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I like sci-fi movies. So, I try to get into sci-fi books. But I just can't do it. Just recently failed with Ubik, which takes place in the future (1992) and everything is both futuristic and also coin operated.So, after that, I read "All the Pretty Horses." It was GREAT. I never knew a Western could be so intellectually stimulating and philosophically interesting. I want to read a bunch more Cormac McCarthy now.
Quote from: michigancat on February 16, 2018, 04:28:51 PMQuote from: Pete on February 16, 2018, 03:32:30 PMFinished the third book in the Stormlight series, Oathbringer. Good but not great, keeps the plot moving.Also read a very good Sci-Fi book called “Leviathan Wakes,” which is the first book in a series called “The Expanse.” Scyfi Network made it into a series that got good reviews, but I haven’t seen the show. Anyway, this book was super cool and fun to read if you like space ships blasting the eff out of each other and dudes getting their heads blown off in zero g gun fights. Also lots of science around space travel and life support systems on other planets in our solar system. Loads of fun.I'm on book 6. So obviously I kinda like it. I will say there are some kinda lame moments across the series but man are there some great characters and cool space crap. I even like the politics and I think it's adorable that Mars is full of Asians with Texan accents.Awesome, I immediately bought the second book upon finishing the first. I will be starting that tonight!
Quote from: Pete on February 16, 2018, 03:32:30 PMFinished the third book in the Stormlight series, Oathbringer. Good but not great, keeps the plot moving.Also read a very good Sci-Fi book called “Leviathan Wakes,” which is the first book in a series called “The Expanse.” Scyfi Network made it into a series that got good reviews, but I haven’t seen the show. Anyway, this book was super cool and fun to read if you like space ships blasting the eff out of each other and dudes getting their heads blown off in zero g gun fights. Also lots of science around space travel and life support systems on other planets in our solar system. Loads of fun.I'm on book 6. So obviously I kinda like it. I will say there are some kinda lame moments across the series but man are there some great characters and cool space crap. I even like the politics and I think it's adorable that Mars is full of Asians with Texan accents.
Finished the third book in the Stormlight series, Oathbringer. Good but not great, keeps the plot moving.Also read a very good Sci-Fi book called “Leviathan Wakes,” which is the first book in a series called “The Expanse.” Scyfi Network made it into a series that got good reviews, but I haven’t seen the show. Anyway, this book was super cool and fun to read if you like space ships blasting the eff out of each other and dudes getting their heads blown off in zero g gun fights. Also lots of science around space travel and life support systems on other planets in our solar system. Loads of fun.
about to start Infinite Jest!
So, after that, I read "All the Pretty Horses." It was GREAT. I never knew a Western could be so intellectually stimulating and philosophically interesting. I want to read a bunch more Cormac McCarthy now.
I just started Perdido Street Station and it's pretty wild
So don’t read them I guess is what I’m sayingSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The Revelation Space books by Alistair Reynolds are very good Pete. Don’t know if you’re into a lot of space stuff but I liked them a lot.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I just finished 4 3 2 1, and maybe it's because of where I am right now in life, but it was fantastic. Easily one of the best things I have ever read.
Just did American Pastoral by Roth, not as fun. Interesting dismantling of the American Dream though.
I really loved Play it as it Lays.
Quote from: michigancat on May 23, 2018, 12:49:13 PMI really loved Play it as it Lays.Wow. I thought it was just okay. I think her nonfiction is divine, though. Super enviable writing style.
I think her nonfiction is divine, though. Super enviable writing style.
In New Orleans in June the air is heavy with sex and death, not violent death but death by decay, overripeness, rotting, death by drowning, suffocation, fever of unknown etiology.The place is physically dark, dark like the negative of a photograph, dark like an X-ray: the atmosphere absorbs its own light, never reflects light but sucks it in until random objects glow with a morbid luminescence. The crypts above ground dominate certain vistas. In the hypnotic liquidity of the atmosphere all motion slows into choreography, all people on the street move as if suspended in a precarious emulsion, and there seems only a technical distinction between the quick and the dead.
Quote from: mocat on February 28, 2018, 09:24:32 PMabout to start Infinite Jest! strap in for a few months!