Jthierer in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 (Mar 25, 2008, 2:14pm)My ER book The Arthurian Omen arrived in the mail yesterday and some classic sci-fi (I, Robot, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man) followed me home from my boyfriend's house.
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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... of America, the Flash, etc. (And deeply regret I don't still have those.)
I also vaguely remember reading Asimov's I, Robot stories (I know: sci fi) in high school, and of course I watched Star Trek and other stuff on TV (Lost in Space!).
But really reading fantasy--I'm with the OP-- ...
... I've wondered the same thing about horror movies myself.
I especially wondered why they used that TERRIBLE script for I, Robot when the Harlan Ellison I, Robot script was now doable. My answer there though was in post 149:
But another big budget spectacle that is cerebral and doesn't ...
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1) Infected by Scott Sigler (finished 4/3/08)
2) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (finished 4/10/08)
3) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (finished 4/15/08)
4) Neuromancer by William Gibson (finished 4/22/08)
5) The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem (finished 5/5/08)
6) T ...
... (Of course, any movie with Riff Raff in it gets cool points from me.) It's too bad Alex Proyas became such a hack with I, Robot. Seeing Silver Surfer as his next movie isn't giving me a lot of hope for him. By the way, is it just me or is The Matrix something of a ripoff of Dark City?
I ...
I'd not heard of the group either, but just checked them out on Amazon. To their credit they seem to be getting all four and five star reviews. I listened to three clips that all sounded alike to me and had enough. Of course I'm old, just not that old. ;)
11>One of the key points that Goldin makes is the difficulty in distinguishing between pshat, what is written in the text, and drash, the traditional teaching/understanding of the text. When Christian ideas moved from the 1st C CE Judaism culture where they developed to the Greco-Roma ...
... Supreme Court said about Pornography: I can't tell you exactly what pornography is, but I know it when I see it.
I see I, Robot I see sci-fi. IMHO
... I couldn't slip some Asimov in my 888 list as fantasy. The book I was looking at specifically (just coincidentally) was I, Robot. He said that he thought that book could qualify as fantasy; I said it was SF. Mature and reasoned argument (ha) followed.
My thinking on the SF has a lot to ...
... but I don't yet know which two. Not Alice, not Tigana, and not The Golden Compass, anyway. My brother wants me to put I, Robot on there, and I would like to read Asimov, but isn't that more SF than fantasy???
1. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
2. Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
3. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
4. Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book 6 by Terry Moore
5. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
... now that the movie is here thought that I needed to read it first. I enjoyed it. A good fantasy good vs evil story.
3. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Listened to this one on our long trip north. While an excellent story, I think it lost something in the telling. I read it many, many years ...
... Vampire
Slaughterhouse Five
2001: A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Solaris
Foundation
I, Robot
1984
The Little Prince
The Hobbit
Brave New World
The War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man (by H.G. Wells)
Dracula
The Island of Dr. Moreau
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#4: "What is to discuss. Last I checked, the Bible has no bearing on enforcement of our laws."
True, but last I checked, the Bible has a great deal of bearing on the way certain people vote. Those people who claim that the Bible is the ultimate justification for their beliefs should either ...
I have to agree with philosojerk regarding Brandi Carlile – The Story and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand. Those would be my two favorites for 2007. Bought the first one based on the title track and was pleasantly surprised by the entire CD. And being a Plant and Kraus ...
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I was getting my list together (a couple of last books to check) and was a bit discouraged at how many unread classes I was looking at. I am wondering if we can have an intermediate challenge for us to finish the LC as a group. I went through the posted lists (Man! mramos's list is awesome!). Her ...
>8 "regarding the list of previous entries when you type into a field. That is not a LibraryThing feature presently, that would have been your browser's auto-complete feature."
The weird thing is, it stopped working with the new forms. Some of the old data pops up in some fields, but none of the ...
A Perfect Vacuum by Stanislaw Lem
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover by Kinky Friedman
iRobot by Isaac Asimov (sorry!)
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Men aspiring by Paul Powell
... for sure. I have been away from the computer most of the day so I was happy to see all of the ideas. I had forgotten I, Robot. If I remember it was a lot better than the movie. I wasn't aware of the YA Heinlein books. I will look into those for sure. I also was thinking of some of ...
... the first message, Ender's Game is the first thing that came to mind. I would also suggest The Bicentennial Man and I, Robot by Issac Asimov in addition to The Caves of Steel that has already been mentioned.
Just one quick point, re the ACLU:
From Thomas Sowell's The Vision of the Annointed.
A TEXTBOOK example of someone with anti-social behavior who was turned into a mascot is Richard F. Kreimer. During the late 1980s, a number of homeless people began coming into the library in Morristown ...
... mean it's necessarily going to be a bad movie, it just means it isn't really a movie of The Dark is Rising. Like I, Robot isn't really a movie based on the book I, Robot, but is still a fun (albeit not great) movie.
10 > thats what most of Asimov's Robot books were about, the fallibility of the laws, try reading I, Robot for more obvious examples.
I've only just started, read a couple of chapters over the weekend. I've tried a couple of Asimov books before (I, Robot and one of the Foundation books) but didn't finish either one. I'll try a little harder for this group read :o) What I do find interesting so far is Asimov's descriptions of ...
41. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
All right, if you have seen the movie, forget everything about it, because the book is nothing like it. And I don't mean that in the sense of most book to movie translations, I really mean: It is nothing like the movie. If I'm not mistaken the credits ...
... series, depending on how you count.
Isaac Asimov, who late in his career decided to merge his Foundation and Robot series by writing novels that created (alleged) continuity between them and turned them into a single series (or not).
E. E. Smith whose "Lensman" series may ...
... as short stories by only using a couple chapters. Farenheit 451 may be the better of his novels to teach. Selections from I, Robot wouls be good as well. Oh, and I know the other sci fi class used "The Sand Kings" by George R. R. Martin which is excellent also. I guess overall I'd say that ...
I suppose I'd know it if I saw it. I consider books such as I, Robot, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Mission of Gravity to be "classic" science fiction. Many instances of classic science fiction include these themes:
-alien(s)
-spaceship(s)
-artificial intelligence(s)
(and often two or all ...
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"The Asimov Collection" books are explicitly indicated there, but this list seems to show only
Pebble in the Sky
I, Robot
Caves of Steel
Naked Sun
The Gods Themselves
Foundation's Edge
and so seems to be incomplete.
It also shows some later Doubleday "Signed limited ...
... Volume I from 1970, but full fo good stuff!
Nightfall and other stories by Isaac Asimov.
Hopefully will start I, Robot soon.
Kira: I vary the books that I usually teach and it's funny that you should mention I, Robot because I plan to teach that this year (great minds think alike).
Jim53: Thanks for some really great suggestions. I will definitely categorize the books into alike themes. I do The Left Hand of Darknes ...
... year or so, one novel everyone reads, one or two individual ones from a list, and one Shakespeare.)
As for your list, I, Robot would be another good one to read I think because it's a lot of short stories, which could make it easier to divide up and teach, and also because those Three Laws ...
... reason or another. I could probably rattle off pages, but I'll just list five and then let others have their say.
1. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, simply because many of the concepts created for it have entered the popular culture.
2. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
3. Childhood's ...
... of readers. More problematically, I think it's likely to pull B-list books to the top, because The Scarlet Letter and I, Robot are owned by every person who owns a decent selection of the classics or science fiction, respectively, even if they didn't really like the book, but the owners of ...
... that age, although that's more of a fantasy work.
After that was Ender's Game, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I, Robot, and any I could get my hands on by Robert A. Heinlein.
I, Robot
The Last Unicorn
A Night in the Lonesome October
Stranger in a Strange Land
A Wizard Alone
... Land, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Ursula Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. These last eight mentioned, I thought I still had, but maybe I haven't gotten to them in my cataloging effort.
... paperbacks for SEK 3000 (US$ 400) and came out with 51 titles that everybody ought to have read:
1. Isaac Asimov - Jag, robot
2. J.R.R. Tolkien - Sagan om ringen av J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Werner Aspenström - Samlade dikter
4. Katarina Frostenson - Från Rena land ...
I have three books loaned out right now- Guards! Guards!, I, Robot, and Black Sun Rising. I've always gotten books back (so far, cross fingers, knock on wood), but to paraphrase #9, I only loan books to people who will be unable to avoid me. :-)
I don't think I would loan a "good" copy of ...
... the only character in the Plum books who did that was a psychotic killer who also had a dorky nickname for himself.
25. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (192)
I haven't read this for some years - since long before the movie came out. I'm glad I didn't reread it soon before the movie came out, ...
... the luxury, I want a deliciously bound hardcover. Leather? In my fantasies.
Oh, just remembered. I bought a copy of I Robot with Will Smith on it for .25. I find that humorous, considering how far away the movie was from the book. Come to think of it, that was for my other son who loved ...
... About a Boy currently, but I haven't yet seen the entire movie. So far, I'm enjoying Nick Hornby's writing, though.
I, Robot - Someone mentioned this is a book/movie combo that don't go together. That's true... the only similarity is the use of the three laws of robotics, really. I saw ...
... short stories to his novels.
The foundation Trilogy IS just a compilation of Asimov's short stories yaknow.
So is I Robot
... genre short stories/short story collections/anthologies?
A few of my favorites have been Isaac Asimov's collection I, Robot, The Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce (which I replaced with a larger collection of his works) and the Edgar Allen Poe story "The Fall of the House ...
