Spaceman Spiff Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Destino said: I have no idea what that is. You know the Pacino/DeNiro movie from ‘95? The sequel is a book. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Still grinding through Moby Dick, but put it down and picked up Salems’s Lot by Stephen King. Read it in HS, we’ll see how it is now that im old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinking Skins Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 A fanfiction follow up to The Last Dragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbear Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 (edited) I loved that trilogy starting with the Three Body Problem. Edited September 18, 2022 by gbear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 11 hours ago, gbear said: I loved that trilogy starting with the Three Body Problem. Great books. It made me laugh, in the second book, when the author goes with an imagined Hugo Chavez successor as a strong man world power. Guy is a real optimist lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 If you have an Audible subscription, it is relentless pushing Impact Winter. I’m not even sure you could call it an audiobook, its more of a audio-only production of a movie with just character dialogue and sound effects, no narrative. I’m about 45 minutes in, not sure if the format works yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 8, 2022 Author Share Posted October 8, 2022 Just finished this one. A very unique fictional book set in early 1800s Oxford. Spoiler A dark academia standalone that dives into the power of language and evils of imperialism, student revolutions, and colonial resistance. Babel swirls with magic, lore, and Kuang’s signature attention to detail. The author was previously known by me for the Poppy Wars series which I had been putting off reading. Would recommended Babel though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 I’ve read a lot of Tom Perrotta this year. Just finished Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Years ago his book, Election, was turned into a movie with Reese Witherspoon who plays a high school student seeking to become SCA president. This book is about that same character in her mid 40s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Impact Winter wasn’t doing it for me so I turned to an audiobook version of The Great Courses lecture on Great Britain during the Tudors and Stewarts. The professor does a great job of explaining how decisions by the royals and their court impacted the common folks, and conversely how things that happened to the common folks that the royals had no control over impacted the royals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Feels a bit too Last Of Us-y (the daughter in the book is also literally named Ellie). Setting is actually here in the general area (Baltimore to Virginia) "Infection" Genre. Its good so far, but certainly nothing that makes it stand out. Not yet, at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 Reading this right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 6 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said: Impact Winter wasn’t doing it for me so I turned to an audiobook version of The Great Courses lecture on Great Britain during the Tudors and Stewarts. The professor does a great job of explaining how decisions by the royals and their court impacted the common folks, and conversely how things that happened to the common folks that the royals had no control over impacted the royals. The guy who does rise and fall of Rome for them was really good. I clocked a lot of miles listening to that. Have to check this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 4 minutes ago, The 12th Commandment said: The guy who does rise and fall of Rome for them was really good. I clocked a lot of miles listening to that. Have to check this one. If you have interest in more Rome stuff, this podcast was outstanding. https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 6 hours ago, Mr. Sinister said: Feels a bit too Last Of Us-y Ok, so the guy literally took the main plot point from the last of us, along with the name of the main character. Good book, but man, talk about toeing the line of not necessarily plagiarism, but artistic integrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Mr. Sinister said: Ok, so the guy literally took the main plot point from the last of us, along with the name of the main character. Good book, but man, talk about toeing the line of not necessarily plagiarism, but artistic integrity. Im all for more TLOU content. Was it good? Edited October 22, 2022 by PleaseBlitz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: Im all for more TLOU content. Was it good? It's good. Still reading. There's a bit of a supernatural twist to the story that I find intriguing. Admittedly, it's also a very sobering read, since a TON of the dialogue mirrors some of what we're actually dealing with in the real world. It's certainly one of those books that could be adapted for TV viewing, and would be incredibly brutal. Some of the ways the infected lose their minds in this is just gruesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 On 10/8/2022 at 11:56 AM, PleaseBlitz said: If you have an Audible subscription, it is relentless pushing Impact Winter. I’m not even sure you could call it an audiobook, its more of a audio-only production of a movie with just character dialogue and sound effects, no narrative. I’m about 45 minutes in, not sure if the format works yet. Haven't been able to nail down Audible all that well. I'm so used to mentally reading stuff, so it's different having it read back to you, while doing stuff like driving or exercising. The focus just isn't there. I'll give it a shot tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 7 hours ago, Mr. Sinister said: Haven't been able to nail down Audible all that well. I'm so used to mentally reading stuff, so it's different having it read back to you, while doing stuff like driving or exercising. The focus just isn't there. I'll give it a shot tho To be clear, I do NOT recommend Impact Winter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinking Skins Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Just finished Songbirds and Snakes. It's a good prequel and I understood more about the Hunger Games. I hope she does more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousD Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Middlemarch by George Eliot I knew nothing about it going in other than it routinely shows up on "greatest-classics-must read" lists. The story is just one long 19th century soap opera and it is long! I'm up to chapter 53 with 15 hrs audio left to go... The writing is absolutely superb and (in the Audible version I have) Juliet Stevenson does absolutely phenomenal work reading and bringing the characters to life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 "The Institute" by Stephen King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 10/8/2022 at 11:56 AM, PleaseBlitz said: If you have an Audible subscription, it is relentless pushing Impact Winter. I’m not even sure you could call it an audiobook, its more of a audio-only production of a movie with just character dialogue and sound effects, no narrative. I’m about 45 minutes in, not sure if the format works yet. it’s like an old timey radio show. It wasn’t the greatest of stories, and unless you’re like me and you’ll give any monster/horror a spin if you’ve got the time I don’t recommend it. What I did enjoy was the feeling of sitting here in 2022 partaking in the same format of entertainment my grandfather and his family sat around the radio to listen to. Since my last update on this thread I’ve read Dancehall of the Dead and Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman. It’s a native American cop series written by a white guy in the 70s. Despite how awful that sounds by todays odd standards, it’s got a certain charm to it. Also the books have been turned into a tv series on AMC with an almost entirely indigenous cast (which is how I came to hear about it). The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. This one is way too much graphic sexual content for me. Didn’t realize what I was getting myself into. Other than the constant discussion of penetrative sex with various women and one werewolf (yup), the book wasn’t bad and I enjoyed the writing. Won’t be reading the rest of the series. Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson. The only book in the series I hadn’t read, and it’s just a novella. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Just got my copy today of The End of the World is just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan. A good read so far - I love his YouTube videos on GeoPop channel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 28, 2022 Author Share Posted October 28, 2022 Trying to read The Peripheral by William Gibson but I'm not sure I'm cut out to read his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 14 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said: Trying to read The Peripheral by William Gibson Is this the book the new Amazon series is based on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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