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Topic: RIP Arthur C Clarke (Read 2092 times)
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K9
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Sad NewsRIP, what a truly great author. At 90 years though he'd had a pretty good innings.
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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schild
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I only LOVED one of his books. Childhood's End, and that's enough to say that I'm glad he lived to see 90. Rest in peace, old man.
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stu
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Rendezvous with Rama was the one that grabbed me. Wherever he's gone off to, I hope he has fun.
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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Engels
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inflicts shingles.
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Rendezvous with Rama was the one that grabbed me. Wherever he's gone off to, I hope he has fun.
Same here. Although to be perefectly honest, the 'relationship' between the younger woman and the older man creeped me the hell out. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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naum
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Venkman
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Wow, sad indeed. A great run though! I'm with schild on Childhood's End. But the book I most loved was Against the Fall of Night (humanity, a billion years from now). Years later I read his revised version of it (the first version was rejected) called The City and the Stars, but always preferred the original. And then there's Hammer of God which I quite enjoyed.
Everything else I either enjoyed slightly less, or a bit less. The only one I almost flat-out didn't like was Cradle. As I recall, 90% of the book was backstories about transparent characters with the last 10% being interesting if you could get there. Not sure how much of this he wrote versus G. Lee though.
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Merusk
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Wow, I thought he was dead already. I can't feel too sad, though, the man was 90! 90! Hell of a run for anyone.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Azazel
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Yeah, at 90 I'm not sad, but respectful.
21 gun salute and a 40 on the curb, however..
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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I got emails about this from several librarians because I just plowed through several of his books.
I hope I live to 90! Guy's leaving a great legacy, more than most of us will.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Great author, sad news. I loved the 2001 and 2010 movies, and the 2010 book (never got around to reading 2001). He's had a number of good books that I've read years ago, and nothing recently. I should probably remedy that once I'm through with Jailbird.
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