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Finishing off The Years of Rice and Salt and starting Lord Foul's Bane shortly. ... Not to mention all the books I have on my book-shelves that I'd like to get around to reading: Endless Things, Ilario, The Years of Rice and Salt and Galileo's Dream, Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land, Flood and Ark, Panic Spring, The Black Book, Black and White, all five ... ... 11/24/2009)
Alternate history
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (added 11/25/2009, read 11/16/2009)
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (added 11/25/2009, read 11/19/2009)
Jewish non-fiction
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle E ... ... 11/25/2009, read 11/13/2009)
47. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (added 11/25/2009, read 11/16/2009)
48. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (added 11/25/2009, read 11/19/2009)
49. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tola ... ... rdcover)
John Scalzi – Old Man’s War
Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter – Time’s Eye
Kim Stanley Robinson – The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson – Blue Mars (hardcover)
Michael Moorcock – Corum
Karen Traviss – City of Pearl
Neal Stephenson – The Diamo ... ... my collection (see the relevant tag in my LT catalogue). Particular favourites are Fatherland by Robert Harris and Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson and Harry Turtledove's works. ... Lowry
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
A Man Betrayed by J. V. Jones
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Historical Fiction:
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Lady in Waiting by Rosemary Sutcliff
Sword Song by Rosemar ... ... a mystery.
Welcome Magatha. Your brackets are fine. I find that Robinson's writing is a chore to read. I did read Years of Rice and Salt, and mostly enjoyed it. My favorite story was The Widow Kang. Good luck.
... I read Farthing a while back and liked it, so I'm looking forward to this one. Some day soon I will have to re-try Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. I couldn't get on board with it the first time. I hope I am bracketing correctly, although apparently one gets to edit one' ... ... I haven't yet read the Mars trilogy. It's one my wishlist stack though. He's also done some more historical fiction The Years of rice and salt recieved a lto of publicity.
#66. What did you think of Dark Tower? Not somethign I'd have thought you'd have liked. But I'm often wrong about ... Shadows in the Watchgate by Mike Jeffries
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
Litle,Big by Jonh Crowley
Beyond the Golden Stair by Hannes Bok and
The Well of the Unicorn by Fletcher Pratt ... calcutta chromosome Ghosh
6. the difference engine gibson
7. Snow crash Stephenson
8. dune and ONLY #1.
9. years of rice and salt KSR
10. the golden nineties lisa mason
11. Fairyland Paul McAuley
12. of tangible ghosts Modesitt
13. left hand of darkness
14. Night ... ... for SF that deals w/ current issues - maybe Kim Stanley Robinson - not the most exciting writer, but v. thoughtful. Maybe years of rice and salt for "Big Picture" SF. Also Dune - despite the vast differences in time/space the issues of man and environment are still germane and, again, grand ... ... Bradbury's classic short story, "A Sound of Thunder". And the haunting elegiac Pavane by Keith Roberts. More recently, The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson belongs in that tradition, and I imagine other fine works I've neglected. Then you have lesser writers from Newt Gingrich ... ... Gregory Maguire
25. Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
26. God's Debris, Scott Adams
27. Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
28. Classic Stories 2, Ray Bradbury (Includes All Summer in a Day)
29. Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... how on earth could a movie condense years of rice and salt which IS terrific - but awfully complex. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Great premise and sure to get the Christian Right in a tizzy. In other words, boffo box office! 6/7: Have you seen The Years of Rice and Salt? Of course, with that, the Greeks and Romans effectively vanished... The Man in the High Castle
World War Z
A Canticle for Liebowitz
The Years of Rice and Salt
... author is most closely associated with. When it's done by Harry Turtledove (Agent of Byzantium), Kim Stanley Robinson (Years of Rice and Salt), or Stephen Baxter (Voyage) . . . it's SF. When it's done by Philip Roth (The Plot Against America) or Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policeman's ... The Years of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. ... les uchronies les plus connues ou les plus trouvables :-D, tu as Fatherland, un incontournable. Sinon j'ai beaucoup aimé chroniques des années noires, mais c'est une saga de plus de 1000 pages en poche, faut être motivé ! Il y a aussi la séparation dont on parle dans un autre sujet, ... The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... by Stephen Dunning
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Raold Dahl the years of rice and salt
I guess fast food nation is probably disallowed.
friends lovers chocolate
espresso tales
the finer points of sausage dogs
harriet bean there's a few different ones
Max Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery
the perfect hamburger
bubblegum tree
... ... by Ethan Canin
Bonaparte in Egypt by J. Christopher Herold
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
The Years of Rice and Salt (ARC) by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. LeGuin
Mossflower by Brian Jac ... ... yarn; a kimono sweater in taupe cabled cotton yarn; and probably something else I'm not thinking of right now. Reading The Years of Rice and Salt, Inkle Weaving, The Lathe of Heaven, The IBS Healing Plan: Natural Ways to Beat Your Symptoms (Positive Options), and I'm sure various ... ... working my way through An American Tragedy and The Courtier and the Heretic, but a new book came in the mail today (The Years of Rice and Salt), I bought another new book last weekend, when I bought the above-reviewed book (The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs), AND I just picked up ... The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
A Fish Dinner in Memison by E.R. Eddison
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham #16 -
I read Years of Rice and Salt for the alternate history and pretty much went along with the reincarnation etc because I generally like what Robinson does and the idea was not inconsistent with the novel. However, as much as I enjoyed it, I think it went just a little too long.
Robert A. ... Kim Stanley Robinson's novel, Years of Rice and Salt are an alternative history/science fiction novel which starts in the early 14th century in which plague wiped out not 1/3 of Europe, but more like 90% of Europe and then goes through world development.
There are a set of characters who get ... I'm spanning the years 623 to the near future, around 2020, with The Years of Rice and Salt. I'm reading The Years of Rice and Salt because I had a desire to read some alternative fiction with a bubonic plague theme. I'm about halfway done with The Years of Rice and Salt and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I have no desire to abandon it, so that's good. It's just very different from what I expected from a novel billed as alternative history. Not much going on here. Maybe I'll finish The Years of Rice and Salt. The years of rice and salt was pretty interesting. I have Weapons Of Choice: World War 2.1 at the bottom of my TBR pile. Well, I'm about half done with The Years of Rice and Salt. It's not at all what I expected, but that's not a bad thing. ... so I think we'll watch National Treasure today. The rest of the weekend should be filled with baseball and with reading The Years of Rice and Salt. >22 Definitely!
I finished up Deep Ancestry and started The Years of Rice and Salt last night. I think they make up an interesting nonfiction to fiction transition. Last night I started The Years of Rice and Salt. I've a thing for Mongols, and for alt. history, and for Plague stories so this seems right up my alley. I needed a little fiction to cleanse the palate between my usual nonfiction reads anyways. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson ... the SF standbys. Aliens, FTL, Wormholes and so on.
So I'd go with;
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Non ... ... by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Eyre Affair and series by Jasper Fforde
Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Next month: Romance! ... of the book. They not only describe what the world looks like, but what the world FEELS like. That said, I LOVED The Years of Rice and Salt although I know a lot of Hugo voters didn't think it was SF at all. I voted it Best Novel anyway.
I disagree that KSR writes about economics. ... ... Robinson, whose novels have interesting premises, but which I have always found disappointing (apart from the non-SF Years of Rice and Salt).
It all depends on what you want out of what you read. A novel written by someone over a period of years shivering in a garret while munching on ... river of blue fire and sea of silver light by tad williams
the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
the years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson (the yellow river plays a large role)
absolution gap by alastair reynolds (an ocean world on which the ocean itself ... ... d.
(although, re: the reincarnation idea... if it were real, i'd love to believe it works a la kim stanley robinson's the years of rice and salt.) ... few years ago but cannot recall the name at present. I picked up an account of a British officer in the Middlesex Regiment, Mist on the Rice Fields by John Shipster a month or so ago but haven't go around to reading it yet. ... of tragedy by nietzsche
midnight's children by salman rushdie
children and politics by fred greenstein
the years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson
the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
The years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle...
Years of Rice and Salt is supposed to be Kim Stanley Robinson's best work, I've not read it, but his 'non-best' is pretty good.
Of course there is the choosing books for others group if you want a tbr book chosen for you often. ...
Beowulf
Pillars of the Earth
People of the Moon
The Mask of Atreus
The Eye of the World
A Game of Thrones
The Years of Rice and Salt
Sarum
The Thousand Orcs
The Skystone
Any suggestions or recommendations? ... Smith by Carey
A Fine Balance by Minstry
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Wicked by Maguire
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Years of Rice and Salt by Robinson
(there are more too, but these are the top 7)
...
I used to love sci-fi growing up but then I got away from it when I couldn't find what interested me in the first place.
Years of Rice and Salt and The Left Hand of Darkness are both ones I will read soon, I just finished The Dispossessed and am excited to find new (to me) authors.
Did you read his Years of Rice and Salt or his latest trilogy which begins with Forty Signs of Rain? Years of Rice and Salt is more alternate history but certainly thought-provoking. Stan Robinson is almost in a class by himself.
If you can find a copy of Adam Roberts' Salt you might ... ... for me on my TBR list-
A history of god almost fits the bill at 496 pages
Sarum : the novel of England 1056 pages
The years of rice and salt 784 pages
Pillars of the earth 992 pages
Fingerprints of the gods 578 pages
The first three books of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time ... I'm sending out Foxmask and The Years of Rice and Salt tomorrow when the post office is open again; I'm really pleased that someone mooched these because they were both accidental duplicates -- I'm keeping a copy of each for myself.
I'm waiting on Pride and Prejudice (to replace my really ... Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. A great read.
John I love alternative histories - two great ones I've enjoyed are Robert Harris's Fatherland and Kim Stanley Robinson's Years of Rice and Salt.
Any other recommendations?
John
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