Hey, does anybody like Greg Bear's books? I think they're awesome. My favorite at the moment is a close scrape between Dead Lines, EON and The Forge of God.
I heard that The Forge of God and The Anvil of Stars are being made into a Hollywood blockbuster sometime soon. Cool, eh?

(sorry to change the subject, the closest I've seen to "A Clockwork Orange" is "Blow Up" ;) )

Hold on, just to check that I haven't got a chopped down edition, the last chapter is the one where he imagines having a son and ends up walking off to start a new life, right?

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That's right Havell.
It's that chapter that shows all the ultra-volence of Alex only as a phase of puberty really. Something he'd grow out off - just like everybody else (George did too - from his old gang).
The movie ending is :sneaky: because the movie ends with Alex and the PM being the best of friends and Alex getting a nice well paid job as a compensation for what has been done to him. There's no talk about a new gang and Alex' changed state of mind... You know, when he realises that he SPOILS THE END OF THE BOOK!

Actually, it was Pete who got married, George got killed while Alex was in prison :tomato:

*blushes really hard*
Sorry... you're right.

I like the Redwall series, the discworld series, a series of unfortunate events, the books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and the books by H.P. Lovecraft.

Series of Unfortunate events was all right....
i didnt like the mivie though.... :not_ok:

It's fun to respond to the third post of a six-page thread! I'm a huge Neal Stephenson fan. I remember liking The Diamond Age, but not nearly as much as Snow Crash, which is quite possibly still my favorite novel of all time. His Cryptonomicon is also quite good (and quite long). I haven't read any of the Baroque Cycle yet, though I plan to eventually.

How has this thread progressed this far with no mention of Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Seriously.

:D

I like Snow Crash a lot, but it's the fantasy undertones (and nanotechnology - which is just freaking COOL, man) that gets me about Diamond Age.

Neal Stephenson really is the man.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is actually incredible, too.