Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[minuspace]

Never let me go - great creeper, sometimes more subtly menacing, to some, less apparently sci-fi to others.

[Reginald Ret]

Flatland; 1984; and Asimov, Though i prefer his foundation books to his robot books.

[Payne]

Flatland, and A Handmaids Tale

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Go with Solaris. It's more dry than Gibson, but less dry than typical (Foundation- or Robots- era) Asimov.


I recently finished Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity. It's probably one of the best cyberpunk novels I've read -- it's up there with Altered Carbon and Count Zero, at least. It seems like my decision to read novels written by Cracked columnists is continuing to pay off. And, unlike John Dies at the End, the narrative twists and turns are both unexpected (but understandable in retrospect) and satisfying. There's a little bit of first-novel-itis in the first couple chapters, but that's to be expected.

I'm a few pages away from the end of Moonwalking with Einstein. It was great, but I'm kind of disappointed because I seem to have already essentially read the whole book in exerpt form. I usually end up having this problem with books that are collections of articles written for other sources (Gibson and Stephenson's essay books, for instance, and occasionally a Ronson book), but this is the first time it's happened with a book that has a solid narrative. I suspect that he adapted several of his articles covering memory competitions into parts of the book, and that most of the remaining passages made their way into articles advertising the book (the way passages from non-fiction books by journalists for popular audiences often do).

[Odibex Grallspice]

I don't read anymore (pity that, hope I don't get ousted for it) but the last couple of good books I read were by Graham Greene.. The Confidential Agent and, I think, The Man Within.

[Cain]

Graham Greene is always a good choice.

[Odibex Grallspice]

Yeah, good stuff. I pursued him on the advice of Burroughs.

[Bu🤠ns]

So I ended up picking up Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.  I know, not on the list...but that's sort of how things happen with me....I did pick up copies of the recommendations though so they're on the queue. 

Also...um...dinosaur fetishists and that silicone thing?? WTF WARREN ELLIS....oh right...warren ellis

[Junkenstein]

About 50 pages into "Raising Steam", the most recent Pratchett Discworld. Not entirely sure how I feel about it so far. Making any kind of negative comment seems like, well, criticizing someone's writing for suffering under Alzheimers. That said, the change of voice and the way it reads in general is quite odd. A bit like someone doing an impression of him. At times, a very good one but there's still something missing.

Will finish it, I only find it worth commenting on as I'd usually finish a Pratchett in a few hours. I hope it's just me being overly critical.

ETA - Fixed idiot typos.

[Cain]

Yes, I found that to be the case when I read it as well.

I understand his daughter is helping him write the books now, which is what I felt might account for the slightly different tone.  It's not bad, just...different.  It's not quite as crisp as, say, Reaper Man or Feet of Clay was, but having two authors often causes there to be less focus.

[Cain]

As does having Alzheimers.  Oh snap!


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I'm going to hell, aren't I?

[LMNO]

Most likely.  But that'll be one of the lesser charges.

Mainly, it'll be because of "The Incident."

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So I ended up picking up Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.  I know, not on the list...but that's sort of how things happen with me....I did pick up copies of the recommendations though so they're on the queue. 

Also...um...dinosaur fetishists and that silicone thing?? WTF WARREN ELLIS....oh right...warren ellis

Now read Gun Machine.

[Bu🤠ns]

So I ended up picking up Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.  I know, not on the list...but that's sort of how things happen with me....I did pick up copies of the recommendations though so they're on the queue. 

Also...um...dinosaur fetishists and that silicone thing?? WTF WARREN ELLIS....oh right...warren ellis

Now read Gun Machine.

10-4

[Reginald Ret]

Well shit. I was really looking forward to reading a new discworld novel. Now i will still read and enjoy it but i will have a continous sad while doing so.