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I will second the nod for Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained together I think they clocked in at over 90 hours for the unabridged version I listen to. I will grant you it could be a little confusing at first if you haven't read the book with all the characters and story threads. #54 - SwampIrish
Altered Carbon and Pandora's Star and Stranger in a Strange Land is a very interesting set. Was the choice of books random? Are you re-reading any of the titles for critical or academic reasons? I would love to find the time to experiment with reading multiple science ... I am simultaneously reading Altered Carbon, Pandora's Star and Stranger in a Strange Land. I finished up Necrosope III: The Source a couple of weeks ago. ... finished The Temporal Void and am going to start Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said pretty soon. So far, I liked the Pandoras Star/Judas Unchained series better than the Void trilogy, although the switching between fantasy/space opera is an interesting twist. ... through a lot of Peter Hamilton which seems to me structure wise to be very similar. Coincidentally I started with Pandora's Star which also features a trip to Mars.
To all those above who have struggled with Terry Pratchett I add my name. I still have a battered copy of The ... ... End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (on audiobook)
Anyone but England by Mike Marqusee
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins
Penguin Modern Classics' selection of George Orwell'sEssays Fingersmith by Sarah Waters on audiobook. Wonderfully atmospheric Victorian novel pastiche.
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Mindlessly active space opera.
Essays by George Orwell. Still my nominee for the greatest British writer of the 20th century.
Anyone but Engl ... ... Waters
1001: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Non Fiction: The Lost Tribes of Pop by Tom Cox
Other: Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton ... but I am looking forward to it.
@12 - I agree with the previous posters re:Judas Unchained. It moves much faster than Pandora's Star, although you will still need to go back and look up characters at times. I really liked it. The pace really picks up in the last 300 pages or so. > 12
I found Judas Unchained a much faster read (despite their similar lengths) than Pandora's Star - I think because Hamilton had already put in all the occasionally tedious world and character building, and there was more room for /payoff/ of all those threads he'd woven. ...
I am reading mystery short stories these days... but next on my SF list is either Seeds of Earth or Caryatids - I loved Pandora's Star and I will be reading Judas Unchained one of those days but it is way too long and I prefer to save such long works for vacations and weeks when it looks ... I read Pandora's Star five years ago and really liked it... though for whatever reason, I haven't read the next two books in the series. Definitely something I should get on, though considering the amount of characters in book one, maybe that deserves a re-read! Book # 34- Pandora's Star. The Primes are some of my favorite aliens ever in SF. I liked the way Hamilton explained their evolution, their aggressiveness, and their non-negotiating ways.
I haven't started Hamilton's new series yet. I thought I'd wait until it's wrapped up. His books are ... ... me. They weren't fabulous to begin with but I really enjoyed the setting. I'm finding them extremely repetitive.
34. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton 5/5
Incredibly good science fiction novel. I'd read one of his novels previously (#21 this year) and picked this one up at a used ... ... strange ones... but when you have 33 stories, it's almost impossible to like every one of them.
Finally got to reading Pandora's Star and looks like I had really missed a lot in the years when I was reading mainly stories. And then just for some light reading, read Joe Haldeman's The Ac ... Continuing with Peter F Hamilton's Pandora's Star. Just over the half way mark at present.
On an entirely different note, I'm also enjoying trying to work out which stereotype I am in The Lost Tribes of Pop. ... High Fidelity, this would be upper mid table.
Lost Tribes of Pop - haven't discovered which one I'm a member of yet.
Pandora's Star - space opera brain candy. ... of Hurin I never fancied this when it came out but got fed up with reading good reviews so...
Judas Unchained Sequel to Pandora's Star also just read
Oxford pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage as my wife has just started teaching English again and we've realised our own knowledge of our ... I have a strange attraction to Paula Myo from Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained.
"Little" Dora from Time Enough for Love was a good one, too. Very bittersweet story. ... Thieving Bear Planet".
Long form fiction - I guess the Starflyer and the aliens from MorningLightMountain in Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained? The Shing from Le Guin's City of Illusions? Umm, the psychotic killer guy from Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand? Man, am I ... > #15
drmamm, I'm interested to hear what you think of The Dreaming Void! I spent a good two months with Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, and although they bogged me down at times, they've also both stuck with me in interesting ways. I've been trying to decide whether I have the ... The Dreaming Void, by Peter F. Hamilton. I may be tied up with this doorstop for a while! (Although I liked Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.) ... Do you plan on reading any of her other books (The Host, etc)? I've heard they're pretty good.
I tried to read Pandora a couple years ago, but I just couldn't finish it, which is odd since I usually love everything Anne Rice writes. Maybe I'll give it another go. Too bad her Sle ... ...
5.The Ruins of Isis by Marion Zimmer Bradley
6. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
7. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
8. Pandora by Anne Rice
I'll addd to this list and update it whenever I can as soon as I finish reading any books.
Beatles1964
8. Pandora by Anne Rice
Beatles1964 8. Pandora by Anne Rice
Beatles1964 7. Pandora by Anne Rice
Beatles1964 6. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton s:20090211/20090217
I got sick for three days in the middle of this one, stupid fever.
Amazingly epic story of a future in which wormholes are not only possible, but we create them on a daily basis. Technology everywhere, life extension, sentient ... ... picked A Canticle for Leibowitz back up and finished it. I'm glad I did! Next up for me is a giant space opera called Pandora's Star, and in the non-fiction department, The Seven-Storey Mountain. Op Shop or thrift shop books
I have several of these already on my shelf unread, so the first few are:
Pandora by Jilly Cooper
Redheap by Norman Lindsay
Folly Field by Adrian Bell - I grew up in Norfolk in the UK, so when I saw this on the shelf in an op shop in Australia I had to buy ... ... best described as a trainwreck. I'll finish it, but it ain't like I want to at the moment...
I also finished (finally) Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. What a big, bloody mess of a book. Despite certain stretches that just about killed me (short, thankfully), I loved it. I do find it ... I am a few pages from finishing the big, beautiful mess that is Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. It's my first by him, and I'll give him this: how someone can utterly destroy his story's momentum with stretches that are, at best, LONG and needlessly detailed tangents to the actual plot (Ozzie ... >40:mikepatrick
I too am still working on Pandora's Star. I'm up to about p.250. I find that I can't have any distractions around when I read... the narrative requires my full attention or else I feel that I'm missing important details.
And we need an acronym list... ISC, CSR, IR, PL, ... ... ... me and my interests, I've got to say that the Bryson is one of the most important things I've ever read.
Still reading Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton and will be for a while. It's good though, so far... ... never been read, so I'm enjoying it for that reason as well)
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
trying to finish Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
and starting the 2009-10 MASL Gateway nominee list with In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
oh yeah, also about halfway ... ... It was my first book by him; love his style - he makes you read carefully.
For a total change of pace, I grabbed Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Never having read Hamilton before, and never having read decent 'space opera' before, I was fully expecting it to be craptastic. Well, ... ... because it was nominated for a Nebula...but I'm finding it such a sharp contrast to Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star / Judas Unchained) which I just finished that I'm actually having trouble sticking with Privilege.
I don't want to reopen the wonderfully interesting ... I'm a little more than halfway through Pandora's Star. Pandora's Star did sound pretty good to me too.
I just read Alastair Reynolds' excellent Pushing Ice, so I'm going to read a few other types of books before I plow into another space epic. I do love a good hard sci-fi doorstopper though. I'm halfway through Pandora's Star, and it is still holding my interest. I kind of like big sprawling space operas, though. I'm hoping he can tie up all the storylines by the end. ... -- are genuinely scary. The societies and races portrayed are all given a lot of depth.
I'd also recommend the Pandora's Star / Judas Unchained two-parter. Really long, again, but there's a lot of enjoyable world-building in there.
If you're worried about investing a lot of ... ... reading the posts surprised me again. I must admit I really enjoyed his Night's Dawn trilogy, and am 1/2 way through the Commonwealth Saga. Space opera entertainingly done, but if you like your novels succinct, he's not for you. I find his description amazing -- the details exemplify his ... ... in paper back form your looking at 3500+ pages. So don't start there if you do read him.
I personally started with Pandora's Star and its sequel Judas unchained before I knew much about the author. At the time it was just what I was looking for after spending much of the previous ... ... looking specifically at:
The Reality Dysfunction, because I know that the Night's Dawn trilogy is very popular.
Pandora's Star, because the back cover just makes this one sound interesting.
Fallen Dragon, because a stand alone book sounds tempting.
Mindstar Rising, mainly ... ... way, I spend way too much time at HPB, but today was a case of the latter ;) I got:
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
eta: And I just noticed ... ... When Nora Roberts/JD Robb
10. Heidi Johanna Spyri
11. Murder Suicide Keith Ablow
12. Creole Fires Kat Martin
13. Pandora Anne Rice
14. Another Summer Georgia Bockoven
15. Cruel and Unusual Patricia Cornwell
16. The Beauty and the Spy Gayle Callen
17. Memnoch the Devil Anne ... I notice no one has mentioned many sci-fi authors so I'll list some:
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (1st book)
Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton (2nd book)
In Fury Born by David Weber (writes a lot of military sci-fi)
Harry Turtledove (he writes alternate fantasy/sci-fi ... The only problem with Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained (and yes, they should be put together like that, because it's one long novel chopped in two) is that you have to slog through 1300 pages of ... I don't know what to call it, to get to the few parts about the alien entity.
John Scalzi's Old ... James White's Sector General series features some pretty strange aliens as patients.
The adversary in Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained is quite interesting. ... by Johanna Spyri (**)
11. Murder Suicide by Keith Ablow (*****)
12. Creole Fires by Kat Martin (***)
13. Pandora by Anne Rice (***)
14. Another Summer by Georgia Bockoven (***)
15. Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell (***)
16. The Beauty and the Spy by G ... What a coincidence! I just finished the 2-part/2 book Confederation series by Hamilton: Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. I really enjoyed them. They would fall into the "space opera" subset of sci-fi
I have also read the the Night's Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium ... ... a little while after the last of those came out, but I can say with certainty that I did not enjoy Fallen Dragon and Pandora's Star as much as I remember enjoying the earlier books, and the plots and world of the Mandel stories in particular have stuck with me much more strongly.
I ... Peter F. Hamilton
Pandora's Star etc. are monsters. To respnd to the topic: I am reading Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton; The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg (re-reading); some stuff on 2nd Temple Judaism (the jewish matrix or context from which Jesus/Christianity arose), and some programming/technical stuff.
While on vacation ... ...
I'm reading a book by Harry Turtledove. Alien-invasion story. Colonization: Second contact. Also trying to get through Pandora's Star. It's been so long since I read that book I'll probably have to start from the beginning again! That's what happens when I am reading more than one book.lol ... Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. I started it a while back (still haven't finished it yet, it's a big book over 900 pages) and it is pretty good. Space opera sci-fi, interstellar civilization on dozens of worlds. If you like that type of sci-fi you may like this book. This is part of a 2 ... ... either book so those will be on my TBR list for the future, also on my list are:
Green Mars
Blue Mars
Footfall
Pandora's Star
Revelation Space
War and Peace
... just have to make it the shortest books I can find! The Shadow 100-300 or something like that! No more Necroscope or Peter F. Hamilton bricks.
:) :) ... The Machine Crusade and The Battle of Corrin.
Peter F. Hamiltons Misspent Youth, and The Confederation Saga: Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.
Alastair Reynolds's Century Rain.
And of course Hunters of Dune.
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