OT: What are you reading?
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Do Androids Dream if Electric Sheep / Bladerunner would get my vote. The book is good, but the movie is better IMO.
Last update from me in 2023. Let’s see:
Finished The Witcher series, really didn’t like the later books. Just nothing actually happens, other than people travelling around almost at random.
Half a World series by Joe Abercrombie was great, even though it is marketed as young adult. I love everything this guy writes.
Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson was OK, but characters seem a little flat. Quite liked the plot and the magic system though.
A diversion from fantasy with The Boys in The Boat, incredible true story which has so much more depth than the film.
All of Harry Potter as I keep hearing there is so much more in the books. There is some, but nothing like as much missed as other book adaptations. I feel they did such a good job with the films that the TV series is bound to be a let down.
Now on the third book of the Three Body Problem trilogy, which I wanted to read before I watched the Netflix series. Glad I did as the series is very different to the book. Not that that is a bad thing as the books (especially the first) are hard SF dressed up as a novel. Characters are really poor with the exception of the cookie cutter cop Da Shi, a hard instinctive chain smoking cop who doesn’t play by the rules but gets results. Never seen that character before.
Finished The Witcher series, really didn’t like the later books. Just nothing actually happens, other than people travelling around almost at random.
Half a World series by Joe Abercrombie was great, even though it is marketed as young adult. I love everything this guy writes.
Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson was OK, but characters seem a little flat. Quite liked the plot and the magic system though.
A diversion from fantasy with The Boys in The Boat, incredible true story which has so much more depth than the film.
All of Harry Potter as I keep hearing there is so much more in the books. There is some, but nothing like as much missed as other book adaptations. I feel they did such a good job with the films that the TV series is bound to be a let down.
Now on the third book of the Three Body Problem trilogy, which I wanted to read before I watched the Netflix series. Glad I did as the series is very different to the book. Not that that is a bad thing as the books (especially the first) are hard SF dressed up as a novel. Characters are really poor with the exception of the cookie cutter cop Da Shi, a hard instinctive chain smoking cop who doesn’t play by the rules but gets results. Never seen that character before.
Helvete
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Going through my collection of the Phantom comics (Norwegian version, the Lee Falk stuff). I have about 30 years worth, spanning 1980 through 2013. Planning to start on 1988 soon, just finished 1987. Most of it, I've read before, so may skip the stories I already know well.
Some of the stories are remarkably good reads, while the ones made in the 40s and 50s are really beginning to show their age.
Some of the stories are remarkably good reads, while the ones made in the 40s and 50s are really beginning to show their age.
@maxicek nice! I haven't read any of the half a world series yet. I'll have to check it out. I read like half of the three body problem and was not into it at all. It seemed really slow to get started and everything felt contrived. Did you like it from the beginning?
I recently read project hail mary and it was 10/10. Would recommend. I'm reallllly looking forward to the next book in Dungeon Crawler Carl (i've been into some dumber books lately as you can probably tell from the title, but man this series is great). And right now im wrapping up "Speedrunning the Multiverse", which has been entertaining but of inconsistent quality.
I recently read project hail mary and it was 10/10. Would recommend. I'm reallllly looking forward to the next book in Dungeon Crawler Carl (i've been into some dumber books lately as you can probably tell from the title, but man this series is great). And right now im wrapping up "Speedrunning the Multiverse", which has been entertaining but of inconsistent quality.
LouB
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I agree that The Boys in the Boat is a great read. The movie, also great, focuses on the run up to the Olympics while the book goes further back in time and gives a lot of detail about their lives in the Depression.
Hail Mary is another killer by Any Weir. Wish he wrote more novels.
I read a lot of science fiction and thrillers, but lately the best reads have been nonfiction
Just finished Skunk Works. It was written in 1994, but gives a lot of history and info on the development of the U2, SR71 and stealth aircraft.
I also found Into the Blood fascinating. It's about one man's development of bandages that clot blood and the battle to get the US military to adopt them.
Hail Mary is another killer by Any Weir. Wish he wrote more novels.
I read a lot of science fiction and thrillers, but lately the best reads have been nonfiction
Just finished Skunk Works. It was written in 1994, but gives a lot of history and info on the development of the U2, SR71 and stealth aircraft.
I also found Into the Blood fascinating. It's about one man's development of bandages that clot blood and the battle to get the US military to adopt them.
Miron
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I read those books long ago (for the first time) after I finished Dragonlance: Chronicles. The books had references to other works (Darksword, Death Gate, etc.) so I tried it. The plot is simple and quick paced to the point I can listen to it while at work.@Miron these days I just use the verbs read and listen interchangeably. Never did read death gate though. What do you think of it?
I recommend it if you're looking for something light to read.
The Thirty Year's War, by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood*. A very drama-like account of that long mess, but at the same time very deep about the politics and known or assumed motivations in in diplomacy.
Westeros has nothing on reality in chaos and disorder...
I like the book to the point that I decided to make a paladin trio with Catholic League/Hapsburg-ly names in fact
*Dame, so she beat Diablo once in classic!
Westeros has nothing on reality in chaos and disorder...
I like the book to the point that I decided to make a paladin trio with Catholic League/Hapsburg-ly names in fact
*Dame, so she beat Diablo once in classic!
I read an English translation of The Histories (Herodotus) several years ago.
These days all I read is manga...
These days all I read is manga...
