people frighten nuns.
Best regards,
rs
― Ruben Schmelzer, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago) link
Man retuns from South America to Europe. By the way f***s own daughter. Meet her mom, notice what he've done.
― Staenderhannes, Thursday, 15 April 2004 07:52 (twenty years ago) link
Lord of The Rings -ha ha!
― racheblue, Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link
― racheblue (racheblue), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
I think that's the general gist of it... never read it properly. forgot to put it on my list.
― napoleon bonaparte, Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
1. Describe, don't comment2. Don't try to be smarter than the book you've read.3. Always imagine your audience doesn't know the book.
*/quote off*
4. Don't follow any smart ass rules but do as you think it should be done
― TN, Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
Young girl, unhappy. Pot, heroin,. Prostitution, finds love. Best friend dies, moves to grandma’s, happy, unhappy, drugs. Back to city more drugs. Carries on living.
― The_Mole, Friday, 16 April 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Franziska Tretter, Saturday, 17 April 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
"Passionate feelings about young girls especially the one and only child Lolita don't ever let middle-aged Humbert Humbert rest. Pychologically great written in the victim's point of view. Unhappy, open end."
By the way, your forum/thread is mentioned in German DER SPIEGEL... as through the intire world-press I think :-)
― Sven(-tertainer) Svensson, Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
Peace, man. (or)Don't eat and smile, you're in India.
― pasjevic, Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago) link
Man goes OTT concocting story as to why he was late home from the pub.
― Joseph Gurney, Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Ingolfur Gislason (kreator), Sunday, 18 April 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
Southern White Trash break parole and act like idiots but its OK as they're Elvis fans.
― Cornelius Murphy, Monday, 19 April 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
Religious stuff. Hysteria. Hope no-one notices the cop-out deus ex machina ending.
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham.
― Joseph Gurney, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link