Looking for some good time-travel fiction. I'm not really into silly/comic sci-fi (despite my love of Red Dwarf), so no Douglas Adams or the like. A good yarn with a more serious approach to time-travel is what I'm after.
I think we've had this discussion, or was that someone else? I tried to watch it once, but found it irritating in a trying-too-hard-to-be-cool kind of way. It reminded me of that God-awful show Workaholics.
Dark Matter is a good one. It's a quick read, but if my memory serves me, it's more-so about travel through alternate realities, but I think those two things are somewhat connected. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101904240/?tag=writingfor07a-20
I've never seen Workaholics. Timeline by Micheal Crichton is pretty good, too. You occasionally get sciency exposition, and technically it's multiple universes, but they still travel to medieval France/England (I can't remember which). It's not comedy, but it's still fairly light.
King? Mmm. I've yet to take the plunge. I've heard lots of people say his writing can be terrible, lazy, even amateurish. I could do the sensible thing and find out for myself, of course, but I've got Dark Matter on it's way which will last me six months at least, so maybe when I'm done with that I'll look at 11/22/63
The book I recommend to everyone is "The Dandelion Clock" by Jay Mandal. I only know one other person who's read this and they're the person that recommended it to me. It's a beautifully written book and I cried while reading it because of the story and the characters. (It's a book about a homosexual relationship, if that's an issue.) Description 1986. If David hadn't missed his train and if Rob hadn't been in the kitchen when his mother was baking a birthday cake, they might never have met. Both found themselves sitting at the same table in the café on Waterloo Station and got talking. There was an instant rapport between them, despite their differences: David, twenty-eight, with a good job and a house all to himself; Rob, ten years younger, jobless and homeless. The solution to the latter seemed obvious . But was David just being a good Samaritan or were his motives suspect? And why had Rob left home?
I have to recommend two books by Tan Twan Eng which are The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists. Both beautiful and inspiring.
Can anyone recommend me a good book on depression? Not a lay-man’s view, but a proper book that goes full into the topic.
One of the text books I used in uni was The Interpersonal, Cognitive, and Social Nature of Depression, which costs like a million dollars, but, from memory, probably has a lot of the information you're looking for. I wouldn't recommend it as a stand alone, though. Depression, as well as pretty much anything psychological, is pretty complicated and counter-intuitive, so multiple viewpoints is probably a good idea.
I looked through the last couple of pages and didn't see these books so I'm going to recommend them. Sorry if they were already mentioned. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Amazing, amazing book. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Also an amazing book. Maybe even better than the previous one. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. 1984 by George Orwell. Animal Farm by George Orwell. I honestly recommend reading every one of these books. They're all amazing.
Thanks. Yeah, I’m aware of that, I already read a couple of accounts by formerly depressed people and I plan to do more reading of this kind. Can you think of any other books?
One of my favorite books was assigned for a college english class, called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. They just made it into a movie (haven't seen it) but I re-read the book periodically just because she is such a wonderful storyteller. It is the true story of her below-poverty upbringing by a selfish, disinterested mother and an alcoholic, gambler of a father. Despite everything they faced as a family, she moved on to become an incredibly respected author and journalist.
The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler Olsen The Rosewood Casket by Sharon McCrumb The Prey series by John Sandford-mostly the older ones True Evil by Greg Iles
Don't know if I've said this before: Diaspora, by Australian Greg Egan. Epic in scope. Hard SF, to the point that there is very little I can properly consider hard SF after having read it.
I'm on the prowl for new literature, using the word in its broadest possible sense. I'm after some Fantasy, in the vein of A Song of Ice and Fire, The First Law, Prince of Nothing/Second Apocalypse, and the like. I'm also hungry for Sci-Fi that might resemble Hyperion Cantos or Neuromancer/Sprawl Trilogy. Thank you.
