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Greenbottle3

mr pessoa....true...lets not get into unneccessary fights about party politics here & who are the true islamists and all that ....it's clear that we are poles apart but that's fine...... as much as you think you're right i can say my perspective is doubly right too...it's not my nature to leave people with the last say if i think that they are in the  wrong as in this polemic here but ok...we'll come back to books...  and here mr pessoa even here we can have a lot of fights...i'm much more impressed with your eclectic tastes in books rather than your suspect understanding of well....islamists.....

intan

Originally posted by seribulan at 2005-4-11 06:40 PM:

woit...nak pinjammmmmmmmm....

nanti kita carik kat lemari buku...harap tak der yg ambik dan pinjam..
kalau ada nanti...kita sms...nanti datanglah singgah ambik..

pessoa

Suspect understanding of Islamists?

Hah. I like that.

Yes let's put aside this niggly political thing. Let's away to books then.

I am, of course very interested in good writing, whatever the medium, and am always on the lookout for more to appease the greedy little peasant who lives inside me,  so if anyone here can suggest good science fiction book I'd be eternally grateful.

Yes, I've read Phillip K Dick, I've read Jeff Noon (both are excellent by the way), anyone else?

Greenbottle3

Mr Pessoa...

My criteria for good books are firstly they shouldn't feel faked, affected and above all stupid and formulaic. Good books should be non judgemental , non proselytising,  have humor, (very dark preferably) wit and it's own style of writing...I don't particularly care about what the contents are as long as they fall under those broad criteria and they are fine with me...

Don't read much Science Fiction...but if you can call it so,  Kurt Vonnegut's Cats Cradle, Galapagos and the rest of his ouvre are great reading. Hitch Hiker's Guide trilogy by Douglas Adam are good if you happen to read them when you're at the right age...much like  yes...catcher in the rye...Phillip K Dick's short stories are just pedesterian to my taste...

But what I really like to talk a bit is about this book that I read a very long long time ago...I've completely forgotten about what it's all about but I remembered what caught my attention was the blurb which mentioned that the protagonist who is comatose passed his stool at exactly the same time and  exactly the same amount (weight) every time....I could be wrong but that's how I remembered it...

It's a kind of Science Fiction...on checking amazon.com it only has one reviewer who obviously gave 5 stars and the there are 71 new and used from $0.01 which to me sounds very funny...and this reviewer sounds like an interesting fellow to...he has  quite a few other  science fiction reviews too...

The book is TETRASOMY TWO....

See my follow up posting below....

Greenbottle3

Tetrasomy two (Doubleday science fiction)
by Oscar Rossiter

71 used and new from $0.01
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Average Customer Review:  based on 1 review
5 stars

extreem intelligence and madness, December 6, 2000
Reviewer:        "mathilde_de_gardin" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

Would a truly extreem intelligent person bother to interact with people?
Tetrasomy two is the name for the extra chromosome pair that the protagonist (a young psychiatrist) discovers in his vegetable patient. A patient that seems to have much more influence on his environment than one would expect from someone who hasn't spoken or moved for nearly 50 years. Rositter describes the search for answers of the doctor, and how he tries to walk the very fine line between sanity and madness in discovering the disturbing thruth.
The book has well rounded characters. It's a good read, has tension and speed, and really gets to you. Though this book is classified as science fiction, I'm sure people who like books on psychology, ESP, hospitals or horror would also really appriciate this book.

****

About the reviewer:

What should I tell about myself? I'm a curious person, interested in almost anything. Well, accept for sports, cars, wars, and the like. The like? Well whatever.
I especially like science-fiction, because more then any other genre it can make me change my mind, and see things in a new perspective. And I do enjoy the what-if-questions SF raises. Themes I liked to explore are utopias, high intelligence, conceptual breakthroughs, reincarnation, cloning. I'm currently working my way through the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
I'm also interested in IT, partly because it's a way to create a furture, partly because it is so very much funded on hard logic thinking. Topics that are high on my IT reading list are hackers and artificial intelligence. I intend to be my own Pygmalion sometime...
(grin)
Of course history is among my main daily activities. Foremost medieaval and ancient history. I like the mystery in it, and the tales. But also the atmosphere, the culture. If you only could percieve the way they believed in their God(s) and Heaven. Amazing.
I collect books. I've been a starting writer once, and I suppose I still am, but on a (long) sabattical. My writing main drive was that I couldn't find the books I wanted to read. That's why I started to create them myself.
Of course that was way before I discovered Amazon. Talking about Heavens.
(no, no, no, they don't pay me for writting this)
This must be it for now.
Have fun.
It's your life, you know

****
Another review from search in msn.com

Tetrasomy Two
by Oscar Rossiter
First published 1974

Dr. Stephen Boyd is doing his internship in a nondescript urban hospital, and inherits a patient who is in a catatonic state and has been so for years. He becomes strangely interested in Mr. Peckham and learns some unusual things. For one, Mr. Peckham should be in a nursing home, not taking up valuable space in a hospital bed; but it is impossible to remove him. For another, the medical records don't show Mr. Peckham ever having been ill a day in his life, nor has his blood pressure ever fluctuated.
Dr. Boyd begins getting intimations that Mr. Peckham is sending him secret messages. He also discovers that every time he has contact with alcohol, his memory is enhanced.

Who is this writer?

A physician named Vernon H. Skeels. A relative writes:

My uncle Vernon is/was one of those captivating personalities who took up various hobbies during his lifetime, like collecting hundreds of antique magazines on one binge and hundreds of fountain pens during another. When he became fascinated by energetic fiction writing, it became inevitable that he would try his hand at writing and that it would be entertaining. For built-in criticism, his three brothers were all lit scholars.
Dr. Skeels started another novel but didn't finish it, and never returned to writing. In the early 1990s, he was in a severe accident, and was in therapy for years.

Although he has substantially recovered, his command of complex medical terminology, diagnostics, etc., do not allow him to return to serious writing.

Who does this writer remind me of?

A hybrid of medical thriller and science fiction novel, it isn't really comparable to anything else I've read. The writer used his professional background to good advantage; the settings and the medical detective work were convincing.
Skeels/Rossiter didn't write anything like Murray Leinster, but Leinster's famous story "The Strange Case of John Kingman" shares a few themes with this novel.

Could this writer offend delicate sensibilities?

Well, Dr. Boyd has some heavy-duty fantasies about a nurse who works on his ward. This rich sexual dreamworld gets worked appropriately enough into the story, but it may not be for everyone.
Dr. Boyd is also a geek. His interpersonal style echoes Dostoyevsky's less well-adjusted characters (A Disgraceful Affair comes to mind)

Greenbottle3

Great news for lovers of Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy...The film version is out now!.... I'm looking forward to see it...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Details: 2005, UK/USA, Adventure/Comedy/Sci-fi, cert PG, 110 mins, Dir: Garth Jennings UK release: 28 April 2005Arthur Dent ( Martin Freeman)

here抯 what one film reviewer says about this film

periwinkle..

buku ni dah lama dalam my t.b.r list, tunggu dvd version je la nanti...

Greenbottle3

you should read them NOW periwinkle....it's very2  funny...but quite serious at the same time...you may not like it too much if you  read it when you get older.... much like... catcher in the rye....need to read it when you're not too "old"....