SF/F Books: Chapter Two - What Are You Reading?
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Started Sir Apropos of Nothing yesterday... I'm not entirely sure what I think to it right now. Seems so far to have been very expositional, but I kinda like the style, even though I have no clue what the plot is after about 90 pages.
Finished up The Road by Cormac McCarthy on Sunday. Great book. Currently about halfway through Exultant by Stephen Baxter; a Xeelee novel
Without spoiling-basic premise?
Oh, re-reading Pegasus In Flight by McCaffrey because that's what I could reach in my stack of boxes. LOL.
Read Duma Key recently. I thought it was great. Certainly one of the better Stephen King stories I've read in a while.
Also read Blaze, but the less said about that, the better.
Also read Blaze, but the less said about that, the better.
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Prior to that: Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
Prior to that: Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
The United States refrains not to enter WWII, and England, losing the war, brokers a peace with Hitler to end hostilities in Europe. Hitler is then able to focus on fighting the Soviet Union.
To this backdrop, England becomes more and more fascist, and starts a slow tumble down the anti-semitic, anti-homosexual, etc hill.
The first book, Farthing, is a murder mystery that takes place in 1949.
Finally reading Hyperion.
Good! Rarely have I been so gripped by the beginning of a book as when I read 'the priest story'...
THank you-sounds like my kinda thing.
The reason I found it disturbing is because it seems like the author views the psychological root of fascism as either arising out of, or being closely related to, sexual pathology.
More than that would cross into spoiler territory.
I finally got around to finishing the latest Dozois anthology. It ended up being a better year overall than I had thought when I was only part way through.
There are some worthwhile stories in it: "Boojum", "Five Thrillers" [that one is very good, and very original], "His Master's Voice" [truly kickass], "Balancing Accounts", "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm", "The Ray Gun".
The bad: I couldn't make myself read the very tedious Kress novella. And I skipped the "jazz" story, because I could tell it would be rank. And the final novella by MacDonald was very meh. [Usually I love whatever novella Dozois wraps up with, so "meh" doesn't cut it when the story's in the final position.]
There are some worthwhile stories in it: "Boojum", "Five Thrillers" [that one is very good, and very original], "His Master's Voice" [truly kickass], "Balancing Accounts", "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm", "The Ray Gun".
The bad: I couldn't make myself read the very tedious Kress novella. And I skipped the "jazz" story, because I could tell it would be rank. And the final novella by MacDonald was very meh. [Usually I love whatever novella Dozois wraps up with, so "meh" doesn't cut it when the story's in the final position.]
Just finished David Mack's excellent Sorrows of Empire and really liked it. Now I'm off to read Superman New Krypton Volume One.
I recently finished Ray Bradbury's recent Now And Forever. It's a pair of novellas, "Somewhere A Band Is Playing" and "Leviathan '99". The first one was a very ghostly story, following a man who comes to a small town that isn't on any map and has a supernatural secret. I didn't enjoy it as much as the second one, which I stayed up late to read in a single sitting. It's a retelling of Moby-Dick, only instead of a whale the crew of the rocketship chases a comet that the blind Captain believes is going to swallow up the Earth.
I'm developing a desire to read more children's fantasy literature for some reason, and to that end I've begun buying Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; I want to read one per weekend to spread them out (those books can just fly by).
I'm developing a desire to read more children's fantasy literature for some reason, and to that end I've begun buying Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; I want to read one per weekend to spread them out (those books can just fly by).
I finished the Mere Anarchy omnibus, and quite enjoyed it.
Then I decided rather than buying something new, to search my shelves for stuff I've bought but never read, and came upon the Shatnerverse trilogy, starting with Captain's Peril. (It is only a trilogy, isn't it? I only have the three books.)
Three chapters in and I have to say I am not impressed. They took three chapters (!) to describe a wholly unbelievable orbital skydive with Kirk and Picard, who are both invincible daredevils now, it appears. Unless the rest of the book is about skydiving, that was a total waste of pages. It reads as total wank.
Then I decided rather than buying something new, to search my shelves for stuff I've bought but never read, and came upon the Shatnerverse trilogy, starting with Captain's Peril. (It is only a trilogy, isn't it? I only have the three books.)
Three chapters in and I have to say I am not impressed. They took three chapters (!) to describe a wholly unbelievable orbital skydive with Kirk and Picard, who are both invincible daredevils now, it appears. Unless the rest of the book is about skydiving, that was a total waste of pages. It reads as total wank.
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