(October 30, 2010 at 11:12 pm)The Skeptic Wrote:(October 30, 2010 at 11:01 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: I thought the book was crap. It was written like a movie. And the movie wasn't great either.
If you want good comedy fiction try Terry Pratchett, Friggin' brilliant!
P.s hi.....
I couldn't help notice a similarity to National Treasure. I liked the book because of that. I know it was written poorly, but it was written in a way that was a quick read. Like I said, i'm not a big fan of fiction. I do enjoy Franz Kafka though. He's a fantastic writer, especially if you are fortunate enough to understand the original German There's an almost Schopenhauer-ian element to the stories. For anyone that likes Edgar Allan Poe, you would enjoy Kafka and you can find English translations fairly cheap.
If you like science, you should try some real science fiction, such as anything by Greg Bear, or Dan Simmons.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
