I just finished Orphan X. I really enjoyed the spy/assassin aspect of it. Very solid thriller.
Agreed. Try "I Am Pilgrim" if you're looking for something else (amazing) in the genre
I just finished Orphan X. I really enjoyed the spy/assassin aspect of it. Very solid thriller.
Does manga count?
I'm reading Deadman Wonderland
Finished No Logo and are most of the way through the 33 1/3 of MBDTF as a stop gap before I go on holiday at the end
I plan to take the Fifth Season and either Iain M Banks's Matter or Against a Dark Background.
I'd appreciate a suggestion of which I should take
It was...okay, I guess. Considering Hawley's pitch-perfect writing on Fargo, I was surprised that his Bill O'Reilly character was written so ham-handedly and over-the-top.
Slowly getting back into the habit of reading. Bought this a while ago and never picked it up. I think it takes me a bit to get into Valente's novels but once I'm in, I'm all in.
I probably enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 more than The Handmaid's Tale but I read the former when I was 12 and the latter when I was 18. So I inherently think of F451 as a children'should book and The Handmaid's Tale as more adult? And while they're both dystopian and include stuff about censorship, The Handmaid's Tale is very much about gender and class in a way that F541 is not.50% done with Fahrenheit 451 and having a hard time with it. Thank god it's short else I'd drop it. How is The Handmaid's Tale in comparison? I LOVED 1984.
Good to hear. I'm still getting used to the structure.This book is bonkers. In a good way!
I probably enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 more than The Handmaid's Tale but I read the former when I was 12 and the latter when I was 18. So I inherently think of F451 as a children'should book and The Handmaid's Tale as more adult? And while they're both dystopian and include stuff about censorship, The Handmaid's Tale is very much about gender and class in a way that F541 is not.
I also think Margaret Atwood has much stronger books(The Blind Assassin being my favorite) so The Handmaid's Tale was a let down in comparison.
Good to hear. I'm still getting used to the structure.
Man, you really love that book!A book I ordered arrived
I am very excited. It looks great!
A book I ordered arrived
I am very excited. It looks great!
Agreed. Try "I Am Pilgrim" if you're looking for something else (amazing) in the genre
Hey Mumei, could you please tell me which version of The Story of the Stone would be best to read? I was thinking of getting the Penguin books, but wanted your input first.
My one abiding principle has been to translate everythingeven puns. For although this is. . . an "unfinished" novel, it was written (and rewritten) by a great artist with his very lifeblood. I have therefore assumed that whatever I find in it is there for a purpose and must be dealt with somehow or another. I cannot pretend to have always done so successfully, but if I can convey to the reader even a fraction of the pleasure this Chinese novel has given me, I shall not have lived in vain.
Ended up on my desk at work so I read "Dear Ijawele or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen SUggestions." Finished it in about 30 minutes. It's a letter written to her friend's baby daughter about how to raise her to be a feminist. Some very obvious stuff, but many times obvious things like "Let her pick a train instead of a doll," and using the term "Princess" aren't so obvious until written down. Curious about her fiction writing now.
Just finished this and it might be one of my favorite fantasy series. I have a problem with a lot of military fiction in that they focus too much on the technical and not enough on the meat of the story, but this has managed to make the battles interesting without having to sacrifice the story or character development. Everyone has a proper reason to be there and the motivations are believable. I'm sure there are a few problems I would have with it if I gave it another read, but the fact that there was nothing obvious enough to bother me after finishing says a lot about how much I liked this book.
I actually just bought the first book, so I'll let you know.Have you read the Powder Mage series? Wonder how this compares.
Much like The Count of Monte Cristo, the only English translation you need to be reading is the Penguin Classics edition. That book I got has as a dedication to David Hawkes, one of the translators of the Penguin edition (along with his son-in-law, John Minford), and a quote from his Introduction to the first volume:
Huh that's neat. Didn't know Claire Danes did the audiobook. Maybe now I can get my sister to read it. (She's obsessed with Claire Danes.)Just finished the audiobook of The Handmaid's Tale, it was great. Claire Danes does a fantastic job reading it.
Just finished this and it might be one of my favorite fantasy series. I have a problem with a lot of military fiction in that they focus too much on the technical and not enough on the meat of the story, but this has managed to make the battles interesting without having to sacrifice the story or character development. Everyone has a proper reason to be there and the motivations are believable. I'm sure there are a few problems I would have with it if I gave it another read, but the fact that there was nothing obvious enough to bother me after finishing says a lot about how much I liked this book.
If there's one thing I can say that annoys the hell out of me it was theMASSIVE FUCKING CLIFFHANGER DURING THE EPILOGUE! HOLY FUCK WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!?!?!
Here's hoping the next book comes out soon.
I finished The Forever War last night and really liked it. Thanks for the recommendation, Aidan! I loved the ideas of the collapsar jumps and time dilation. I wish more sci-fi movies and TV series would take that aspect of galactic travel into account. Great book. And there seems to be a movie in the works starring Channing Tatum as Mandella? God...
Woot!
Time dilation is one of my favourite topics for SF novels. Can anyone else recommendation SF that features it at part of the plot?
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson comes to mind, but that's not exactly the same thing.
Finished reading The Handmaid's Tale and Unstoppable, Bill Nye's book on climate change.
Now I've started reading Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Not sure how I feel about this because it is YA but a friend recommended it and apprantly it is getting made into a Hulu series.