Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

["Lorenzo Fernando Bivens" <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:45:20 -0600, Joel C. Salomon
<joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
> <lorenzobivens@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think Dune is a must read for any scifi fan...
>
> Dune is one of the few books I put down partly-read. Came a point
> where I just didn't care what happened to the characters on the other
> side of the page, and I never turned the page to look.
>

The story is interesting... But it takes too long to get into something...
I have found that people love the book or hate it... I read that book
while living in the middle of the Atacama Desert... Ambience helps...

There are a couple of  "mainstream" scifi books that I've read while
travelling and I have enjoyed: "The Andromeda strain" (Crichton) (Both the
book and the old movie... Avoid, really, the recent remake)... I also
liked a book called "The terminal Experiment" (Sawyer)...

For those speaking spanish... There is a book called "Synco" written by a
chilean writer called Jorge Baradit... I've not read it yet... But it
sounds very interesting... I've read that it talks about what would have
happened if Allende had succeded implementing Cybersyn...
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn] I am looking for reading
this book.